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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.
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On one side of the coin, school has a horrible way of passing knowledge to the future generations.
On the OTHER side of the coin, school also fails at teaching children how to be NOT FREAKING CRAZY!
Hasn't anyone noticed that more and more children are going crazy and plain batshit?!
I mean look at when you see a little kid on video games. I know, he's "young" and it's just a game. But What The FREAK!? Some of them are crazy as hell!
Maybe I shouldn't just use video games as an example, but even in every day life and such, some of em are messed up!
By the way, I am not generalizing, some kids are very smart and normal, but a lot aren't.
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
01-16-2012 12:30 PM
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aCol
Distiller of hate
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School drives kids bloody insane, that is completely true. It does this by jamming a lot of different kinds of people in a small room together, and then they have to forcibly socially interact with one another. Watch as bizarrely weird cliques form, see kids afflicted with some form of goddamn rabies, and also watch as innocent children kill themselves to escape the insanity. And the worst part is, is that this is considered normal behaviour.
(01-17-2012 01:06 AM)RandomTroll Wrote: School isn't meant to teach people anything, It's a tool to control people, make them into mindless consumer slaves.
/conspiracy theory
The question is,Is that a real conspiracy theory or just truth?
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
01-13-2017 09:03 AM
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brainiac3397
Machiavellian Amoeba
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My opinion on school is that it does not teach the ways to get rich. You may ask me "why do I need that money?" I will say that because I need money to change the world. I want the money to develop cheap access into space, promote widespread use of clean energy, and develop new technologies that will move the human race up the Kardashev scale.
01-13-2017 11:44 AM
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brainiac3397
Machiavellian Amoeba
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Joined: Feb 2013
If school taught you how to get rich, they'd point out that wasting 4 years and thousands of dollars won't make you a millionaire when you can spend 4 years getting job experience and job training and entreprenurial education.
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