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Esperanto Volunteers

de komenstanto, 19 de febrero de 2012

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komenstanto (Mostrar perfil) 19 de febrero de 2012 18:51:01

Are there or have there been Esperanto volunteers? I mean not just related to Esperanto, but like Esperantists who under the flag of Esperanto do sort of Peace Corps type work, help in their communities, volunteer at soup kitchens, etc.

It seems to me, that the personal quest of vanquishing is too individualist: the only aim is to progress Esperanto, so you have to get in line with any other group that wants to see its aims carried out.

But there is a loophole to this sort of individualist goal orientation, and that is helping other people in ways that do not pertain to your own goals.

erinja (Mostrar perfil) 19 de febrero de 2012 19:38:29

komenstanto:But there is a loophole to this sort of individualist goal orientation, and that is helping other people in ways that do not pertain to your own goals.
Qwertz, is that you?

komenstanto (Mostrar perfil) 19 de febrero de 2012 19:44:09

Nope, you have a case of mistaken identity.

For instance, related to my idea, there is a building where I live, and it is a soup kitchen, but its a general soup kitchen. Sometimes Christians give food there, and sometimes its city workers unrelated to religion, and I think any volunteer group could work there, as the food is all donations anyway, it is just volunteer work. In situations like this, Esperantists could make a name for themselves. This is how politicians work as well sometimes, like Michelle Obama volunteering at a soup kitchen in Washington DC.

I am sure if Esperantists volunteered and wore Esperanto shirts at a kitchen in D.C., you might get Esperanto into the news.

darkweasel (Mostrar perfil) 19 de febrero de 2012 21:16:52

erinja:
komenstanto:But there is a loophole to this sort of individualist goal orientation, and that is helping other people in ways that do not pertain to your own goals.
Qwertz, is that you?
rido.gif No, this user writes much more intelligent postings than qwertz did.

novatago (Mostrar perfil) 19 de febrero de 2012 23:19:26

There is an orphanage in Brazil and I know there was something called indiĝenaj dialogoj. Probably there is something else, and I know a man who gets grants for poor people, who "accepts" to learn esperanto among other conditions.

Anyway, even if you were Qwertz, I'm agree with you, volunteer work and NGOs using Esperanto, would be not only useful for the language but perhaps also the next logical step.

Ĝis, Novatago.

Bemused (Mostrar perfil) 20 de febrero de 2012 06:57:09

Oi, lay off Qwertz.
The person who posted as Qwertz might not have had native speaker grasp of the English language, but that says more about the English language than about Qwertz.
And is that not why Esperanto exists, so that a person can communicate with speakers of other mother tongues without being criticised for their language skills?
Whatever happened to tolerance?

darkweasel (Mostrar perfil) 20 de febrero de 2012 09:49:51

Bemused:
The person who posted as Qwertz might not have had native speaker grasp of the English language, but that says more about the English language than about Qwertz.
no. Having read his messages in the German-language board as well (where he does have native speaker grasp), I can assure you that language wasn't the (primary) problem.

anyway, this thread is not about qwertz.

komenstanto (Mostrar perfil) 20 de febrero de 2012 18:23:18

Sometimes I think people have something bad happening to them in real life, and they take it out on a forum or message board. It is easy enough for other posters to lead that person on. I have seen it happen on numerous occasions. I don't know the specific person Qwertz. But it can be his wife left him or he has cancer. The heart shrinks and one becomes the Grinch. The Grinch is inside everyone, only waiting for the right provocation.

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