Beyond Fun and Games
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What kinda things do you girls and guys do outside or maybe even using your game artist skills to contribute or make a difference in your community, government, environment, or other?
Is it home and work day after day, to play on a console and chill with friends and wives? Or do you say, go to be a mentor at a Boys and Girls club once a week? Invest time with a charity through your church beyond Sunday mornings? Write petitions? Teach as a volunteer to a live class? Something that connects you beyond your monkey sphere (writing contribution checks does not count).
I never seen any thread that has asked this, and the responses from the last week from a few misguided threads haven't made this any easier to discern.
It can't be all fun and games that make up your lives. Your all individuals. Lets see the people behind the masks.
So share. What do you do to reaffirm yourselves as a human?
Is it home and work day after day, to play on a console and chill with friends and wives? Or do you say, go to be a mentor at a Boys and Girls club once a week? Invest time with a charity through your church beyond Sunday mornings? Write petitions? Teach as a volunteer to a live class? Something that connects you beyond your monkey sphere (writing contribution checks does not count).
I never seen any thread that has asked this, and the responses from the last week from a few misguided threads haven't made this any easier to discern.
It can't be all fun and games that make up your lives. Your all individuals. Lets see the people behind the masks.
So share. What do you do to reaffirm yourselves as a human?
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That's it for me.
i hang out with a few friends ive made this semester, i spend about 2hrs a day chatting with online adn painting with for about 4hrs a night
i might have four hours of down time a day... one devoted to shower/dressing time and 2-3 for chatting online
weekends i eitehr go home to my parents where i eat, chat online and play with the cat or is tay on campus and hang out with friends a little bit if im not scheduled to work.
i needs a break!!!
edit: lol.. this may be the funiest post i posted in here.lol
I try to take a little bit of time each week to hone my psychic abilities, try to de-latent any latent abilities lying around.
JKMakowka, what do you do in this organization?
We all meet in a local coffee shop that keeps it's doors open for us (no coffee - sadly) and we scribble away. I keep it as unstructured as possible, since there's no charge, and people come and go as they are able. I teach kids as young as five or six, and adults of all ages and abilities. The aim is to build confidence in people who have a talent, but either don't see it as having a value, or just don't get the time or space to produce artwork in their normal environment. All the materials are provided free, and a local bookshop also stays open and acts as a 'lending library' for art reference books.
We plan to produce an anthology of works in the future, and post an online gallery, and perhaps a physical exhibition too.
I know it's not 'world changing' stuff, but if I can give someone the freedom and confidence to express themselves through art, I'm happy.
Als Wehrersatzdienst oder komplett freiwillig?
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Ursprünglich als Wehrersatzdienst, ich hab die 6 Jahre auch noch nicht ganz voll, aber inzwischen mache ich da weit mehr freiwillig als nötig (siehe unten).
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JKMakowka, what do you do in this organization?
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Recently I joined the newly formed SEEWA group (Stands for "rapid deployment unit water supply"), which is basicly a small group of specialists for water supply and sanitation after disasters world wide (expected deployment time <48h; I am positioned as a lab-tech. as I am a molecular biology student in my "normal life").
Not quite sure how this works out as it is still very much in construction, but the special weekend courses are very interesting (AND I get free immunisation against a fuckload of tropical deseases
I don't want to brag about this though, as it really isn't that much of a deal as it may sound... hmmm but chicks might digg it
Edit: not world wide desasters, but desasters world wide; Think "Tsunami of 2004" but also on a bit smaller scale.
JKMakowka, it sounds like in this case its better if you dont ever have to be deployed.
Mister Sentient rant or not, I agree.
oXYnary, you started the thread but didn't mention what you do? You seem like an activist kinda guy.
I also on and off with my schedule go down to a local charity (they give 10-15%of the toys they make per year to homeless kids) where I paint wooden toys in original ways. Used to do it more, but sooo hectic. That and my airbrush is busted, so I can only paint them by hand. Have a turtle half way painted I need to get down and get finished.
Otherwise I spend too much time on here as Poop likes to point out. I truly think this will change once I get my portfolio to a good point (yes I am working on, not right now though, just got home from work and exhausted/tired). Confidence really helps to drive people further.
JKMakowka, it sounds like in this case its better if you dont ever have to be deployed.
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Yep that's for sure, but sadly there is an devestating earthquake somewhere almost every year
But the THW is also doing quite a bit of stuff locally as a support for the firefighters etc, even though I am not highly involved in that due to my position in that water supply unit.
Telling them, to make art and do something useful with their life.