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26 Moments that Restored Our Faith in Humanity this Year

Smudge_pot · 2012-12-16 12:54:11

I don't often post on boards, but after this compilation of inspiring moments from this year I felt I had to share it. About halfway through I just started crying. I thought that everything terrible that has happened in our world recently - shootings, suicides, the accident in Dublin, the man in New York who nobody helped…

16-12-2012 12:54pm

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I don't often post on boards, but after this compilation of inspiring moments from this year I felt I had to share it. About halfway through I just started crying. I thought that everything terrible that has happened in our world recently - shootings, suicides, the accident in Dublin, the man in New York who nobody helped - had no real effect on me, but once I read this I realised how much good there still is in the world, and how much we still need to be reminded of it.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/moments-that-restored-our-faith-in-humanity-this-y

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#2 16-12-2012 1:17pm

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BOD at No.19, I still remember that picture

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#3 16-12-2012 1:27pm

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Gives you the shivers to read that, great post OP.

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#4 16-12-2012 1:28pm

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Thanks for sharing that! Was just saying the other day that some of the recent news stories got under my skin a little bit, but that link definitely helped put a smile back on my face.

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#5 16-12-2012 1:32pm

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yeahimhere wrote: »

Thanks for sharing that! Was just saying the other day that some of the recent news stories got under my skin a little bit, but that link definitely helped put a smile back on my face.

Just don't listen/read/watch the news, problem solved. The media is designed to provoke emotion for profit, just don't let them do it.

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#6 16-12-2012 1:32pm

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great find

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#7 16-12-2012 1:38pm

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List needs Beasty

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#8 16-12-2012 1:56pm

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I've something in my eye.

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#9 16-12-2012 2:04pm

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Damn onions!!

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#10 16-12-2012 2:16pm

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Lovely thread brings a smile to my face.

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#11 16-12-2012 2:20pm

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The one with the man and his dog in the lake always gets me.

Lovely link, thank you!

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#12 16-12-2012 2:21pm

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Deadly, nice one OP

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#13 16-12-2012 2:33pm

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Smudge_pot wrote: »

I don't often post on boards, but after this compilation of inspiring moments from this year I felt I had to share it. About halfway through I just started crying. I thought that everything terrible that has happened in our world recently - shootings, suicides, the accident in Dublin, the man in New York who nobody helped - had no real effect on me, but once I read this I realised how much good there still is in the world, and how much we still need to be reminded of it.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/moments-that-restored-our-faith-in-humanity-this-y

Police with blind kid gets me. Sniff!

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#14 16-12-2012 2:34pm

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Some great stuff there, that caines arcade vid brought a tear to my eye

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#15 16-12-2012 2:35pm

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#16 16-12-2012 2:49pm

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rRwaPkfwo4

Gut punching!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0F5lbMrCj80

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#17 16-12-2012 2:54pm

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And lets not forget our own people here who are doing there bit...

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056825180

In spite of all the bad news we here and read,there is a lot more good intentional people in our world than bad.imo.

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#18 16-12-2012 3:07pm

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**** off, my eyes are just sweating.

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#19 16-12-2012 3:12pm

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I cried just a little bit reading those stories. More please!!

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#20 16-12-2012 3:31pm

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In number 12 "The Texas A&M students that blocked Westboro Baptist Church protesters with a human wall", are two people p*ssing?

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#21 16-12-2012 3:33pm

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The little blind lad hugging the policeman.....

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#22 16-12-2012 3:40pm

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nice thread, really makes people feel good that there is good in the world.

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#23 16-12-2012 7:53pm

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One of the best threads I've read in a long time. Thanks OP Its been along time since I felt so many different emotions in such a short space of time.

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#24 16-12-2012 8:17pm

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More threads like this please. Stuff that makes you warm inside. Just what the doctor ordered. Could have read those kinds of stories all night. thanks OP

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#25 16-12-2012 11:29pm

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I've something in my eye, I think its called sentiment...

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#26 16-12-2012 11:36pm

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Not sure how much I'd trust my health with a "doctor" offering free medical care via a sign stuck in a traffic cone that looks like it was written by a 5 year old.

Fool me once.......

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#27 16-12-2012 11:37pm

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Great thread. An exception to the usual self satisfying AH's ****e

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#28 16-12-2012 11:41pm

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Great read, thanks for posting

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#29 16-12-2012 11:47pm

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President Michael D. Higgins is missing.

He does great charity work altogether.
And I personally thought he was excellent in "The Hobbit".

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#30 16-12-2012 11:54pm

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Brilliant.

That picture and story of the dog with arthritis and his owner, gets me every time

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#31 17-12-2012 12:00am

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Nimrod 7 wrote: »

BOD at No.19, I still remember that picture

But isnt that pic in 2011? I think there is a pic from this year where he saw her again. Actually I think there was even a thread about it.

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