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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.

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Lung_Drac Offline
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Nervous Wave

Hi everyone.

Well, I'm new. Straight from the womb, I guess you can say. Normally I keep a low profile and try not to say anything, but every now and then I encounter something I just have to reply to. One of those moments brought me here...introducing myself to you.

So...about me: I'm relatively open-minded and willing to listen to anyone's opinion, whether or not they back it up with logic and proof. I'm also a coward with no backbone...please don't kill me...*hides*

After 11 and a half years of endless prison school, I came across SS recently. And my curiosity piqued when I read a quote something similar to:

"Freeing a slave is hard if they don't even know they're a slave."

I grew one year older just reading that quote, and I didn't even have to go through a birthday. Words really are powerful, I now find (and why shouldn't they be? They've been used to cause suicide, haven't they?).

So, now my chains are broken off, and I've been told I'm a slave...I don't know what to do now...but I'll know eventually.

Thank you, SS! Bouncey
02-02-2012 12:37 PM
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Here to save you.

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RE: Nervous Wave

Hey, welcome.

Previously known as Derchin.
02-02-2012 12:45 PM
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RE: Nervous Wave

Words are powerful only to those who let them be powerful.
Welcome to SS niggah!

(01-10-2012 02:15 PM)Maelstrom Wrote:  Efs, your nihilism is beautiful.
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02-02-2012 04:16 PM
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The Desert Fox Offline
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RE: Nervous Wave

Well, welcome aboard. Hope you enjoy your stay here, there's a bunch of cynical prats here but they're usually lulzy so it's all good.

Hidden stuff:
(11-27-2011 01:00 PM)psychopath Wrote:  
(11-27-2011 10:52 AM)Efs Wrote:  Our Army is more professional than Amerika. Smile
Except ours isn't allowed to have guns
CrayolaColours Wrote:That post owned. TDF wins post of the year.
Faby Wrote:
krissy Wrote:dessert fox
Mmm, flambéed vulpine.
"There is no enemy, there is no victory, only boys who lost their lives in the sand."
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02-02-2012 07:10 PM
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RE: Nervous Wave

Hey, welcome here!

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(='.'=) to help him gain world domination.
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-Proud member of the LGBT community
02-03-2012 03:37 AM
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