Enough is Enough

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To everyone who joined these forums at some point, and got discouraged by the negativity and left after a while (or even got literally scared off): I'm sorry.

I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.

I was a very, very sensitive teen. The atmosphere of this forum as it is now, if it had existed in 1996, would probably have upset me far more than it would have helped.

I can handle quite a lot of negativity and even abuse now, but that isn't the point. I want to help people. I want to help the people who need it the most, and I want to help people like the 1996 version of me.

I'm still figuring out the best way to do that, but as it is now, these forums are doing more harm than good, and I can't keep running them.

Thank you to the few people who have tried to understand my point of view so far. I really, really appreciate you guys. You are beautiful people.

Everyone else: If after everything I've said so far, you still don't understand my motivations, I think it's unlikely that you will. We're just too different. Maybe someday in the future it might make sense, but until then, there's no point in arguing about it. I don't have the time or the energy for arguing anymore. I will focus my time and energy on people who support me, and those who need help.

-SoulRiser

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returnal

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Post: #12

Re: Enough is Enough

"But it's for your own good" is a oft-heard excuse for compulsory schooling, but it's quite null when you think about it. All these news-making "quirks" about school aren't limited to the things people are brave enough to talk about; in fact these kinds of incidents happen much more often. It's just that the students are too brainwashed into believing that's it all right and "hey, they tell us it's regular routine, so why not?" Fear is instilled on to students. They don't want them to rebel and see the truth, so they hide it with mirrors and wires, and threaten anyone who tries to uncover and spread the facts with a suspension or - oh no! - expulsion.

Just because someone says "you" can't stop "it" doesn't mean "it" can't be stopped. It just means it's going to take more than one person or a group of persons to stop "it". Sure, there will never be a "revolution" in my (or most anyone else here's) lifetime, but that doesn't mean you can't give up the good fight. The whole system can't be overhauled, but little parts - bit by bit - can be fixed up to at least make some people happy.

But not surprisingly, they never tell you this, because they don't want to accidentally make you a bit more rebellious. You can't think that everything you are told is right - it might as well be fiction - and I did at first view the anti-school movement with suspicion, but that doesn't mean everything is a lie. Proof is needed, and we (the anti-school movement) do in fact suffer from a lack of truth, but that is not because we make things up, instead it's because not enough people speak up. It's because of fear. Brainwashing. Threats.

You get my point.

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05-02-2009 07:04 AM