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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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Every person in the entire world seems to live, so they can die. They waste their lives trying to get money to get a house and food, get married, have kids, then die. Why do they waste their time trying to survive when they die anyways. You wasted your whole life for nothing. We all have the same story. Goto school, get a job, retire, die. What is the point if we just die. It doesn't change anything if we just die suddenly or wait till old age. We could all be wiped out by a disaster and the universe would still exist.
There is no point of life. We are not alive for a reason. Things don't happen because we have to do something. Things happen randomly. No god wants you to do anything. Everyone is alive for no reason.
There's a reason why people say " Live life to the fullest " that's because IT'S OBVIOUS that it doesn't last forever. So in the 80-100 years or so that you ARE alive, go do stuff. Get married, have kids, skydive, rob a bank, do whatever the hell you want.
" Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once. "
~Lillian Dickson
" 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
fish20 Wrote:Every person in the entire world seems to live, so they can die. They waste their lives trying to get money to get a house and food, get married, have kids, then die. Why do they waste their time trying to survive when they die anyways. You wasted your whole life for nothing. We all have the same story. Goto school, get a job, retire, die. What is the point if we just die. It doesn't change anything if we just die suddenly or wait till old age. We could all be wiped out by a disaster and the universe would still exist.
There is no point of life. We are not alive for a reason. Things don't happen because we have to do something. Things happen randomly. No god wants you to do anything. Everyone is alive for no reason.
It seems like some kind of big farce, some huge lie to say humanity is associated with anything divine or *special*.
Everything down to our desire for happiness is parasitic and when happiness goes and it does then we have nothing left but to constantly chase it to get our quick little fix before it vanishes again.
Makes me laugh when somebody is having a baby and people refer to it as a miracle.
There's a reason why people say " Live life to the fullest " that's because IT'S OBVIOUS that it doesn't last forever. So in the 80-100 years or so that you ARE alive, go do stuff. Get married, have kids, skydive, rob a bank, do whatever the hell you want.
Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.
~Lillian Dickson
There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.
E. M. Cioran
Why rebel any longer against the symmetry of this world when Chaos itself can only be a system of disorders? Our fate being to rot with the continents and the starts, we drag on, like resigned sick men, and to the end of time, the curiosity of a denouement that is foreseen, frightful, and vain.
Pieman Wrote:You're an extreme pessimist.
There's a reason why people say " Live life to the fullest " that's because IT'S OBVIOUS that it doesn't last forever. So in the 80-100 years or so that you ARE alive, go do stuff. Get married, have kids, skydive, rob a bank, do whatever the hell you want.
Its not easy avoiding mind numbing drugs in our food and water and influence of the media that are designed for human domestication. I wanna be a Tiger not some dumb cat rolling on its back.
Go to your mall if you want to see members of the Zombie nation, the food court is particularly discomforting.
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"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." - Oscar Wilde
Your life has whatever meaning you assign to it. Personally I think we're all here to learn from our experiences and share our knowledge with each other. But ultimately the point is to do whatever you want and screw what everyone else says.
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We are alive for what 70 to 100 years? Then we get to be dead for the next forever. Life is an escape from the nothingness we were in before we were born, and the nothingness or afterlife that we will be in for eternity after we die.
So like previously stated, do what you want, it's probably the best way to go about your life. On a side note, try not to get in the way or impede others on their trip through their life. And I for one am going to make this speck of time last as long as possible and be as meaningful to others and myself as possible.
The Desert Fox Wrote:Make the most of what you can while it's still there. It's how I live my life (and why I got L4D2, but that's not the point).
You had to do it, didn't you?
I understand. Nothing we do is going to matter once we're dead. Most of us won't even make more than a tiny butterfly effect in the world. Why do we care if we live or die, or if we have kids? Why is the whole point of life to keep the human race going? It doesn't really matter. Huh, so this must be what pessimism feels like... I don't like it.
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Quote:Riddle me this, riddle me that. Give me a straight answer, you pain in the ass cat.
Absentinsomniac Wrote:We are alive for what 70 to 100 years? Then we get to be dead for the next forever. Life is an escape from the nothingness we were in before we were born, and the nothingness or afterlife will be in for eternity after we die.
