I'm about to write a bit of a wall of text, so I apologize in advance. First thing's first, please forgive me for being so disrespectful to you, Scorpion. Calling you obnoxious and a liar was most definitely wildly inappropriate. I got riled up in a really unseemly manner. That said, I've been a member of this forum for quite a while, and I think I have proven that I am someone who acts in good faith. I am fully aware that I can be very abrasive at times, but when that happens, you can just talk to me, you know? Had you simply given me a warning, knowing myself, I do believe I would have readily apologized. I think booting me from the entire forum for a week was quite excessive. I don't think it's unreasonable to think that I have earned enough good will that I should be able to expect not to get treated like a troublesome antisocial brat who needs to be expelled upon stepping out of line once as an honest mistake. Perhaps I'm being unreasonable here, I honestly don't know, I've never been good at this sort of thing.
This whole situation has left a very bitter taste in my mouth, and I think it's what I needed to make a decision. In the past few months, I've had a few very unpleasant interactions with a couple members of this forum, where I've been called names and been treated with a lot of unwarranted hostility. I have been open about the fact that I am a brown weaboo posting straight from the South American coffee fields, so I think perhaps I am perceived by some as a bit of an interloper. More importantly for me, all the threads I am interested in (including the Orthodox subforum, as well as the videogame and anime threads) are quite dead. I think my time here has run its course.
Now, it's hardly rare for a member of this forum to make a big post announcing their departure from the forum. Often, it is a very melodramatic womanlike attention-seeking thing. I hope this doesn't read that way. I hope it reads instead like a simple well-meaning goodbye. I've learned a lot from this forum, and I want to make it clear that I have no ill feelings toward anyone here. I think all the men on this forum are good men, even the ones who have at times been less than polite toward me. But I believe I've already gotten all the value I could get from this forum, and I don't think I have particularly good contributions to make. I am a certified autist, and I am a very young man still wet behind the ears, so I really don't think I have anything stored in my head worth sharing that I haven't shared already.
Probably it's also not a good thing for me to go around making long-winded posts sharing my fringe opinions about society, women and Jews online with a big "Orthodox Christian" flair attached to my username, because maybe someone will see that and think Orthodox Christianity is for strange people like me. I know how abrasive and tiresome I can be, which is why I am a pretty quiet person in the real world, and I believe it's high time I start staying quiet online too.
I want to thank the people in charge of the forum, and especially Samseau and Valentine, for all their good work. I kindly request that you refrain from deleting this post even if maybe you find it to be a little out of line, as I would like this goodbye to be here, though the decision is yours in the end.
It's been a pleasure meeting all of you, gentlemen. UPM out. And of course, Christ is King.
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