| User | rounin |
| Topic | supposed |
| Message | I’m trying to figure out why we all want to help each other out. Why, for example, does one feel the urge to stop for the person pulled over on the side of the road, or pick something up for someone else? Of course it’s the "right" thing to be selfless and to help others, no? Doesn’t the world praise those kind of people? I could ask, why do we post comments on other people’s writings? The ethic code of the site says that we do it to help each other become better writers, but why would we do that? |
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| User | Logic | 2006-07-05 | |
| Subject | untitled |
| Message | Too many grammer errors I can’t respond to. |
| User | SetmyselfonFire | 2006-04-17 | |
| Subject | confusion |
| Message | Freya is right.
I think peoples need to help people out comes from different feelings and reasons. Paranoia, greed, helpful, willing, pity, desperate and so on... Theres times when I cant really explain why I want to help people. Its just a feeling, a need. Lifes not always about being selfish but about wanting a feeling of accomplishment in yourself. If someone was on the side of the road , Im not sure I would help them out... It depends on if I had the urge to at that moment. but lifes not so much about those big moments...Its about the moments after the moment. |
| User | darkness | 2006-03-27 | |
| Subject | untitled |
| Message | maybe its paranoia
that that u stop to help a person on the road cuz somethin mite happen to em.... |
| User | Amanda Lynn | 2006-03-26 | |
| Subject | untitled |
| Message | Maybe its comes from our own need to be complimented and revered. The hope that if we are kind to others then we will recieve kindness. |
| User | rounin | 2006-03-24 | |
| Subject | untitled |
| Message | I can understand the reasoning behind giving other people comments on this site and all, but that is just an example to the deeper question; I want to hear about this human need to be kind and serve other people and why it is so revered in society. |
| User | Amanda Lynn | 2006-03-24 | |
| Subject | untitled |
| Message | I really dont know. This is actually the first forum/ posting i have done. Maybe at some point a writer/poet feels the need for conformation. Maybe we need to hear it from someone else.
As far as posting on others and helping them.....hmm...maybe the poet in us all cant stand to set back and read a poem and just let it be something he/she can read when there is a chance to say " comma doesnt go there" , "flow is a bit off", or "that piece was so magical it moves me everytime i think of it, and i cant stop thinking of it". I mean when it comes down to it, im sure the person who wrote said poem isn’t going to completely rearange it becouse i didnt like the middle. I myself love having different perspectives on my poetry. <shrug> maybe it is our humanly urge to judge. |
| User | Fantastic Freya | 2006-03-16 | |
| Subject | untitled |
| Message | First, if we use what we know to help others become better writers then we’re improving the body of poetry as a whole, which gives greater credence to our own work. Second, critiquing makes you look at poetry in a different light. If you look more closely at other people’s poems -- what makes them work and what doesn’t -- then you are more able to apply that to your own writing. That is, if you can be bothered. |