Faith In Humanity

[Spinwhiz]

When everything you see on the TV, hear on the radio and see on the internet is negative (murders, rapes, just bad stuff in general) it's hard to see the good in the world sometimes. Then there are those instances when one act of kindness restores your faith in humanity.

For me, a couple years back I was told by a friend that his grandson (who I think was 6 or 7) was very sick and life could go either way for him. His favorite basketball player was the star guard of the Syracuse Orangemen, Gerry McNamara. I just happened to be working with Syracuse that year as part of school and ended up meeting Gerry after a practice and told him about my friend's grandson. Without even flinching, he said "what can I do?"

Here is what he did:

Got a branded ball signed by the whole team
Got a poster signed by the whole team
Signed a photograph with a special note to the child

and here is the kicker

Called him on his cell phone DURING HALFTIME of a game before going back out to play


To this day, I still cannot believe just how far he went to make this kid, who he didn't even know, feel just a bit better. The whole family was literally beside themselves.

This is why I have faith in humanity. What is your reason? Please share your story.

 

[Nimcha]

I always find the sentence 'Having faith in humanity' to feel incomplete. Faith that humanity will do what?

 

[baddude1337]

That guy is truly amazing.

 

[Jedamethis]

Well, us. You. Everybody. We're good people! We do good things, we help each other out, we give each other support, we cheer each other up, and I'm going to start being soppy in a minute so I should just shut up. >.>

[sub]Heehee, it rhymes a bit. ^^[/sub]

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

Wow, that guy sounds like the good kind of person one can look up to...
Right now, I can't think of any specific case of someone helping others for no gain of their own that I have seen.
Maybe my master, but that was a while ago now...
So really, just any time that someone gives up their free time to help others of their own will, for no financial or physical gain of any sort.
Also, did Spinwhiz make a double thread? I saw the other one, but when I refreshed it, I got a 404...

 

[Blue_vision]

The whole "faith in humanity" thing is stupid. The only reason your faith would seem to be tested in the first place is because all the dicks soak up all the limelight. And when half the world hates everyone else because under 10% are actual dicks, nothing gets accomplished.

So, don't be the guy trying to make himself sound important by saying "humanity's a pile of shit." Even if it is, you're not helping anyone by being cynical.

That's my 2 cents.

 

[Jedamethis]

Also, did Spinwhiz make a double thread? I saw the other one, but when I refreshed it, I got a 404...

Ssssssh! Everybody knows that The Escapist never makes mistakes. The very thought. >.>

 

[Jonluw]

Also, did Spinwhiz make a double thread? I saw the other one, but when I refreshed it, I got a 404...

Ssssssh! Everybody knows that The Escapist never makes mistakes. The very thought. >.>

And Greyfox was never seen again...

OT: There really aren't all that many things that restore my faith in humanity. Just people being good to one another in general?

I always find the sentence 'Having faith in humanity' to feel incomplete. Faith that humanity will do what?

I agree with this.

 

[Subzerowings]

GAAAAAAARRRRRRRRR! Someone saying that they've lost faith in humanity!
Why would anyone lose faith in humanity?
What does it even mean?
If someone came up to you and said: "I've lost faith in you.", how would you feel?
It actually sound like a form of elitism...

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

There's always a couple of examples which always makes me think good thoughts.

 

[LupusDei]

When everything you see on the TV, hear on the radio and see on the internet is negative (murders, rapes, just bad stuff in general) there are those instances when one act of kindness restores your faith in humanity.

For me, a couple years back I was told by a friend that his grandson (who I think was 6 or 7) was very sick and life could go either way for him. His favorite basketball player was the star guard of the Syracuse Orangemen, Gerry McNamara. I just happened to be working with Syracuse that year as part of school and ended up meeting Gerry after a practice and told him about my friend's grandson. Without even flinching, he said "what can I do?"

Here is what he did:

Got a branded ball signed by the whole team
Got a poster signed by the whole team
Signed a photograph with a special note to the child

and here is the kicker

Called him on his cell phone DURING HALFTIME of a game before going back out to play


To this day, I still cannot believe just how far he went to make this kid, who he didn't even know, feel just a bit better. The whole family was literally beside themselves.

This is why I have faith in humanity. What is your reason? Please share your story.

You. You just have. Simply sharing this story has spread its meaning to other people already. The most wise of human peoples in the history of man has kept hope, meaning and deeds to look up to simply by telling the tales and storys of others so we might rise to their examples. Well done friend =]

 

[Jamous]

I always find the sentence 'Having faith in humanity' to feel incomplete. Faith that humanity will do what?

I think that Faith in Humanity not to be dicks about sums it up. I go through phases of this. I LOVE PEOPLE but we're dicks BUT I LOVE PEOPLE but we're dicks. And so on and so on.

