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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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and filling it with the best pieces of literature known to this world. I plan on reading every book in my library, and by the end I shall have a lovely bookshelf stacked with enough heavy reading materials to make Teddy Roosevelt cum his pants. here is my list so far:
(key: [ ] = not read [x] = already read)
Fahrenheit 451 [x]
The Catcher in the Rye [ ]
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [x]
American Psycho [ ]
Animal Farm [x]
The Da Vinci Code [x]
My Autobiography (Chaplin) [x]
Art of War [x] (currently reading)
The Da Vinci Code? And no 1984 or Shakespeare? Really?
I think Buenaventura Durruti is a pretty cool guy. eh kills fascists and doesnt afraid of ruins. The quickest way to kill a revolution is to wait for it.
Stephen kings the mist, It's short but amazing. Also Stephen kings the stand (complete edition) Now thats some heavy reading. The fucking book is 1200 pages long.
Both are excellent choices.
Had to move on. Account is dead.
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Vatman
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Some must read classics:
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Sun Also Rises
Ulysses
Love in the Time of Cholera
The Stranger
East of Eden
The Metamorphosis (the kafka one)
Jane Eyre
Pride and Prejudice
War and Peace
Some recommended Vatman books.
Fifth Business by Robertson Davies
Paradise News by David Lodge
White Oleander by Jannet Fitch
Sphere by Michael Crichton
Opening Skinners Box by Laura Slater
(Edit: I moved this to movies/tv/videos/books.....ya know for the relevance)
Ender's Game
Matterhorn
Snow Crash
I am Legend
Frankenstein (the original)
Captain Underpants
The Golden Compass and sequels
I think Buenaventura Durruti is a pretty cool guy. eh kills fascists and doesnt afraid of ruins. The quickest way to kill a revolution is to wait for it.
If you like Orwell and 451 try "Brave New World" and "The Children Of Men"
"A Clockwork Orange" is Really good too but make sure you get the real version and not the one that had the last chapter cut out.
Mozart and the Whale
No more lies
We need to talk about Kevin
The power of Critical Thinking
The God Delusion
Of Mice and Men
Hank the Cowdog (series)
Somebody's gotta say it!
Swimsuit
The Origin of Species (Charles Darwin)
The case against homework
The Anarchist Cookbook (A MUST.)
Hidden stuff:
TRIGGER WARNING: THIS TRIGGER WARNING CONTAINS TRIGGER WARNINGS!
Dear Tumblrites:Despite your wrongly self-diagnosedPTSD, no line ofscientific evidencesuggests people can be triggered over theinternet. Triggering works through thesenses(i.e. smell, taste, touch, vision, hearing.) but it goes throughreal time; if you're not experiencing it in real life as it'sACTUALLY HAPPENINGin yourACTUALlife, youCANNOTbe triggered. The only exception to this is if you have aseizure, but then again, that's triggered byepilepsy(i.e. rapidly-changing flashing lights)NOT PTSD. Remembering a bad incident is NOT the same thing as having aflashback. When you remember, youthink; when youflashback,youfeel.
#HashTagsAreForIdiots
Max Stirnir Wrote:"In the time of spirits thoughts grew till they overtopped my head, whose offspring they yet were; they hovered about me and convulsed me like fever-phantasies -- an awful power. The thoughts had become corporeal on their own account, were ghosts, e. g. God, Emperor, Pope, Fatherland, etc. If I destroy their corporeity, then I take them back into mine, and say: "I alone am corporeal." And now I take the world as what it is to me, as mine, as my property; I refer all to myself."The Ego and Its Own, pg. 15
Charles Manson Wrote:“Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look straight at me and you see yourself”
HeartofShadows Wrote:"Life is nothing more than a druggie trying to get their quick fix of happiness while dealing with the harsh withdrawal of reality"
Osip Mandelstam Wrote:"I divide all of world literature into authorized and unauthorized works. The former are all trash; the latter--stolen air. I want to spit in the face of every writer who first obtains permission and then writes."The Fourth Prose, 1930.
Lukas Foss Wrote:That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
Is "Reattaching Fingers for Dummies" a book? If so, buy it and keep the two next to each other.
