Is anyone truly selfless?

Note : The opinions expressed in this post are purely from the mind of the author. No research has been done online or offline on this topic, though some bits and pieces are from the author's debate on the same topic at his college.



Selfish - Adj. Concerned chiefly or only with yourself.



There's no one is this world who isn't selfish, even if it's in a very small way. When I heard this statement from my English professor at college, I was shocked at first, then realized he was right, and then after deeper thinking, realized he was wrong, and thus tried to prove him wrong. Now I'm not sure who is right.



Consider this argument - If a person is truly selfless, the person should be a very benevolent & altruistic one. But why exactly are benevolent people, well, benevolent? They gain some satisfaction and sometimes even some sort of respect from others. So people are kind because they get satisfied by being so. Thus it can considered selfish, ergo there are no truly selfless people in this world.



And then consider this - Look at the meaning of Selfish. It says in the dictionary that being selfish is being concerned ONLY with one's self. An altruistic person is concerned not only about himself/herself, but also concerned about others. So technically speaking, it's not selfish.



So what do you think? Is anyone truly selfless?

Some funnies from mail

Remember what I said about gap-fillers in the previous post? Well, forget it. I just couldn't resist these I got in my mail today:



On the first day of school, a first-grader handed his

teacher a note from his mother. The note read, "The

opinions expressed by this child are not necessarily

those of his parents."



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My son Zachary, 4, came screaming out of the bathroom

to tell me he'd dropped his toothbrush in the toilet.

So I fished it out and threw it in the garbage.

Zachary stood there thinking for a moment, then ran to

my bathroom and came out with my toothbrush. He held

it up and said with a charming little smile, "We better

throw this one out too then, 'cause it fell in the

toilet a few days ago.



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I was driving with my three young children one warm

summer evening when a woman in the convertible ahead of

us stood up and waved. She was stark naked! As I was

reeling from the shock, I heard my 5-year-old shout

from the back seat, "Mom! That lady isn't wearing a

seat belt!"



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Writing With Emotional Appeal



There was once a young man who, in his youth, professed his

desire to become a great writer. When asked to define "great" he

said, "I want to write stuff that the whole world will read,

stuff that people will react to on a truly emotional level, stuff

that will make them scream, cry, howl in pain and anger!"



He now works for Microsoft, writing error messages.



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I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day,

but I couldn't find any.



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Mother had decided to trim her household budget

wherever possible, so instead of having a dress

dry-cleaned she washed it by hand.



Proud of her savings, she boasted to my father, "Just

think, we are five dollars richer because I washed this

dress by hand."



"Good," my dad quickly replied. "Wash it again!"



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The Koala Bear



A Koala bear walks into a bar, sits down and orders a sandwich and the

bartender brings him a sandwich



The Koala eats the sandwich and gets up, spins around, pulls a pistol

out of his pouch, shoots the piano player, an proceeds to walk out of

the bar.



The bartender, in shock, shouts to the Koala, "hey who do you think you

are, you ate my sandwich and shot my piano player, and just where do you

think your going!



The Koala replies, "Hey I'm a Koala. Look it up."



The frustrated bartender pulls out a dictionary from behind the bar and

looks up Koala: "n. a marsupial that eats shoots and leaves."



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I thought it was just a bear, not a Koala...

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I've made up my mind today. I've decided not to cop out of posting something other than weird news stories from around the world. No more gap-fillers, nosiree. None at all. Nope. Never.

A friend and I have invented a new game... its called SMS rap. You send a message that sounds like rap, or at least rhymes, and the receiver replies with a rap of his own. It's a really fun way to while away time when bored, or when not bored too. It's a good way to improve your vocabulary too. Spread the word! Don't forget to mention the Ranting Human taught you this! (Unless of course you get caught doing this during a class.)

Anyone participating in NaNoBlogMo? I desperately want to, but with limited access to a computer it's gonna be difficult.

I also wanted to start a comic strip, but I don't have a graphics tablet to draw my characters. It's too bad, 'cause I've already developed a great storyline.

See! I didn't cop out! I'm an honest bloke, aren't I?

UPDATE: Yes, this is another shameless plug for my College Life blog. What am I to do? This blog gets more readers than that, but that's the blog I update with lengthy posts!

Bush seems to be getting a lot of negative publicity....

Did you hear that Bush attempted AND succeeded at robbing a bank? Well, not Bush himself exactly. Some thief wearing a George Bush mask did it, and hasn't been caught yet. Weird choice of mask. Maybe not. Click here for the whole story.



Even pornstars don't want Bush to be re-elected! Pornstars shaved, I repeat, shaved, to support the "No More Bush" campaign. It seems that Bush has been concentrating more on bringing down pornstars rather than face the more pressing issues in the country. Read the whole story here.



Poor old Bush. He's made a lot of mistakes, he might not be a good President, but hey, he's not ALL bad, is he?



UPDATE: The College Life blog has been updated with the latest happenings.

BlogExplosion seems to be good

Considering the number of comments coming in from other BlogExplosion users on my previous post, that's what I was inclined to think. I really believed that people actually read the blog when surfing via BlogExplosion. Then I checked my stats. WHAM! In just a week, I'd had more than 300 visitors, and my total count has crossed a 1000. Even if I counted the number of people who just read my blog but didn't bother to comment, I'm sure the ratio between number of visitors and number of readers would be quite small. My theory about fake readers would be true. But at least there are a few real readers, so I guess it's worth it, since you also get to read other good blogs. So go to BlogExplosion.Com now! (By now, I mean after reading my blog.)



And Hobbes, I too am a veggie. So I'll consider your request to stop the yucky stuff.



BTW, I came across bugs, not in somebody's food, but in mine! Check out my College Life blog for more details. How's that for yucky stuff! (There's always a next time Hobbes...)

Fancy a bite of fried bugs?

If you ever have the habit of watching the Discovery Channel, Discovery Kids to be precise, you might have come across an episode of some programme where the food habits of some country were documented. One of the habits included frying cockroaches, dipping them in chocolate sauce and of course, eating them.



What if you find a deep fried bug in a packet of chips? That's what happened to Keith MacDonald from Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, Canada. Read more here.



First, it was pesticide infected Pepsi. Then it was bugged Cadbury's Diary Milk. And then libido loss causing cheeseburgers. Now this. Must be the year of contaminated junk food. Hey, it's a way to stop people from ruining their health.



Oh, and I've updated my College Life blog with a long descriptive post on my first two days in college, so check it out. It's worth it. Seriously. GO NOW!



Update: I stumbled upon a site today known as BlogExplosion.Com. Apparently, they help boost your blog's traffic without any nagging pop-ups or pop-unders. You read other blog sites and they in return visit your blog. Cool idea, but will it members actually read blogs, or just visit them for the sake of gaining more readers? I'll try this for a week or two and then give you my opinions.