GuillermoGage

This subjective wording ultimately amounts to propaganda against free thinkers. Rude posts should not be removed. People say rude things. That's real life. Maybe violent threats and huge flooding posts should be controlled, but other than that, absolutely not. The default attitude of most people on the Internet is a bit opinionated, but smart enough to self-police. It would be ideal if there was a decent vote system if enough members vote about something, if Internet forums have the technology for that. Say them. You don't have to tell the whole story (but you are welcome to recall as much as you can remember, that you feel is appropriate to recount, in case you are worrying about making a long cool story bro wallo'text of history, or PM things to me, or not. I'm okay with whatever large walls of text you can throw at me. But I am aware that people have their own lives and they might not care to type up a report for my benefit for lowly little me.) ...but try to list one or two examples. After all, you said "You can find examples". mlpchat? mlpforums.forumotion.com? mlponline.net? Thanks to search engines and lurking a few places I am familiar with several different URLs related to MLP that have a set of forums as a primary function of the site. I can say examples of forums that used to be number one or two among their fandom's fan forums that died off at the height of their fandom's popularity. Instances where it made little sense that usage would decline so heavily. hungergamestrilogy.com (still officially up but almost empty, and the first ever hunger games fandom URL ever made) and mockingjay.net(used to be huge and active during the time of the Catching Fire movie) are very dead, and have been since... I reckon before 2014 started. Altho I cannot be entire sure what caused them to die out, these are websites that almost certainly remained very politically correct the whole way through, given the demographics and ideologies of most of the members. So those didn't fade away because of people leaving due to not wanting to see rude posts. I always check search engines to see what reasonably active forum communities exist, and indeed, admittedly there are only a few MLPFiM oriented ones that are actually active, not almost solely roleplay, and have a somewhat active of a non-Pony/General Discussion/Not related to the thing that the forum is mainly about. And those forums, while admittedly not being as prolifically active with as many people to talk to, are supremely better, because there is much less walking on eggshells. whenever I go on some of those smaller forums, I find myself encountering some of the better members on there. Either they post on multiple forums to have some variety, or they got banned from here. They are usually invariably the most interesting people that contribute a good deal to the place. I've also seen some forums that have lost very intellectual members, members who used to post rather often on both main-topic and non-main-topic boards of the forums, and also never got into any trouble, but still confided in me that a forum community was terrible and stifling (despite not having a vendetta against it from being in trouble, because they never did get in trouble/warned/banned). EquestriaForums is somewhat on the decline from losing some of its better odd characters do to a combination of the banhammer and people leaving (almost certainly due to the stifling circlejerk and not from annoying rude posters bumming them out) Perhaps you have just an many stories as me, perhaps not. EDIT: a minute later. Anyway I don't intend to personally volley back and forth on here, that would get annoying. I've got PMs and personal contacts listed outside of this site.

What are some non-problematic labels.....? Movie buff. I know I fancy myself a movie buff. (I technically see fewer than 50 movies a year tho. Fifty including releases from the past year and movies that are not current. I've seen 28 releases from 2014 between February 22, when I saw The Lego Movie, which was my first 2014 film, to May of this year, when I watched a Redbox rental of Still Alice) Much of the movies were either Oscar bait (even tho I detest them) or off-the-radar movies such as Joe (Nicolas Cage 2014 film) or The Rover (Guy Pearce, Robert Pattinson) Or Belle, Locke, Mr. Turner.

I've got a few non-controversial, non-problematic things appropriate for General Discussion: Rarity is best pony Look Before You Sleep is one of the best episodes of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Many people may say they liked or appreciated the film 12 Years A Slave, but most people probably would not list it among their all-time top five. I do. It is literally my favorite live-action movie (I saw it one time in theaters on December 6, 2013) The Lego Movie was one of the finest movies of 2014, and will age rather well as not just a "good animated movie", but as a good movie in general. It deserves to be ranked similar to Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) among films of 2014, concerning lasting quality. The Underland Chronicles is a masterpiece, and you should push them on everyone. Not just whatever sixth-grader demographic you think likes reading.... anyone and everyone in the world, not just North America and some of Europe, who is capable of reading in English at a fifth grade level should read The Underland Chronicles and become suitably filled with intense, terrifying feels.

