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Posted by: Lord Snakie
Posted by: Wolverfrog
That's a little melodramatic, Snakie. I have a 337 page fan fiction completed which has many elements rendered impossible by this, but I'm not getting upset.
A tad melodramatic, perhaps, but can you blame me? For four years I've been one of the best-known theorists on the site--forgive my honesty in my old age, even if it is part arrogance--and now, my principals are preventing me from buying any new content so I can stay that way.
Well, you know, Snakie, it's a bit like science.
My biology teacher once told me about a man he knew from university who had spent decades working on a theory (the specifics escape me now.) For all those years he worked tirelessly to gather proof and evidence supporting his theory.
Then one day another scientist came over and proved his life's work completely wrong. Instead of being resentful and upset, the scientist who now had a destroyed theory took the other man's hand, shook and thanked him for correcting him.
I thought that tale was very inspiring. And I try to live by it too, in a way. We're all going to waste time on things that eventually are proven pointless or incorrect at some point in our lives, but we should see it not as us being proven wrong, but as our knowledge regarding the truth being expanded.
I'd much rather be proven wrong so I can learn the truth than cling to a falsity.