how important are you to society?

[datasuspect]

what do you contribute?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear datasuspect...

To society as a whole, I am nothing...

I am important to my husband, my children, my grandchildren, and to my friends...

I have helped raise my daughters, and I contributed also as a nurse...

Now those careers are over, and I'm writing. A few people have read and enjoyed my work...

These are my contributions...

Why do you ask?

How about you? What are your contributions?

[donheld]

43. You are worth quite a bit to many here at DU also

:hi:

[Swede]

2. I'm just a faceless drone in the hive.

Another cog in the machine.

[geardaddy]

26. Another brick in the wall?

[Swede]

41. Ummagumma?

:shrug:

[geardaddy]

45. I was just going with the flow.

[LeftyFingerPop]

3. Society as a whole would fail without me.

[MiddleFingerMom]

18. He said "assahole". n/t

[av8rdave]

4. Merely a worker bee here

Though I hope I'm more than that to my loved ones.

[kayakjohnny]

5. eh....

most corporations hate my guts.

So I got that going for me.

Otherwise, I'm real good with many hundreds of individuals.

That's about my range.

[Skittles]

6. I just got a 35 gallon blood donor pin

I send postcards and packages to troops overseas almost daily
I trap/fix/release feral cats
I work with children mute from trauma to get them talking again

I'm fucking valuable

[mix]

20. Yes, you are.

:hi:

[MiddleFingerMom]

21. SERIOUS about this.

.
:patriot:
.

[Doc_Technical]

49. My dear Skittles

I'm not anywhere near your league regarding the amount of blood donated,
but I donate at least 4 or 5 times a year even though I'm terrified
of needles
It's the least I can do.

[Skittles]

52. I donate platelets

90 minutes on a machine every two or three weeks - I've seen LOTS of movies :D

PS I'm a USAF vet too :0

[bookworm65t]

7. haven't found my purpose

n/t

[MiddleFingerMom]

54. Watch "The Jerk" with Steve Martin...

.
... and you'll see how easy it is to find your "special purpose".
.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. Society does not know nor care that I exist. n/t

[Kali]

9. food, open space, habitat, functioning watershed

vote for people who tend to lean towards being helpful to people rather than those that promote war and greed. I'm not very important, but I contribute a little.

to the small parts of the whole:toast:

[MiddleFingerMom]

22. You're fulla crap.

.
For a year or two... I was the one showing up at our community radio BOD meetings,
trying to fight its corporatization and push it for more transparency. A BUNCHA folks
got involved eventually... for years... and some of them even got on official station-
related committees and the BOD itself and made some cracks in the walls surrounding
that so-called "community" station.
.
We have ALL fallen... exhausted... by the wayside.
.
Except Kali. For many years, she has been THE main... if not the ONLY surviving and
consistent voice of conscience and true community reason still hammering away at those
walls.
.
Would someday MY cojones be so big. She's also involved in lots more little and moderate
"contributions to society" (AND individuals) of which I'm aware -- and almost certainly
more of which I am not.
.
Since someone asked earlier about contributing to society "ass a hole", I'd say that
Kali is the biggest societal "ass a hole" contributer that I know.
.
Don't look like that. You know what I mean.
.

[Kali]

33. ok now I feel kinda bad

that I haven't been to a BOD meeting in 3 months:blush:

(but I see the minutes got put up right away this time after I had to publicly bitch about it twice)

[BuelahWitch]

10. I am only important to my cat

I'm sure society would tell me to fuck off.

[elshiva]

11. I'm a parasite.

As someone once told me, "You better lose weight, you know tax-payers will have to pay your medical bills."

[dysfunctional press]

12. i'm a leech.

at 49, i'm disabled and collecting social security- and i have been since i was 36.

i contribute disgust and dissent.

[cherokeeprogressive]

13. I'm nobody special.

Served the country, taught unemployed adults how to use computers, volunteer in the National Forest two days a week now.

[Javaman]

14. We are all replaceable and we are all replaced daily. nt

[Tuesday Afternoon]

44. the circle of life.

amen.

[old mark]

15. I am an independent artist. I suck it all up like a sponge,

contribute as little as possible to the world of commerce.
Fuck 'em.

mark

[Duer 157099]

16. I've been asking myself that alot lately

I feel completely and utterly useless, ready to just disappear.

It wasn't always like this though. I happened to do a search yesterday that led me to some statistics on a scientific paper that I published many years ago, when I had a totally different life, and saw that there are over a thousand other papers that have referred to that paper, meaning that just briefly, I contributed something important to the body of scientific knowledge.

But that was yesterday, and today I am worthless.

[AlienGirl]

32. Me, too. I feel superfluous. What have I done lately?

I was born with incredible potential. I was wildly precocious: I have things I wrote down when I was 18 months old and learning to spell. I blew the top off an IQ test at age four, when I was also diagnosed with depression. I had a bad time with my classmates through my school years, but got a lot of satisfaction out of saving and rehabilitating wildlife.

I graduated high school with very high grades and was a Merit Scholarship finalist. Tested out of two years of college. Dropped out to pursue my romantic interests. Got married to my high-school sweetheart and was married for nine happy years, producing two beautiful sons. Donated blood when I weighed enough. Rescued more wildlife. Was a full-time mom. Produced a sci-fi zine that had subscribers in France and Australia.

