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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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I posted a long reply about how Steve's page here portrays me as an arrogant and demanding man-cunt, but he somehow loves me anyway, so I will email my response to him. Unlike Steve, I don't like talking about personal business on a public forum. Does that make me cold? Lots of girls thought so in the past...
Anyway, Steve, if you pay more than $200/month, I'll proofread these rants for you because they're hard as hell to read. It beats editing the boring video of the old guy with his hand puppets. They're both equally long though... too long for most people. I dunno who is gonna read your page besides me, so consider this a challenge for you SS members. Go through Steve's incoherent ramblings, and if you make it all the way through, I consider you hardcore. It contains riveting topics like potatoes, cancer, criteria, and the aforementioned old guy with hand puppets. Oh, and Steve called me "Luke the Great" as a backhanded compliment so that's pretty funny. Check it out.
To end things, here's a MADtv clip showing how I feel when Steve talks about me on a public page like he did here (if Steve were the dad, I was the hot blonde girl, and we were sharing ice cream instead of feelings). Steve, watch the whole thing because this four minute video expresses my thoughts better than 'feeling words' ever can:
Quote:lol
ok so anyhow this is that word
or two words
or three
engage, engaging, engaged
see i am a really old mother fucker
like george carlin almost and like him i hate religion and pple who say lying bullshit like "because it is good for you" - now i have to jump to potato
steve, i'm probably the worst person to point this out to you, but the level of disorganization in your speech is symptomatic of formal thought disorder. with genuine concern, i suggest that you let a doctor have a look at that page you just wrote.
"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."
(This post was last modified: 07-30-2013 11:22 PM by Potato.)
It looks more like written down thoughts. Not exactly speech. I don't see why that is a problem, if it is written down thoughts. Thoughts are like that, they jump around. I think like that; that's possibly why I have to proofread my writings several times before submitting it.
Quote:lol
ok so anyhow this is that word
or two words
or three
engage, engaging, engaged
see i am a really old mother fucker
like george carlin almost and like him i hate religion and pple who say lying bullshit like "because it is good for you" - now i have to jump to potato
steve, i'm probably the worst person to point this out to you, but the level of disorganization in your speech is symptomatic of formal thought disorder. with genuine concern, i suggest that you let a doctor have a look at that page you just wrote.
I swear, people who point others towards the doctors the moment someone does something strange...
Steve's gotten along fine for 56 years. He's also completely coherent during live chats. What he does here is like a stream of consciousness. He's not the first person I've seen type like that. You're probably just taking a cheap shot at Steve anyway but I'm playing along.
"Oppressed people might overthrow their tyrants, but not if they can count on one day joining the oppressors."
The incoherence of the page flowed like a paradoxic river of ice and air. It made it a whole lot easier to read, though I'd prefer less spacing and a smaller font as to be able to absorb more information at a glance.
Disregarding all spelling mistakes, which makes it seem like a comfortably written mental discourse, we can all understand that mr.heinz loves luke skywalker quite well. Like ketchup and Darth Vader's offspring go hand in hand.
I once wrote down my thoughts as I thought and thought it was thoughtful but others thought it to be not as it was thought it would be coherent and thought to be chaotic. It's difficult for others to comprehend when you have four voices speaking at the same time.
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