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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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Everson
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HI, I'm new (:
I've actually been lurking this site since I was in middle school. I'm in high school now and I loathe it--even more than middle school, which is why I'm finally registering!
So hello (:
A little bit of my story:
I've been going to the same small, private Catholic school since I was in the 1st grade, and man you have no idea how mean Catholic school kids are unless you go to one of these schools. My friends are few and far between; I have been bullied all my life and I hope to finally transfer out of this place by the end of this school year or the beginning of next year.
As for school itself my "education" primarily consists of memorization of things I will forget by next month and sitting around trying to not to fall asleep. I feel my classes provide me nothing useful. I would like to have a career in art one day, but the art class at my school is not taken seriously. Not even by the teacher, or anyone in it. Therefore...why should I? While I'm at it, why should I take ANY class seriously?
Anyway. It's nice to meet all of you! 
(This post was last modified: 12-16-2012 06:43 AM by Everson.)
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SoulRiser
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RE: HI, I'm new (:
hi there  nice to meet you.
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GreenLamp
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HI, I'm new (:
Hello! Art is great.
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LiptomaticMate
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Heil_Kaiba8921
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Who is your favorite actor?
What is your favorite movie?
Do you know who Nathan Fillion or AnnaSophia Robb is?
The less you try to control things, the less you need to.
Boredom is the #1 enemy of learning. Therefore, school is the #1 enemy of learning.
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Thanks for the diploma… can I have my childhood back?
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Mælstrom
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Good to meet you. I go to a Catholic school too, so I can see where you're coming from. What grade are you in?
If you're reading this, I killed myself.
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ThorodonSorrow
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Hi!
This place is pretty fun once you get to know who the people are that post a lot. Like LiptomaticMate.
I see them in almost every thread that I post in LOL
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Sunbourn
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RE: HI, I'm new (:
Welcome to SS. You'll find yourself well at home here. The art program at your school is lacking, but you can learn everything you need to know on your own through internet resources and experimentation. Make the best of the free time you have because you will very little of value at that institution you attend, and even less that you can't learn elsewhere on your own. By even less, I mean nothing at all. Eat shit and die, punk.
Who am I? Who are YOU?
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(12-21-2012 10:50 AM)|55555| Wrote: Welcome to SS. You'll find yourself well at home here. The art program at your school is lacking, but you can learn everything you need to know on your own through internet resources and experimentation. Make the best of the free time you have because you will very little of value at that institution you attend, and even less that you can't learn elsewhere on your own. By even less, I mean nothing at all. Eat shit and die, punk.
They haven't logged in for five days. I don't think they're gonna come back :I
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(12-21-2012 04:24 PM)ThorodonSorrow Wrote: (12-21-2012 10:50 AM)|55555| Wrote: Welcome to SS. You'll find yourself well at home here. The art program at your school is lacking, but you can learn everything you need to know on your own through internet resources and experimentation. Make the best of the free time you have because you will very little of value at that institution you attend, and even less that you can't learn elsewhere on your own. By even less, I mean nothing at all. Eat shit and die, punk.
They haven't logged in for five days. I don't think they're gonna come back :I
Now you listen here. I've been months without logging in SS, and I can tell you that one doesn't just disappear from SS permanently. OP will be back, be it tomorrow, the day after, or 25 years from now.
Who am I? Who are YOU?
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(12-23-2012 02:17 PM)|55555| Wrote: (12-21-2012 04:24 PM)ThorodonSorrow Wrote: (12-21-2012 10:50 AM)|55555| Wrote: Welcome to SS. You'll find yourself well at home here. The art program at your school is lacking, but you can learn everything you need to know on your own through internet resources and experimentation. Make the best of the free time you have because you will very little of value at that institution you attend, and even less that you can't learn elsewhere on your own. By even less, I mean nothing at all. Eat shit and die, punk.
They haven't logged in for five days. I don't think they're gonna come back :I
Now you listen here. I've been months without logging in SS, and I can tell you that one doesn't just disappear from SS permanently. OP will be back, be it tomorrow, the day after, or 25 years from now.
>_>
Boy don't you take that tone with me =__=
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Ahoy! thar. Any reason you didn't like middle or high school in particular? I registered a long time ago. aft in 2007. I would have been in upper school then, I think. Yr 11, I think. I dunno...due t' me birthday, it may have been t' first year in college that I registered.
If I seem rude to you, please call me on it gently.
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stupid article
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This site is awesome ^_^ enjoy your stay!
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Ignore everyone except the ones you're suppose to listen to.
STFU AND GIVE ME YOUR RAINBOWS!
That was a false alarm for if you see me, I really love rainbows.
Congratulations humanity,because you refuse to let go of the old and evolve you actually make people believe in 2012. Not only that, but you're the only species on Earth that were able to make it possible, now we get to sit until we die because we couldn't get to Mars. We have failed as a society and don't deserve our gifts to survive for this long. Maybe this is why dinosaurs are extinct, we sure aren't any better than the dirt you say we're created from. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla...DvwSOFto#! 
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You guys are late.
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