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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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RE: Things people say that make you want to punch them
(02-09-2012 09:14 AM)StadiumArcadium Wrote: "The pills will make you feel normal"
This. I am strongly against Ritalin, antidepressants, or any form of behaviour modification.
(02-09-2012 09:23 AM)The Wrote: "Why do you want to fuck the police?"
"WHOS A GOOD FLUFFY WUFFY PUPPY? WHOS A GOOD FLUFFY WUFFY PUPPY?"
"I was like, texting my mom and I like, swore and she was like, 'don't talk to me like that,' and I was like, 'whatever,'"
RE: Things people say that make you want to punch them
(02-11-2012 04:15 PM)RaiserZero Wrote: You can't say " Boys > Girls ". It's just plain stupid.
Boys wouldn't exist without Girls -.-. If you don't understand that, it means, YOUR MAMA IS A WOMAN WHICH EQUALS GIRL. GIRL = PREGNANT = YOU.
Without woman, humankind wouldn't exist.
One depending on the other ≠ one > the other
(02-11-2012 12:04 PM)NightThoughts Wrote: But since you only have conscious memory of being male, how would you know that it is better than being female?
I wouldn't wanna be female cuz I wouldn't wanna be completely retarded and useless
RE: Things people say that make you want to punch them
So...how am I useless and retarded? After all, I found my way over here, and plainly I haven't just been blabbering on and on about fashion and dating and such. Was it you or someone else who I was having a debate with? I forget. But I did have some good arguments.
I'd put a pithy quote here, but I'd rather speak for myself.
Superpowers aren't just flying and lifting several tons. Whatever you're good at, that's your superpower. Learn to deal with it.
02-12-2012 01:29 AM
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RE: Things people say that make you want to punch them
(02-12-2012 01:29 AM)NightThoughts Wrote: So...how am I useless and retarded? After all, I found my way over here, and plainly I haven't just been blabbering on and on about fashion and dating and such. Was it you or someone else who I was having a debate with? I forget. But I did have some good arguments.
RE: Things people say that make you want to punch them
STOP WITH THE GIRLS VS. BOYS STUFF! PATHETIC TROLLS!
You're all human, that is what matters. And there is other stuff that matters more then a bitch fight about small differences. Such as if somebody like The has a small penis or NightThoughts having no breast. (CONCLUSIONS! w/o evidence, but from how they behave...)
@Topic:
"You'll eventually need that"
"Without school you'd be fucked"
"That teacher isn't that bad"
"You're crazy"
"Some things you can't change, you have to comply with them" <--- One of my personal most hated, from the people I've dealt with, I've learned that you can change every parameter you don't like - the question is ... how?
"You need good grades to get a good job"
"Your reward will be your graduation tissue paper." <---- I doubt that thing will be a reward to me.
"Freedom means responsibility" <--- Only if it's in favor of whomever saying this
"Maturity means responsibility" <--- See above
"You are a roll model for the younger, so act responsible. Also, the same rules apply to you as the apply to them" <---- However, they don't apply to the teacher, who clearly is no roll model to the 5th graders. Every class after that should already noticed they are lying hypocrites. If not, there idiots.
"School can never be democratic. Because if they'd be able to vote, they'd make that they only have to attend school until 12, then 10 etc, etc. " <--- Somebody really told me that, you'll find out who soon enough.
"The best time of the school year is before the summer break, because without grade pressure, the students are more motivated to learn" <--- A worker of the ministry of cultus (school ministry) said that. There might be some truth in it. Why don't just take away the grades in the first place?
"You cannot take away grades, because then you wouldn't be able to compare with others" <--- WHO THE ACTUAL FUCK SAID WE NEED TO COMPARE IN THE FIRST PLACE?
These are just a few, and some of them are so stupid, I don't even know a proper sarcastic response.
