Different diseases get lots of attention for long periods of time all the time. Just how October is breast cancer awareness month and December is for AIDS.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook, Phil Schiller Take On 'Ice Bucket Challenge' to Promote Awareness for ALS
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Different diseases get lots of attention for long periods of time all the time. Just how October is breast cancer awareness month and December is for AIDS.
I'd be much more impressed if these people dumped a bucket of sewage over their heads. It can be done in cooperation with each region's main Port-a-Potty company.
Firemen, EMS workers, and cops were doing this in 2012, 2013, and earlier this year to raise money for everything from Fallen firefighters fund, to wounded warrior project. Several people in my Dept. Called out celebrities with no response, now for some reason it's "a new thing." The rules were you do the challenge, call out 5 people then donate $10 to whatever charity you choose, the people you call out also donate $10 to that charity if they do the challenge, or donate $100 if they don't, then they call out 5 people and so on and so forth. I'm not sure where it originated, but it's been going around in the public safety professions for a few years. It's not specific to ALS, it's any charity you choose when you do the challenge.
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You can challenge me to do it. It's hotter here than the Devil's butt crack; a cold dousing would be a cooling relief. I'm tempted to fill a kiddy pool with ice water and soak, shrinkage be damned.
Where are you?
They actually:
#1 Get to experience it in person
#2 Get to re-live the recording of that experience as many times as they wish
I *do* agree with your point, but capturing it is also perfectly acceptable, and means multiplication of a part of the experience for those unable to be there.
Again, I accept your sentiment
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Possibly a little dramatic. If that were so, your tongue would catch pneumonia when you drank an iced coke
LOL24 hours later, still waiting for up-votes...
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Bill Gates takes the challenge and does it in a bit more technical way.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/...aing-grid7|maing10|dl12|sec1_lnk3&pLid=516427
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/...aing-grid7|maing10|dl12|sec1_lnk3&pLid=516427
Don't forget being able to share that experience with people you know who couldn't be there but would have liked to see it. You CAN hold a phone to record something without constantly looking only through it, right? I'm not a big photo/video taker on vacation but I often regret not capturing a moment I'd like to recall clearly later when I'm home.
It's amazing how the internet highlights that there are certain people who will find a negative in ANYTHING just so they have an opportunity to downgrade, feel superior or whine about it. Sad people who can't stand to see other people having fun. People who never help others hating on people who DO help. People so inhibited to join in life they are mad that other people participate in life so freely. People really need to ask themselves why watching other people be happy makes them so sad.
You are completely right. The internet "communities" seem to bring out every aspect of one's character EXCEPT community spirit, kindness, patience, gentleness and self-control - all the things the Bible teaches are for the edification of mankind, hardly anyone seems to demonstrate.
The ability to be anonymous allows people to let their bad impulses win. I know I think harder about what I say on forums that require me to use my real name or show what I say on, say, Facebook where people who know me will read it. The internet would be much more civil if people weren't allowed to hide behind masks. Some might argue that would stifle free expression of important ideas but let's be honest. Most negative comments aren't useful and if they were, people would express them without the mask.
There's zero reason to complain that someone found another way to make charitable giving a fun event that increases awareness and makes it a social event. Organizations do that all the time by having people/employees participate in fundraising activities together. Charity gets services, goods or money and the participants have fun, build good teams, make new friends and overall feel good. I'm sure many people on this forum are too young or don't work for the kind of company that does this but it's so much easier to get people who normally aren't very charitable on their own to participate in a group effort that's also a little fun in the process. This challenge doesn't cost the charity much (I suppose they pay some to process the donations) because everyone participating is doing the promoting and buying any necessary supplies. Compare that to mailing out printed literature to millions where only a tiny percentage reply or putting on fancy parties for rich donors to attend or putting commercials on TV begging for money. This challenge is a low-cost/high return proposition so you should laud it, not criticize it.
P.S. I'm an atheist and my name is Lauri Mueller (before some smart azz claims I'm hiding, too.)
^ I don't think failing to reveal your real name on the internet is proof that you're hiding. I wouldn't worry so much about that.
I think it's a fun challenge but I admit, I originally wondered if people were donating and doing it or just doing the challenge and not donating.
I think it's a fun challenge but I admit, I originally wondered if people were donating and doing it or just doing the challenge and not donating.
Didn't say people were hiding behind aliases in general. Sometimes aliases are useful, especially for women, so crazy people don't hassle them outside of the forum. Just said that it makes it easier for people to say hurtful or negative things they wouldn't normally say if people could identify them as saying it and judge them by it. There are a lot of closet racists, homophobes, political crazies and the like who seem to enjoy venting their hate beyond their small sphere of likeminded real-life friends but don't necessarily want their non-likeminded acquaintances to know their true nature.
It's one of those things where there's a pretense that there's a way to not donate by doing the challenge with the assumption that people will donate anyway. Pretty common but some people need to have that subtlety explained to them, lol. It's one of those things that people understand after some life experience with similar events. And it's nice that the person can have that feeling of "I did good" by donating when technically they didn't need to. People are complicated.
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The ability to be anonymous allows people to let their bad impulses win. I know I think harder about what I say on forums that require me to use my real name or show what I say on, say, Facebook where people who know me will read it. The internet would be much more civil if people weren't allowed to hide behind masks. Some might argue that would stifle free expression of important ideas but let's be honest. Most negative comments aren't useful and if they were, people would express them without the mask.
There's zero reason to complain that someone found another way to make charitable giving a fun event that increases awareness and makes it a social event. Organizations do that all the time by having people/employees participate in fundraising activities together. Charity gets services, goods or money and the participants have fun, build good teams, make new friends and overall feel good. I'm sure many people on this forum are too young or don't work for the kind of company that does this but it's so much easier to get people who normally aren't very charitable on their own to participate in a group effort that's also a little fun in the process. This challenge doesn't cost the charity much (I suppose they pay some to process the donations) because everyone participating is doing the promoting and buying any necessary supplies. Compare that to mailing out printed literature to millions where only a tiny percentage reply or putting on fancy parties for rich donors to attend or putting commercials on TV begging for money. This challenge is a low-cost/high return proposition so you should laud it, not criticize it.
P.S. I'm an atheist and my name is Lauri Mueller (before some smart azz claims I'm hiding, too.)
Lovely to "meet" you, Lauri; my name is Robert Redford, and tomorrow I'll decide to be Ernest Borgnine
My real name is Matt... or IS it?
Tim Cook: "Wet T-shirt contest. Let's go boys."
I wish we still had the downvote button.
$31.5 million has been donated since this challenge started. $7.3 million was raised overnight yesterday. Tell me again this is stupid.