Well hello all of you. My name is Brett and I’m another one of MagnetMan’s daughters and Cat’s (Moonbaby) sister. I was just informed of this thread and what was happening within. Frankly, I thought the reports were exaggerated and came to look for myself. I have found that my family grossly understated what is going on here. I find myself outraged by the comments made within. Not only has my father, my family, and my social upbringing been insulted, but I have been insulted as well. To say with all the resources we have today (you know, the internet) that we would not know whether we were deprived or not I take as an insult to my intelligence. Oh wait, I don’t have intelligence because I couldn’t read 20,000 thousand leagues under the sea when I was 10. But just so you know, 6 months after I learned to read I did read just about every one of the classics, from Jules Verne to James Fennimore Cooper to Mark Twain and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Shortly after I finished those (it took me less than a year to get through some 20 to 30 books and this is after I had only been reading for half a year) I wrote a 150 page novel. Sure, I’ve killed it now, but a year later I wrote one 250 pages long. In that time I went through several books of Greek mythology, several large biographies ranging from Napoleon Bonaparte to Ronald Regan. Oh and, dude, one year after I learned to read and write and all that good stuff, I took a national school test at 7th-8th grade level and you know what? I passed, with flying colors, in all my subjects especially language mechanics and science and I had never opened a science book in my life. All I had learned I had learned from my dad giving us verbal lessons in day to day life. Okay, I’ll be honest. I didn’t pass with flying colors in all my subjects. I flunked spelling in a pretty bad way. There, my skeleton is out for all of you to see.
Now, to address another personal attack on my dad. Him willfully keeping us out of school. Okay, yeah, he’s dead guilty. To an extent. 2 or 3 years after I was introduced to the world of reading, he did send me and three of my other siblings to public school for a couple of days. Yes, just a couple. Why just 2? Well, because we wanted out. You know what was going on in my class room? Kids, two years older than me were jumping off and around their school desk laughing and playing during the time they were supposed to be studying. My siblings and I were the only ones sitting at our desks quietly doing our school work. Its hard to concentrate though when you have twenty kids screaming and laughing around you. So our parents took us out. The best thing that ever happened. Because, you know the worst thing about going to public school was (besides not being able to learn a thing) was being separated from my family. I have two younger siblings that I have helped to take care of since they were but a few months old and now are in the process of learning to read. Scratch that, one already has learned to read, about a year ago if that. In that time she has read two 500 page books and at least three other smaller books of history and several others. And now, she’s writing a book as well. She’s already some seventy pages into it and she only started two months ago, and from what I’ve seen of it so far, her eloquence surpasses me and I’ve been reading and writing for 6-8 years. But I guess we’re still village idiots.
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'Superstition' is an artifact of ignorance. But if you can't read or write or do maths, it's probably to be expected. Jeez, Louise...
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Really? Okay, so you’ve read what I’ve said so far about the reading and all that stuff, right? Okay, so now I’m educated, we’ve settled that. But I still believe that if I do something wrong I will be paid back for it in some sort of way that will make sure I never do it again. Its strange that that you say superstition is ignorance. How many people believe in Karma? That’s what our Tokalosh is, our Karma.
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Words fail me, again. So you send an illiterate skinhead into the bush to go fend for himself. Why, pray tell? What the hell might be your motivations for this?
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An illiterate skinhead?! Words cannot grasp how deeply offended I am. I mean, skinhead carries connotations I do not care to have pinned to me, thank you very much. I don’t believe people should be eradicated simply because they have a different religion to mine. Quite the contrary, thank you. And hey, do you know about that comeback in school when one kid calls another a nasty name? Takes one to know one. Makes me think there’s a basis of truth in it. You’re slamming my dad because he believes in something different than you. Well, crucify me next to him.
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Oh, yes - must be a ripper when you're 14 and you have to read about the bunny and the tortoise. Real intellectual stuff, man. Gimme a break. By that time, being 14, they have lost out on laying the foundations of intellectual development. Neurological patterns are laid down. Take my word for it - they will have a permanent disadvantage in reading and understanding advanced materials. I honestly don't think you're qualified to raise children.
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Hmm, the bunny and the tortoise. Never read it. So yeah, the first book I read was “Lady and the Tramp”. I stand guilty. But the next thing I read was Jason and the Argonauts. And after that? All those classical authors and other books I mention above. Yeah, Einstein leaves me a little confused and I probably couldn’t read Crime and Punishment if my life depended on it, but pick some one my age out of a crowd and tell me they can. And algebra drives me nuts. Again, give me another teenager my age that really likes doing mathematics.
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God Almighty. Of course they would want to be 'Global Stewards'. They haven't been exposed to anything else living under your roof. You have raised a bunch of brainwashed, socially maladapted (would members of their peer-group come and visit kids who can't read or write?) kids who have only been exposed to your patronising, arrogant views. I also suspect your kids won't have much to talk about in company. No critique towards them as individuals, of course, but I think you kinda screwed them up for many years to come, still.
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Well I do say! For guys that want to help the world advance into a new order, you sure aren’t making me want to join with you. I mean, here’s my dad saying he’s got 8 kids wanting to help change the world and you’re calling us a bunch of nuts. I mean, jeez, don’t you want us to be good and try and stop the world from going to pot? Guess not. And about kids in my peer age. When I learned to read and got on the internet, do you want to know what 14 year old boys and girls were talking about? Well, girls were talking about how this other girl got this groovy little skirt and how the boy behind her always pulled her hair in class. Oh wow. Thrilling, intellectual conversation that was. I mean, not one person I talked to had read any one of the classics or anything remotely interesting. And you know, I have 7 siblings, all with their own unique personality and ideas. We always argue and debate things with each other, almost every day. And rarely is there a nasty word thrown in and insults are foreign to us. Yes, I prefer them to others who cannot abide by common decency.
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If an appology is not forth coming, let me remind you, this universe is a small place. We will meet face to face one day.
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That a threat? What the hell is wrong with you?
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Hmm, intimidated by a 65 year old man on the internet. No other comment.
I think I’ll leave off here. Hopefully I’ve made my point.
(And about my name, I mean the second definition -perfect but unreal: perfect in form or conception but not found in reality- okay, not the other one)
