When I was too young to have knowledge I considered myself an amateur fossil collector, but since I was too childish and naive to know anything I used to collect slag from the side of train tracks thinking the random bumps where intents of extinct animals. I even came up with exotic sounding names for them. Everyone would flee from the rampaging Humongosaurus.
In case none of you ever spent time in a mining time, slag is the left overs from rock after the oar has been extracted. Its dumped and hardens as a light black rock.
It wasn't until I was seven that my grandparents took me to Manitoulin Island that I actually got my first real fossils. Up until then all I had to go on was representations in books, and any book advanced enough to have in depth representations where Paleontology books written for universities. This was still the era that most books written for the public contained dramatizations of dinosaurs dragging their tales . It wasn't until I met Dr Bob Bakker that I was able to dispel that misconception.
By the time the internet came along I was already in my teens and much more knowledgeable on my passion. But for years it was incredible, and most of the people I chatted with were as interested and in the topic as I was. We were never afraid to ask questions. I specifically remember emailing famous paleontologists, asking very specific questions and getting very stimulating responses.
Now where are we?
Set adrift in pages and pages of youtube videos, and religious wars between creationists and people who know better (and now creationists have found the new strategy of falsely claiming copy write when they have been satired), philosophical penis wars from people without the common sense to listen, people who fuck others dressed up like bad sports mascots, the Stay Puff Marshmallow Man as a diabolical Free Mason plot, Zeitgeist, bad music, bad adds, people spouting out the nonsense they just recently heard, answers without questions, political correctness to Latin, everyone so blissful in their security they don't release they are just the fortunate few on this planet, ideology as political views, massive amounts of identity with no substance, identity as opinions and opinion as identity.
What are we all insane?
The majority of the world can't be brain dead drooling idiots...
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oh...
never mind...
rant over...
Motherfucking WIN! :mittens:
:mrgreen:
"tool for manipulation and division along a kind of social organization that guarantees elitism, crime, war and social stratification"
Daddy, when I grow up, can I be one of those?
Life is good.
What ever happened to my dearest mistress the Internet?