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"Evolution is wrong. They will never find the missing link".
In the interceding 30 years the hominid family try has filled in quite a bit. Many closely related mammals have existed.
I never understood the whole missing link debate. Like, are we supposed to expect evolution always takes baby steps?
You have a wonderful mind. Too bad you never use it.
Fuck you Pat Fisher.
Not very important but I remember it strangely well.
I was 8 years old. My teacher asked "What is one hundred times one hundred?"
I raised my hand and said "Ten thousand!"
"No, it's one thousand. Ten times ten is one hundred, and one hundred times one hundred is one thousand."
"But... It's ten thousand. Can I show you on a calculator?"
"No! Sit down, it's one thousand. I'm the teacher, I should know."
I later got a calculator and showed her and she didn't apologise.
If you remember this the next time we loop around, ask her what 100 times 10 is supposed to be then.
If she was the math teacher, that should cost her the role.
One of my teachers told me that RL Stine died and for 20 years I believed her.
He's in his 80's right now. He seems to have made it this far just to show off to that teacher.
“With a mind like yours, you’re going to have no problem getting ahead in life”
What was the holdup that ended up preventing you from getting ahead?
Subconscious self-loathing as a result of trying to memory hole something evil I did when very young.
Also a desperate reliance on others’ praise and approval due to emotional abuse from my mother.
A warped model of accomplishment resulting from all the praise I got for easily mastering concepts, coupled with vicious gaslighting and moral attacks I suffered whenever I strove for something difficult.
And many other things which I’m just starting to uncover.
I kind of feel like a programmer sleuthing out bugs in a product, but while I spend time sleuthing out the cause of my product not working, the trade show is half over.
Cripling anxiety and despair.
I'm here for you. I can relate to that.
Isn't a single teacher or statement. But how I was generally treated by the institution.
I am somewhere on the spectrum and/or have some kind of learning disability that makes the formal learning environment very hard for me.
I was tested as a kid back in the 80's, but they said I didn't score bad enough to be diagnosed and that I was just slow essentially.
So the school system stuck me at a desk in the back corner of the classrooms with a divider between me and the the rest of the room and more or less treated me like a leper.
Whatever the official diagnosis, I ended up getting into computers and turns out I am really good at it. So now I make a six figure income doing something I am interested in.
The experience ingrained in me a deep hatred for formalized education, especially when it comes to my son (who is officially diagnosed as autistic). I have a very hard time taking anything my kids teachers say seriously and as anything more than the rantings of a narrow minded fool. Thankfully, my wife being the wonderful person that she is keeps me in check with that. And reminds me not to think my experience at my backwater school was the norm. And I think she has been right this far thankfully.
Anyway, thanks for coming to my Ted talk.
I’m really sorry you went through that and really happy you’ve found success!
We had a teacher that said phones could give you cancer due to radiation and the classic 5G causes X conspiracy theories. Certainly wasn't the worst teacher imo though.
"Respect your elders, because they are always right"
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Post by stimmyabby:
Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”
and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won't respect me I won't respect you” and they mean “if you won't treat me like an authority I won't treat you like a person”
and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.
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Reply post by do-as-youre-told:
This is so well put I am stunned
Source: flyingpurplepizzaeater
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