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I am now back in the real world.
As you all know I have been working as a volunteer for Crisis at
Christmas and I am proud to say that I completed a Straight Eight on the
day shift at The Gate, the residential centre for the alcohol and/or
drug dependent homeless in London.
The Gate's location changes every year and its address is kept
confidential to discourage casual visitors. This year, Berkeley Homes
donated the use of 4 floors of a building on the Isle of Dogs which is
due to be demolished in April
http://www.berkeley-southquay.co.uk/index.cfm?articleID=1
To say that the building exceeded our needs and expectations would be a
gross understatement. We also did not expect Berkeley Homes to encourage
its own staff to come along as volunteers during the eight days we were
open.
On the Monday before we opened a team of technical volunteers descended
on the building and turned what had been the headquarters of the
Financial Ombudsman Service into a home for 140 Guests, and when I say
home I mean it in sense of a family home not some bland
institutionalised purely functional unit. It might interest you all to
hear that among the techies was a certain Chris Martin (Coldplay). He
was responsible for plumbing in the kitchen and I am pleased to say that
we had no leaks at all in that area.
I started work on Tuesday (23rd) at 07.45 along with ~70 other
volunteers from all walks of life and for the next 8 days we worked and
bonded with our Guests and became one big family. By the end of the week
you would have been hard pushed to say who was a Guest and who a
volunteer. In fact, on Monday (29th) a newbie volunteer* approached me
to see if I needed anything (new clothes, support, advice etc) and there
were several minutes of confusion until I realised that my badge had
been obscured by my fleece jacket. I, too, made a similar error when I
identified two smartly dressed guys as volunteers. A few days earlier I
had seen them arrive unshaven, unwashed and unkempt; now, they wouldn't
have looked out of place relaxing in an upmarket coffee shop.
Yesterday, with tears in our eyes** we said goodbye to our guests. Some
are going into detox and rehab programmes. Some have been found
sheltered or supported accommodation, and some we will see again next
year. Sadly, some we will never see again as they will die on the street.
I live in hope that one day Crisis will not be needed, but until then I
intend to be there for those of our big family who have less than nothing.
John
* Not all volunteers do the Straight Eight; the average is 3 shifts per
person.
** Literally. I saw several volunteers with suspiciously damp eyes and I
myself had to wander off into a quiet corner to compose myself twice
--
Protect the Earth
It was not given to you by your parents
You hold it in trust for your children
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Congratulations John, and thank you for sharing your thoughts with us.
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Thomas
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It is my wish that there is no more Crisis too, no more starvation, seek
people from curable/preventable diseases, no more war (usually for
profit and/or religion), no more monetary system, that's why I proposed
the ideas about a natural-Law Resource-Based Economy, but I was rejected
as a conspiracy theorist, but the facts all over if we pay attention,
but people like you just want to feel good about an ever increasing
never-ending problem with uncried tear in their eyes and they go
mentally masturbate in their small happy corner of the World; keep
patching a crumbling damn, keep your hean in the sand, that will fix the
Humanity.
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And let's not go science to solve our problems, like a scientifically
based planed society and city with The Venus Project, no, let's go with
emotional insignificantly small patches that will fix almost nothing
probably, because of the system itself won't let you, more to the point
the people living in the Monetary System will not want to, because
they're too scared of it to risk fall in the same fate as those
unfortunate homeless people, or think the big scary monster is doing OK
for them, and for some that it's true, but because big sacrifices had to
do for them to have such opportunities, in many cases neglecting their
own life to secure somewhat their offspring future, but hey, I'm just a
conspiracy theorist, Humanity is OK, everything is OK, is Christmas!
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Saul Luizaga <sau### [at] gmail com> wrote:
> And let's not go science to solve our problems, like a scientifically
> based planed society and city with The Venus Project, no, let's go with
> emotional insignificantly small patches that will fix almost nothing
> probably, because of the system itself won't let you, more to the point
> the people living in the Monetary System will not want to, because
> they're too scared of it to risk fall in the same fate as those
> unfortunate homeless people, or think the big scary monster is doing OK
> for them, and for some that it's true, but because big sacrifices had to
> do for them to have such opportunities, in many cases neglecting their
> own life to secure somewhat their offspring future, but hey, I'm just a
> conspiracy theorist, Humanity is OK, everything is OK, is Christmas!
You write exactly like a conspiracy theorist. What do you expect?
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- Warp
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That you all don't stop at a shallow observation and go as you do with a
religious person that tries to justify their claims, fact check and
compare to reality, but OK, people here simply don't want to search for
truth, but their version of it and keep living in "their happy little
corner of the world", so be it, consequences will give a crap and
collect expensive on your indifference, my work is just to show you more
possibilities and it's done.
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On 04/01/2015 07:20, Saul Luizaga wrote:
> That you all don't stop at a shallow observation and go as you do with a
> religious person that tries to justify their claims, fact check and
> compare to reality, but OK, people here simply don't want to search for
> truth, but their version of it and keep living in "their happy little
> corner of the world", so be it, consequences will give a crap and
> collect expensive on your indifference, my work is just to show you more
> possibilities and it's done.
That is correct. We are a lost cause. Don't waste any more time on us.
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Regards
Stephen
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Saul Luizaga <sau### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> That you all don't stop at a shallow observation and go as you do with a
> religious person that tries to justify their claims, fact check and
> compare to reality, but OK, people here simply don't want to search for
> truth, but their version of it and keep living in "their happy little
> corner of the world", so be it, consequences will give a crap and
> collect expensive on your indifference, my work is just to show you more
> possibilities and it's done.
Do you honestly believe you are going to convince anybody with such
a condescending, if not outright insulting, attitude?
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- Warp
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Yes, people that actually use their brain and can be bother to care,
obviously you and other don't.
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Yeah sure, the opinion of a comfortable and willingly stupid, good luck
with that.
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