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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.
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This is a thread for you to share any fears or phobias you have. Let's start off with me.
I have a fear of heights and a fear of bees and wasps, I also have a fear of tornadoes, I remember I was awake in my room one night while a severe storm was raging outside, I didn't care for it, until the thought of a tornado crossed my mind, and I felt scared.
I also have a fear of being considered "weak" or a "weakling", I posted more in-depth about this on another forum:
Quote: I have a fear of being considered "weak" or being considered a "weakling". I payed the price of being one back in 6th grade, but now, when you are 6ft and almost 200 pounds (and I'm only 15) not many people would want to bully you.
I remember the last time I checked I could bench press 140 pounds and squat nearly 180 pounds. And yet, I still feel like that I'm too wimpy.
That's exactly why I bench press, I was bullied for being a weakling when I was 13. My body size jumped nearly 50 pounds and I grew like around 6 inches when I was 14. But like someone with Anorexia, (how they see theirselves as fat, even though they are skinny enough for you to count their ribs,) people tell me how I look "big" and I had multiple people tell me that I look like a man until they see my face, but I see myself as a wimp. But unlikely someone with anorexia, this has encouraged me to start working out.
Heights are unsettling. Im disgusted by most bugs, but not frightened (certain insects get a free pass to live like bees, spiders and ants. Even then, Id rather keep clear of em because they still disgust me).
I guess thats about it. Most cases I either hate, dislike or find disgusting rather than fear.
Stinging insects and spiders bug me (no pun intended), but I do admire spiders at a distance. My fear of heights is non-existant as long as what I'm on is sturdy and doesn't sway.
My biggest fear would have to be hypodermic needles. Just ... the sight of them going into a vein freaks me out so much I have a panic attack. I can't get over it.
There's different types of tea in the world: There's tranquility, nobility, specialty, creativity ... and then there's BRUTALITY!
Fear of heights, insects, losing teeth.
I always have dreams in which I'm late for a lot of events and things and maybe that's why I'm late for a lot of things in reality, it can be being late do to what I like and not being interested in that one moment . For example I didn't went to a school arts because it was sorta late to go to one when I realized I wanted to study art and not study global history and geography and stuff I'm into now.. Such a lame.
The fear of heights, falling in love, bugs, deep water, being judged, getting sent back to school, being robbed (ever sense that fateful day) having children, tornadoes, being relied on and sometimes being noticed, like I am afraid that the teacher would call on me or send me to the board.
(This post was last modified: 06-15-2015 09:15 AM by Cianna200.)
Aphenphosmphobic. I'm afraid of being touched skin-on-skin by other humans...
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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.
(06-15-2015 01:12 PM)brainiac3397 Wrote: I love shipwrecks...or any wreck/ruin. They have a certain mystery.
I had issue with heights but that's been solved to some extent. I still hate bugs.
I've got no problem with wrecks and ruins and shit on land, it's just underwater,
Yeh they're pretty creepy but that just makes em more interesting. Add some skeletons and you've got an adventure(course my understanding is that bones don't do very well in the ocean)
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