Altruism 

19 creative works found

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  Orchids
  by Cvail73

  Well, just Orchids… “Orchids” was featured in the group Only Orchids!

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  Spring
  by Cvail73

  Just a flower. I took this picture in a war cemetery for the river kwai bridge victims in Thailand (approx 100km west of bangkok). Each of the victim has a flower planted near their stones, all of them have a different flower. the cemetery is incredibly well taken care off and the Thais, great gardener are caring everyday… I like the idea that maybe something from each soldier/victim express themself in these flowers, maybe… At Katchanabury allied war cemetary in Thailand. / On deceased soldier’s grave is a flower, they bloom, thrive, survive or die themselves. Coincidence? This flower is part of the Katchanabury Flowers series Monday Flower / Tuesday Flower / Wednesday Flower / Thursday Flower / Friday Flower / saturday Flower

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  The one wasted red rose
  by Cvail73

  At Katchanabury allied war cemetary in Thailand. / On deceased soldier’s grave is a flower, they bloom, thrive, survive or die themselves. Coincidence? This flower is part of the Katchanabury Flowers series Monday Flower / Tuesday Flower / Wednesday Flower / Thursday Flower / Friday Flower / saturday Flower

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  Lush
  by Cvail73

  At Katchanabury allied war cemetary in Thailand. / On deceased soldier’s grave is a flower, they bloom, thrive, survive or die themselves. Coincidence? This flower is part of the Katchanabury Flowers series Monday Flower / Tuesday Flower / Wednesday Flower / Thursday Flower / Friday Flower / saturday Flower

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  Deathbed Of An Altruist
  by Superstition

  Perhaps a cynical view of life but one from a darker period. The concept is that the Ultimate kind of altruism is to kill oneself and take oneself out of the equation, as simply recording our DNA onto a new body (reproducing) is not truely altruistic in the long run.

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  Something happens and I'm head over heels.
  by Duncando

  …or love is a minefield

• The Slightly Sinister Characters of RB Land
  by reflexio

  Do you believe in altruism? If you do, you will stand convinced that the bulk of activity around comments, favourites, features, an…