So like previously stated, do what you want, it's probably the best way to go about your life. On a side note, try not to get in the way or impede others on their trip through their life. And I for one am going to make this speck of time last as long as possible and be as meaningful to others and myself as possible.
So at best you ignore the reality of life while living it up from one cup of happiness to the next until you drop dead while clinging to some society bound trait of living *right*.
The Desert Fox Wrote:Make the most of what you can while it's still there. It's how I live my life (and why I got L4D2, but that's not the point).
You had to do it, didn't you?
I understand. Nothing we do is going to matter once we're dead. Most of us won't even make more than a tiny butterfly effect in the world. Why do we care if we live or die, or if we have kids? Why is the whole point of life to keep the human race going? It doesn't really matter. Huh, so this must be what pessimism feels like... I don't like it.
So what is the reality of life? Your not ignoring any reality, you are simply doing what you want with your life. I see no issues with this...
Quote:living it up from one cup of happiness to the next
Why the fuck not? If your not fucking over someone else I see no issues with this. Do you have the answer to becoming permanently a fulfilled person? Why not just be as happy as possible? It's not like nothing would get done, people would still work and peruse things they are interested in. It's what helps people feel slightly happy or fulfilled.
Quote:while clinging to some society bound trait of living *right*.
If you are doing what you want, you aren't exactly clinging to any of society's expected traits... Shit the majority of the people in this world who do actually do what they want are shunned or looked down on by society.
If you are referring to staying out of peoples way as being a "societally right trait", then I would like to point out that not oppressing others and fucking up their lives is not a trait that is a "societal right"... It's common sense.
Quote:So what is the reality of life? Your not ignoring any reality, you are simply doing what you want with your life. I see no issues with this...
Yeah its all we can do after all.
Quote:Why the fuck not? If your not fucking over someone else I see no issues with this. Do you have the answer to becoming permanently a fulfilled person? Why not just be as happy as possible? It's not like nothing would get done, people would still work and peruse things they are interested in. It's what helps people feel slightly happy or fulfilled.
I was just teasing you no need to go all nuclear on me Mr freeman and I agree.
Chasing the drug known as happiness gives us *fufillment*.
Quote:while clinging to some society bound trait of living *right*.
If you are doing what you want, you aren't exactly clinging to any of society's expected traits... Shit the majority of the people in this world who do actually do what they want are shunned or looked down on by society.
Depends on what we are talking about but I misinterpreted you back there.
Quote:If you are referring to staying out of peoples way as being a "societally right trait", then I would like to point out that not oppressing others and fucking up their lives is not a trait that is a "societal right"... It's common sense.
Like I said earlier I misunderstood you up there. This trait is a practice that people sadly have forsaken.
Quote:I was just teasing you no need to go all nuclear on me Mr freeman and I agree.
Chasing the drug known as happiness gives us *fufillment*.
I lol'd, sorry my dad is playing some annoying fucking Christian music as loud as he can and singing along. He may even be playing the guitar along with it.
Also, what is the difference between fulfillment and happiness? I'm not even sure if happiness exists, it's more or less just a chemical reaction that makes you feel good, so I guess I agree that you can't exactly become happy in the long term sense.
I think you have to give up on being permanently happy and accept some of the hardships to achieve any sort of fulfillment. I dun know though.
Absentinsomniac Wrote:a chemical reaction that makes you feel good,
yes, a combined release of stored serratonin and dopamine.
People act unaware that the human body is a walking pharmacy!~David Icke~ Religion was invented to keep the poor from harrasing the rich"~Napoleon Bonaparte~ Do As Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole of The Law!~The Secret Order of Thelema~ "Respect goes to those who do not want it" ~TrueAnarchist~ "The only limitations that a person has are those that are self-imposed."~Unknown!~ “Attraction is an emotion.” ~Dr. Alex~ “Life is an illusion albeit a very persistent one” ~Albert Einstein
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Absentinsomniac Wrote:Then we get to be dead for the next forever.
I'm not trying to be an optimist, but if you just one day pop out of nowhere, and go back into it...who's to say that might just be you again, only with no memories? Born again, in a way...
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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.
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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.
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.
Life has 2 meanings, 1. Biologically to fuck and produce offspring so ur genes get passed on. 2. mentally whatever the fuck you want it to be. life does have a meaning b,it's whatever you make it.
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