Hello there, I'm reporting in on what I did on May 25 and 26. I have a Skype Group where I report... sometime everyday before the day ends in my time zone, reporting what happened the day before. I guess I didn't do that over here yesterday, MAY 25: Five Bible chapters, 2nd Corithians 2--6. However, I must admit, the only place where I even declared that as my goal was to Nice Watson's personal Skype account. So technically, I met my goal. On the morning of May 26, I stepped it up to this goal: Five Bible chapters, AND five chapters of the novel Tunnels by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams this means, from beginning to chapter five to end of chapter nine. Chapters 5--9, from page 44 to 77. I will try and be here in the morning, as early as possible, everyday to detail my goals I also plan to make them larger. Currently they are paltry. But as for what has happened on May 26, and so far on May 27: I must admit something, I intentionally avoided reporting in this morning of the 27 (Including on my Skype group, which this whole message is just a copy-paste of with the timestamps backspaced) ...because I am a bit of a coward. I did not accomplish my five Bible chapters last night or my five Tunnels chapters last night... But today I just did ten Bible chapters, and five Tunnels chapters...so, just five more Tunnels chapters to go tonight, the night of May 27th, and I'll be on pace!! Yeah, so it was like 9pm last night, and for the past few days I've been staying up way too late... being on some... serious threads on MLPForums. You see, it was 9pm, I was ready to start reading, and I got an email notification... the purple LED light blinked on my mobile device. I had the Wi-Fi turned on, so that blinking light indicated a new Yahoo Mail. Ugh, someone quoted me in an online forum post and... the nature of it was a bit... libelous... so I felt it was really important to clear that up before everyone jumped down my Internet-reputation throat, and for me to prove the issue wrong factually by just copy-pasting a PM I made before publicly. But I'm pretty sure I am done with that. ..So, anyway, this book is really interesting, Tunnels, by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams. I actually coulda kept on reading, but once I officially met my goal that I said I'd do last night, I needed to report in that I at least did it one day late. and I am on track for the one today. already reached the end of 2 Corinthians, turns out it only had thirteen chapters. chapters 7--13 is seven chapters, plus first three of Galatians equal ten chapters. Two days worth. much of this section of the New testament are just letters written by Paul to the early church. So, I am eating two scrambled eggs, fried them up real quick. I am going to read more of Tunnels now. ...also, this post is long-winded and bloggy, but most of them usually won't be so. I'm not sure if I'll report in here since I am also in a Skype Group with ooBrony and Nice Watson.. But I also want to keep this concept alive over here and potentially improve more people's lives. I am going to take a look at that myself sometime this week, to encourage me to direct myself more specifically and boldly.

I totally agree with the notion that if reading something (or watching or viewing something) is something you do just so you can get the monkey off your back of being previously ignorant of that thing, and you ultimately consider it a chore, then you aren't gonna get much out of it. Anyway, on May 24, yesterday, I read.... One measly Bible chapter first chapter of 2nd Corinthians. and pages 9 to 43 of Tunnels, by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams. Pitiful. Officially my only goal that I officially set was to book-read and Bible-read to any degree, so technically I met my goal. It is now 825pm where I am now. I promised myself, and on a Skype group chat with Nice_Watson and ooBrony that I would read a minimum of five Bible chapters. I am home alone now and can easily do this. I stupidly got involved in comment vollies on this very website both yesterday and today. I must retire from those.

Excessive pressure to be unnaturally nice is the primary reason why I am not very active on here. I have seen several forums lose prominent members, including formerly draconian moderators, and it sterilizing and stagnating, and shrinking the community, including to the point of the forums being discontinued. Forum moderation is censorship, plain and simple, and the current level of it on close-knit forum communities always does more harm than good.

