My own psychological whatever made me too overwhelmed to study in school (because it required me being present with feelings that at 15 were too painful for me to process, so I ran away into my mind and philosophy, where I could blur all the edges that caused the pain I was too scared to face). That means after 10th grade algebra (the simple algebra that can be done in the head by someone good at arithmetic, but not mathematics), I learned next to nothing, because at the time, I opened no school books, didn`t try to memorize nor have any interest in learning rules, showing work, etc. I graduated High School only through the luck of some moderate innate intelligence and an English teacher that accepted a paper from me on graduation day to move my grade to a "D". I am an uneducated person with the gift of a good mind that has allowed them to succeed in careers and operate at levels most are not fortunate enough to be able to maintain on just raw intelligence and self-tutelage. None of this at all is meant as a boast, but rather to call out that I didn`t do the work so many others have and so to many wouldn`t probably deserve any help. Also to be clear that while good fortune let`s me score at the 99.9th percentile in most types of IQ tests, I spent the first 22 years of life feeding my computer only observations of the world and myself (the fat, lazy, misguided, and arrogant self-proclaimed philosopher), and have spent the last 26 years learning portions of most every domain trying to understand what Truth there is. I`m a fool daily which I`m okay with because what can one do but laugh at their own idiocy; I`m arrogant and wrong often which is not so fine when it affects others; and I`m aware of sheep, aware that I can`t know in what ways I still am one, and take no one`s answer as Truth, no matter what their credentials, fame, or ridicule that awaits at the end of my questioning. However I am genuine to the best of all I know, honest in my questions, answers, and disagreements, and have no agenda that isn`t out in the open, and no agenda that matters to me beyond the Truth. Of course I have my selfish and materialistic desires, but value the Truth more than being right, always. Maybe I sound like a pretentious whatever, but I`m against no one and am no one`s enemy even in opposition. I have no less jerky moments than others, but I stand up for fairness for my oppressor or my friends equally, and would have taken the guillotine over allowing the lever to be pulled. Hopefully only my Mother reads this, because somehow I`m never self-indulgent in her eyes. Thanks and I wish you well in all your endeavors. ©