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Pieman
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" I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had. " ~From the television show The Wonder Years
(This post was last modified: 11-11-2016 07:19 PM by Pieman.)
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Vatman
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RE: delete me plz
(11-11-2016 06:45 PM)Pieman Wrote: -
I've often thought about asking Soul to delete me. Something about it seems wrong though, it's as if I'm not ready to let go of the boy I was nearly a decade ago; predictably typing, "I hate school" in a school libraries internet explorer browser.
Some cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.
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SoulRiser
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delete me plz
I don't delete people. It's too messy, and they almost always try to come back again anyway. 
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Pieman
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RE: delete me plz
Vatman, I do find it impressive how you always manage to worm out some sort of existential meaning in nearly everything. Even here with just a single character. However, I wouldn't recommend asking our hand-printed overlord to delete you, as even if you're a far shake from whom you used to be, wiping away the remnants would simply be wasteful. Use them to your advantage somehow, pal.
" I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had. " ~From the television show The Wonder Years
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RE: delete me plz
Could someone delete my existence?
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RE: delete me plz
(11-21-2016 10:29 AM)Username Wrote: Could someone delete my existence?
pew pew
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.
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Miller0700
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RE: delete me plz
At least delete threads? Half of my old ones are very cringe-worthy.
Previously known as Derchin.
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RE: delete me plz
(11-18-2016 03:52 PM)Vatman Wrote: I've often thought about asking Soul to delete me. Something about it seems wrong though, it's as if I'm not ready to let go of the boy I was nearly a decade ago; predictably typing, "I hate school" in a school libraries internet explorer browser.
Why do you want to? I usually find myself regretting decisions like that, or rethinking them, if I was smart and slept on it. Turns out I value my little chunk of internet history more than satisfying the occasional mini-paranoia or desire for a clean break or whatever weird reason I came up with. Sometimes I only realize it after I've blown a piece of it away. I mean, the internet is srs bsns, rite? But that's why I just chill now and let it be.
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Shurpeh
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RE: delete me plz
Personally I enjoy reading back on things I've posted.. it's nice to reflect on how far I've come or something
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RE: delete me plz
I'm always amazed at how much I've changed in the last decade.
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delete me plz
Delete your own posts if they bother you so much.
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Vatman
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RE: delete me plz
(11-24-2016 07:16 PM)vonunov Wrote: (11-18-2016 03:52 PM)Vatman Wrote: I've often thought about asking Soul to delete me. Something about it seems wrong though, it's as if I'm not ready to let go of the boy I was nearly a decade ago; predictably typing, "I hate school" in a school libraries internet explorer browser.
Why do you want to? I usually find myself regretting decisions like that, or rethinking them, if I was smart and slept on it. Turns out I value my little chunk of internet history more than satisfying the occasional mini-paranoia or desire for a clean break or whatever weird reason I came up with. Sometimes I only realize it after I've blown a piece of it away. I mean, the internet is srs bsns, rite? But that's why I just chill now and let it be.
If the power were in my hands I would probably have long ago flipped the switch. Alas Soul's red hand is in the way, even with a full nights rest I regret much of it. The little careless bits of advise I gave away on a whim, the friendships I made and lost in all-night chatrooms and subsequently weary days in highschool. I was a member of other message boards before SS - luckily they predate modern social media and they have long since been erased and forgotten.
This place is likely the last place you can glimpse into 16 year old Vatman, he was a very certain fellow. He called Aristotle "indigent" and thought Youtube was a fad that would pass away when people got tired of watching others get hit in the groin with a football.
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brainiac3397
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I remember the days youtube was just that thing some folk who knew how to use a computer knew about. Back when youtube comments were relavant to the video, Machinima didn't suck balls, and there weren't many of that crazy conspiracy theory shit.
Didn't take long for it to become the primary source of video sharing.
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RE: delete me plz
Fuck me, machinima was an actual art form back in the day.
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