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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 contribute mostly to a blog of mine on here. nobody argues with me.
i dont post much otherwise but I read the posts that arent necroed
Purity is to Believe only that which deserves it. Wisdom is to follow only the Opinion which makes the best use of evidence. Excellence is to be mindful of all these things in Living. Follow me on Twitter!
01-31-2017 09:54 AM
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unless SS is somehow turned into a participatory magazine and whores its users out as marketing data, were going to remain in the boonies.
its like were on some remote farm in upstate New York, super far from any major city. We're the "real internet" but nobody really respects us...
Purity is to Believe only that which deserves it. Wisdom is to follow only the Opinion which makes the best use of evidence. Excellence is to be mindful of all these things in Living. Follow me on Twitter!
(01-31-2017 10:17 PM)SoulRiser Wrote: Hey, long time no see! Google ruined the internet, so people don't find this place as often as they used to. But I shall have my revenge, somehow...
Hey, I found this forum using Google.
02-04-2017 12:14 AM
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(02-03-2017 09:34 PM)the Analogist Wrote: unless SS is somehow turned into a participatory magazine and whores its users out as marketing data, were going to remain in the boonies.
its like were on some remote farm in upstate New York, super far from any major city. We're the "real internet" but nobody really respects us...
This.
Hidden stuff:
"CONSENSUAL incest is not wrong. (Abuse victims: being abused by a relative does not make it wrong for others to have consensual incest, any more than rape by a stranger makes all sex wrong. Sex and assault/molestation are two different things.) An aversion became common in humans that aided in population growth as one disease couldn't wipe out the human race. That's not a problem anymore.
Consensual incest is very common. You know people who have been involved, whether you know it or not.
There is no rational reason for keeping laws or taboos against consensual
incest that is consistently applied to other relationships. Personal disgust or religion is only a reason why one person would not want to personally engage in what I call consanguinamory, not why someone else shouldn't do it. An adult should be free to share love, sex, residence, and marriage with ANY consenting adults. Youthful experimentation between close relatives close in age is not uncommon, and there are more people than you'd think out there who are in lifelong healthy, happy relationships with a close relative. It isn't for everyone, but we're not all going to want to have each others' love lives, now are we? If someone thinks YOUR love life is disgusting, should you be thrown in prison?
Some people try to justify their prejudice against consanguineous sex and
marriage by being part-time eugenicists and saying that such relationships inevitably lead to “mutant” or “deformed” babies. This argument can be refuted on several fronts. 1. Some consanguineous relationships involve only people of the same gender. 2. Not all mixed-gender relationships birth biological children. 3. Most births to consanguineous parents do not produce children with significant birth defects or other genetic problems; while births to other parents do sometimes have birth defects. 4. We don’t prevent other people from marrying or deny them their reproductive rights based on increased odds of passing along a genetic problem or inherited disease. It is true that in general, children born to consanguineous parents have an increased chance of these problems than those born to nonconsanguineous parents, but the odds are still minimal. Unless someone is willing to deny reproductive rights and medical privacy to others and force everyone to take genetic tests and bar carriers and the congenitally disabled and women over 35 from having children, then equal protection principles prevent this from being a justification to bar this freedom of association and freedom to marry.
Some say "Your sibling should not be your lover." That is not a reason. It begs the question. Many people have many relationships that have more than one aspect. Some women say their sister is their best friend. Why can’t their sister be a wife, too?
Some say “There is a power differential.” This applies least of all to siblings or cousins who are close in age, but even where the power differential exists, it is not a justification for denying this freedom to sex or to marry. There is a power differential in just about any relationship, sometimes an enormous power differential. To question if consent is truly possible in these cases is insulting and demeaning.
Some say “There are so many people outside of your family." There are plenty of people within one’s own race, too, but that is no reason to ban interracial marriage. So, this isn't a good reason either. Let consenting adults love each other the way they want!"-Keith Pullman
02-06-2017 01:26 AM
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Yup, its the nostalgia that keeps bringing me back. It was such a good time back in the day.
