Special people

[Lyke]

You being special is probably like most people on the net who think they are special and smart by blabbering some facts they read once on the internet trying to prove their point

 

[Lightbringer]

Here's an example, I was taught that the gun was originally made in Africa, despite the fact that the date of when it was found is after the canon and gun had been created had already came before then and was being used by two different races; Europeans and Arabs. The Arabs had already ransacked Africa and destroyed everything of worth there culturally so if a gun was found there, it wasn't made or used by an African. When the Euoprean's had showed up, it was easy for them to take the continent, if the gun had originated in Africa, the Europeans wouldn't have wasted time and resources fighting a well prepared race.

I second guessed his teachings by means of deduction based on knowledge I had and things that I pieced together on my own. I'm always suspicious, my dad made me a little cynical.

I know I seem biased, but my saying of my being more rational and logical doesn't make me better or superior to my peers because there was always something they were better at but I knew based on constant arguments I had with them. Whenever we were taught something ideological, it was usually false and didn't require any pre-knowledge to figure it out yet they couldn't see through the lies.

I'm not a top student, I'm actually quite lazy. I'm really talented with language, reading, and penmanship. Math is my weakness, but beyond that everything is just a matter of will and drive to do my wok which a lot of my peers have me beat in. And yes I'm a Junior, lucky guess.

Did you press your teacher on that and if so, what did he say? I feel like you may be leaving out some important details. Was the teacher really saying that guns were originally made in Africa, not a specific brand of firearm or first known use in warfare?

If you had prior knowledge while others haven't and if you noticed a pattern in his teachings because of that knowledge, can you really say that others would not second guess the teacher if they had prior knowledge of the subject as well?

The reason I was able to guess what grade you're in is because I sounded just like you in junior year. If those similarities exist, can you really say that you're that different if a total stranger was able to make an educated guess about you?

Even if you are different by being more invested and perceptive of the subjects you learn in school another classmate might be different in the fact that they have a talent that you lack. Perhaps they can sing, play an instrument, draw, etc.

Being perceptive and articulate is not the only parameter to judge if someone is different. Sure you might consider yourself not part of the collective, but again, how different does that make you if aside for that fact if you're still doing the same thing in your daily life as everyone else? Eat, sleep, go to school, etc.

You might not follow the same trends or adhere to populist thinking, but that's just one factor in what being different could mean and there are other people who do the same.

And you're still in highschool, which means that you're still trying to find your path and are making these philosophical threads in order to challenge and define yourself. And that also applies to your classmates. Once they graduate highschool or college, they might become something you weren't expecting; maybe a movie star, a politician, a serial killer, etc. The point is it's too early to judge your classmates on being the same or different.

What does it mean to be different? We're all biologically different, so in that sense we are all unique. No one can make up a definitive standard to define what it means to be different if everyone has lived different experiences from one another. Some might be more similar than others, but there's never an experience that is the same.

As to your query about why nature creates people in the capacity that it does? Well, nature is random. If you adhere to science, then all life is random. If certain atoms did not move in the way they did, then life wouldn't exist or would be substantially different. If you're ancestors perhaps had a different crush or conceived a child a few seconds later, you would not exist.

And that same logic applies to everyone. So every life that exists right now is a miracle because one small shift in our history and we would not exist. That is why life is special because there will never be another person that is the exact same.

“We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.”-Elie Wiesel

 

[kiiro]

Minato is better than Sasuke.

Earth is flat.

God Exists.

Everyone is special.

Facts.