Comment by JohnFen
6 months ago
I tithe. I don't mean that in a religious sense at all, but it's the way I pay my community back for that support. It's also not just in terms of money -- I count time volunteering and mentoring as part of tithing. It's also not repaying the people who helped me directly, but I don't think that's the important part. The way you pay them back is to "pay it forward" and do for others as those people have done for you.
If it's not religious I don't know why you'd call it tithing, that's not what that word means. For example, I do communion, but not in the religious sense, I take shots and order a frozen pizza at the bar.
"Tithe" is not inherently a religious term (it just means "a levy of 1/10th"), despite it mostly being used in a religious context. I use it because there is no good alternative term.
Seems like an appropriate usage of the word to me. How seriously do you take the 1/10th part?
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Self-taxation?
Why is the bar serving frozen pizza?
That's how it's stored before they cook it.