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Anonymous Coward User ID: 7889521 United States 05/25/2012 12:30 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I started using Dian Fossey's writings on ape social behavior to deal with my fellow humans when I was in sixth grade. It worked. I ended up accepted by the cool clique while still staying under the radar. It was pretty funny... Quoting: Charlie the Choo-Choo What was really funny is when my guidance counselor started suspecting I was either into or distributing drugs based on my sudden rise in the social ladder, and I told him what I was doing. He was extremely pissed off, telling me that I couldn't treat humans like apes then threatened to tell the cool clique what I was doing. So I used Dian Fossey's writings on how to deal with ape aggression on him and he stopped. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 16062430 United States 05/25/2012 12:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | JD Rockefellar financed the research for what has become USA education. When questioned, he said something along the lines of "I'm paying to educate workers, not teach them how to think" BTW - you look kinda cute in the pic, Tex. But, what's up with the one eye hidden look? |
Eggcellent Re-Instate Smith-Mundt! User ID: 13043121 United States 05/25/2012 12:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I started using Dian Fossey's writings on ape social behavior to deal with my fellow humans when I was in sixth grade. It worked. I ended up accepted by the cool clique while still staying under the radar. It was pretty funny... Quoting: Charlie the Choo-Choo What was really funny is when my guidance counselor started suspecting I was either into or distributing drugs based on my sudden rise in the social ladder, and I told him what I was doing. He was extremely pissed off, telling me that I couldn't treat humans like apes then threatened to tell the cool clique what I was doing. So I used Dian Fossey's writings on how to deal with ape aggression on him and he stopped. You mounted him? "I have come to the conclusion that all news should be treated like 9/11, assume it is a psyop with actors participating in a staged event complete with props, until proven otherwise, in which case assume whatever is being recorded, reported, televised, is distortions/lying by omission/outright lies, until proven otherwise." - Anonymous, 4-13-12 |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1402657 New Zealand 05/25/2012 12:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thank You TXGal4Truth !!! I had a terrible time at school for 6 years. From age 10. It's mentioned in my online autobiography [link to ProjectMotherShip.webng.com] Scroll down to 1970's |
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Sammie User ID: 2220559 United States 05/25/2012 01:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | May 21, 2012 - 12:02 pm Quoting: TXGal4Truth It didn’t occur to me that the six-foot fence around the perimeter was meant to keep me in. That is, until the day I decided to leave. Fed up with being kicked around the schoolyard, I decided to do what any intelligent human being would do: go home. I soon learned this wasn’t a viable option for a sixth grader. Looking back, it’s not real clear who was surprised the most by the situation — the school authorities at my assumption that I would actually leave, or me, at the revelation I had no choice in the matter. Apparently there were laws. Huh, who knew? The view of the playground fence from the jungle gym was never quite the same. **** Parents strive to prepare their children for school. We teach them to recite the alphabet, to count, and learn their colors. Is that preparation really enough to survive the next twelve years of compulsory education? In spite of its intended purpose, after you boil away the Friday-night lights, dances, and hook-ups, all you have left is a state-run institution, excreting the same social sludge as its cousin the prison system. When you stop and think about how similar they are, you have to wonder: is the system designed to ready children for society, or to provide the mental skills for prison life? What did you learn in the locker room shower? Mandatory gym showers usually begin around 7th grade. The time in human development when boys and girls have no self-awareness or inhibitions — no wait, that’s a toddler. Can you think of a better way to teach herd behavior than to strip naked an entire class of adolescents and corral them into open shower stalls? Sweat is not the only thing washed down those drains. However, it is a good way to prepare kids for the other lessons you’ll need for prison life. Lesson #5. Intimidation and Violence Make You Important. The school system is a natural breeding ground for a parasitic social order and the playground is the perfect Petri dish to cultivate the dark side of human behavior. Kids quickly learn to either dominate or stay off the radar. Both are highly useful skills when entering the prison yard. Refining your social skills... After mastering the necessary social skills to rise to the top, the leaders hold “the keys to the car.” Lesson #4 Powerful Cliques Rule. Schools and prisons alike are artificial environments. Both institutions (however important the reason) hold their inhabitants