Well. I'd like to use this thread right now to confess that I've allowed the Internet, and largely these forums, to distract me and squander my potential this night. It is 141am right now, and I have had the night entirely to myself since 839pm. I could've used that time for some meaningful stuff, but I got caught in commenting on here about stuff. starting tomorrow, I will try to read actual books. I have Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy, Fourth Edition, by Thomas Sowell I also have Tunnels by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams. I read the first nine pages on Friday afternoon after reading it for a few minutes. I also want to get serious about Bible reading, and stop being so complacent about it. I am on 2nd Corinthians. I probably began with the New Testament months ago. It would be fantastic if I could arrange some buddy (I wouldn't mind several) to bug me everyday about this.

I kind of feel sorry for saying this because you sound so sincere and sensitive to people's feelings.. sorta. Anyway, that was a... hopefully not too harsh... mocking of how these threads tend to turn out. Making a topic called "what do you hate" is bound to attract all sorts of controversial things... yet at the same time, because this community is heavily populated with that feel-good liberal character archetype... I was also heavily expecting one of the very first responses to be one of those posts where someone mentions that they hate discrimination, especially of the protected classes. It is kind of a cliché to hear it, because it is basically easy brownie points, especially in an MLPFiM forum with the whole "love and tolerate" cliché. I was considering making a post stating "inb4 someone says homophobes", guessing that there would be a great likelihood of this thread turning into a self-righteous thread of people celebrating themselves being defenders of social justice by saying that they "hate racism/sexism/homophobia". But I ended up not doing it after your post. I was delaying doing it anyway because I know that deep down that would be an immature, bitter, snark post (altho the cliche of making posts like that to feel righteous is very much a behavior on Internet forums) So I reckon you may be able to guess that I absolutely detest words such as "homophobia" and "bigoted". I feel that they derail conversations about gay/queer people and other issues about judging people/disapproving of people into childish, very naive ideas and absolutes about why people feel the way they feel, even if those feelings are negative.

Finally, that post happened. At least you didn't say "homophobes" or "bigots".

Yeah... I'm at least bisexual on this spectrum of gay attraction. I don't like it. It upsets me, being associated with the gay community as it currently exists; its creepy ad nauseam omnipresence and cultural dominance. I respect transgender people tho. Which is why I don't like being lumped in with them when their situation is apples to oranges and they have it way harder. I detest identity politics. Am I seriously the only gay person with this perspective? See, this is the sort of thing I am talking about. "obviously", as if it this foregone conclusion for all gay people to "support the community". How is this turning interesting. You posted that before my post. ... All of these posts are pretty par for the course. Gay people are absurdly common in Internet-land, especially a place like this.

... I figure this is definitely qualifies as "weird" in the sense of being, unfortunately, a rather uncommon thing: I'm a gay person who opposes the politicized institution of "gay marriage", and it has nothing to do with religion. It has nothing to do with "The Bible says so", or any religion "saying so". I don't respect religious arguments against homosexual anything, just like I don't respect kumbayah/ inevitable march of progress, or glorious-liberation-equality arguments in favor of homosexual anything. My view of the "married people get 1,138 benefits from the government" argument is this: They shouldn't. Tax breaks, various legalistic contract things that "benefit" people in a legally-recognized "marriage": none of those things should be associated with whatever sexual-ish love that two "straight people" or two "gay people" have in common that other combinations of people somehow don't have. When the government gives people tax breaks solely because they are "married", it is basically favoritism towards "couples". It is basically the government legislating morality and imposing quasi-religion. I feel like the only person in my generation who sees it that way. EDIT: I feel like I should list a link explaining the whole "benefits" argument. http://www.hrc.org/resources/entry/an-overview-of-federal-rights-and-protections-granted-to-married-couples Granted, it is from the Human Rights Campaign, which just by their name you can tell is almost comically biased (the HRC is a lobby that literally is only about LGBT rights and not human rights in general) So I encourage anyone who is emotionally invested in this argument in their lives to try and read up on that. I know I should. However, it still looks to me like benefits can be reduced to the government granting things to people that shouldn't be granted at all.

