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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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Michio-kun
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Books I need to buy/read
Well here's a list of all the books/authors I would like to read before I'm dead. I need more from the far east though...
There are 57 titles here. I assumed an average of 500 pages / book which comes out to 28500 pages of reading. If I read 30 pages a day, it will only take me 950 days to complete everything listed here or about 2.6 years. LAWLZ
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William Gibson - Neuromancer
Neal Stephenson - The Baroque Cycle Series
Isaac Asimov - The Best of Isaac Asimov
Issac Asimov - The Foundation Series
Larry Niven - Ringworld
Robert Jordan - Wheel of Time
Philip Pullman - The Golden Compass (Northern Lights)
Dostoevsky - The Idiot
Dostoevsky - Possessed
Nikolai Gogol - ???
Tolstoy - Anna Karenina
Tolstoy - War & Peace
Ivan Bunin - ???
Simone de Beauvoir - All Men are Mortal
Kafka - ???
Camus - The Stranger
Camus - The Plague
Pierre de Laclos - Les Liaisons dangereuses
Stendhal (Henri-Marie Beyle) The Red and the Black
Flaubert - Madame Bovary
Thackery - Vanity Fair
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
David Wallace - Infinite Jest
Bret Ellis - American Psycho
Tom Robbins - Jitterbug Perfume
Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting
Jorge Borges - Collected Fictions
Kazanzakis - The Last Temptation of Christ
Hermann Hesse - Siddhartha
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
Stanislaw Lem - ???
Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Geoffrey Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales
Jules Verne - Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Voltaire - Candide
Marcel Proust - Sodom and Gomorrah
Andre Gide - The Immoralist
Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera
Victor Hugo - Les Miserables
Jiang Rong - Wolf Totem
Nietzsche - Why I Am So Wise
Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
George Orwell - Why I Write
Mary Wollstonecraft - A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Kierkegaard - Fear and Trembling
Thomas a Kempis - The Inner Life
Montaigne - On Friendship
St. Augustine of Hippo - Confessions
Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo
Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes
Jane Austen - Emma
Upton Sinclair - The Jungle
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
John Milton - Paradise Lost
Lao Tzu - Tae Te Ching
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders. - Chuang-tzu
The quieter you become, the more you can hear. - Baba Ram Dass
The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass. - Dogen
Great Faith. Great Doubt. Great Effort. - The three qualities necessary for training. - Zen saying
Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook. - Zen saying
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