maybe we could meet while im in africa in about 8 weeks time. i'd love to give you my piece of mind

Sounds good. PM me the details. I will wait with bated breath.

Dude. You came into our house. You started a thread on this forum about how much your life sucks. And whether or not you see it, virtually everything since has been people trying to help you. Offering advice, offering solidarity, putting our collective wisdom at your disposal. We've all of us been through hard times. We've dealt with these issues. Some of us continue to deal with them.

And all you've done is shit on the people who've tried to be helpful. Told us all how hard it is and how we just don't understand and how you're different and unique and a beautiful snowflake and we don't remember or we don't get it or we don't comprehend or we don't understand. Quit working for the man, man! I'm not like all you corporate peons, I need to feed the soul! This is totally not me spiralling into depression and I'll heal miraculously without putting work into it because I know better than everyone, even the people who have had depression hit very close to home and know what's effective and what isn't!

Whatever, man. It's been hostility and petty aggression straight down the line. So yeah, twenty different permutations of the same exchange twenty times in a row gets pretty goddamn tedious.

I still think you're just looking for guests to your pity party, but the bottom line is that's just now how we operate here.

The highlight of this thread for me is when Cynthetiq characterized MSD and I as compassionate. I can only assume he was trying to make a point.

I feel like every time you post I need to offer you a tissue or something. Get a hold of yourself. This new territoriality and speaking on behalf of the whole forum thing is a bit disturbing. Are you on drugs?

I do want to make one thing perfectly clear, here -- I'm not losing any sleep over how you choose to fuck up your life. I bowed out of that particular aspect of this discussion over a page ago, when it became clear to me that you weren't really interested in anything anyone here had to say. My sole issue with you now is how you're choosing to address my community, and my friends.

Yes, I'm speaking on behalf of the community. My community. The one that I've been a part of for better than half a decade. The one that I've been a part of through all kinds of hardships, including some that didn't look all that different from your own. Maybe to you this place is just a bunch of random internet screennames, but for those of us who've been here for years and who've gotten to know each other it's not the case. We are friends, we are lovers, we are close in ways that you're clearly not grasping. And if you knew that, if you understood the dynamics of this place and who we are, you might understand that I'm not the one who will sit around passively while you shit all over this space that we've worked hard to turn into a friendly, welcoming and intimate little corner of the worldwide web.

I don't get you. You're not hostile like this in chat. I don't even care if you like me as a person. Universal approval is not and has not ever been my goal. I just don't get why you're being so adversarial with the rest of the group. Why even start a discussion if you're not interested in having it?

The bottom line is that this is the way things work around here. If you can be respectful and approach things with an open mind you'll fit in. If not then please, don't feel like you have to stick around on my account.

Here's your tissue....and a fresh tampon. Feel free to continue your blubbering, I'm already feeling better about myself.

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-+-{Important TFP Staff Message}-+- We've got some passive aggressive flaming and borderline trolling, and no more discussion about the OP I guess this thread is done.