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We’ve all heard the age-old question: are humans inherently good or bad? That debate may never be settled, but there’s no denying the incredible acts of kindness happening all around us.

And some take it to a whole new level! Over on the subreddit r/chaoticgood, as the name suggests, users share good deeds done in playful, often unexpected ways. Think funny notes left in library books or flowers planted secretly in neglected park corners.

Below, you’ll find more of these wholesome moments and a chat with Brooke Tansley, author of Small Good Things.

Even though the term ‘chaotic good’ implies not sticking to societal norms, the subreddit emphasizes that there are boundaries which need to be respected.

The mods, who oversee a community of 331K members, say that rule breaking should be achieved without cruelty or intimidation. By their definition, embracing chaotic good means valuing not just your own freedom and welfare, but everyone else’s.

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    Goodness can be a transformative experience. Brooke Tansley, known for her roles as a TV & film producer, actress, and entrepreneur, told Bored Panda that kindness turned her life around.

    “I was feeling like I was in a sad funk and I didn’t really know how to snap out of it. I woke up in the middle of the night remembering that it feels good to do good things for other people,” she shared. So, she thought about her next move.

    At first, Brooke considered diving into a volunteering project, but with work and two little kids, she knew it’d be tough to maintain. Instead, she went for a more manageable approach: practicing small acts of kindness.

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    pocwaddler
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This happened in Utah. A right-wing school board in northern Utah started banning books, and a guy submitted the Bible based on the adultery, violence, sex, and death.

    Libstak
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also incest, Lot and his daughters spring to mind, talk about your perverted fantasy...and he was the righteous one, first he tries to give his daughters to the towns sinners, then he gets drunk and has sex with them himself, hot on the heals of watching his wife turn into a pil,ar of salt for looking back on the town full of sinners being destroyed....

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    pocwaddler
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This also happened in Utah, when a school district started banning books, a guy submitted the Bible to be banned. LOL.

    T'Mar of Vulcan
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes, infanticide is not only mentioned in the Bible (Exodus and the Gospels) but that "song" that Boney M sang, "Rivers of Babylon"? The lyrics are from Psalm 137, which ends: "Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones." Yeah, they left that part out of the hit song.

    Themostgod
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    could we stop with the censorship? Infanticide is In what word is infanticide any better than the other ones? You censor b********y, but killing children is less traumatising? Just grow up please...

    LokisLilButterknife
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    6 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wholeheartedly agree. I find it ironic that BoredPanda continues with their idiotic censorship crusade in a post about fighting back against censorship and book banning. This site has some of the worst censorship I’ve ever seen. It’s truly disturbing 😳

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    Max Pasterski
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Florida: What other books can we ban?! Random dude: THE BIBLE Christians: NO

    Dan Flo
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Define irony: "When religious people want to ban rock music because they claim it corrupts children."

    ThatBlackNightingale
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As a Christian, I don't know why any religious books are in the public school system. In my state, (Not sure if this applies to all 50 states) public schools are not allowed to teach religion. You will never find a religious symbol, posters, or anything hung up. We don't have any religious books either, I think this is something all schools should adopt.

    Cyndi Hafele
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do schools use the Bible? I graduated in the 70s, and nobody used the Bible.

    LiterallyJustKen
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This was hilarious, but, as a Christian teen, I do disagree with this, mainly as a violation of the rights of the First Amendment.

    Kel_how
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    As a Christian myself, 100% agree! Also, adults without the ability to understand nuance, literary analysis, genres, etc should be banned from reading it and abusing others with it. One step at a time, I suppose.

    Major Harris
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    you go! also forgot to include incest, "lot" and his daughters?

    Laserleader
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    5 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    He forgot the constant murder, pornographic poetry, incest, and many other things associated with both horror and war. As well as it has been the inspiration for uncountable evil behaviors from its followers currently. Like, after being raised on the Bible I could not figure out why Julie of the Wolves was a banned book... it had nothing even close to the Bible stuff.

