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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.

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So...I just came back from a dinner conversation gone wrong. I wanted to tell how much I hate school to my family, and tell them how much I'm suffering on the inside because of it. Of course, they just set me up with the same damn stuff that you all probably hear on a daily basis when you bring the topic up.

"You need a diploma to get a good job."
"Memorizing is still learning."
"If there wasn't school, no one would be able to do anything."
"You learn life lessons from school."

And then the most insulting one my narrow-minded dad said to me: "Here's an alternative to a diploma; G.E.J. Get a job!"

That's the final straw. I'm not talking to my family anymore about how I feel or try to explain my opinions to them. They're so brainwashed by school and society that they won't even try understanding me.

I don't even have anywhere to turn. If I go to my Guidance Counselor she'll just say the same things. Even my therapist will, I know that for sure.

I know I'm weak and Darwin's theory dictates that I deserve to die for it, but I feel so lost and alone. I don't know how much more of this I can take...Cry
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Lol they just don't want to get in trouble with the police if you don't go to school. They don't actually care.

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A lot of people feel like that, you're not the only one. Most of them in schools don't even show that side.

Change comes slowly, eventually the school system will fall.

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02-03-2012 09:53 AM
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Start a school walkout and show them you mean business.

Also, if you are 16+ go get a job then.

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Well if school is anything like renaissance after the Crusades, there's around 150 years (give or take 25 haha) left before it finally happens. I feel like with more and more people researching why they hate school, in 50 years a bold and badass group of teenagers will develop a student's union. Kids will get their rights. Age of consent to 16. Drinking to 18. Voting age to 16. A bunch of good shit will come out of kids simply getting their rights back. I can feel it!

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(01-13-2012 10:37 AM)UnschoolShqiponjë Wrote:  Mike you deserve an SS medal. Here, be proud:
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Congrats for doing something I never had the balls to do.
If you have kids, save them from the bullshit you are forced to go through.
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And at that time none of us will be teenagers to enjoy it! God damnit universe why was I born in this time period it sucks! I want holographs in my living room and touch screen super computers and shit! Realistic sex robots!!

No, this is Patrick.
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Lol @ sex robots. Women will lose their partial purpose for pleasure and the population will drop. That's pretty good for the coal and oil situation I hear about on the news a lot. Also porn won't be enjoyable. That's probably a good thing since there will be FUCKING ROBOTS hahaha

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(01-13-2012 10:37 AM)UnschoolShqiponjë Wrote:  Mike you deserve an SS medal. Here, be proud:
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Congrats for doing something I never had the balls to do.
If you have kids, save them from the bullshit you are forced to go through.
(01-25-2012 05:36 AM)UnschoolShqiponjë Wrote:  Balls of steel re-awarded. 
(02-07-2012 03:22 PM)flann Wrote:  Balls of Tungsten, now.

I found a picture for tungsten balls
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(02-14-2012 03:17 PM)Maelstrom Wrote:  Your balls are denser than white dwarf star matter.
(03-13-2012 08:27 PM)M3116 Wrote:  Balls of steel re-re-reawarded Nutter

(05-14-2013 03:01 PM)Prince Darkstar Wrote:  Dirtbikemike is the only guy I know of on here who won an argument with a teacher.
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Fuck porn it's already boring. Watching people I've never seen before have sex just isn't that enjoyable to me. Now robots...sex robots god damnit! If only I had been born exactly one lifetime before humanity goes extinct...I would know everything humans will figure out and I'll die the same time humanity dies!

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(02-03-2012 11:34 AM)gore goroth Wrote:  Also, if you are 16+ go get a job then.

I'm not ready yet. I'm fearful of failing at any interview I go to for a job...
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(02-04-2012 07:24 AM)Lung_Drac Wrote:  
(02-03-2012 11:34 AM)gore goroth Wrote:  Also, if you are 16+ go get a job then.

I'm not ready yet. I'm fearful of failing at any interview I go to for a job...

If you fear something, you will never achieve anything.
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(02-03-2012 02:25 PM)StadiumArcadium Wrote:  And at that time none of us will be teenagers to enjoy it! God damnit universe why was I born in this time period it sucks! I want holographs in my living room and touch screen super computers and shit! Realistic sex robots!!

Amen preach it stadium.

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Yes ma'am. Fisto reporting 4 duty... please assume the position.
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That was funny. Here's a gif.