RIP GORE GOROTH
RIP GORE GOROTH
RIP GORE GOROTH
02-13-2012 11:58 AM
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RE: Things people say that make you want to punch them
(02-13-2012 11:58 AM)aCol Wrote: "You need good grades to get a good job"
"The best time of the school year is before the summer break, because without grade pressure, the students are more motivated to learn" <--- A worker of the ministry of cultus (school ministry) said that. There might be some truth in it. Why don't just take away the grades in the first place?
"You cannot take away grades, because then you wouldn't be able to compare with others" <--- WHO THE ACTUAL FUCK SAID WE NEED TO COMPARE IN THE FIRST PLACE?
I hate when people say grades are a good thing, act like it means you're intelligent, or compare them between kids. I hear "You got an E!? You're so stupid!" (our school calls them Es instead of Fs because apparently an F fucks with a child's brain more than an E)
Or I'm trying to have a topic involving something that many people don't understand, and when they challenge what I'm saying they say "Hold on, hold on, what are your grades? Yeah, I have higher grades than that so I'm most likely full of shit right."
Balls of Steel:
Hidden stuff:
(01-13-2012 10:37 AM)UnschoolShqiponjë Wrote: Mike you deserve an SS medal. Here, be proud:
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.
RE: Things people say that make you want to punch them
"You'll get used to it."
"It's time to move on."
"Skinny is not healthy."(anything that imposes health on everyone, actually)
"DINOSAUR TACO MUFFIN NINJA(or any other 4 most used 'random phrases'); LOL I am so random."(actually I don't really hate this one because they aren't trying to be right and all, they're just having good fun)
When people actually describe themselves as being misanthropic and all
When people equate being given their own, libertarian rights to being the downfall of morality
"You gotta have friends."
"Love sucks."
And more I'm forgetting
02-13-2012 06:46 PM
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RE: Things people say that make you want to punch them
(02-13-2012 11:58 AM)aCol Wrote: [b] Such as if somebody like The has a small penis or NightThoughts having no breast. (CONCLUSIONS! w/o evidence, but from how they behave...)
?
I'd put a pithy quote here, but I'd rather speak for myself.
Superpowers aren't just flying and lifting several tons. Whatever you're good at, that's your superpower. Learn to deal with it.
02-14-2012 06:12 AM
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RE: Things people say that make you want to punch them
(02-14-2012 06:12 AM)NightThoughts Wrote:
(02-13-2012 11:58 AM)aCol Wrote: [b] Such as if somebody like The has a small penis or NightThoughts having no breast. (CONCLUSIONS! w/o evidence, but from how they behave...)
RE: Things people say that make you want to punch them
(02-13-2012 02:41 PM)Dirtbikemike Wrote:
(02-13-2012 11:58 AM)aCol Wrote: "You need good grades to get a good job"
"The best time of the school year is before the summer break, because without grade pressure, the students are more motivated to learn" <--- A worker of the ministry of cultus (school ministry) said that. There might be some truth in it. Why don't just take away the grades in the first place?
"You cannot take away grades, because then you wouldn't be able to compare with others" <--- WHO THE ACTUAL FUCK SAID WE NEED TO COMPARE IN THE FIRST PLACE?
I hate when people say grades are a good thing, act like it means you're intelligent, or compare them between kids. I hear "You got an E!? You're so stupid!" (our school calls them Es instead of Fs because apparently an F fucks with a child's brain more than an E)
Are you serious? lol
RIP GORE GOROTH
He was an hero. He will always be remembered.
02-14-2012 09:31 AM
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RE: Things people say that make you want to punch them
“If you’re feeling depressed, well, you’ve bought it on yourself,”
“All you have to do is pretend and sooner or later you’ll get over it,”
“There’s always someone worse off than you,"
And any other words like that drive me insane. Also if there's always someone worse off then you, then who's at the end of the chain of the worse-off-than-you's? Are they still alive from all that misfortune?
I'd LOVE to meet them, and introduce them to the people that say, "I've been through worse than you."
There's different types of tea in the world: There's tranquility, nobility, specialty, creativity ... and then there's BRUTALITY!