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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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If I ride my bike around the block in the late afternoon early evening i see an eerie phenomonom where close to 80% or up of the houses I pass are haunted by the bluish glow of their television screens and 30% convos at school are about movies or football.
When my parents took away both my internet TV and video games I literally didn't even wanna go home despite how cold concrete seems to get and not being able to drive.
\This world is so drastically differn't then it used to be, in the middle ages you could get a band of close friends together and raid a caravan carrying goods to a Vassal you didn't like, or before that you could hunt your own game with your horse and a good strong bow you made yourself.
Despite our vast advantages in food variety, and genetic handicap compensations (glasses,fake teeth, protein shakes) there is something so very restricting in the ambience of the modern age.
Walking on the sidewalk is like being forced to walk on the path that someone else made for you. I understand the benefit of roads and such but it feels so very scripted. Same with driving on roads, if you for whatever reason just want to pull to the side of the freeway and drive offroad through the canyon you'll be arrested.
Then you have a grid layout of private property where you have to walk around squares making 90 degree turns every block because of the shitton of drywall houses in the middle, do we really need all this rock and stone and steel plating everything? It reminds me of that spongebob episode where they go into the future and everything is sprayed with chrome...
What would people do if they had to walk outside (no tv or internet) and realized how little there is in terms of options? I think they would get bored, but what would happen after that?
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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Actually, that reminds me. I need to get better at lockpicking. I need to learn how to set traps. I need to learn how to skin things. I need to learn moar parkour. I need to learn a whole bunch of shit. But I won't. Because the Internet's more entertaining. I honestly believe that even in the middle ages it was like this. Just with different things.
They'd find ways of not getting bored, simple.
If I didn't have net and lived somewhere more civilised (and at the same time with more nature) I'd simply wander around and read books.
Let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes common as grass.
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Good fortune follows upon disaster;
Disaster lurks within good fortune;
Who can say how things will end?
Perhaps there is no end.
In the middle ages people were too busy getting tortured and trying to pray the plague away. As much as modern society sucks, let's face the fact that it sucked a hell of a lot more back then. But if someone killed the internet I'd start molotoving shit, and then I'd start spray painting lolcats on walls so that memes could still survive.
I think Buenaventura Durruti is a pretty cool guy. eh kills fascists and doesnt afraid of ruins. The quickest way to kill a revolution is to wait for it.
Television can go and die in a centipede filled vagina for all I care. Internet however isn't as narrow of a concept because it's just a new way of doing things we did for centuries. It's only a way of calling all the data shared between all the computers in the world, as the capacity of a network equals the computers connected.
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TrueAnarchist Wrote:and to think, i could be yiffing a hot vixen right about now
CrayolaColours Wrote:He just admitted today that he spent two hours...errr... shaking hands with the Bishop afterwards.
The Desert Fox Wrote:I thought when I downloaded it it was already emulated.
zagix Wrote:I'm stuck to the fagarena because I'm a fag
CrayolaColours Wrote:Woman up, will you? Grow a damn pussy and get over yourselves.
Ceiling Cat Wrote:Television can go and die in a centipede filled vagina for all I care. Internet however isn't as narrow of a concept because it's just a new way of doing things we did for centuries. It's only a way of calling all the data shared between all the computers in the world, as the capacity of a network equals the computers connected.
XplodingNoggin Wrote:be forced to go outside and talk to girls
Ceiling Cat Wrote:
Rebelnerd Wrote:I'd start spray painting lolcats on walls so that memes could still survive.
I'd like to do that even if the internet was still there.
Ceiling Cat Wrote:Television can go and die in a centipede filled vagina for all I care. Internet however isn't as narrow of a concept because it's just a new way of doing things we did for centuries. It's only a way of calling all the data shared between all the computers in the world, as the capacity of a network equals the computers connected.
Yeah, I really couldn't care less about TV. I thought I'd miss it since I don't have a TV in my dorm, but it's been kinda nice not being tied to a show's schedule. Besides, the only show I really watch anymore is the Daily Show/Colbert, and all the episodes are available online.
I think Buenaventura Durruti is a pretty cool guy. eh kills fascists and doesnt afraid of ruins. The quickest way to kill a revolution is to wait for it.
Eh, you can watch DVDs on a computer. And I don't think we're talking about the end of the actual machine, right? Just the channels and stuff.
I think Buenaventura Durruti is a pretty cool guy. eh kills fascists and doesnt afraid of ruins. The quickest way to kill a revolution is to wait for it.
Can't imagine without Internet. Hard to know the world. How I contact with my friends. Television is a great invention. It does good things for society to have this technology. Consequently, TV is a positive influence, on balance. It would therefore be bad if we didn't have it.
princecarspian Wrote:We would not have access to school work, social life or new to us.
I still remember not having internet so it's not that far off, my school work was never online(although schools here have changed in the last year), and my social life isn't online except to talk to a few people now and then.
The only difficult bit for me would be lack of constant entertainment, lack of forums and not being able to google things at the blink of an eye.
princecarspian Wrote:The only difficult bit for me would be lack of constant entertainment, lack of forums and not being able to google things at the blink of an eye.
This.
I wouldn't be able to Google reference pictures, I couldn't download games, I wouldn't be able to see new obscure game trailers...
Mommy, hold me....
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Quote:Riddle me this, riddle me that. Give me a straight answer, you pain in the ass cat.
It would be much harder to learn things for me, because for me, reading on the internet is better than reading from a book. Its also a place to study human behavior. Information is the only reliable currency.
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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.
The Reason I like the internet a little over books is that with the internet you can read something and get various perspectives on a particular topic from different people.
With a book you get to absorb a bit more information volumwise but you are stuck in both the authors and your own perspective.
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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