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(01-13-2012 10:37 AM)UnschoolShqiponjë Wrote:  Mike you deserve an SS medal. Here, be proud:
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Congrats for doing something I never had the balls to do.
If you have kids, save them from the bullshit you are forced to go through.
(01-25-2012 05:36 AM)UnschoolShqiponjë Wrote:  Balls of steel re-awarded. 
(02-07-2012 03:22 PM)flann Wrote:  Balls of Tungsten, now.

I found a picture for tungsten balls
http://bit.ly/xqd1zk

(02-14-2012 03:17 PM)Maelstrom Wrote:  Your balls are denser than white dwarf star matter.
(03-13-2012 08:27 PM)M3116 Wrote:  Balls of steel re-re-reawarded Nutter

(05-14-2013 03:01 PM)Prince Darkstar Wrote:  Dirtbikemike is the only guy I know of on here who won an argument with a teacher.
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(02-04-2012 09:07 AM)gore goroth Wrote:  Yes ma'am. Fisto reporting 4 duty... please assume the position.
*bad ass Fallout: New Vegas picture*
GOD, I WAN'T TO PLAY THIS GAME SO BAD RIGHT NOW.
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I'm still on beating fallout 3 right now.

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Thanks everyone. I'm stuck in grade 12 right now, so...I guess this was a mental breakdown from being in school and trying to please everyone for so long.
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Man I'm sorry, that sounds so awful. Just block them out. I'm serious. If all you ever think about is climbing to the top you miss everything along the way. Like your life. Now. LIFE is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. Dumb pedants only see the technicalities of everything, making the pathways to daily conveniences so complicated and reminiscent of their whole LIVES. You can't just bury nuts and make nests and call that your life. You just can't. Now if you're running back and forth going nowhere and it makes you HAPPY, sure, Sisyphus. But some people want to explain it all like a prayer as though it's one way. It isn't. Sure this and that makes that and this easier. But you have to FIND that out for yourself half the time.
And yeah, social darwinism is simply a failure to construct true statements from true concepts. Don't even worry about all that. Clearly you aren't the weak one in this situation with all these robots looming around you.
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(02-03-2012 09:43 AM)Lung_Drac Wrote:  I know I'm weak and Darwin's theory dictates that I deserve to die for it,

No, that's not what natural selection means. You're thinking of eugenics.

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(02-03-2012 02:22 PM)dirtbikemike204 Wrote:  Well if school is anything like renaissance after the Crusades, there's around 150 years (give or take 25 haha) left before it finally happens. I feel like with more and more people researching why they hate school, in 50 years a bold and badass group of teenagers will develop a student's union. Kids will get their rights. Age of consent to 16. Drinking to 18. Voting age to 16. A bunch of good shit will come out of kids simply getting their rights back. I can feel it!
The ancient Egyptians invented school in 3000 BC, and even if you're referring to the modern school system conceived in 1870, there would only be aout 10 years to go. What I'm saying is we're screwed

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You're not weak and you're not stupid. Maybe you lack physical strength, but it's no only the body that matters, it's also the mind.
You turned to us, didn't you? When will your school stop, when will you be out of it? Keep in mind school is long, but still temporary, and the time will come when you are out of it.
Damn, you aren't stupid, damn it. There's that famous quote "Who doesn't discover that he is surrounded by idiots when growing older, there is a certain reason he doesn't"...It seems you discovered how stupid people can be.

Stop letting school destroy your self esteem...please, try to.

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I think just graduating and getting the hell out of high school will be a huge relief for you. I still don't have a job and I'm not even 100% sure of what I want to do with my life, but just being able to finally get out of the broken public education system majorly boosted my own self esteem. Just try to hold onto the hope that beyond high school, things can get much better once you can take charge of your own education.

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(02-06-2012 09:39 AM)Wingless Wrote:  I think just graduating and getting the hell out of high school will be a huge relief for you. I still don't have a job and I'm not even 100% sure of what I want to do with my life, but just being able to finally get out of the broken public education system majorly boosted my own self esteem. Just try to hold onto the hope that beyond high school, things can get much better once you can take charge of your own education.

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(02-05-2012 07:30 PM)M3116 Wrote:  And yeah, social darwinism is simply a failure to construct true statements from true concepts. Don't even worry about all that. Clearly you aren't the weak one in this situation with all these robots looming around you.

Depends on how you define my weakness. I'm too weak to speak out, so I'm here...

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And yet you do speak out - to anonymous strangers. It doesn't matter with whom you speak, it just matters that you speak.

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Whew. Thanks, everyone, for helping me all those years ago. I've graduated last year and am now that much more happy now that I'm not surrounded by people I hate for five days a week.

There's different types of tea in the world: There's tranquility, nobility, specialty, creativity ... and then there's BRUTALITY!
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