Faith in Humanity Restored

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#1

I realize we need a counterpoint thread to Signs of our Impending Doom I present this as a thread that reaffirms your faith in humanity. Could be a news story, a picture, a video, whatever. Basically whatever reminds you that people aren’t a giant waste of space breathing your valuable oxygen.

I present as our first exhibit, LL Cool J, Dexy’s Midnight Runners Mashup because seriously, someone out there not only had a good enough ear and mind to make this link, but took their time to actually sit down and mix the two together. Awesome.

#2

I’m so proud of those geeks…

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/07/22/super-heroes-vs-the-westboro-baptist-church/

#3

Oh hell yeah! :smiley:

#4

This one’s my favorite!

#5

This should be in the Faith In Humanity Restored thread. So awesome :slight_smile:

#6

Agreed!

And done! :slight_smile:

#7

Oh darn it. You beat me to it! :smiley:

#8

My faith in humanity isn’t COMPLETELY restored, but it definitely got a boost last weekend:

I was a paintball re-creation of the Invasion of Normandy, 3,500 players. Five hours or so into the second day a thousand of us were facing off in the woods and a young boy tripped over a root and broke his arm. We stopped shooting, tried to get Das Germans to cease fire but they didn’t understand and kept firing.

The the moment of redemption came when about forty of us put our markers in the air and surrounded the kid so he wouldn’t get pelted any more while Das Germans advanced and continued to fire. (There were literally thousands of paintballs in the air at any give time that weekend, we got force fed a LOT of paint by doing this.) Eventually they realized what happened and did cease fire, some referees came running helped the kid off the field. Everybody was really cool right in that moment.

Anyway, that was ossim. sniff Proud of the human race. sniff

#9

Just stumbled across these and thot they were awesome. :slight_smile:

//youtu.be/8i7u3fl-hP8

//youtu.be/mDOg07gku0g

#10

Look at this kid’s face. Pure joy.

//youtu.be/Purm6-0x3Yg

His team won, BTW. :slight_smile:

#11

Saw her on CNN, but they don’t have a vid (that I could find). So, here’s next best AFAIK.

//youtu.be/r-TtWSG-fnE

Stuff like this gives me hope for our future.

#12

Wow. Seriously impressed.

Here’s her traveling canvas address.

#13

9-Year-Old Boy Plans to Sell Toys to Buy Father’s Headstone; Internet Steps Up Instead
http://www.geekosystem.com/boy-sell-toys-to-buy-headstone-father/

Prepare for a roller coaster of emotion. Sad: A nine-year-old boy from Kingston, Ontario, Blake McGinness, planned to hold a yard sale to sell off his toys to raise funds in order to buy his dead father buried in an unmarked grave a headstone that his family couldn’t afford. Relieving: Local Kingston residents and the internet stepped in and took care of the issue. Heartwarming: Blake McGinness went through with the yard sale anyway and plans to donate the revenue to charity.

Edit: Seems to me most faith restoring seems to involve kids.

#14

http://www.videogamevoters.com/

The Video Game Voters Network is a place for American gamers to organize and defend against threats to video games by registering to vote and letting Congress know how important this issue is to the community. Without a critical mass of adult video game players who are registered to vote and willing to stand firmly behind their games, politicians will continue to fire criticism at games and game players in order to score easy points for their political campaigns.

#15

I found these videos on a car website (http://jalopnik.com) that I frequent and it brought a tear to my eye. Its always nice to see people come together like this.

Original Report

//youtu.be/Wg4s4CEUliA

Follow Up Video

//youtu.be/fn6DLpe8xNE

#16

Thank you for this one. Really.

#17

Another kid winner.

"9-year-old philanthropist bares old soul

A young man on a mission to help alleviate hunger proves that big ideas can come in tiny packages."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032619/vp/39466634#39466634

http://www.joshuasheart.org/

#18

This was made for this thread:

Homemade Spacecraft

#19

Artist turns his grandmother into a superhero to cheer her (and us) up

A few years back, Sacha Goldberger found his 91-year-old grandmother, Frederika, suffering from depression. So he decided to cast her in a series of ridiculous portraits of her superhero alter ego, Mamika, along with her super-dog.

#20

Wow! :smiley:

Just, wow! :smiley: