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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.
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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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craxyguy562
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krazy mom
My mom once told me that she wants to go back to school!!!!
She also says that I take school for granted and that their are kids in other countries to go to school. She says school is a privilege. She almost treats school like a religon and threatens to take things away whenever my grades drop. She also wants me to go to college.
My english teacher says college was the best times of her life. Is that true?
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Depends.
Not entirely sure how college can be best time of your life if you're buried under textbooks(especially true for engineering,science and math majors...and others I guess depending)
It's a typical human behavior to forget the bad of the past and exaggerate the good.
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I'm not sure about the English teacher but the sad thing is that people who enjoy school are the main ones being tricked by the government. The majority of kids dislike school and I'm all for it. School is no walk in the park, it's no Summerland, it's not even real learning. My questions are these if school prepares you for the real world, why do the majority of the things we are taught do no good for us in our adult lives? Shouldn't we be taught how to be decent citizens bent on making the world a nicer place for many generations? The answer i get is ''well, that's life.'' Once again I feel terrible for those who are tricked by the delusion that school helps us to survive in a bitter judge mental world. School prepares you to be a warrior and a servant to those who hold power over you.
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Nope, because from what I see, the survivors aren't generally the fittest.
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RE: krazy mom
When I say survive, I mean ''barely make it.''
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And what's your definition of survivor?
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Survive mainly means to ''keep one self going.'' Though I view school as teaching you that you have no say in life and that your life has little meaning
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In that case, I'm learning how to survive ego
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(03-10-2014 04:07 AM)Ario Wrote: (03-10-2014 04:04 AM)brainiac3397 Wrote: And what's your definition of survivor?
Someone who is able to deal with the shit thrown at him/her.
Disagree. A survivor is someone who doesn't have shit being thrown at them.
If someone is throwing shit at you...they must be crushed.
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It's extremely hard, ouch! Especially when you live with an evil person.
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(03-10-2014 04:14 AM)Ario Wrote: (03-10-2014 04:12 AM)brainiac3397 Wrote: Disagree. A survivor is someone who doesn't have shit being thrown at them.
If someone is throwing shit at you...they must be crushed.
Quote:Ehh, you win, everybody else wins, like always.
You sure you don't subconsciously enjoy being a pessimist?...bluntly put here.
If everybody wins, why must you decide you lose, especially when the point of the statement wasn't for competitive purposes.
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No I don't do things like that, I have a dry sense of humor but I'm not a mean person
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How can I convince my mom school is not good if she's been so deeply brainwashed?
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I don't want people to think I'm bashing them, but I can joke around at times but not to the point of harassment
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(03-10-2014 04:23 AM)Cianna200 Wrote: I don't want people to think I'm bashing them, but I can joke around at times but not to the point of harassment
Candor is not harassment.
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I don't know, Some people just can't be convinced, they must evolve a strong understanding.
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Unfortunately crazy guy it is really hard to change a humans mind. U can change their way of thinking but not their mind. You know it may be good if she went back to school so she can see what kind of hell it is, she might even listen to you and begin to understand you a lot better
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I know, I used to joke like that but stopped after some people told me they disliked what I was saying.
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Not to be a meanie crazy guy but ''common sense is not so common.'' Humans are intelligent but many lack wisdom.
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I might be able to convince my dad though
Also my mom said she got straight A's easily and that I'm lazy for not finding school easy like she did. Was school easier in the 1970's-1980's?
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Hell yes school was better in the 70s and do were a lot of other things like music and basketball
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And that's bad judgement by your mother because your different from her which is a good thing
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Do you think school is gradually getting harder over the years?
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Sounds like your mom is trying to make a jackass out of you
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Yes definitely I mean with the standardized tests and the grades or die attitude and among other things as well
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Yeah and many schools have turned from super boring to super terrifying
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What do you guys think about "common core". common core has students do a bunch of worksheets with analizing quetions and complicated quetions on test. School is starting to become more than memorizing.
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It's absolute crap with no emphasis on anything interesting and at the end it's all the same stupid memorizing crapola
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That's it! School is going too far!
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RE: krazy mom
Your parents just have that typical "no school, no life" mindset, maybe they don't understand b/c school really WAS easier back when, maybe they just never bothered to think of the seemingly extreme alternatives to schooling.
And yes, college can be "fun," but fun is subjective; still trying to figure out ways to stay happy and content while doing collehe
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