  Do you believe in altruism? If you do, you will stand convinced that the bulk of activity around comments, favourites, features, and challenges do not have an ulterior motive. Sure you might be suspicious about the odd person, but generally, these activities are sincere. If you don’t believe in altruism, you most likely take the opposite view. So indulge me a bit further with some tongue in cheek categories of the not so altruistic RB characters. The Continuist Although harmless, Continuists never know quite when to stop responding to comments on their work , they also take the time to personally respond to every comment. Their fetish has generally developed (to save time) to the extent that SMS vernacular (e.g. LOL, OMG, etc) has invaded their RB land vocabulary. Junior Continuists are easily spotted as they tend to cut and paste the same response to comments on their art, or do not have a well developed set of responses, and tend to be repetitive (e.g. ‘thanks’, or ‘appreciate your comment’) Some Continuists use expressions of endearment (cheers, mate, love, kiss kiss, hug hug, xxx ooo, etc) to people they probably have never met in the flesh. This is a little puzzling, but it does bring a happy vibe to RB land, so that can’t be such a bad thing. I understand to reach professional Continuist, you must first complete a master class and gain accreditation. Professionals are hard to spot as their training has bestowed them with many clever tactics to camouflage the modus operandi. You probably don’t know if you are being stalked by a professional Continuist. The Milestoner Most likely from a economics background, these people keep detailed statistical models in MS Excel of who, when and from where their work has been viewed, commented upon, featured, ‘faved’, or sold. They loved the sales and usage charts that RB land published a week or so ago, as they are able to baseline their work, identify trends and moving averages. You are most likely to hear from these people when a self defined milestone is reached. Junior Milestoners will stick to the simple statistics and reveal the number of views by work, or in total. I have seen some milestones as low as 100 and some in the 100,000. / / More sophisticated Milestoners will package up a whole bundle of statistics and bewilder you with their achievement, and leave most of us wondering, just how they do it. WARNING: a variant of the Milestoner has recently emerged called the Narcissus, who has developed technique for viewing their own work under the guise of being Joe Public (come one, don’t deny that you all haven’t at least thought of this). The Volumist The Volumist or (Vom for short) is the most simple and least sophisticated of RBers. They simply flood their account with all the art work they can find on their hard drive, with not so much a focus of quality, but on the quantity. Vom’s are often seen loitering with junior Milestoners. Innocent, but make sure you remove them from your watchlist. It is common for Vom’s to enter RB land via the neighbouring nation of Flickr. Maybe we need tougher immigration policies in RB land! The Groupie This RBer has joined so many groups (see also Challegoist) that you can not quite separate their artistic interests from their desire to be popular. Over time, most people figure out that you only get out of a group what you put in, so I suspect many of the serious Groupie’s either don’t have a life outside of RB land (and it does work for them), or they are relatively new to RB and think more groups equals a greater chance of grasping the RB homepage feature holy grail ….. hahahaha (deep and evil laugh) don’t we all know better. Note: I am yet to see a combo Milestoner-Groupie, to the extent that we see statistics on their performance in each group, but I am sure it is coming. The Look At Me I’m Fabulous (Lamif) This character has evolved from the Milestoner. Lamif’s are delightful people…. and just love to share their delight with you, especially when they are featured or sell some of their work. Like the Continuists, Lamif’s are relatively harmless, although recently a disturbing trend as emerged called the Combo Lamif-Continuist, or CLC for short. These people get caught in a loop of… 1. sharing their delight with you, 2. followed by a response to the congratulations they receive, 3. which in turn further delights them, 4. which they then share with you again…. You can see the loop. It leaves you wonder where it might end, maybe a power failure! The Challegoist As the name suggest, the people trawl RB groups and challenges looking for innocent and innocuous challenges as a means of demonstrating their supremacy in RB land. They have developed clever challenge and promotion tactics, and keep the RB development team on a constant vigil in an attempt to maintain the integrity of the challenge system. Alas, just like in the world of hackers, it I unlikely that RB will ever match the sheer cunning and guile of the Challegoist. Be wary of these are RBers, they will do anything for a vote, they are often seen in the company of the Narcissus Milestoner. On a positive note, recently Junior Challegoists have become easier to spot, as they may initially present with the tell tale sign of a Groupie (you need to be in a group to enter most challenges). Although, Professional Challegoists have discovered how to enter challenges, without the need to join the group and as expected have become harder to spot. And.. no, I am not going to reveal this technique, unless you buy a lot of my work. I have excluded any commentary on moderators, because they are such saintly people, that I struggled to find anything sinister about their behaviour. Maybe someone else has a difference of opinion on this point. [update] Just for the record, it would be fair to say I have exhibited traits of all of the above at some point, except the Vom.

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  Altruism
  by ZenAkita

  This photo is a dedication. Altruism focuses on a motivation to help others or a want to do good without reward. One historic figure that commonly referred to altruism is Jesus. We should seek the common good more than the private good but this is because the common good is a more desirable good for the individual. ‘You should love your neighbor as yourself’ from Leviticus 19 and Matthew 22. / CS I dedicate this photo to you. I call this photo Altruism because of your selfless act. Its clear your heart of gold is nothing less than angelic. You are a kind hearted and loving soul and we will not forget what you have done. / / Just to fill you in how this passionate sunset ties in. It is because the fire in this photo pales to the passion that is easy to see reflected this brown eyed girls peepers :eyes: Look into those eyes and you can see her kind soul, but her true beauty is easily seen in her frequent smiles. Each smile is filled with passion, zeal and love, clearly inspired by her beautiful son. That little man is very lucky to be raised by this angel. CS, they don’t make words such selfless acts. However God made a beautiful sunset I wanted to share and express how we feel. / @@PHOTO DETAILS: :firelite-photo: Photo is of a frequent location seen in many of my photos. This is a dairy farmers field. The picture is shot over a corn field. Photo was taken in Raw minor adjustments made and converted to tif minor tweeks and posted. I did edit & remove a telephone line from the photo. / PLEASE NOTE that artwork available for sale normally does not have the Watermarks’ or Yin Yang on them. I am able to do limited custom updates on the photos at request / ~~~~~ Because there is no honor among thieves, ~~~~~ I must stress…....... My Images Do Not Belong To The Public Domain. All images and writing are copyright c; ZenAkita. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. You may not use, replicate, manipulate, redistribute, or modify this image without my express consent. :police: Rules for my words, quotes & Art: http://zenakita.deviantart.com/art/Rules-to-using-my-work-73259454 Thank you for respecting my artwork and understanding, all Images & words are c; to Zen Akita aka Bill.

