How have you/your life changed since joining hipforums?

people are so fucking weird...

 

Weren't they weird before you joined HF then?

 

why on earth would i expect my life to chainge by joining a forum?

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If I did not waste time and space in here it would just be done someplace else.

 

I am the same...just more cooler...

eh, I don't know.. Life is still pretty much the same just older... Well, promotion at my job, live somewhere else, and uh, hmmm, that's about it.. I mean of course over years you change as a person and yes, I am and have changed.. How, I don't really know... I feel like I have grown a lot and I know that as time goes on I will continue to grow as a person and expand my knowledge about life... That's what I love about life, we grow so much not outside but mainly inside--well, some do, some do take steps backwards... I know my attitude about certain things have changed, but only for the better... I just am looking forward to my journey through this maze of a life...

 

I don't think that she meant how the forum has changed you, but rather what has changed in your life since you joined.

 

i WAS maybe ten, fifteen, years younger then i am now, whenever it was. i'm still the same irascable and liscnecious misanthorp i ever was.

well no. i'll take beck the liscencous part. although i'd already mostly lost interest in that a good nother decade or more before i started showing up here.

but you've got to understand, i was already over 30 before a computer was something you could go to a store and buy and take home and plug in and it would work and do anything fun or useful. actually before it was something anyone could go to a store and buy at all. i'm talkind about the old 8-bit byters that were all there were at first.

and over 40 before there was any such thing as an internet.

so really, i was already well along in my life, with most of my working years behind me, before any of this even came along.

i mean the 60s and 70s, i was actually THERE, even if my 'there' was mostly way out in the woods somewhere, and not in some city where people were getting high and participating in sit ins or what have you.

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changed my life since joining hipforums... yes.. a lot.. but that shit woulda happened whether or not i joined.. cause.. they have nothing to do with HF.

changed my life because of hipforums.. not really.. but in a way .. yeah
cause, im online a lot more. lol.

 

I don't think it's "changed my life" so much as helped me expresses myself among other like-minded and open-minded individuals that are willing to listen to what i have to say

 

how has your life changed since when you first joined, has nothing to do with hipforums changing your life, but the time from when you started here and till now.. In general, not because of the forums...

 

Since joining Hipforums, I graduated, I am not a student anymore, I have a job. I am still single, still with no kids. I think I had a positive experience here, I met users with whom I had very good exchanges, I could discuss subjects more or less of importance, but these have been great conversations all the same. It's been nice to know people from the other side of the globe (I live in faraway Romania) and see how they live.
Oh, and I didn't have net connection at home when I first joined hipforums. I used to go to an Internet Cafe. Now I can spend more time here.

 

When I joined I also lived in San Diego, now I live in a town with 5,000 people in northern nevada. I have gotten my degree since I've joined.
I was also perfectly mentally and physically healthy when I joined but have since let one event change that...am trying to 'get over' that, but everyone tells me I don't need to get over it.
I am not an exercise freak anymore like when I first joined...but wish I was.
I guess I have changed for the better on paper, but for the worse in spirit (with the exception of my relationship).

 

I moved down to a commune in Texas and it totally changed my life in a big way. I found the listing for Echowood on hipforums and here I am.

 

Haha. I've had huge attitude and reality checks since joining here. Many of the attitude checks coming from members of HF, with the bigger ones coming from mods and admin, and all of the reality checks coming from less than adequate choices in life.

I've learned more than I could ever have dreamed in the past 4 1/2 - 5 years. I've learned about people in ways I couldn't imagine, and most importantly I learned about me. I've gained a lot of insight into myself, my words and actions over the years.

HF in general hasn't changed me, but what it has done is allow me an avenue to share and discuss thoughts and ideas with people from all walks of life. The people here HAVE helped me change. They haven't changed me but they've inspired and carried me. They've listend and taught me. This place helped me become comfortable enough with a "mock group setting" to start going out and socializing more in group events.

Life's changed a lot too. I stopped doing things in life that would shorten my life or my freedom. I had my first child, and am a responsible member of society. Well... semi-responsible. . . :wank:

 

When I first joined I was on Mushrooms, and typed in Google "I want to know the truth." Got in a shitty relationship for 3 1/2 years, so yeah meh. Now Forums really isnt that big of a deal

 

Well after 4 years I haven't been banned yet, that's a first



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wow you know hip forums has such a profound infulence on my life, it has helped me understand i have a common and uncurrable desaes. See i'm one of the people out there that must live with uglyunfunnitis. However thanks to HP i can now live with this and just come to terms, i hope that one day HP will help me spell and type better. just MAYBE i hope it will cure me of my tendancies to USE COPS WAY TO MUCH!!!! Or it could just be the 'net and amount to a whole lot of nothing, but killing time at work.

 

I started coming here in 1999. So it's been almost a decade... Lots has changed. I live in another country now, have a degree and I'm working on another one, I'm engaged. Oh and I also don't call myself a hippy anymore like I did when I was 15. :tongue:

 

I have grown older.