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I really enjoyed that. Thanks for posting.

Reminded me of Sheldon Cooper

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Ditto Paul... thanks! Started some 'balls' rolling :)
 
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I considered dropping out of middle/high school [wtf, right?], but i pushed through because friggin' EVERYBODY seemed convinced it was the thing to do. After 3 years i made it to university where i lasted like 2 months before the insanity of teachers there drove me out. WTF? I had enjoyed more respect for myself and my intelligence 2 years earlier in middle/high school! Things were supposed to get better once i got to university. So i got out.

Until i was 27 [beginning of my 2nd life cycle] i struggled with this choice; shouldn't i be learning?
Fact is that now i'm 50 all of those class mates of mine who once chose to stick with 'the system' all seem terribly ignorant, lost, and locked up to me. What about permaculture? What about alternative energy? What about people curing incurable diseases? What about people claiming to live forever? What about Anunnaki? Etc. etc. etc.

Universities made it easy on me; it was impossible to deal with their shite longer than 2 months. I tried some other courses but it was always the same story. Always folks basing their authority on... their authority...
TPTB make it so damn easy to be superior than mediocrity that it's impossible to be proud of achieving more than they do. At the same time, 'they' are the majority [75% according to the Milgram Experiment].

I explain why that is here.
 
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A few years ago I heard a radical to me thought "go guru free". I had always been one of those people that are wandering around with umbilical cord in hand looking for a new place to plug it in. "Why?"
Because we all under estimate our own value and over estimate every one else's value.
This is one of the things I love about these forums, no one is out to shoot your thoughts down, even when they are clearly in season.
 
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