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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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Hello.

So, I've been browsing the forums for a while now and decided to join. Looks fun. Cool
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Welcome

I highly suggest Mobb Deep's albums The Infamous and Hell on Earth, if you have not listened to it yet.
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Sup skyler I'm new 2
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Yo.
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Oh god, Zero's clone.
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Skylar, do you have a mohawk. If so, please don't beat me up.


edit:...I forgot to say welcome....


Welcome!

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Welcome, please abandon all hopes, dreams, and sanity on your way in. Thank you, and have a nice stay! Biggrin

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Do you liek poopies? Poop

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SoulRiser Wrote:Do you liek poopies? Poop

so i herd u liek mudkipz

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Stratovarius Wrote:
SoulRiser Wrote:Do you liek poopies? Poop

so i herd u liek mudkipz
Did someone say mudkipz?
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lol, zero has a clone!!!! welcome if you are not zero. if you are, welcome back.

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Please not Zero. Nobody needs a clone of somebody who thinks he's
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Thanks everyone, and I promise I am not Zero's clone...I think.
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YOU THINK?! BRING OUT THE LIE DECTECTOR!

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The Pie Man Wrote:Please not Zero. Nobody needs a clone of somebody who thinks he's
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Rolleyes go away.

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"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
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"when I was a kid I used to pray for a bicycle. then I realized that god doesn't work that way. so I stole one and prayed for forgiveness."
"I would rather die for something I believe in than live for anything else."
"What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored." – F W Nietzsche
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I don't think I am God (or any other diety of your choosing) if that helps me avoid the lie detector. ;P
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lol, you already fit right in here, well done!

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"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
-Ben Franklin

"when I was a kid I used to pray for a bicycle. then I realized that god doesn't work that way. so I stole one and prayed for forgiveness."
"I would rather die for something I believe in than live for anything else."
"What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored." – F W Nietzsche
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U GUIZ WER ALL JUST BEIN BIG MEANI H8RS!!!!!!

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I AM A THIEF IN THE NIGHT I WILL SAVE AS MANY AS I CAN

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I TELL THEM I AM THEIR MOMMY NOW
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