Since you were 12? According to your profile, you stopped being 12 years old merely a few months ago. When did you learn about Hiro? Maybe a year ago at most? I think May of 2014 was probably when the first teaser trailers of Big Hero 6 were available to the public, probably not any earlier than that, and the movie premiered in wide release in November. So... actually rather recently. Meh, I don't get it. This thread's definition of "odd" is rather loose. The main character in Big Hero 6 has a cute, handsome design that is rather standard for Disney animated features protagonists. He is a handsome Asian boy, yes, not commonly seen in American/Western-world animated features, but still pretty standard.

Hello, Kyralina. I have thought of going on forums and addressing people with this very subject matter. I have created threads like this on Internet forums before. Sometimes I have called it "Encouragement and Accountability Buddies Thread!" ...I'm surprised I did not notice this topic. It is only about one day older than this one that I made yesterday: https://mlpforums.com/topic/129165-what-are-some-general-dailyweekly-things-youd-like-to-be-doing-with-your-life/ But my thread hadn't touched upon arranging for any system of accountability buddies. I didn't get around to making a part about that. Well, anyone can feel free to PM me and ask me to be their accountability buddy! (EDIT: about an hour later, here's my contact info, contact me here on MLPForums or at these contacts! Skype live:d.iverson1990ad my username will probably be something like Daniel Eric Iverson/GuillermoGage diverson1990@yahoo.com Kik danielericiverson) I am also willing to be more of a daily accountability person! I am not an everyday poster of this forum website or any forum website. To me, that is sort of the point of doing more enriching things, such as book-reading. Lots of us "read", in the form of spending hours reading people's comments and bored message board posts with casual daily chat, and often that uses up time, and then the day ends and we didn't do something... more with our lives and brains. I definitely depend on forums and chatty-type Internet online things for pretty much all of my socialization at this current era in my life... I don't really know anyone IRL. But at the same time, if someone has access to the Internet and YouTube as endless as their access to water from a faucet... it usually also means that they have access to books, some level of mental enrichment, and the enriching learning aspects of the Internet. So, if anyone needs encouragement to do something with their lives other than watching YouTube Poop and reading and making joke threads, and getting distracted by FunnyJunk thumbnails when like half of them are unfunny or uninteresting, then you can PM me and I'll make it a daily activity for me to try to get online and end you an encouragement PM every day if need be. My goals include: Be personally prepared to take CompTIA A+ and Network+ exam after the end of September (June, July, August, September). But that is vague to describe right now. I'd like to read actual books everyday. I hate having an actual novel in my possession to read, that I've been renewing from the local library for several months (Tunnels by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams) and then not reading it. Yesterday I cracked it open and read the first nine pages in 13 minutes then took a nap (I stayed up too late the night before, watching, on my mobile device, JeremyJahns movie reviews for movies I've mostly already seen... largely because I was lonely and the movie reviewer has a very candid, casual way of talking that sounds cool and relatable) I'd like someone to hold me accountable when I do time-wasting crap online instead , instead of book-reading, Bible-reading, economics book reading (I have a library book called Basic Economics, that gives rather impressive insight about how economies work, and sheds light on the economies of many nations, and why some things are cheap and other things are scarce.) I'd like to read at least five Bible chapters a day. Honestly that is not so hard. Even just a cursory reading of the entire Old and New Testaments in the, uh "Protestant" canon (altho I'd like to be more open-minded and read all the Catholic canon and study it and question it) can be done in one year. The Bible is not that large. The whole thing can be tackled in less than a year, really. It is inexcusable to be ignorant of it and the other world texts when I have free time.