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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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Weswammy Wrote:I dismiss Infowars as crazy conspiracy theorist bull honkey.
I'm curious, how come?
Because it's crazy conspiracy theorist bull honkey, that's why.
And because they think that the Bohemian Grove Cremation of care is some kind of crazy pagan ritual.
Also, they brought all the crazy conspiracy nuts into the Ron Paul movement. That's one of the reasons I don't get on RonPaulForums much anymore.
Don't get me wrong. I have some respect for the conspiracy theorist community. They don't trust the government, I don't trust the government. The government does hide things from us.
Hell, Jesse Ventura is one of my favorite people. More because he's a badass than anything, but he's still smart if you don't talk to him about 9/11. I just think Alex Jones is a fat slob. And I think giving credence to conspiracy theories discredits any other points that people might take seriously.
And why don't they just spread knowledge of things we know to be true? Like Operation Northwoods.
Yeah, and cops disguising themselves as protesters and actually breaking shit to make us look bad. Whatever they are calling that these days. The guys who actually broke shit were cool, but when the cops do it it's fucking obvious, and stupid, and they purposely get it all over the news to divert attention away from the actual protesters. It's horse shit.
Absentinsomniac Wrote:Yeah, and cops disguising themselves as protesters and actually breaking shit to make us look bad. Whatever they are calling that these days. The guys who actually broke shit were cool, but when the cops do it it's fucking obvious, and stupid, and they purposely get it all over the news to divert attention away from the actual protesters. It's horse shit.
The NWO flies completely in the face of realist thinking. I quite simply do not believe that some cabal of men can take over not states, not regions, not continents, but the entire world when in any international institution there is the overwhelming urge to free-ride and defect.
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John Tuttle Wrote:The NWO flies completely in the face of realist thinking. I quite simply do not believe that some cabal of men can take over not states, not regions, not continents, but the entire world when in any international institution there is the overwhelming urge to free-ride and defect.
It's not as insane as you think. There is some truth to it.