I think Buenaventura Durruti is a pretty cool guy. eh kills fascists and doesnt afraid of ruins. The quickest way to kill a revolution is to wait for it.
Ender's Game... that's the one with the chess board, right? Haven't read it yet.
Quote:Of Mice and Men
Our English teacher spoiled the SHIT out of that book a few days back. We're reading it now. I read it before though, so watching everyone gasp was lulzy as hell.
We're reading out loud, and she doesn't let us read "nigger" Of course, she probably wouldn't care if the person reading was black. Damn political correctness.
Thought Criminal Wrote:"A Clockwork Orange" is Really good too but make sure you get the real version and not the one that had the last chapter cut out.
Why, what's the last chapter?
Get a collection of Edgar Allen Poe's work.
Faith o' Meter
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Quote:Riddle me this, riddle me that. Give me a straight answer, you pain in the ass cat.
CrayolaColours Wrote:Why, what's the last chapter?
Well I don't want to spoil the book but when Burgess (who is english) tried to publish his book in the U.S. the editor at the time decided that people would enjoy the book more if it ended on a sad note. (You have to remember though it was in the 80's and this is the height of the cold war so the publisher war probably right) So it was taken out of the original publishing. Later editions added it back in but that wasn't until an american director made the movie so the movie even leaves out the last chapter.
Thought Criminal Wrote:dude you never read captain underpants?
No, though by the title is sounds like something a second grader would find funny.
It kinda is.
Rebelnerd Wrote:
Sociopath Wrote:The Anarchist Cookbook (A MUST.)
Is "Reattaching Fingers for Dummies" a book? If so, buy it and keep the two next to each other.
Oh c'mon, just be careful! Potentially, pretty much everything is dangerous; Shooting firearms, handling kitchen knives, etc.
'Just gotta know whats flammable an shit. I found the collection of homemade bombs quite nice (and useful.) but theres more than just improvised explosives in that book.
Hidden stuff:
TRIGGER WARNING: THIS TRIGGER WARNING CONTAINS TRIGGER WARNINGS!
Dear Tumblrites:Despite your wrongly self-diagnosedPTSD, no line ofscientific evidencesuggests people can be triggered over theinternet. Triggering works through thesenses(i.e. smell, taste, touch, vision, hearing.) but it goes throughreal time; if you're not experiencing it in real life as it'sACTUALLY HAPPENINGin yourACTUALlife, youCANNOTbe triggered. The only exception to this is if you have aseizure, but then again, that's triggered byepilepsy(i.e. rapidly-changing flashing lights)NOT PTSD. Remembering a bad incident is NOT the same thing as having aflashback. When you remember, youthink; when youflashback,youfeel.
#HashTagsAreForIdiots
Max Stirnir Wrote:"In the time of spirits thoughts grew till they overtopped my head, whose offspring they yet were; they hovered about me and convulsed me like fever-phantasies -- an awful power. The thoughts had become corporeal on their own account, were ghosts, e. g. God, Emperor, Pope, Fatherland, etc. If I destroy their corporeity, then I take them back into mine, and say: "I alone am corporeal." And now I take the world as what it is to me, as mine, as my property; I refer all to myself."The Ego and Its Own, pg. 15
Charles Manson Wrote:“Look down at me and you see a fool;
look up at me and you see a god;
look straight at me and you see yourself”
HeartofShadows Wrote:"Life is nothing more than a druggie trying to get their quick fix of happiness while dealing with the harsh withdrawal of reality"
Osip Mandelstam Wrote:"I divide all of world literature into authorized and unauthorized works. The former are all trash; the latter--stolen air. I want to spit in the face of every writer who first obtains permission and then writes."The Fourth Prose, 1930.
Lukas Foss Wrote:That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.
heres a list of banned books some have already been mentioned. but a good amount havnt.
life is just blah blah blah. we hope for blah, and sometimes we find it. but mostly its blah. and waiting for blah. and hoping you were right about the blahs you made. and when you think you just got the whole blah damn thing figured out, and your surrounded by the ones you blah. death shows up and blah blah blah.
-weeds-
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings. -socrates-
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