    ConservaDave
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    His excuse for banning the Bible is ludicrous. People against the Bible have not read the Bible. Every book in the Old Testament prophecies about the coming of Jesus Christ. The New Testament is the story of Jesus who died on the cross for the sins of the world. He died for people who hate him. Jesus' story is a story of love and forgiveness. Everyone who calls on his name shall be saved. Jesus tells us to love others as we love ourselves. THAT is a message of Love.

    mikedtw
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    and if you give serious thought that man created god in his own image...

    Kyra DarkStar
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Finally a "Florida Man" story that isn't about someone doing something weird, dangerous, or just plain stupid.

    Linda Riebel
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And starting to kill your son because you heard a voice telling you to do it. (Abraham and Isaac). And handing over your maidservant to be gang raped and killed in order to protect two strangers.

    UnKool-Aid
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The big book of lies belongs in one place and one place only...the church of lies.

    Mandy Delaforce (PC Girl)
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yes!! The bible should not be given to any child under the age of 15. Nor should any "teachings" be from it either.

    Sven Horlemann
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yeah, but that's not how hypocrisy works. Florida state and religious groups will educate you, though.

    Maggie Fulton
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    War crimes, etc. People being tortured and nailed to crosses. Burning in furnaces. Doesn’t sound wholesome to me…

    Cat_Whisperer
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Finally a “Florida Man” headline that doesn’t end in something weird and/or twisted and/or ridiculous.

    Kelly H. Wilder
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think it's very important to mention that the story of Lot and his daughters is so much more than just incest. It is the Bible's first story of female-on-male rape. The two daughters get their dad so drunk he can not possibly consent, then they have sex with him with the express purpose of getting pregnant. Everyone talks about the incest, but very few people talk about how this man was raped by not one, but both of his daughters.

    axle f
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    never set anyone up. You don't have to. Hoist them on their own petard..

    Michelle C
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    By that logic, shouldn’t all faith-based texts be banned? He has a point about what the Scriptures contain, but he either does not understand or care about the contexts in which those elements exist. All three of these things were considered as warranting capital punishment by stoning in Scripture.

    tori Ohno
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm pretty sure he's being sarcastic, but he has a point. Why is the Bible exempt from the ban? It breaks the rules that have been set in place.

    ZuriLovesYou
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Florida continues to give me reasons why I will never move there.

    The Darkest Timeline
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just remember folks: the entire agenda of the American right is to make America Florida and Texas.

    Apatheist Account2
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    Try it with the books of other religions, I dare you...

    jplanets🤍
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Most books don’t include bestality, rape, incest, graphic depictions of sacrifice, the rapture. This is coming from someone who read the Bible when they were seven.

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    To spread positivity, Brooke Tansley does several things. “I made a New Year’s resolution to always tell someone when I think a nice thought about them,” she recounted.

    As a former Broadway star, she takes advantage of her talent: “Sometimes I’ll record myself singing a song with the voice memo app in my phone and send it to someone if I think it would speak to them.”

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    6 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Brilliant move. But as a boomer who loathes that sort of assholery from anyone regardless of age, I chafe at your ascribing it to us. We are not a monolith. Many of us are still the liberals we were in the '60s and '70s. Don't overlook allies by assuming our thinning gray hair and crackling joints puts us on opposite sides of thedecency and courtesy spectrum. Keep up the good work.

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    “I like to offer to help people with tasks that are either boring, difficult, or gross because it can feel like a special expression of love for someone when you volunteer to do something with them that isn’t fun. You can make it fun just by being there and helping,” Brooke added.

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    Wanting to inspire others to brighten their lives in a simple way, Tansley created the Small Good Things journal. She encourages readers to do one good thing each day for yourself or someone else, write it down and reflect on it.

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    El Dee
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sad when the best healthcare you can get is from your d**g dealer. But kudos to the dealer for caring more for his customers than what he can earn from them. If only pharmaceutical companies acted like this..

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    Occasionally, Brooke gets creative and channels chaotic good, just like the users of the subreddit. She once made business cards with a drawing of a snail that said, “This is the Happiness Snail just wishing you happiness!” Another time, she printed a set of cards with the message “I hope you eat something yummy today!”

