Elections are tomorrow and I’m freaking out, I legit have a lump on my throat from my anxiety
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I’m glad to hear I was motivating, thank you!
I’m also glad to hear you aren’t leaving forever! I’ve always thought it’d be nice to be friends with you since like…2015-2016? Around the time I started playing Episode, went on the forums, and saw your posts lol. I’m really glad you were able to do what you love once again. I know that for me, if I can’t enjoy the things I love, I get really sad and it effects me really badly, overall. So, it makes me really thankful you were able to do that.
I haven’t kept up with BNHA and Tokyo Ghoul lol. I did watch half of Darling in the Franxx. I had a busy past month, so I didn’t watch much anime. Just a few episodes of Sailor Moon since I’m binging that right now! I have the theme song memorized at this point. 
Now that my summer break has begun, I have A SHIT TON of catching up to do.
I guess a break was what you needed lol. Even though it was due to summer allergies. My allergies are terrible. I get hay fever and it is so frustrating.
I try to remember the feeling of finishing things early, but I also remember the times where I procrastinated and I got a good score. Then I convince myself that I’m actually being more productive by procrastinating and it just…uh… And now I don’t regret procrastinating for a final I crammed for because I scored more than the full points… My battle with procrastination will be a long one lol
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Honestly, as I read this I don’t know what to say. I’ve heard and seen so many people like this, it disgusts me. I wonder if legal action can be taken against the site? Especially with the suicide one… That podcast also must have been traumatizing, I’m so sorry. Also, I think we can all agree that the guy who posted that is most likely not going to get far in life, especially with women, if he continues to hold this kind of mindset. I also wonder how old this individual might be. Sometimes. when kids are young, they take what they heard someone say and apply it. My sister has experienced this before. I also experienced an elementary school kid telling me that I’m a lesser being, which is why we were enslaved in the colonial times? Which didn’t make sense, cause my race wasn’t enslaved in the colonial times. When arguing with him, I found out it was his Republican parents who taught him this.
That forum needs some serious moderation…
Secondly, if you don’t mind, I want to disagree with the “Everyone is entitled to their opinion.” Cause, lets be honest, that’s very problematic. It works when you are talking about things like favorite flavors, etc. but for some issues to doesn’t work. It’s like, I am entitled to believe 2+2 ia actually 5 and not 4, due to it being an “opinion”. Does that make sense?
I haven’t read what you mentioned, but I did find your afterlife post interesting. I actually used to think about this a lot a few years back. I actually don’t believe in a afterlife. I believe that our lives have no meaning, and when we die- we die. It’s quite pessimistic, but for some reason it’s also soothing for me? It could be because according to the religion in my family, I would go to hell- no doubt. Maybe I find that scary?
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I’m really glad that my family was able to come out to America. I know that I would go crazy in my “home” country. I’m so glad I didn’t get a chance to live there. And from reading your post and from past things I heard, third world countries and corruptions seems to go together a lot. I wish you the best of luck there, but I understand that it’s very hard there. If it helps you to know, my father came abroad with no idea where he was going to spend the night and a few hundred dollars. Now, we live very comfortably in our house, and finance isn’t a concern anymore.
Confidence, maybe? Others feel better in putting others below them? A girl did something similar who sat next to me. She’d talk on and on about herself, and even brought me down a few times. She insulted the essay I put a lot of work into as well. (I scored higher than her, afterwards…
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And I’ll be honest here, but I feel like that this may be directed at me. I recently got a reply saying that I seem like the type of people who hides behind “faux intelligence” with my words and think I’m smarter out of everyone. (I may be a bit inaccurate as I don’t remember the comment word-for-word. It also seems like it was deleted since I can’t find it? Or I just can’t find it.
This may not be appropriate as response, but I guess the rest is just going to be me expressing my feelings to that particular comment. You can even consider this as a separate rant if you’d like, but it’s about what you commented. So, whatever floats your boat, I guess, The comment has actually been weighing on me a lot. I’m really starting to wonder if that’s the image I’m giving off, because that’s the last thing i want to be. It’s actually the EXACT opposite of what I am. I hate the type of people that user had commented for more than just “they’re annoying.”
Now, I don’t think that I’m using any big words, but I do think that I try to word my responses in a civil manner. I actually feel like I was quite rude when I used to last be on the forums, so I wanted to change that. I also want to try and be more open to what others have to say against my opinion and discuss things out without disrespecting each other personally. I wanted my “newer” image to be someone who’s open to other opinions. I don’t think there is anything wrong in debating Episode-related topics. I actually find it quite interesting. It’s nice to read different viewpoints and it kind of represents the changes Episode may/may not go through, so I guess I want to get a say. The particular thread I am discussing is the “Step-Brother Stories Must Be Stopped” thread. I understand that I strayed a bit off from Episode to incestuous relationships, but my original argument was supposed to be more like, “I don’t see anything wrong in blood-related incest, so what’s wrong with step-sibling incest?” I didn’t want to beat anyone down on believing the opposite of me, I wanted legitimate reasons to the opposite. At a point, I also got frustrated with the manner I was being replied to, so I still tried to maintain civility and ask for legit reason. I never wrote in the manner I did to feel like a mature adult… I honestly could care less about that. I just write in a way that seems beneficial and less problematic…
Please let me know if I give off a bad image as that and maybe how to fix it… I’m not trying to create a negative image surrounding myself or want other to have misunderstandings…
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Mini Rant
Today, when I was reading the Sunday newspaper, I came across this very interesting topic, “The Key To A Successful Marriage Is Only Known By God.” So unless The God cures away from his Shyness Syndrome, comes out of his secret hiding and arrives on Earth to tell us the key, I don’t think there’s a Successful Marriage in our real lives. I don’t really think that those type of marriages where there’s a happy-ever-after and lots of love; those ones you see on Episode or Wattpad or any other story-sharing platforms, tell the reality.