GAAAAAAARRRRRRRRR! Someone saying that they've lost faith in humanity!
Why would anyone lose faith in humanity?
What does it even mean?
If someone came up to you and said: "I've lost faith in you.", how would you feel?
It actually sound like a form of elitism...

Just out of interest did you even bother to read the OP? You should.

 

[Nimcha]

I always find the sentence 'Having faith in humanity' to feel incomplete. Faith that humanity will do what?

I think that Faith in Humanity not to be dicks about sums it up. I go through phases of this. I LOVE PEOPLE but we're dicks BUT I LOVE PEOPLE but we're dicks. And so on and so on.

Oh, in that case I do not have any faith at all. People can be dicks, I say deal with it.

 

[Count Igor]

Wow. That does sound great. And I'm glad there are more than a few people in the world like that.

My reason is far smaller, but it was still nice.

A child in my school is very bright, but forgetful, and as a result forgets to bring in his Homework a lot of the time.

My headteacher was taking a class, as the normal teacher was ill, and didn't know about this child's bad memory, and so thought the child was just trying to get out of trouble with a terrible excuse.

They argued for about five minutes, and the child was starting to cry, and as a result, shout (That happens around here. It's odd), but the Headteacher didn't notice the crying, but just thought he was getting angry and 'disrespectful'.

While this is going on, another teacher, with a reputation for being a generally all round nice guy, poked his head through the door to borrow some books, and sees the argument and the kid crying.

The nice teacher barely knew the kid, but remembered he had a bad memory (Ba dum pish), and after hearing what the argument was about, he marched up to the headteacher, spun him round and tried to talk quietly about how degrading it is to make a child cry over a simple forgetance (I like that made up word).

The headteacher, being a prick, didn't listen to a word he was saying and ignored everything he put forward, and started bellowing at the teacher for touching him like that (On the shoulder, very lightly) and threatened to sack him and suspend the student.

After this, the nice teacher just lost his rag and bellowed into the headteachers face about he didn't give a shit if he got fired, as long as the child was left out of this, and he was tired of working under someone who was so incompetent at teaching and with children.

At the end of the day, after the board had been called, the nice teacher actually got a promotion, as he'd done exactly as he should have done as a teacher and stood up for the children he was trying to teach, to the head of his subject. And the headmaster got put on probation and was told any more happenings like this and he'd be gone (It had happened before).

And THIS is why I like humans.
Oh, that and top hats.

 

[AssassinJoe]

Well, us. You. Everybody. We're good people! We do good things, we help each other out, we give each other support, we cheer each other up, and I'm going to start being soppy in a minute so I should just shut up. >.>

[sub]Heehee, it rhymes a bit. ^^[/sub]

I'm not a good person.

Ok fine! I gave blood a couple of times, so what?

OT: This guy sounds really nice. It's good to hear this sorta thing once in a while.

 

[Jamous]

I always find the sentence 'Having faith in humanity' to feel incomplete. Faith that humanity will do what?

I think that Faith in Humanity not to be dicks about sums it up. I go through phases of this. I LOVE PEOPLE but we're dicks BUT I LOVE PEOPLE but we're dicks. And so on and so on.

Oh, in that case I do not have any faith at all. People can be dicks, I say deal with it.

Fair play to you good sir.

 

[DragonsAteMyMarbles]

Ye jumping monkey gods, that made my day.

I can't think of any particular instance when this sort of thing happened, at least in detail, but I do know a fair few people who will, without a second's hesitation, drop everything to help someone out. Even if they suffer as a result.
Hell, I'm guilty of this myself - of course, my motivations are less SupermanesqueClosest analogy I could think of and much more selfish/whiny/emo.

My main faith-in-humanity booster is the knowledge that there are a lot of good people in this world, and I refuse to believe that this is a pointless existence. Many people tell me I'm deluding myself, but meh. Life's too short to be cynical.

 

[Spinwhiz]

When everything you see on the TV, hear on the radio and see on the internet is negative (murders, rapes, just bad stuff in general) there are those instances when one act of kindness restores your faith in humanity.

For me, a couple years back I was told by a friend that his grandson (who I think was 6 or 7) was very sick and life could go either way for him. His favorite basketball player was the star guard of the Syracuse Orangemen, Gerry McNamara. I just happened to be working with Syracuse that year as part of school and ended up meeting Gerry after a practice and told him about my friend's grandson. Without even flinching, he said "what can I do?"

Here is what he did:

Got a branded ball signed by the whole team
Got a poster signed by the whole team
Signed a photograph with a special note to the child

and here is the kicker

Called him on his cell phone DURING HALFTIME of a game before going back out to play


To this day, I still cannot believe just how far he went to make this kid, who he didn't even know, feel just a bit better. The whole family was literally beside themselves.

This is why I have faith in humanity. What is your reason? Please share your story.

