Takers and givers.

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Other than in a bent philosophical light, untrue. Neither are non-subscribers ever to be the rightful objects of your disdain. Some lack interest and/or money. Some have precious little time. These folks would find no marginal utility of value or return on shelling out dough unnecessarily. Sweeping generalizations are still generally suspect and unrelia ...[text shortened]... re, do so on the basis of post content (and, maybe, chess rating in the Chess Only Forum). gb
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Taking that which is offered is completely fine, including membership for 6 games

Originally posted by Kewpie
Not a single person posting in this thread will admit to being a taker.

IMO everyone is both at times.

Originally posted by Kewpie
Not a single person posting in this thread will admit to being a taker.

admitting as much,
would be an act of giving...
aren't giving and taking,
both the acts of living???

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Some lack interest and/or money. Some have precious little time.

Which one are you?

Originally posted by ChessPraxis
IMO everyone is both at times.

Ditto!

Originally posted by HandyAndy
Which one are you?

"Guess the honest thing to do here is to admit that, from time to time, most of us are both." gb

Originally posted by Suzianne
We are ALL givers AND takers. “From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his needs.” It's the circle of life.

That has been revised to: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his campaign contributions."

Originally posted by JS357
That has been revised to: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his campaign contributions."

😞

Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
Some lack interest and/or money. Some have precious little time.

Again, Bobby, which one are you?

Originally posted by HandyAndy

Again, Bobby, which one are you?

Same as most everybody else here, both.
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Originally posted by Kewpie
Not a single person posting in this thread will admit to being a taker.

If you had to be defined one way or the other, which group would you say you belong to?

I know very few bona fide takers. But they do exist.

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Did you ever think (not that it's true, but just sayin'😉 that maybe as you were helping her all that time, she was resenting it? She might have needed it but maybe she didn't appreciate it and deep down hated it.

My first wife hated the fact that I always sacrificed for her, but I never realized it.. until.. one day we bought take out food at a restaurant. When the food came back and we unwrapped all of it on the dining room table, we realized that her burger had pickles on it which she hates. I immediately swapped the burgers so she would have one more to her liking. She lashed out at me and said something like, "Why do you always have to sacrifice yourself for me?" She was genuinely pissed about it. So pissed, she threw her food at me and ran up the stairs.

It turns out SHE wanted the opportunity to be the one to sacrifice every now and then and I was too quick to the punch and not allowing her to do it.

That was a weird lesson to learn. But your thing reminded me of it. Your friend, perhaps not unlike my first wife, watched you sacrifice for her over and over for a long period of time and instead of appreciating it, she built up restentment toward you for it.

Ironic, eh?

Originally posted by Green Paladin

I don't take credit for it at all...

Well, I don't. It's not like I spent time thinking about those things I mentioned and decided to do it for the good.

Just like I don't take credit for breathing, or loving my wife. It just comes natural. It's the One that built me that deserves the credit.

Originally posted by HandyAndy
All the non-subscribers are takers, whether they admit it or not.

Not true. Accepting a freely offered gift is not defined as taking.

Stepping in front of someone in line without waiting your turn; swiping a tip off another customer's table at a restaurant; stealing away other peoples' enjoyment on a website by badgering them so that you can feel better about yourself; those are examples of taking.

But I'm sure you've never done any of those things. You're a giver. Am I right?

Originally posted by sumydid
stealing away other peoples' enjoyment on a website by badgering them so that you can feel better about yourself;

That's a public service.