captive for at least eight hours a day. For children, that’s the majority of their young lives. It doesn’t take a psychologist, only an observer, to understand that the natural needs of family, along with the companionship and protection it provides, are still a paramount necessity — and nature finds a way. However distorted it becomes. Keep reading: [link to pjmedia.com] From a very young age I had a big problem with authority. I simply did not like being bullied and caged. The fence at my after school program didnt have a 6ft fence. I think it was about three and a half feet. My house was literally 3 blocks from the center. I continuously jumped that fence and walked home, nearly everyday. Finally by the second grade, they expelled me. In middle school and high school there were no fences, and I took liberty to walk away from campus often, usually to smoke some weed and maybe drink...oh and acid. It was kind of the thing in the 80's. Really I was just bored out of my head. The subjects were dull, the teachers reading out of lesson books, the students were mostly the typical yuppie types and I just didn't fit in. It wasn't a money thing, it was an intellectual disconnection with my peers. My grades were horrible. I was in front of the board all the time for being expelled and suspension due to cutting school. My poor parents. Both of my older sisters had been stellar students. They won all the awards all through school. They made straight A's. They won spelling contests, writing contests, they were both National Merit Honor's students and graduated the top of their class, which contained roughly 3,000 students. I on the other hand, was expelled from day care by the second grade. The school never called about awards, only school board hearing dates. By middle school my report card was mostly D's and lots of F's. I refused to dress out at gym all through middle school. The grades continued to fall in all subjects as I progressed through each grade aand became more and more disconnected and bored. The school recommended putting me in remedial classes. We had basically 5 levels of classes. Level 1 was special education. Level 2 was for slower learners. Level 3 was for average learners. Level 4 was for above average and Level 5 was for the academically gifted. I had always been in level 4 classes, above average. They wanted to move me to either average or below average to help me get better grades. Luckily my mom stepped in and another teacher backed her up and instead of being demoted, I was moved to the level 5 gifted class. My grades went from D's and F's, immediately to B's and A's. I also didn't skip school as often. I wasn't stupid or simply an out of control teenager, I was just plain BORED! By high school, I simply quit going to school all together. It took a full year of not going to school for the school system to even realize I was missing. They called the day after the school ended, after cleaning out lockers and realizing all my books were still there. Thankfully, I was moved to private school and able to do self study at my own pace at that school (not at home but at school in the gym). I tested as I felt ready and was able to test out of every subject with in 14 months..... 4 years of school completed by self study and testing at my own pace, completed in just over a year. The result, 3.9 GPA, graduated with honors and went on to college. Completed my degree in the 4 years allotted with an overall GPA of 3.7 and gradated with honors. I was accepted into the graduate program but declined. I considered law school but decided against it. And I even considered going bck to school for my MBA, about 5 years into my career until I came to my senses. The last thing the world needs is another MBA zombie. You know, I remember feeling so repressed in school. We had no fences. No locked doors or scanners and ID tags. I'm 38 years old now. I can't not imagine how horrible it is for those kids today. "Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow". ~Aesop "Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped and there it stayed, it was stuffed with its own self. Some fix, that. We only have ourselves to go on, and it’s enough…" -Charles Bukowski "Grasping at things can only yield one of two results: Either the thing you are grasping at disappears, or you yourself disappear. It is only a matter of which occurs first." -Goenka |
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Balthuuu User ID: 14434601 Finland 05/25/2012 01:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Love is not the game, life is. - When we wake up in this "reality" every morning, we are actually falling asleep, because only in our dreams we are truly awake. - We are not our body, nor our mind. We are not the voice in our body, nor our head. We are the the here and now, experiencing without any input from either of the mentioned above. - It's not about others forgiving you, but whether you can forgive yourself. - It doesn't take much energy to make the wrong decision. But to make the right one, you have to put every fiber of your being to it. - I know i have a lot to work on. But knowing that there's no hairy ass man in the clouds to judge me when I have little bit of fun on the expense of someone elses ignorance, makes life a whole lot easier. |
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