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@Raijinslayer Don't start getting too philosophical with me, my brain is a scary place to be. @_____________@

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@21308 Sorry if I sorta have my doubts about humans. I'm not saying we're all terrible, because we're not, just that we're capable of both great and terrible things, and more often than not we end up doing terrible things, because again, we like what's convenient to us. As my sister put it, "Humans are very much pleasure seeking beings, and we seek what we like regardless of who might get hurt."

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@Akayaofthemoon Couldn't agree more on the fourth grader thing, but I'm going to stop myself before I discuss politics and bring up certain dictators.

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I had some, lost it, gained it back, lost it again, and then I met the internet....this isn't a fun rollercoaster.

@HaltingBlooper

The internet is really something else. It's scary how different people can be, for the better or worse, under anonymity.

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What do you mean, I never had faith in humanity.

@Kronshi

Therapist can't restore what wasn't there to begin with. Could stop me from being a misanthrope after a year of being terrified of people but couldn't make me have faith in them. I believe humans are capable of both amazing and terrible things but sadly our instincts like to lie on what's convenient to us versus what's best for others so we more often than not do terrible things. It's like how I truly believe that anything is possible but very few, if any, people has the drive to do the 'impossible'.

And now I sound pessimistic as hell don't I.

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@21308 Honestly I'm usually too docile to have given a tongue-lashing but...Honestly, what the hell were they thinking. Probably not much, but dear god.
I think I'm more upset with the bystanders than the mother because though I can't imagine how she could justify what she did she wasn't there to have done anything, but damn there were A LOT of people who WERE there and didn't even though they could. They were so apathetic towards the situation it pissed me off so badly.

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@Akayaofthemoon @21308 Mother or otherwise, someone, someone should've stepped up before I had to myself. Embarrassing as this is I wasn't even aware that this kid -that it even was a kid- was up in a tree screaming for help until I hear someone next to me mumble 'did you see his mom?' because this was shortly after I nearly passed out and my brain wasn't exactly functioning as well as it should've, and only then did I start to pick up his words. I was so scared I would've not have been able to catch him either because I was already disorientated as it was but no help would've been worse than slightly-less-than-adequate help. I feel so stupid because I was so brain dead that I didn't even try to help and find his mother afterward and just kept an eye out for him, dear god am I stupid. And the thing was, there were around 30-50 other people in that park and NO ONE was doing ANYTHING. Like, what the actual hell people!?

And I'm really sorry to hear about your cat, Akaya. I'll let you know that they're in my prayers and that I hope the news you get back is good news.

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@Akayaofthemoon

Okay, maybe this shouldn't be my place to speak, but...

What kind of parent leaves their three year old child alone in a busy park unsupervised? What kind of person sees this kid up on the highest branches of the tree which are snapping under his weight repeatedly screaming at the top of their lungs "MOM! MOM! MOMMY HELP ME! HELP! MOM!" again and again and just watches from afar, asking the people nearby where his mother is in these passive monotone voices? Like, HELLO! THIS TWO FOOT TALL KID COULD SMASH HIS SKULL UPON FALLING ANY SECOND NOW AND HIS MOTHER CLEARLY ISN'T COMING SO FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO SOMETHING! These people are all taller than me too, could have helped him out a lot easier than I could've, and it'd have probably been safer too. I'm happy the kid's safe now but dear god people, I don't know if you're scared of some stupid law or something but I don't know how the hell you can just sit back and watch. That kid could've really hurt himself, hell, could've died or something, and you would've sat back and watched.

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@21308 Right now? I've nearly passed out, almost got attacked by a dog, and saved a kid from the top of a tree* in the past hour or so. Otherwise fairly well. And you?

*I sort of want to rant about this a lot because this event particularly pissed me off and I'm not easy to piss off, if you guys don't mind?

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@Akayaofthemoon@Kronshi Hug-fest for Kronshi everyone~ *joins in huggles*