You. You just have. Simply sharing this story has spread its meaning to other people already. The most wise of human peoples in the history of man has kept hope, meaning and deeds to look up to simply by telling the tales and storys of others so we might rise to their examples. Well done friend =]

*bow* thank you sir.

Wow. That does sound great. And I'm glad there are more than a few people in the world like that.

My reason is far smaller, but it was still nice.

A child in my school is very bright, but forgetful, and as a result forgets to bring in his Homework a lot of the time.

My headteacher was taking a class, as the normal teacher was ill, and didn't know about this child's bad memory, and so thought the child was just trying to get out of trouble with a terrible excuse.

They argued for about five minutes, and the child was starting to cry, and as a result, shout (That happens around here. It's odd), but the Headteacher didn't notice the crying, but just thought he was getting angry and 'disrespectful'.

While this is going on, another teacher, with a reputation for being a generally all round nice guy, poked his head through the door to borrow some books, and sees the argument and the kid crying.

The nice teacher barely knew the kid, but remembered he had a bad memory (Ba dum pish), and after hearing what the argument was about, he marched up to the headteacher, spun him round and tried to talk quietly about how degrading it is to make a child cry over a simple forgetance (I like that made up word).

The headteacher, being a prick, didn't listen to a word he was saying and ignored everything he put forward, and started bellowing at the teacher for touching him like that (On the shoulder, very lightly) and threatened to sack him and suspend the student.

After this, the nice teacher just lost his rag and bellowed into the headteachers face about he didn't give a shit if he got fired, as long as the child was left out of this, and he was tired of working under someone who was so incompetent at teaching and with children.

At the end of the day, after the board had been called, the nice teacher actually got a promotion, as he'd done exactly as he should have done as a teacher and stood up for the children he was trying to teach, to the head of his subject. And the headmaster got put on probation and was told any more happenings like this and he'd be gone (It had happened before).

And THIS is why I like humans.
Oh, that and top hats.

Nice story!

 

[Nimcha]

I always find the sentence 'Having faith in humanity' to feel incomplete. Faith that humanity will do what?

I think that Faith in Humanity not to be dicks about sums it up. I go through phases of this. I LOVE PEOPLE but we're dicks BUT I LOVE PEOPLE but we're dicks. And so on and so on.

Oh, in that case I do not have any faith at all. People can be dicks, I say deal with it.

Fair play to you good sir.

It sounds a little more fatalistic than I intended.

 

[Jamous]

I always find the sentence 'Having faith in humanity' to feel incomplete. Faith that humanity will do what?

I think that Faith in Humanity not to be dicks about sums it up. I go through phases of this. I LOVE PEOPLE but we're dicks BUT I LOVE PEOPLE but we're dicks. And so on and so on.

Oh, in that case I do not have any faith at all. People can be dicks, I say deal with it.

Fair play to you good sir.

It sounds a little more fatalistic than I intended.

Nothing wrong with Fatalistic. I buy into Nihilism, personally. People always see that as such a negative thing.... I don't. It is, apparently, unconventional nihilism.

Wow. That does sound great. And I'm glad there are more than a few people in the world like that.

My reason is far smaller, but it was still nice.

A child in my school is very bright, but forgetful, and as a result forgets to bring in his Homework a lot of the time.

My headteacher was taking a class, as the normal teacher was ill, and didn't know about this child's bad memory, and so thought the child was just trying to get out of trouble with a terrible excuse.

They argued for about five minutes, and the child was starting to cry, and as a result, shout (That happens around here. It's odd), but the Headteacher didn't notice the crying, but just thought he was getting angry and 'disrespectful'.

While this is going on, another teacher, with a reputation for being a generally all round nice guy, poked his head through the door to borrow some books, and sees the argument and the kid crying.

The nice teacher barely knew the kid, but remembered he had a bad memory (Ba dum pish), and after hearing what the argument was about, he marched up to the headteacher, spun him round and tried to talk quietly about how degrading it is to make a child cry over a simple forgetance (I like that made up word).

The headteacher, being a prick, didn't listen to a word he was saying and ignored everything he put forward, and started bellowing at the teacher for touching him like that (On the shoulder, very lightly) and threatened to sack him and suspend the student.

After this, the nice teacher just lost his rag and bellowed into the headteachers face about he didn't give a shit if he got fired, as long as the child was left out of this, and he was tired of working under someone who was so incompetent at teaching and with children.

At the end of the day, after the board had been called, the nice teacher actually got a promotion, as he'd done exactly as he should have done as a teacher and stood up for the children he was trying to teach, to the head of his subject. And the headmaster got put on probation and was told any more happenings like this and he'd be gone (It had happened before).

And THIS is why I like humans.
Oh, that and top hats.

BAM! Teacher got OWNED! That is a wonderful story and I wish we saw it more often.