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Recently I was in India and certain circumstances connected me with a facility for the elderly run by an order of Catholic Nuns. I visited them quite a few time
by gtycomb 7y ago
Recently I was in India and certain circumstances connected me with a facility for the elderly run by an order of Catholic Nuns. I visited them quite a few times and while inside those closed gates there was this sense of reverence, peace, and shall I say holiness in many ways truly tangible. And when they bid me goodbye at the main gates, even as we stood there chatting a little while, the town or village people walking by outside the gates would smile and one of the sisters would call out to ask something about them. These sisters were involved with this outside world, and knew them and their needs so intimately! Yes, there is so much to understand about these areas of life us software engineering types seldom think about, it seems.
- mantoto 7y agoBy being social you mean? I also know my neighbors and I'm friendly with them.
- gtycomb 7y agomore than that, I'd say. The young auto-rikshaw man on my way to the bus station from those gates was telling me about his kidney disease and how those sisters helped raise the substantial money for a transplant ...
- mantoto 7y agoThat's called community and we as a society should try to create that without religion. Also such stories exists
- dharmach 7y agoSame investment can fetch more souls to church in India so it makes sense to invest there and not in Germany.
- paggle 7y agoBut the ARPUs in Germany will be much higher, probably enough to cancel out.