Then got cancer. Got dumped. Hubby brought the kids to his mom's house because I was very ill. I talk to them and get them on summer vacation, but I have not raised them since they were 6 and 4, and I will always grieve and regret that.

Recovered from cancer. Got an infection that has a 50% survival rate and was in ICU. Recovered some more. Caught a self-confessed serial killer in an undercover operation spanning three states. Drove solo across the country to finish my degree, a decade too late.

Got married again, went to ex#2's home state and got a Real Job that I held for 2 years. Excelled at the job for a while and saved several families and protected many kids. Marriage went south, I started getting too sick to do my job. Panicked and moved across the country again, to live with friends. Probably pushed ex#2 completely over the edge into madness in the process.

I have not done anything of value in more than a year. Mostly I sleep or read, take pills and try to find treatment.

I seem to have screwed up at every opportunity, and I wonder if I'm done. I'm afraid to make any more decisions, because I'll probably just screw up again.

Tucker

[hunter]

34. If we don't take care of AlenGirl the Stnizzlesnarfogans are going to incinerate earth.

They are very bad tempered and quite a bit more irritable than that space whale thing was on Star Trek IV.

I've messed with them before, saved all your sorry asses, in fact. Trust me, you don't want to piss them off. They can eat people like chickens scratching around in the straw eat insects. Except they'll Kentucky fry us first.

[mix]

17. i often ponder that very question nt

[mitchum]

19. I lie to children for a living

[Deep13]

23. catachism teacher?

:shrug:

[LanternWaste]

24. Eleven... n/t

[Deep13]

25. If I were gone, the remaining 7.2 billion people would miss me right away!

:eyes:

[geardaddy]

27. not

[La Lioness Priyanka]

28. i do volunteer community organizing for atleast 20 hours a week on top of a real job & grad school

over all i am pretty useful to society

not important though, just useful

[denbot]

29. I am important to those I love, however..

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.

[BlueJazz]

30. I try to make the world a better place..but lately, it seems I'm doing a shitty job.

;)

[AlienGirl]

31. I'm probably a drain, actually. I'm ill, on General Assistance and medical coupons

I have more debt to corporations than I can possibly repay, I have only saved a relatively few equally valueless lives, and although I maintain an individual of a Threatened Species, nobody has any real ideas for rebuilding enough habitat for any potential progeny to work on a viable repopulation program.

So I won't be surprised when I am urged to get out of the way and make room for someone who is good at being a successful human being.

Tucker

[tigereye]

35. I pay taxes, I raise a child, I offer support to family and friends, I volunteer

at my son's school and other organizations I belong to, I vote, offer a kind word to others, cook dinner and pay bills, donate time and money to good causes when I can, support small businesses, work for the candidate of my choice, and try to help some kids I work with feel better about themselves and have hope about the future.


We all have value to society in all the small and large things we do. Without us, there is no society. :shrug:

[femmocrat]

36. I'm a teacher.

That leaves no time or energy for anything else.

[Ikonoklast]

37. I am here only as an observer.

I am not supposed to interact with the indigenous lifeforms any more than is absolutely necessary.

After the pre-determined time of study is complete, my report will determine if this planet's dominant sentient species will survive as such, or be replaced by cats.






Hint: meow.

[gmoney]

38. I contribute directly to keeping about 10 people employed

or at least partially employed, so they can support their families and their respective economies.

[lunatica]

39. I'm as important as that butterfly that causes the hurricane

I breathe, therefore I am.

[velvet]

40. I feed the frail aged

Wash them, wipe their bottoms, do their laundry, clean their rooms, hug them, joke with them, commiserate when they get the blues. At $16.50 an hour I reckon society's getting a bargain.

[Alexander]

42. Not in the slightest.

I contribute nothing worth mentioning.

[yawnmaster]

46. Without me, society, as I know it, would not exist. eom

[Juche]

47. Meh. Not very

It may not be PC, but right now I don't feel too useful. I'm too depressed/irritable from being unemployed to be a good uncle.

I hope life gets better than this.

[bridgit]

48. zero

[Tuesday Afternoon]

50. ~

:hug:

[bridgit]

55. ~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwLvnZ-WlZ0 :cry: :cry: :cry: :hug:

[Throd]

51. I'm what you would call an Oxygen Thief

[Richard Steele]

53. Modesty forbids. nm

[Roon]

56. Taking care of my Grandparents

and keeping them out of a home for as long as possible.

[arbusto_baboso]

57. I'm a social worker, so I'm part of the ever-shrinking "safety net".

Not everyone can fight the dragons directly. Some of us polish the armor, sharpen the swords and feed the horses. But our contribution is no less valuable than the that of the knight who actually slays the dragon.

[PVnRT]

58. I provide valuable carbon dioxide to facilitate the growth of native flora

[GreenPartyVoter]

59. I coach cheering, teach sunday school, help with the drama club, and am raising two very interesting

little boys. But that's it. :(

[Dulcinea]

60. I'm not.

I have been unemployed for 1 year + 2 days now.

But I volunteer at my kids' school, try to get grants to help education in our area, am raising 2 smart & beautiful daughters, keep our house running & am contemplating getting my Master's in ESL...if I can find a way to pay for it.

[Magrittes Pipe]

61. I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner and a saint, I do not feel ashamed

And now you've got that stupid fucking song stuck in your head.


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Chemical Bill]

62. I make sure drinking water will not support life.

:hide: