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Hey

Hello people of the forums. I've known about this site for quite some time, so I decided to sign up for the forums. You can call me Socks.

07-24-2016 09:32 AM

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RE: Hey

I did not steal your socks. How dare you insult my family honor.

Hello, traveler.

This is an ancient account I have not used in a long time. My views have changed much in the intervening months and years.

Nonetheless, I refuse to clean it up. Pretending that I've held my current views since the beginning of time is what we in the industry call a lie. Asking people to do so contributes to moralistic self-loathing. "See, those people have nothing damning! I do! I'm truly vile!"

Because you can never be a good person with a single blemish on the moral record, I thought that simply entertaining some thoughts made me irredeemable. Though I don't care for his writing style, William Faulkner presents a good counterexample. He went from being a typical Southern racist to supporting the civil rights movement. These days we'd yell at him for that, probably.

People are allowed to change their views.

Nevertheless, this period of my life has informed some of how I am today. In good ways and bad ways. To purge it would be to do a disservice to history. Perhaps it will not make anyone sympathetic, but it may help someone understand.

If, after reading all this, you still decide to use the post above as evidence that I am evil today, ask yourself if you have never disagreed with the moral code you now follow. In all likelihood you did, at some point. If some questions are verboten, and the answer is "how dare you ask that," don't expect your ideological opponents to ever change their minds.

07-24-2016 10:56 AM

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RE: Hey

My brother in law left his socks at my house... again!!

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07-24-2016 08:54 PM

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Your socks ran away of their own accord... none of us stole them.

Welcome to SS, please leave your sanity in the bin by the door. Your socks may be hiding in there too. Pirate

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Hey

Socks want to be free

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07-25-2016 12:53 PM

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Hello, socks.

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