{"id":1493,"date":"2007-05-08T09:05:09","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T14:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2007-05-08T09:05:56","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T14:05:56","slug":"why-you-do-things-for-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1493","title":{"rendered":"Why you do things for people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have had people ask me over and over again, why I put myself out for people. In re, specifically, the kind of stuff Kim talks about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theothersideofkim.com\/index.php\/tos\/single\/10563\/\">here.<\/a> I have gotten cars for a few people, usually free or cheap, or if they cost anying, they are really prime vehicles. I never take any money, and often put a couple bucks in the car to make sure it&#8217;s safe to drive. Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because most people have times when they need a leg up. Some of the best of us fall on hard times. I&#8217;ve been there, and so have a lot of you.  <\/p>\n<p>The reason you do this sort of thing is to balance the debt of karma for the people that helped you in your time of need- or will help you  in the future. You do it because, if you are a Christian, you realise that <em>you are your brother&#8217;s keeper. <\/em> You do it because helping people is something that ought to be second nature, and you shouldn&#8217;t think about it. At all. <\/p>\n<p>I tend to deal with people in business and my personal life the same way:Customers get the best <a href=\"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=1391\">customer servi<\/a>ce i can provide. Friends get the most gracious treatment I can afford. The House of Og may be a damp, cold spot carved out of a cliffside, but to the extent that is possible, I make my friends feel at home. And when I see someone in need of help, I don&#8217;t wait around for the government to fix something for them, because the gummint always gets it wrong. <\/p>\n<p>Look around, folks. The world is full of people you can help without hardly lifting a finger yourself. Do so. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have had people ask me over and over again, why I put myself out for people. In re, specifically, the kind of stuff Kim talks about here. I have gotten cars for a few people, usually free or cheap, or if they cost anying, they are really prime vehicles. I never take any money, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}