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    ninjaTrashPandaBoom
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    6 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    F*U*C*K Putin!!! He has committed crimes against humanity. Take all of his wealth, every single ruble. Give it all to Ukraine to help rebuild after Russia is defeated. Along with all the wealth from the bootlicking Russian oligarchs who enable Putin as well. *edit to defeat BP censors.

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    Tansley also took part in organizing a flash mob marriage proposal for a friend, involving choreographed dance videos. “Around 70 people and one dog traveled from lots of different places to do this, [...] and she said yes!”

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    Pollywog
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Awesome!! Damn shame she was in that predicament in the first place!!

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    MissMePhoenix
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I don't know if you wear a cape, but if not: not all heroes wear capes! And if you do: thank you caped hero!

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    Brooke believes that kindness can greatly improve mental health, and science supports this. In one study, participants who performed multiple good deeds for seven consecutive days reported increased happiness. Another study found that people who regularly helped others felt more confident, capable, and fulfilled.

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    ninjaTrashPandaBoom
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Unfortunately it's Starbucks (yuck), but at least OP's heart is in the right place!!

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    JSC
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ok. Where is this even legal???? Please don’t say the States, cause I’m getting really tired of them!!

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    The warm feeling that appears when you do something nice for someone is often called the ‘helper’s high’, a concept coined by Allan Luks in the '80s. It suggests that being generous and selfless not only feels rewarding but also promotes longevity and resilience.

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    MissMePhoenix
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I mean its a real àsshole move in the first place to fill the SKATE PARK with fùcking sand, but maybe I'm wrong...

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    Con O Cuinn
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    6 months ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I dunno, this could be one of those "don't attribute to conspiracy that which can be explained by incompetence"" kind of deals. Just as likely to be a f*****t using corrosive cleaning products

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    Caring about others influences physical well-being, too. Research shows compassion lowers blood pressure and reduces the risk of hypertension. Moreover, kind actions release endorphins and oxytocin, and create new neural connections in the brain.

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    pocwaddler
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Kennedy is such a joke. He tries to act like Foghorn Leghorn, but he was educated at Vanderbilt and Oxford, yes, the one in England. And he was one of the GOP senators who flew to Moscow and groveled in front of Putin on July 4, 2018.

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    So, why not sprinkle a little kindness into your day? Remember, it doesn’t have to be extravagant; even a simple gesture is enough to make a change.

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    catastrophegirl
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    i put extra cheese on all the tacos and mexican pizzas when i worked at taco bell. and more tomatoes, when applicable. at the time the rules were something like "5 pieces of diced tomato is approximately 1/4 oz" or whatever and that was paltry portioning.

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    ninjaTrashPandaBoom
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember this, the team actually built an electric wheelchair for the kid, but I really like the dark twist of this post!!!

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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Walmart is subsidised by American taxpayers because they pay so poorly their staff qualify for food stamps and other benefits.

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    Carl Oxley
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Scalping products has been out of hand for a long time! I remember when the movie Frozen came out, It was the first movie my 4 year old daughter saw in a theater. She really wanted and Elsa doll. They were $6.50 at walmart and target but people would show up and buy them out whenever they were stocked. They were as high as $50 on ebay. Insanity.

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    ElfVibratorGlitter
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    One of the benefits of living in Colorado is the requirement that a job must include a pay range! I've gotten so many sketch looking job posts taken down from indeed because they don't have the salary range posted and they're sending it to me in Colorado. Small wins I guess.

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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cement is not the greenest substance. But really, if there's a drought on letting the fracks at the country club continue to have their lovely 18 holes watered is downright evil.

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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I would upvote for the getting people to vaccinate part buuuuut i cant get over the gaining someones trust to ultimately lie to them part.

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    Pedro Badan
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "I'm aware that this will probably result in me getting shot..."? Good grief. Tell me you're American without telling me you're American... 😑

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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Ah yes, using "alternative facts" against their creators! Delightful irony!

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    Anna Boes
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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just because this doesn't fit your personal stance on morality, you don't have to be abusive. Besides, technically the priest is perfectly right. There are no mentions of supermarkets in the bible. /hyperbole

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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And how do they make sure they don't target financially struggling parents?

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    6 months ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    .... how much do you want to bet they're currently procrastinating something

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