So if there’s anyone who’s in those kinda happy, lovey-dovey marriage or has seen it in their near and dear ones…then I still think there’s a possibility it exists. I dunno, being from India and all, a lot of Hinduism ethics and rules exist from where I come from. And I’m not dissing those people who’re in a happy marriage, no offense! It’s just…taboos and all. Like, love marriages don’t really exist and if they are, then the people are just taking advantage of each other.
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Well, for one, its not really a debate thing. We’re not competing to show who’s speech is the best or who used many big words to make his/her word clearer. Lord help me I have enough of those things in my weird school only 
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Second of all, we try to provide solutions to the people who rant or agree with their views if we deem fit. People rant when they think there’s a problem with a situation or when they seem frustrated. It’s more good to let it all out, psychologically speaking, and find out the correct way by being emphatic with others’ viewpoints other than yours only.
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The podcast was pretty hard to listen to. Especially when the parents talked about it. They had reached out to the forum and asked them to take it down since it gained such negative attention. But no one did. The ones who did the episode of the podcast reached out to a former moderator and asked why they hadn’t taken it down. He said that it had become a space for people to talk about it and it didn’t go against their guidelines. They did close it a few months later but you can still read it and there’s something ominous to read that read since you know the person who created it killed himself. You can read the things he wrote before killing himself and you can see in the thread where people are commenting on the things they see on the livestream, most of them are shocked and don’t really believe that he actually did it and others saying that he was a coward and the world is a better place without him…
About the other thread. Since it’s anonymous I don’t know how old he is, I just know from his replies that he’s male. Unfortunately, his opinions is something I have heard from teenagers and grown-ups alike so it doesn’t always have to do with age and maturity. He’s far from the only person on that thread with those opinions on that thread and in real life. I honestly don’t know how it can still be there since it is obvious that it’s racist, sexist and antisemitic.
I can agree with you on the thing about opinions. It certainly becomes problematic when people express themselves in a racist and sexist way.
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I don’t even think God exists lol. Now, I have a SERIOUS problem with Indians + Arranged Marriage + Perception of Women. Now, I’m not Hindhu, so perceptions may vary with this topic (I’ve already spotted one difference), but I think it should be fairly similar.
I don’t think that lovey-dovey relationships exist like the ones you described, but I do think it is possible to genuinely fall in love with someone. As you are in the relationship, just like any other, there is the happy and there are the conflict and arguments. You handle the conflict and the relationship goes on, or the conflict grows and the relationship is terminated. That part is like arranged marriages, I believe,
I can’t say “no offense,” before this comment because I know it is offensive, most likely. But, don’t take this as a personal dislike type of thing.
As a person of the Indian community, you must have seen your fair share of abusive relationships due to the arranged aspect. And the woman knows, if she divorces, her in-laws and even people on her side of her family are going to spread nasty rumours. Not allowing a woman to fall in love is shit. “Fall in love,” doesn’t exist. What exists are the all knowing parents who know exactly who the hell is the right person for you, even though all you know about them is the positive/negative gossip going around. Man, Indian gossip networks. I can’t even step outside of my damn house to hang out with my friends because my mom thinks I’ll become a slut. Arranged marriages are literally the same as stopping at a stop-light and telling the person in the next car to see them at the wedding (between them) as described by Navpreet Bhanga There’s no way I’m doing the arranged marriage bullshit. I’m not marrying a stranger and make a decision to spend the rest of my life with them like that. It’s much safer to date and figure it out.
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Wow… those forums sound really messed up…
I’m aware that there are adults like that, but I was also making that a possibility? Was kind of meaning to raise the topic of messed-up adults passing down messeed-up stuff to their children. I mean, I think I should know it best living in a community with a lot of sexist views. I guess I came off as naive lol. All I can hope for is that efforts to erase the inequality between men and women + the passage of time can hopefully erase these views.
Lol This comment wasn’t directed to you. I don’t even think we’ve ever spoken before.
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And I don’t think I ever posted on the step brothers thread but… Umm maybe you got me mixed up with someone else? 
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@LaurieKrisette, I’m pretty sure whenever anyone rants it doesn’t matter who it’s directed to. As long as people give positive responses and help others they can respond.
did I make sense? I really bad at making sense lol 
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Lol I know but, I think @alphard stated that I was speaking about he/she …
I was just speaking my mind but… Anyway
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Oh, I just skimmed through her response. That makes much more sense. 
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hello! I’ve been gone for a while now and have decided to probs leave the forums for good cause its dead rip so bye bye rp friends 
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She lol. I wasn’t sure if you were, but it I’ve been told something similar to what you just ranted about so I started wondering if it was me? Now it’s awkward lolol
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No, the response I got wasn’t from you! It was from a different user!
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Thanks for understanding. That comment actually affected me a lot. Call me sensitive, but if I were to have been acting that way, I really would have hated myself. I guess it just goes along with how Asians raise their children to be competitive with one another. I’ve met people who’d go to extreme lengths to show that they are better than another. I really hate it, and I straight up don’t communicate with those people, plus they straight up give me anxiety. To be honest, I get anxiety when I’m amongst my community…
I really appreciate that you were angry for me. Thanks for stepping into that thread and discouraging such comments.
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