Comments on: The Uncultured Project is totally useless!

By: spyked1

spyked1 — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:17:39 +0000

Helping people is just as much about the person being helped, as the person doing the helping. I don’t give a flying fig that he tries to score points for his country or that he “encourages dependency” (which is bollocks), but the fact that instead of wasting his youth in the pursuit of frivolous activities (that most youngsters today are engaged in) he is building his character and his spirituality and most of all his humanity by doing acts of love, kindness and compassion among the most destitute of humankind. Yet some people have the gall to say that it’s useless. Wow!

By: David

David — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:51:29 +0000

The bigger projects are important, but they take time. What do people do in the meantime? That’s where charitable organizations come in. So the criticism is a bit over the top. Great job, Shawn. Your work is noble.

By: Seraph

Seraph — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:47:37 +0000

He’s right but i feel he’s a bit too idealistic. I believe more in teaching a man to fish rather than to give him the “fish”. But this would mean that the former endeavor would be bigger and therefore require more planning and resources(that’s wat i think anyway). This means that we’ll probably need someone upstairs to help us out(politicians, big corporations). At the end of the day? Chicken and egg story, which comes first?

I say s***w the chickens and their eggs, and do what we can in the field; and then only consider a much larger operation like teaching the man to fish should the opportunity arise.

P.S. You’ve got something here shawn, what you’re doing is awesome!Not everyone would have gone to such lengths and made that much of a difference! Great work!

By: Igzibit

Igzibit — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 07:19:20 +0000

he had a few good points tho

mainly the education part
he used this cynicism as a reverse psychology…
let people understand that they shud do more than just providing aid… theres a bigger picture to this

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By: Studio85

Studio85 — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 19:10:38 +0000

I think regardless of what people say about long term impact, helping those in need now and with the capabilities at our fingertips is by far one of the best things we can do. We are supposed to give when others are in need, and by politicking the process, we throw sand into the gears of something that does far more good than it ever does any bad.
We are called to give as we see fit, and I see the Uncultured project as an amazing resource for us to reach those that are in need.