What has ATS done for you today?, page

reply to post by VreemdeVlieendeVoorwep

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ATS has informed, entertained, infuriated, and forced me to see myself through the eyes of others - often a very uncomfortable process. It has challenged me, intimidated me, and made me expand my own knowledge base. It has filled me with pride - and then humbled me to my core. It has given me friends and a community to belong to.

It truly has changed me as a person, something I am grateful for. Grateful to the founder, the owners, the staff, and each and every member.

S&F VVV my friend.

~Heff

reply to post by Hefficide

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Heff, thanks for the reply my friend.

That is another thing I forgot to mention. I have met some awesome people on here. People who I would call friends. I will still be around on ATS for a long time, and I am sure, in that time many more friends will be made.

Thanks to everyone!

vvv

reply to post by VreemdeVlieendeVoorwep

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anxiety attacks

reply to post by DocHolidaze

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lol, I suggest some Camomile tea.

vvv

reply to post by VreemdeVlieendeVoorwep

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For me, ATS has really driven home the belief that we are doomed. And that it is our own fault; not the government's fault, not the wealthy one percent, not the religious extremists. Ours. The majority of members here are pacifists. They want to forgive, to let others do the dirty work, or they simply want to astral project their minds someplace better. They want to be tolerant of others to the point where it kills everyone.

We don't want to make the hard choices. We don't want to actively participate in the fight for our freedoms and the preservation of our way of life.

When big business wants to take our jobs overseas, we don't say in one voice, "Fine, but don't ship your products over here (I'm thinking the U.S., but insert your own nation) because we're going to keep making those products for ourselves. We're going to keep those jobs right here."

We knew (we have always known) that buying American products means American jobs for American citizens. But as soon as get five bucks in our pockets we run to Walmart to buy cheap foreign products.

We don't stand up and say, "No twisted religion in our country!" Of course, as civilized human beings we don't want to take away the religious rights of any people, even though we KNOW that the Muslim religion brings with it violent and deadly fringes that will kill us all one day; kill us individually, and as a free nation. It WILL happen because we are too afraid of being uncivilized enough to say no. We think of it losing our humanity, rather than thinking of it as self-preservation.

Oh, the members here talk a good talk (and I'm guilty of this too). We are one. We are all part of one consciousness. We are brothers and sisters...blah blah blah. And yet we do NOTHING in one voice that will, and CAN, make the world a better place.

but (and I'm guilty of this too) then we

reply to post by VreemdeVlieendeVoorwep

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It seems as though ATS has helped you in many different ways, that's a good thing......

I was rather sceptical about stuff when I first came on ATS, but over time I actually realised that it is very similar to the world outside, there is good and bad, sad and funny and weird and weirder, you just have to extract the wheat from the chaff.....

But I must admit that I read about many happenings that are occurring in the world here on ATS quicker than what I do from the TV and the radio sometimes.........

reply to post by jiggerj

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It is really all about expectation sets. Is ATS ( or other sources like it ) going to be the cause of massive, tangible change? Probably not. But we, the members, readers, and citizens of this community can and do effect change all of the time. Much of it local, some of it only effecting one life.

For example, recently a member posted about having an injured pet and another member immediately posted a message saying "U2U me with the vets info and I"ll call and pay by credit card". That is change. That is what this is all about.

In my own life, I use ATS as a means of opening dialogue with my friends and neighbors - often not even telling them where I get my information from. They don't need to know I'm on an alternative news or conspiracy site. They listen and absorb it all. Ironically they tend to think me a brilliant guy. It's not me, it's this community that is brilliant. I just get to steal the credit in my own little part of the world!

Don't expect sweeping, dramatic, Hollywood movie change. It's probably not going to happen. But gradual, grass roots change? Well, my friend, you're already seeing it and participating in it.

~Heff

reply to post by DocHolidaze

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i prefer old toby,

reply to post by VreemdeVlieendeVoorwep

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ATS has shown me that I am not alone. I'm not alone in my thoughts and opinions that elsewhere would we considered paranoid or unpatriotic. I'm not alone in experiencing things that are unexplainable and where elsewhere would be thought of as just a vivid imagination or delusion. I am not alone in my feelings of anger and my sense of injustice. I'm not alone in my fear of systematically losing my fundamental rights and freedoms. I'm not alone in my suspicions and skepticism. I am not alone in my mistrust of government and main stream media.

ATS has shown me that I have a vast extended family of people who feel like I do. A crazy, disfunctional, argumentative family- but I love them anyway! ATS lets me be me!

reply to post by littled16

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Not for nothing... but your kitten is trying to pick a fight with me and I'm Irish American... so....

~Heff

reply to post by Hefficide

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Oh oh! It's gonna be one of THOSE family get togethers isn't it?
(The husband is half Irish, kitty has MAD drinking and fighting skills!)

Oh well, just like home!

reply to post by VreemdeVlieendeVoorwep

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The top 10 things ATS has done for me.

Number. . .

10. Since I've started here, my whites are whiter and my colours are brighter.
9. It has satisfied my cravings for doom porn.
8. ATS has given me the strength and courage to finally try out for "American Idol".
7. ATS has reduced my liver inflamation.
6. I now know what ROTFLMAO means.
5. ATS has stopped me from running naked into hospital rooms, with a scalpel, shouting, "Who's next?"
4. ATS taught me that the thing my old college roommate put in me wasn't a "borg implant."
3. ATS has given me even more options for facial tatoos.
2. ATS taught me that "sexting" mods won't get my threads back.
1. ATS has given me the courage to be upfront about my flatulence.

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