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willem.

everybody - including the Italics!

editors, i'm not going to read the Community Soapbox thread you linked. while i appreciate the link, every time i have gone into the Community Soapbox it has become a bunch of petty squabbles, and i don't care to subject myself to more of the same debate.

we're going around in circles, and i really wish that we could just LET IT GO and MOVE ON.

what really blows my mind is the fact that Hoovooloo felt the need to write that entry in the first place. it's just /mean/.

Hey, Sea.

I doubt any place in this Universe or the two on either parallel side is a true utopia. h2g2 however has been, is and always will be a great place, and I myself am not going to let the hateful views of others spoil it.
All that is necessary is to... well, not /ignore/, obviously, but avoid, shall we say, the certain areas and conversations which disagree with your views. Some arguments have been going on for a very long time, and I truly can't be bothered with them anymore.

All is well as long as we sensible, cool-headed people can stick together.

*Ponders on his statements suggesting he is cool-headed, but dismisses it. *

Glad to see you more cheerful sea

And Willem, I'm sorry if I come across the wrong way. I know that there is always the chance that I am misjudging people. I admire your perspective, and I wish it was one that I could live by. Unfortunately, sometimes it is easier for me to avoid people rather than confront them. Once again, excuse my poor choice of words

EVERYBODY --- good suggestion D'Fly

i'm almost always cheerful to some extent, although every now and then i have to be NOT cheerful to save my sanity.

the problem is this: once i read something, there's no way i can un-read it. like that entry. i can't un-read it. i won't ever forget what it says. and i'll never be able to talk to hoovooloo without thinking about it. (granted that i haven't done so yet, and could probably live out the rest of my life without doing so, but that's not the point.)

if only i had a time machine. there are a few things i'd like to change. but only a select few. there have been too many good things to change it all.

everybody.

(wow, i think this has been my most popular journal entry EVER! it has even been visited by the italics! WOW! )

ottox.

Sea.

The link, I totally understand. We'd very much like to move on to, we've had enough of the bickering too!

Let's move on to talking about nice things again... Over to you guys!

I agree with you one hundred per cent my dear, (not about the eyebrow piercing, thats awful, ugly, horrible, nasty,etc.)
enough is definately enough. Lets leaving the arguing and personal attacks out of this site. ( As a parent myself { which means I know something your parents know and you don`t } they worry about you and dont want to see you come to any harm.) This wonderful place should be used for intellectual discourse and fun. Not rehashing old arguements ad infinitum. ( I actually like pretty little tattoos, but not metal things in girls faces!) Enjoy yourself, be happy and try not to bug your parents too much.lol.

the trick is really to avoid these people who have nothing better to do than complaun. h2g2 still is a perfectly nice place with or without those people. avoid them and walk away.

i utterly missed what was going on, so could someone, like, er, tell me, please? ta

and dont leave! this is still a utopia. its just a lot bigger

My own ethics is to *not* avoid people who complain. Many people who complain or gripe a lot, or seem always to be trying to get other people down, may be suffering from mental health problems. Many people are depressed, or unhappy for other reasons. Sometimes it *is* best to leave a very depressed person alone, but *not* ignore the person. Be aware of the person, but try not to bug him/her. Or other times such people are in special need of attention. Personally, because I am very interested in mental health, and helping people, I tend to be attracted to people who are, superficially seen, no fun to be around.

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the problem with being around people who are "not fun to be around", pillow, is that it ends up getting ME down and making ME no fun to be around. *sigh* and although i want to help, i'm only human, and going through a rather stressful time in my life. finals are coming up at uni, and !

don't worry, UH. i'm not going anywhere.

and, well, like i said, i probably won't be getting that eyebrow piercing anytime within the next five years. and by then, i may not want it anymore. but the tattoo i've wanted for YEARS.

Yay!

Well, I try to cultivate an excess of positivity so that I *don't* become down when people around me are. Or, if I *do* become down, I still control it so it doesn't become too bad. The thing is, people who are down often need special attention ... when I find people in a low mood, I either try to cheer them up, or I listen to them and empathise with them ... sometimes people are *legitimately* feeling down, for instance when a friend of theirs has died, and in such a situation it would not be appropriate to be bouncy and fluffy and cheerful. I personally believe that, in life, a *balance* between happiness and sadness is best. We should be sad about those things about which it would not be good and right to be happy ... and there are many of those in the world.

very true, pillow.

i guess i just don't like the fact that some people have such a strong effect on my feelings and moods. i don't like feeling like i don't have control over myself...

People have a strong influence on me, because I care about them ... it is a *choice* I have made. I *choose* to allow people to have a strong effect on my feelings and moods. I have control in that it was my decision. I *could* decide not to give a hoot ... but I would not like myself if I was like that.

There are ways to still control our responses, inner and outer. Seeing as I have a quite dangerous psychological problem, I *have to* do a lot of introspection, and monitor my moods, and do what I can to control them when they get *too bad*. When I become very down, I deliberately try and see things more positively ... or, I think about something else, something good and beautiful and interesting, just for long enough to improve my mood. Or I listen to music, or I talk to my parents or friends. Or I sit and write down how I feel. Or lots of other things.