I don't feel we need to lessen standards. Rather I think we just need a more positive community.
I really dont want the group to devolve into giving people a pat on the back for producing shit so bad, they might as well have slapped their dick on the keyboard a few times and hit submit.
I hear that. As I say, building does represent almost the best of many areas of the site. Standards are important. Yet if those standards are causing such insecurity, what particular aspect is causing the problem?
I agree completely about community. So the question is, how? How do we get there?
Sometimes I just get tired of living. I'm no where near being depressed or anything, I'm actually a pretty happy person, but I just get tired of it. I see the horrible things happening all across the world and I just think, "Is there really a point to any of this?".
I used to have such a good relationship with my brother, but over the years he became more and more hateful. I can't even talk to him for more than a minute without him trying to start an argument for absolutely no reason. He believes that there should be a genocide on all white people, and yells out racial slurs to me and my family, despite himself also being white. He's pretty much the culmination of all things "tumblr".
I fear that my relationship with him is beyond repair and I'll never be able to talk to my own brother again. Sorry if I sound like a depressing fuck, just needed to get it off my chest.
Sick of all the intolerance in the world when it comes to gender equality, homosexuality and transgender acceptance, I don't see why people can't just accept that people are who they are and don't cram their opinions and/or religions down their throats... It really gets to me that people will act as if their opinion and what they were brought up with is an absolute unquestionable fact...
When people say "They can't help it, it's how they were raised", I just use myself as an example - someone born into a Catholic family who became an atheist and someone that stands up for gender, gay and transgender rights. So it's not how they are raised, it's people choosing not to accept.
The best we can do is keep our criticism constructive and helpful.
Even then, there will always be the occasional impatient child who will rage quit character building no matter what we say or how we say it.
We cant do anything for them. A receptive listener is required for anything we say to make a difference.
Since my last reply on here a couple days ago, this discussion has changed completely. Apparently, the upper class are upset about.
1.) Contestants Withdrawing from contests at the last second.
2.) The changes to the CB group has created a dividing line for many builders new and old alike.
This indeed interesting to follow. I wonder though, who IS responsible for causing these rifts within the group?
1.) Contestants Withdrawing from contests at the last second.
Nobody is upset by this. You're misunderstanding this issue here.
2.) The changes to the CB group has created a dividing line for many builders new and old alike.
Nothing has really changed with the group. Care to elaborate on these changes you speak of?
Also, I notice you constantly refer to some of us as the upper class. What are you trying to imply here? That some of us are elitists?
The thing that annoys me is routine. Just the same thing, day-in, day-out. Every day, you wake up early and can predict almost everything that's going to happen. It just really pisses me off that that's what many people's lives are reduced to; work, sleep, repeat.
There's more to life than a job and some TV shows.