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The Grand Thieve ---The Chief Corner Stone Pt 2

Lets start talking the Top of the Pyramid-- the Capstone of educational thievery and mind numbing goals---The Valedictorian CAP stone. The learning must begin with the 101 student.  The Padawan, the mentee.  The mentor cannot teach if the student has not really arrived.  I wish we all could just pay tuition and then it would 'automatically' make us learn and be more curious. This is the grave difference in paying a price for the great Pearl and a great treasure cannot be found-- without paying a grand price. Explorers know of what I speak.  They must get in --harms way-- to learn about harm.    There is only so much you can learn by reading alone.  But  you must first start there.  It's unfortunate that an athlete was handed a ball first, and a academic was handed a book.  Would a parent hand their ' smart kid ' a ball instead of an education?  Or the opposite-- any dumb parent who give the 'so-so kid' a book and then get mad when t

The Grand Thieve ---The Chief Corner Stone

I do hesitate to talk about subjects that will out me on my life.  But what the hell.  I should come out the closet, intellectually.  And murder my own truth detector. "The heart is designed to hear it." -Fr Barron "  I am a closet-- astrological bible reader. "  Not because it tells the truth but because it dares too but does not. The grand thieve of time and learning through a man's life to reach the peak, the capstone-- the Chief Cornerstone of intellect. But is it worth the time it takes to be a SME (Subject Matter Expert) only to have your words fall on the deaf ears of jaded energetic youth.  Any real study of scriptures leads to the inescapable conclusion that we don't know-- nothing. We think we know stuff. The ancients knew about the three lights in our universe. We still believe there is only two. Astrophysicist know better. The third light-- the light of creation itself the beginning is all around us-- still. The light afte