• Spiderman song
  by pAgEdOwN

  Spiderman, Spiderman / Gotta’ do the best you can / On your quest in search of the bad guys Spiderman ain’t got no friends / So his quest…

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  heart diagram
  by pAgEdOwN

  pen & pencil on paper

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  Thinking of you THE CARD
  by ZenAkita

  :bounce: this is a card for sale in DA store :bounce: The message is for someone needing encouragement, sympathy, or for someone who has lost someone. See the other version here: ..... http://www.deviantart.com/print/4576877/?itemtypeids= The PRINT version of this card can be found here: http://zenakita.deviantart.com/art/Curves-104389679 @@PHOTO DETAILS: :firelite-photo: / Shot in raw, sharpness added changed to landscape shoot mode. updates to sky and sign. This is the same farmers field I love to shoot @ sunset. :daprints: PLEASE NOTE that artwork available for sale normally does not have the Watermarks’ or Yin Yang on them. I am able to do limited custom updates on the photos at request. :buymyprints: / My Images Do Not Belong To The Public Domain. All images and writing are copyright c ZenAkita. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. You may not use, replicate, manipulate, redistribute, or modify this image without my express consent. / Rules for my words, quotes & Art: http://zenakita.deviantart.com/art/Rules-to-using-my-work-73259454 / Thank you for respecting my artwork and understanding, all Images & words are © to Zen Akita aka Bill.

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  WeaR Your HumaNITY TshiRT
  by Karin Taylor

  / design best viewed large / ................................................ / WEAR YOUR HUMANITY TSHIRT / hand painted heart – charcoal, pastel and markers Words appearing on the heart – / bravery justice altruism goodNESS sisters brothers fathers mothers children PEACE love creativity compassion sharing pain unity forgiveness mercy understanding eQUALity suffering others humility sweetness honour giving lover empathy happiness seeker wipe out poverty health happiness PAtience strength justice goodness giving appreciation sharing philanthropy patience restraint endurance respect heart / the heart of humanity – wear it

• The Demise of the Sage
  by Lucertola

  So few of us now left in a world driven by money. / The Sages are now demented, clinging to the name of physician.

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  One Starfish Saved
  by Francesa

  On the beach one dawn, I saw a child throwing things into the water. As I drew near, I could see it was starfish that had been stranded by the tide. “Why are you doing that?” I asked. “They’ll die on land.” “You can’t save them all. What difference does it make to throw a few back?” He threw another and smiled at me. “It made a difference to that one.” A beautiful sunrise along Florida’s Spacecoast and a wonderful story about doing what good we can in this world (by Anonymous) were the inspirations for this work. / We are not able to save the world, but we can do good for those we come in contact with.

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  United Colors Of Love
  by Gil Guelfucci

• Publicise Creative’s (Photographers/Artists.).
  by Paul Revans

  The hardest part is to get your exposure I was thinking it might be good to help each other in a few ways that could lead to more. Bus…

  The hardest part is to get your exposure I was thinking it might be good to help each other in a few ways that could lead to more. Business Card/Word of Mouth. For example if you selected say two other artist/photographer who sent you ten business cards; you have course have sent them ten each. / From here we will talk about it from your point of view, with these business cards in your hands you can pass them out increasing there public profile. / In this real world from the twenty you have past out the least you could probably expect is four people looking at the details only one possibly doing something positive to help. If no feedback happened you have at least created a contact with others who you might be able to help with techniques or learn from them. Experience is the best teacher. This could be repeated by selecting more folk from the contact list/Blog. / So for a little cost of a few stamps something good might occur. Future. Let me know your thoughts. / I think I might create a blog where people could list what there skill is basic location details. They could leave email details aswell. / Plus a Flickr Group would be created so discussions could be created. The bigger part would be to mention that if a person gets back to the artist/photographer to mention your name, that way you could see what is happening.

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  Encourage me!
  by urmania

  Encourage me!

• Philosophy
  by msdebbie

  I’m so tired of nihilism, search for human altruism

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  Reflection
  by kojak67

  Facing yourself, for better or worse, under an altruistic code / Pencil & Ink On Cartridge