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Horrid Dreamer Offline
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There's something wrong here.

No, I'm not begging for sympathy here.
I have been terribly sick for the past two weeks. Fever, cold, and a sore throat. Needless to say, I've had to stay home from school.

Now, under normal circumstances, I hate being sick, for obvious reasons.

But now, I love being sick, because I get to miss school. These have been the best times I've had in a while, because even though I physically feel like shit, it's still better than being stuck in an indoctrination centre where they force me to do mindless, boring work, stick me in a uniform to make me conform, and shove a tonne of religious bullshit into my skull.

But now I can stay at home and do whatever I want, untill my health improves. I think the school system should take a fucking hint. School has become so oppressive that me and a large number of other teenagers now ENJOY being ill.

Doesn't that say something?

Of course, then there's the other part of it that I hate: catch-up work.
/rant

Is adult entertainment killing our children? or is killing our children entertaining our adults?
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(This post was last modified: 10-18-2011 07:23 PM by Horrid Dreamer.)
06-21-2011 11:08 PM
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UnschoolShqiponjë Offline
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Re: There's something wrong here.

When I got sick my parents didn't let me do shit at home just in case I was faking... I wasn't allowed to play video games... ugh it fucking sucked.

Yes though... it does say something big that people like to write off as immaturity but it isn't... it makes sense.

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06-22-2011 01:54 AM
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Re: There's something wrong here.

You don't enjoy being ill, you just enjoy not being at school.

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06-22-2011 03:01 AM
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Re: There's something wrong here.

UnschoolShqiponjë Wrote:When I got sick my parents didn't let me do shit at home just in case I was faking... I wasn't allowed to play video games... ugh it fucking sucked.

Yes though... it does say something big that people like to write off as immaturity but it isn't... it makes sense.

This annoys the living hell out of me.

"Ask them no more questions, never hear them lying"

People say the problem with me is I have psychotic tendencies and care not about other human beings I don't like and or know. So?
06-22-2011 05:01 AM
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Rosemary16 Offline
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Re: There's something wrong here.

Phrozen_Soul Wrote:
UnschoolShqiponjë Wrote:When I got sick my parents didn't let me do shit at home just in case I was faking... I wasn't allowed to play video games... ugh it fucking sucked.

Yes though... it does say something big that people like to write off as immaturity but it isn't... it makes sense.

This annoys the living hell out of me.

Me too, but it doesn't effect my school at all.
07-12-2011 06:14 AM
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LightAbyssion Offline
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Re: There's something wrong here.

It's one thing to prefer being sick rather than going to school, but then you have the kids who feel guilty for thinking that way. They self-diagnose themselves with problems like laziness and cowardice, when it's simply their instincts choosing the lesser "evil."

It's a pitiful situation indeed.

"Oppressed people might overthrow their tyrants, but not if they can count on one day joining the oppressors."
07-12-2011 08:19 AM
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