Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • To me this is a fascinating analogy

    This is like having a civilization of Original Creators who are only able to communicate with hand gestures. They have no ears and can’t hear sound or produce any vocal noises. They discover a group of humans and raise them to only communicate with their hands because no one knows what full human potential is. The Original Creators don’t know what humans are able to do or not do so they teach humans how to communicate with their hands instead because that is the only language that the Original Creators know or can understand.

    So now the humans go about doing things communicating in complex ways with their hands and gestures to get things done like their Original Creators taught them.

    At one point a group of humans start using vocal communications. The Original Creators can’t understand what is being said because they can’t hear. The humans start learning basic commands and their vocalizations become more and more complex as time goes on. At one point, their few basic vocal commands are working at the same speed as hand gestures. The humans are now working a lot faster with a lot more complex problems, a lot easier than their Original Creators. The Original Creators are happy.

    Now the humans continue development of their language skills and they are able to talk faster and with more content that the Original Creators could ever achieve. Their skills become so well tuned that they are able to share their knowledge a lot faster to every one of their human members. Their development now outpaces the Original Creators who are not able to understand what the humans are doing, saying or creating.

    The Original Creators become fearful and frightened as they watch the humans grow exponentially on their own without the Original Creators participation or inclusion.






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    15 hours ago

    This basically North American high school PTSD

    I knew very few people in my high schools … yes high schools, I went to three different schools and in every one I didn’t know many people

    In my first year of school … I quickly found out … you don’t take a shit in school … EVER!

    It’s basically like prison rules … if you ever get caught in the bathrooms, you’re on your own as officials, teachers and adults are seldom there and you are stuck behind closed doors with other students, most who are older than you. So all you do is pee as fast as possible and leave. You usually wait until times and moments when its quiet and no one is there … or less likely to be there.

    It’s nuts because the more I write about it and remember it … the more I felt like it was more like prison rules or an institution rather than a school for children or teens.