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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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(02-21-2013 02:47 AM)SoulRiser Wrote:  Hey there!

Don't worry about writing "too much" - the lazy "TL;DR" people will skip it, but that's okay, we have other people who actually enjoy reading interesting things.

I think I know what you mean about people being addicted to tech toys... like, they can't stare out a window and just use their imagination, they'd rather be staring at a little screen, looking for something else to keep them busy...

I do a bit of both. But I do enjoy just sitting and staring and pondering stuff. I very rarely get bored... most of the stuff on Twitter/Facebook is actually boring compared to the stuff my imagination can come up with. Except actual news posted by friends I care about, but that doesn't happen nearly as much as re-posts of memes and silly stuff.

You founded this site? That's really great. You rule. Biggrin I would like to thank you for creating such a community, where although we're not banding together physically we can all communicate and share a mutual passion for standing up against school. This is the first thing that comes up (I'm pretty sure) when you google "anti-school" and I'm sure many who've been fed up with their school have searched that very thing and seen this site, ultimately being inspired to form an opinion and speak out. Maybe one day we can all even truly join together in our cities and be part of a movement for changing school and society altogether. I think that even Occupy should have had more emphasis on schools in America. Of course Occupy was destroyed by government bulldozers and police... It's really sickening.

Sitting, staring, and pondering stuff is what philosophy is often born out of! You are very right. Technology is an excellent tool and when it can serve it's purpose, it does. I just blame the inability of this generation to be able to care about the issues in society/the world enough to go outside and make change in more effective ways on our total submergence in modern tech. A number of different things factor into it, but as corporations are becoming stronger and homogenizing the country we are becoming more and more of a mindless herd buying into electronics and mass media. I've seen it first hand, I can see it in school especially. Kids care less and less about the real world (ironic that there is a television show called "the real world" that there is nothing real about) as they become more and more brainwashed by what their sold. Just the other day, the only teacher I have true respect for (Mr. Healy, my global studies teacher) showed a video on the civil war in Syria. It showed what was happening and is still happening as I type this. People are dying. Soldiers, civilians... Men, women, children.. Anyone. There is a revolt there that is causing the oppressive government to bomb their own nation to shreds. The video showed images of a dead married couple in a burnt out car holding on to each other for dear life. It made me think about Call of Duty. It made me realize how ridiculous it is when you think about how what I was looking at was real life, but it looked exactly like a Treyarch production. Then there were kids laughing and talking in the back, wearing their hideous corporate designer clothes that are all chasing after the same image of default male and female. They didn't have the least bit of care for what is really happening. So I'd say the generation collectively is corrupt and we need to wake up and go outside more to save ourselves and the future.

That's the generation as a whole I'm speaking of, though. Everyone on this website is extraordinary. Everyone here sees that change is needed and it is unjust to grow up in the conditions that we do. Thanks again.
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Hey Everybody! - GamerGurl - 02-20-2013, 11:13 AM
Hey Everybody! - no - 02-20-2013, 11:14 AM
Hey Everybody! - brainiac3397 - 02-20-2013, 11:35 AM
Hey Everybody! - Ky - 02-20-2013, 11:40 AM
Hey Everybody! - brainiac3397 - 02-20-2013, 01:02 PM
RE: Hey Everybody! - Heil_Kaiba8921 - 02-21-2013, 01:10 AM
RE: Hey Everybody! - SoulRiser - 02-21-2013, 02:47 AM
RE: Hey Everybody! - TheRevolutionWillNotBeTelevised - 02-21-2013 09:12 AM
Hey Everybody! - brainiac3397 - 02-21-2013, 05:11 AM
Hey Everybody! - brainiac3397 - 02-21-2013, 09:36 AM
RE: Hey Everybody! - Heil_Kaiba8921 - 02-21-2013, 02:48 PM
Hey Everybody! - brainiac3397 - 02-21-2013, 02:57 PM
Hey Everybody! - brainiac3397 - 02-22-2013, 08:02 AM
RE: Hey Everybody! - SoulRiser - 02-22-2013, 11:01 PM
RE: Hey Everybody! - Heil_Kaiba8921 - 02-23-2013, 02:06 AM

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