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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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Oh, hey there

OK, I guess I'm not really new. I actually made an account about a year ago, but I never posted with it (and now I forgot its name). Just pretend I'm new. Biggrin

(I'm not good with introductions.)

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06-07-2010 10:16 AM
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hey, welcome to the forums Biggrin

I'm Noah, and i'm new here too.

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
06-07-2010 11:09 AM
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What kind of chair are you in?

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MorikoMisa Wrote:What kind of chair are you in?
An uncomfortable one.

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Detour Wrote:
MorikoMisa Wrote:What kind of chair are you in?
An uncomfortable one.
With tentacles?

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06-09-2010 08:51 AM
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MorikoMisa Wrote:
Detour Wrote:
MorikoMisa Wrote:What kind of chair are you in?
An uncomfortable one.
With tentacles?
You bet, with a removable hard drive and USB port, too.

You don't want to know where I shop.

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06-09-2010 09:36 AM
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Detour Wrote:You bet, with a removable hard drive and USB port, too.

You don't want to know where I shop.

I think you'll hit right in. The forum, that is, not the chair.

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06-12-2010 05:04 PM
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You will definitley fit right in.

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"A 'no' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble." - Mahatma Gandhi

"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."

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"when I was a kid I used to pray for a bicycle. then I realized that god doesn't work that way. so I stole one and prayed for forgiveness."
"I would rather die for something I believe in than live for anything else."
"What is the task of higher education? To make a man into a machine. What are the means employed? He is taught how to suffer being bored." – F W Nietzsche
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