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> My one comment beyond all this has been said but I wish to state my side. I like reading what about what you are thinking but wading through it all can be a large task. I'm afraid that as I go through your many examples, some of them needlessly redundant, that I'm going to miss something important in your message. Because of the length of many of your posts and the attention needed, I have been choosing to avoid many of them (this isn't just with you but with many of the posts on these issues). As Brunnen_G pointed out, we can choose to censor what we read and don't need to tell others to do so unless they cross the lines but you stated that you hoped people would take the time to read and respond to your posts so that is why I offer up a suggestion. Not every post needs to be a thesis. Respond to what is asked and use a minimal amount of examples and evidence to support it. Just enough to do the job. Too much makes it seem like you are throwing up a smokescreen to mask a weak argument.

Taken to heart. Maybe the reason too many of my posts sound like theses is because that's what I've been spending most of my time doing recently, and I'm still at the point where teachers prefer overwritten to underwritten so I overwrite to be on the safe side.

I suppose if I get myself out of the research paper mentality things'll get better. Or if I start pretending there are maximum length requirements and that they're less than a page. :) (I'm at my best after talking to my younger brother, who tends to have a shorter attention span than most teachers.)

> I'm impressed with some of your ideas but I'm more impressed with how you respond to people when they question you. You seem to explore what they say and why they say it instead of running away. Keep it up. This is something that will help you down the road and is a great way of thinking.

I think you've hit the nail on the head. (WARNING! Introspection Alert!) All my friends say my chief distinguishing attribute is thinking too much and talking too much about what I think. It means that I pay a sometimes unreasonable amount of attention to my environment (which is a good thing, overall) but also that I end up demanding an unreasonable amount of attention from my environment (a bad thing, overall). This very post might be an example.

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Me too. The reason I spend so much time tossing out examples is because I'm insecure; I'm always trying to convince myself. :) (Kidding, kind of.)

But, hey, I'm getting better. This response was four times as long when I first started writing it.

Ar"edit yourself so no one else has to"thur