Cantr II Discussion Forum

With millions now homeless and rescue operations underway throughout the Gulf Coast the best way people can help is to donate to organizations like the American Red Cross so that they can provide the necessary shelter, food, water, and ice to people as well as continue rescue operations throughout area especially in New Orleans which is now being abandoned due to rising flood waters due to levees and pumps failing.

www.redcross.org

Please contribute what you can.

It seems the Red Cross site is down probably due to the enormous traffic it is getting.

So please be patient if you can't get on the site quickly.

I used to give blood but then I got my labret pierced last year... So I have to wait one more

They won't let me give them my blood. I take the food when I go there anyways, though.

They give you as much tea as you want.

they don't let you give blood if you're a guy and ever had sex with another guy, or a woman who's ever had sex with a guy who's had sex with a guy (because that's the sort of thing they'd tell you?) which is deeply unfair in countries like the UK where HIV/AIDS is growing primarily in the single, heterosexual, female populations, and the levels in homosexual populations have fallen to the same level as that of the general population.

But that is far off topic, and I apologise.

The devastation is an incredible site. As much as I dislike the US in general, I do hope the same compassion that is shown to victims of natural disaters in other parts of the world will be received by the victims in Louisiana.

People are dying all over the place, all the time. Natural disasters rarely make me feel any more sympathy.

To be quite truthful, it is much the same with me. See the quote.

Actually, my sex life has nothing to do with my blood donating (which would make sense and be fair).

They just won't take it because a police officer who I am on bad terms with told them not too.

This is, of course, not legal, but I always fail the application, and they won't tell me why. (Although I know why.)

But at very least I get the little cookies and tea.

Natural disaster, terrorist attack or whatever...I'm quite saddened by things like this. These are people, someone's mom, dad, daughter, son, sister, brother we're talking about. Real people not virtual people, real people.

It can only sadden me if I'm in the mood, or I think very intensly about it. And I don't really have time to intentionally upset myself. Right or wrong, who's to say?

But that's just me.

I was tested for HIV and came out negative.

Anyway I believe I can't donate blood because of my medication, I've been considering I should ever since I turned 18 but with the meds.. and then my fear of needles... Ok but when I get rid of my medication then I'll try once if they just let me. And maybe it's not so terrible.

Stan wrote:Natural disaster, terrorist attack or whatever...I'm quite saddened by things like this. These are people, someone's mom, dad, daughter, son, sister, brother we're talking about. Real people not virtual people, real people.

Sometime during me typing this post, a kid in africa probably died of starvation.
If you want to sadden yourself by thinking of all the bad that goes on in the world, prepare for insanity.

The American Red Cross is not about just donating blood. The main thing they need is money so that they can provide food, shelter, water, and ice to refugees on the Gulf Coast.

Oh, yes of course. They take money from anyone.

But exactly, Nick.

If I cared that much about the misfortune of people I don't even know, and tried to feel bad for all of them, I'd live in perpetual misery and depression.

Hell, New Orleans is under water today, but yesterday Sudanese government forces killed a few hundred guys in the west of the country in their ongoing effort, which has lasted a number of years now, to exterminate the black tribesmen of Sudan and take their land. Not displace. Exterminate.

Even now, in Uganda, at least a few thousand young girls, (thirteen, fourteen, fifteen.) are being used as sex slaves for the soldiers of the Lord's Resistance Army. These girls have been kidnapped from there homes, and are now being forced to screw murderers. Can you imagine at thirteen being rapped many times daily?

I could go on and on and on. But I don't have time. That is our point.

Nobody has time for that much sadness. Nothing would ever get done.

Besides, I'm sure we all have enough of our home grown deppresion as we need, if not more.

You guys are confusing the International Red Cross and the American Red Cross. They are totally seperate and distinctly different organizations.

No I'm not. I don't think you're reading into what we're talking about.
What me and Nick are saying as that no one can afford to grieve for every tragedy or take up every righteous cause.

It has nothing to do with any Red Cross things.


As for the American Red Cross,I can't give blood in my city, to anyone.

If I go to another city, I could.

Wait, no I couldn't. I can't give blood to anyone.