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TL has been my #1 url to visit in the past ~3-4 years.
Lately I've been visiting it much less frequently than before. The passion is gone, in fact TRUE passion was gone for like 2 years now, but I kept visiting the site out of habit and quite frankly, there's no better place to waste time than here.
But, I must admit, lately, TL has slipped down on the top-list of my websites. Nowadays it's more like "shit, what's up on TL I haven't been there a few days". Then I visit the site and I'm not impressed anymore. Threads for wasting time in General forum, then there's the SC2 forum I visited perhaps 3 times altogether, broodwar forum with mundane SC things, tourneys I'm not interested anymore and Strategy forum which might as well be replaced with a search function in it's place.
So, what's the reason for this?
First of all, as I said, I think as I'm getting older (21 now) it's perfectly natural to lose interest in gaming related stuff. But, my problem was that I was stuck in this loop of visiting TL and spending so many hours around here even tho I knew I should be doing something else. I just didn't know how to make the first step.
A few of you who have stumbled upon my blog entry about Dr. Paul Dobransky's stuff know what happened. I got into self-growth.
These past years, I've always had the idea that I would make a forum with a layout as perfect as TL's, but with the content of a higher purpose. A place where people would be able to discuss problems with wise folks. Instead of getting advice on how to handle 14 Nex, you would get advice on how to handle your relationship. Instead of learning to fix mistakes in your FD opening, you would learn to cure the anger, insecurities and mistakes you make in your life. You would learn how to achieve your maximum potential as a human being.
The forum over at http://doctorpaul.net/joomla/forum2.html is what I've been dreaming about and looking for. I can't describe to you guys how much I've changed in the last month or so. I've started journaling coz the guys advised me to, and when I look at my writings from even as little as 3-4days, I notice myself chaning my thinking paradigms all the time. I'm constantly discovering new problems, stuff that I've been looking at from a totally wrong angle and learning to make it right.
I've learned that I'm not a perfect human, I've learned to face my flaws and then work on them.
Dr. Paul says that only people with low self-esteem are capable of insulting people, giving negative remarks etc. No matter how bad you think your problem is, people will give you positive insights, stuff that will make you think out of your normal thinking routine, stuff that you can use to break free. If your anything like me, you might find yourself laughing out loud as you read the responses at your issues, realizing how limited your view of the world was. There are some extremely mature and wise folks over there, it's a sin not to learn from them ^^
I don't know exactly why I am writing this, I guess I wanted to let people (who might be in a similar situation I was) know that there's an awesome place, perhaps even better(depending on your current interests) than TL. A forum better than TL, "no way!" I would say even 3 months ago.
If you want to grow as a person, if you want it more than you want to grow in ICC rank, ask yourself, are you acting according to your goals?
There it is guys, I hope some of you will have the same great paradigm changes and insights as I have on those forums. I even have a txt file with the most golden posts from the people from that forum. So many useful things you can learn.
If you feel like you are not living the life you _know_ you can and _should_ be living, but don't know where to start, you can do what I did, or find a way to make the first step.
Here's a nice quote a user named diezel wrote 2 days ago:
diezel wrote:
Failing to take risks and always learning from the experience of others puts you in the back of the bus and never in the driver's seat. There's only one real way to live and that is in first person, not from someone else's viewpoint. Here and now - present tense - first person - singular. Taste the blood from your own lip once in a while and you'll have much less fear of the big guy in the alley compared to the guy who has read about it all his life.
As for myself, I'll keep playing SC for fun, at least a game or two per week, but I think I finally reached a point where I can stop visiting TL.
TY for all the fun times, cheers guys!
(don't have time to proofread, I hope not too many mistakes)
  
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Hmm, I'm going to college. I think that's pretty good for self growth.
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Blasphemy.
Nothing's better then TL.
Ban
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well if i was that keen to live life to the fullest, i'd stop using the internet..
i mean c'mon there are so many new things going on with tl.net to make it THAT much more exciting, such as TL.net attack and perhaps a second TSL.
I've too been visiting this site for a good 3-4 years, and i most certainly can't say that TL.net currently is worse than it was in its previous years, the forum evolves and changes as you would naturally expect.
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i come here for hw help.
it rocks. =D
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Belgium8305 Posts
so this paul jerk is siphoning members from us
we'll just see about that...
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On June 11 2008 21:17 vGl-CoW wrote:
so this paul jerk is siphoning members from us
we'll just see about that...
rofl
and  to the op
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On June 11 2008 20:50 KrAzYfoOL wrote:
well if i was that keen to live life to the fullest, i'd stop using the internet..
i mean c'mon there are so many new things going on with tl.net to make it THAT much more exciting, such as TL.net attack and perhaps a second TSL.