Whilst some work diligently there are those who ask why. I am one of them
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Soul#2: I already have a grip. Doc:and a porno mag and a tube of lube I'm sure"
Lifes a bitch, then you marry one
This has been a test of the emergency pointless argument system. Had this been a real pointless argument, someone would have been called a facist.
Ceiling Cat: For that you need to wear a fursuit, though.
Inside sources say that Carla Franklin has had more dick in her than a public urinal.
03-24-2017 07:17 AM
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Eh for me not so good times. This was an honest bright spot in very tough times that were going on... though a part of me legitimately wants to build something here. Don't know what it is.
(01-31-2017 10:17 PM)SoulRiser Wrote: Hey, long time no see! Google ruined the internet, so people don't find this place as often as they used to. But I shall have my revenge, somehow...
Purity is to Believe only that which deserves it. Wisdom is to follow only the Opinion which makes the best use of evidence. Excellence is to be mindful of all these things in Living. Follow me on Twitter!
(This post was last modified: 03-26-2017 02:13 PM by the Analogist.)
03-26-2017 02:13 PM
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I dont think advertising is the key. keeping it free means keeping it honest as a public service. ALSO, if we got too mainstream we could attract the wrong attention
Purity is to Believe only that which deserves it. Wisdom is to follow only the Opinion which makes the best use of evidence. Excellence is to be mindful of all these things in Living. Follow me on Twitter!
They've partially fixed it now, but what they did was bump SS down to 7-9th place in the results for 'i hate school', beneath 2 YouTube videos, some stupid mindless rant site, and that stupid KidsHealth article, and some silly quiz (and some other things I forget). Basically, under a pile of shit. We're back hovering around 3-4 again now. Still not #1 like we used to be. Fuckin YouTube wins basically everything now. Should totally get SS on there, but I hate videos.
Support School Survival on Patreon or Donate Bitcoin Here: 1Q5WCcxWjayniaL92b8GfXBiGdfjmnUNa2 "Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." - André Paul Guillaume Gide "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination." - Albert Einstein "I'm pretty sure there's a lot of beauty that can only be found in the mind of a lunatic." - TheCancer EIPD - Emotionally Incompetent Parent Disorder
i wanted to write a script summarizing my Three Category System and mention school survival as a place to find other stuff i've done.
Purity is to Believe only that which deserves it. Wisdom is to follow only the Opinion which makes the best use of evidence. Excellence is to be mindful of all these things in Living. Follow me on Twitter!
They've partially fixed it now, but what they did was bump SS down to 7-9th place in the results for 'i hate school', beneath 2 YouTube videos, some stupid mindless rant site, and that stupid KidsHealth article, and some silly quiz (and some other things I forget). Basically, under a pile of shit.
When was that?
03-28-2017 05:56 PM
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Somewhere around the end of 2015 I think. It was whenever they changed their ranking algorithm to basically favour "big brands" and popularity over relevance. Basically makes it harder to find specific useful information now.
Quote:Huh, I wonder if there's a way around that...
There are always ways.
I may or may not have dabbled in a few. Most of my experiments failed though, but I haven't tried all the things yet...
Support School Survival on Patreon or Donate Bitcoin Here: 1Q5WCcxWjayniaL92b8GfXBiGdfjmnUNa2 "Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." - André Paul Guillaume Gide "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination." - Albert Einstein "I'm pretty sure there's a lot of beauty that can only be found in the mind of a lunatic." - TheCancer EIPD - Emotionally Incompetent Parent Disorder
(04-11-2017 10:01 AM)psychopath Wrote: Hey guys how's it going? This place really helped me get through those rough school days.
You are one those old legendary users from long ago.
"I’M BEGGING YOU, PRINCE ZUKO! It’s time for you to look inward and begin asking yourself the big question: who are you and what do YOU want?"
" While it is always best to believe in one’s self, a little help from others can be a great blessing"
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04-11-2017 11:26 AM
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