RIP School Survival Forums
August 2001 - June 2017
The School Survival Forums are permanently retired. If you need help with quitting school, unsupportive parents or anything else, there is a list of resources on the Help Page.
If you want to write about your experiences in school, you can write on our blog.
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
The forums are mostly read-only and are in a maintenance/testing phase, before being permanently archived. Please use this time to get the contact details of people you'd like to keep in touch with.
My contact details are here.
Please do not make a mirror copy of the forums in their current state - things will still change, and some people have requested to be able to edit or delete some of their personal info.
Thread Rating:
- 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
..V..
Party Rebel
Posts: 716
Joined: Jan 2012
Thanks: 3
Given 40 thank(s) in 29 post(s)
|
Insects
I'm getting tired of insects. Get the fuck out of my house. You have the god damn world, and yet you stay in my house.
I'm tired of these dumb mini-moth things in my house, I see them in my room everyday and I've had it with insects. It's a "187" on every damn insect I see in my house, but their dumbasses are always uselessly flying around. I'm starting to believe that insects are pointless, because they don't do anybody any good except a low percentage of people.
I didn't invite you into my home, so stay the fuck out of it.
I have to waste a good amount of time trying to find the fuckers to murder them, and once I do, another one shows. I couldn't even see these fuckers because they blend into the air. If it wasn't so uselessly humid outside there wouldn't be these many insects. It would also help if this was a house.
|
|
| 07-11-2013 01:35 PM |
|
 Thanks given by: | |
|
stevehein
Pariah
Posts: 536
Joined: Dec 2007
Thanks: 116
Given 327 thank(s) in 188 post(s)
|
RE: Insects
i can relate... i like nature, but where we are living now in uruguay there is a bit too much of it at times. we literally sleep inside a tent inside our "house" (an old warehouse for canoes) to keep the mosquitoes and you name it out.
i thought winter would stop them, but it only slowed them down. yeah it is winter here now we like it better than summmer.
even with all our precautions they still end up in our tent. we had one last night in fact. cl is getting good at killing them with a zap of raid
|
|
| 07-11-2013 03:44 PM |
|
| Thanks given by: | |
|
Potato
Pariah
Posts: 673
Joined: Nov 2012
Thanks: 91
Given 64 thank(s) in 50 post(s)
|
Insects
most flowering plants depend on insects such as bees for pollination
"I never said half the shit people say i did." -Albert Einstein
"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail, there is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers. That is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."-Stephen Hawking
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
|
|
| 07-11-2013 09:46 PM |
|
| Thanks given by: | |
|
Potato
Pariah
Posts: 673
Joined: Nov 2012
Thanks: 91
Given 64 thank(s) in 50 post(s)
|
Insects
but yea they should be wiped off the planet
"I never said half the shit people say i did." -Albert Einstein
"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail, there is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers. That is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."-Stephen Hawking
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
|
|
| 07-11-2013 09:48 PM |
|
| Thanks given by: | |
|
no
True Scotsman
Posts: 1,238
Joined: Nov 2012
Thanks: 918
Given 474 thank(s) in 299 post(s)
|
Insects
^ They perform a useful task, but should be completely destroyed? Explain please.
Hello, traveler.
This is an ancient account I have not used in a long time. My views have changed much in the intervening months and years.
Nonetheless, I refuse to clean it up. Pretending that I've held my current views since the beginning of time is what we in the industry call a lie. Asking people to do so contributes to moralistic self-loathing. "See, those people have nothing damning! I do! I'm truly vile!"
Because you can never be a good person with a single blemish on the moral record, I thought that simply entertaining some thoughts made me irredeemable. Though I don't care for his writing style, William Faulkner presents a good counterexample. He went from being a typical Southern racist to supporting the civil rights movement. These days we'd yell at him for that, probably.
People are allowed to change their views.
Nevertheless, this period of my life has informed some of how I am today. In good ways and bad ways. To purge it would be to do a disservice to history. Perhaps it will not make anyone sympathetic, but it may help someone understand.
If, after reading all this, you still decide to use the post above as evidence that I am evil today, ask yourself if you have never disagreed with the moral code you now follow. In all likelihood you did, at some point. If some questions are verboten, and the answer is "how dare you ask that," don't expect your ideological opponents to ever change their minds.
|
|
| 07-12-2013 04:05 AM |
|
| Thanks given by: | |
|
Miller0700
Here to save you.
Posts: 3,405
Joined: Oct 2010
Thanks: 64
Given 137 thank(s) in 84 post(s)
|
|
| 07-12-2013 06:13 AM |
|
| Thanks given by: | |
|
..V..
Party Rebel
Posts: 716
Joined: Jan 2012
Thanks: 3
Given 40 thank(s) in 29 post(s)
|
Insects
I like plants and the outdoors and things, and I'm fine with an insect being outdoors, away from me.
|
|
| 07-14-2013 02:25 PM |
|
| Thanks given by: | |
|
User(s) browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)
Search
Member List
Calendar
Help