I've too been visiting this site for a good 3-4 years, and i most certainly can't say that TL.net currently is worse than it was in its previous years, the forum evolves and changes as you would naturally expect.
I'm not saying TL got worse, the point is I evolved.
I thought it would raise a few eyebrows when I said TL is not good enough for me anymore.
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On June 11 2008 21:36 niteReloaded wrote:Show nested quote +On June 11 2008 20:50 KrAzYfoOL wrote:
well if i was that keen to live life to the fullest, i'd stop using the internet..
i mean c'mon there are so many new things going on with tl.net to make it THAT much more exciting, such as TL.net attack and perhaps a second TSL.
I've too been visiting this site for a good 3-4 years, and i most certainly can't say that TL.net currently is worse than it was in its previous years, the forum evolves and changes as you would naturally expect. I'm not saying TL got worse, the point is I evolved. I thought it would raise a few eyebrows when I said TL is not good enough for me anymore.
Sounds like Scientology. It's probably pretty similar.
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On June 11 2008 21:56 Ancestral wrote:Show nested quote +On June 11 2008 21:36 niteReloaded wrote:On June 11 2008 20:50 KrAzYfoOL wrote:
well if i was that keen to live life to the fullest, i'd stop using the internet..
i mean c'mon there are so many new things going on with tl.net to make it THAT much more exciting, such as TL.net attack and perhaps a second TSL.
I've too been visiting this site for a good 3-4 years, and i most certainly can't say that TL.net currently is worse than it was in its previous years, the forum evolves and changes as you would naturally expect. I'm not saying TL got worse, the point is I evolved. I thought it would raise a few eyebrows when I said TL is not good enough for me anymore. Sounds like Scientology. It's probably pretty similar.
isn't it cool to know everything without actually knowing anything?
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On June 11 2008 21:36 niteReloaded wrote:Show nested quote +On June 11 2008 20:50 KrAzYfoOL wrote:
well if i was that keen to live life to the fullest, i'd stop using the internet..
i mean c'mon there are so many new things going on with tl.net to make it THAT much more exciting, such as TL.net attack and perhaps a second TSL.
I've too been visiting this site for a good 3-4 years, and i most certainly can't say that TL.net currently is worse than it was in its previous years, the forum evolves and changes as you would naturally expect. I'm not saying TL got worse, the point is I evolved. I thought it would raise a few eyebrows when I said TL is not good enough for me anymore.
of course it does, its sound like quite an insult for the people who are not as evolved as you yet.
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On June 11 2008 23:08 aqui wrote:Show nested quote +On June 11 2008 21:36 niteReloaded wrote:On June 11 2008 20:50 KrAzYfoOL wrote:
well if i was that keen to live life to the fullest, i'd stop using the internet..
i mean c'mon there are so many new things going on with tl.net to make it THAT much more exciting, such as TL.net attack and perhaps a second TSL.
I've too been visiting this site for a good 3-4 years, and i most certainly can't say that TL.net currently is worse than it was in its previous years, the forum evolves and changes as you would naturally expect. I'm not saying TL got worse, the point is I evolved. I thought it would raise a few eyebrows when I said TL is not good enough for me anymore. of course it does, its sound like quite an insult for the people who are not as evolved as you yet.
So if you think of it as an insult i.e. you are lower status than me, wouldn't the right reaction be to want to learn what I learned?
damn, I sound really spooky...
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Calgary25980 Posts
Good luck, and enjoy looking down on us.
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dont get me wrong, im not saying you want to insult anyone.
But yes, you would be right if you evolved above tl, people here should try to close the cap.
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On June 11 2008 23:18 Chill wrote:
Good luck, and enjoy looking down on us.
but he isn't going to read our comments
CAUSE HES LEAVING FOREVERR
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I'm still a bit confused on how you "outgrew" TL.net, I'd think it's more due to just coming here all the time... But still, gl.
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Dr. Paul says that only people with low self-esteem are capable of insulting people, giving negative remarks etc
#1 - Dr. Paul says, huh? Sounds a bit of a cultish follow the leader type of thing to me.
#2 - ONLY people with low self-esteem are capable of insulting people and giving negative remarks? Har har, good joke, Dr. paul!
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I insult people everyday. I guess I have low self esteem. :[
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good luck man.
I totally understand you. 
try to maintain balance though, don't overdo it. 
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