Comments on: Hospitality http://heathenblog.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/hospitality/ Heathenry, and the religious world in which it exists Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:41:24 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Bernulf http://heathenblog.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/hospitality/#comment-2264 Bernulf Tue, 29 May 2007 12:29:15 +0000 http://heathenblog.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/hospitality/#comment-2264 Angiportus, thank you for your comment - and for your relief :-) I can agree with you, especially living in a country that still struggles with concepts like customer service: if someone has no desire to help or take an interest in people, they shouldn't be working in a position where they deal with the public! I think you make a really good point in your comment - that <em>hospitality</em> is a way to make the world a better place. If you boil this virtue down to its absolute core, its purpose is just that. Angiportus, thank you for your comment – and for your relief :-)

I can agree with you, especially living in a country that still struggles with concepts like customer service: if someone has no desire to help or take an interest in people, they shouldn’t be working in a position where they deal with the public!

I think you make a really good point in your comment – that hospitality is a way to make the world a better place. If you boil this virtue down to its absolute core, its purpose is just that.

]]> By: Angiportus http://heathenblog.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/hospitality/#comment-2183 Angiportus Sun, 27 May 2007 01:10:34 +0000 http://heathenblog.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/hospitality/#comment-2183 Mighty relieved to see you back, and hope you find help with your problems. When someone asks me directions, etc., I tell them, and if I don't know I at least try to point them to some place where someone might. It really hacks me off when I come up to a counter and ask someone something and they not only don't know but obviously don't give a rat's rear. They don't even try to help. What are they doing dealing with the public, then? I try not to be like that. Sometimes it works. I am far from a "people person", yet I recycle found items and give an honest effort to help strangers find their way. Even when I am not well off financially, it seems there's always something I can give. This, to me--and the idea of hospitality you have explicated, also--seem to be a way of "reweaving the world", pushing back the forces of chaos, making it a better place. Mighty relieved to see you back, and hope you find help with your problems.
When someone asks me directions, etc., I tell them, and if I don’t know I at least try to point them to some place where someone might. It really hacks me off when I come up to a counter and ask someone something and they not only don’t know but obviously don’t give a rat’s rear. They don’t even try to help. What are they doing dealing with the public, then? I try not to be like that. Sometimes it works.
I am far from a “people person”, yet I recycle found items and give an honest effort to help strangers find their way. Even when I am not well off financially, it seems there’s always something I can give. This, to me–and the idea of hospitality you have explicated, also–seem to be a way of “reweaving the world”, pushing back the forces of chaos, making it a better place.

]]> By: Bernulf http://heathenblog.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/hospitality/#comment-2030 Bernulf Tue, 22 May 2007 14:31:10 +0000 http://heathenblog.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/hospitality/#comment-2030 Indeed :-) Indeed :-)

]]> By: Jeff Lilly http://heathenblog.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/hospitality/#comment-2026 Jeff Lilly Tue, 22 May 2007 10:59:59 +0000 http://heathenblog.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/hospitality/#comment-2026 Sometimes a break is just what we need, eh? Sometimes a break is just what we need, eh?

]]> By: Bernulf http://heathenblog.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/hospitality/#comment-2024 Bernulf Tue, 22 May 2007 10:34:10 +0000 http://heathenblog.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/hospitality/#comment-2024 Jeff, thank you for your compliment and your warm welcome! After nearly three months of being out of the blogging saddle, I was worried that I wouldn't be able to do this topic any justice ... such a compliment, coming from you, also says a lot :-) Jeff, thank you for your compliment and your warm welcome!

After nearly three months of being out of the blogging saddle, I was worried that I wouldn’t be able to do this topic any justice … such a compliment, coming from you, also says a lot :-)

]]> By: Jeff Lilly http://heathenblog.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/hospitality/#comment-2019 Jeff Lilly Tue, 22 May 2007 08:47:00 +0000 http://heathenblog.wordpress.com/2007/05/22/hospitality/#comment-2019 Beautiful, Bernulf! I think this article is one of your best, and that's saying a lot. Welcome back! Beautiful, Bernulf! I think this article is one of your best, and that’s saying a lot.

Welcome back!

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