if you don't go to school,
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if you don't go to school,
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but stay home and fold stories on FOLDINGSTORY, you must be very cool. I skipped school, I'm folding stories. I must be cool.
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Too cool for school, I told myself. Too cool for school, I quite agreed. Outside my window silent stories, secret stories fell and moved upon the wind. A woman who said she was my
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godmother, whom I would have forgotten if not for
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the fact that she had the word "Godmother" tattooed across my behind when she was supposed to be babysitting me. For this I might have hated her, but because she had been so
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stupid for most of her adult life--seriously...her IQ was 19--because she was dumber than a pile of rocks, I decided to keep the "Godmother" tattoo, and to forgive her.
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But I always did wonder, just how intelligent IS a pile of rocks, anyway? It's not like the pile of rocks knows its name, or is capable of speaking, much less any sort of thought.
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Or is it? A wise philosopher once said "I am, therefore I think". Does that mean that rocks, too, are capable of cognition? To find out, I
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Visited the Amateur Geology headquarters in Wilderness, Utah, and met with the premier petrologist, mineralogist, and geologist, Dr.Rusty Kuntz. I bluntly asked, “Can rocks think?
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The renowned rock expert's craggy brow furrowed like the folds of a great mountain range.Looking at the worn cliff behind him,the spitting image of his countenance,I had my answer.
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MadWorld Dec 28 2018 @ 15:43
SlimWhitman...seriously...that last line is impressively awe-inspiring
KieferSkunk Dec 29 2018 @ 03:47
I wholeheartedly agree. Well done. :)
SlimWhitman Dec 29 2018 @ 05:58
Why thankyou! The name "Dr. Rusty Kuntz" inspired me. Chalk up one more home run for Rusty :-)
Woab Dec 29 2018 @ 13:16
Perhaps more needs to be written about Dr. Rusty Kuntz , professional amateur geologist of Wilderness, Utah.
SlimWhitman Dec 31 2018 @ 08:59
Speaking of Wilderness, UT, I couldn't find it on google-maps. Could it be there are places google hasn't cartographed?
MadWorld Dec 31 2018 @ 13:11
Perhaps Wilderness, UT, is perfectly and logically without cartography...like Area 51 in Nevada...top secret sculpture garden in the middle of a Swiss hamlet.
BlastedHeath Apr 01 2019 @ 20:51
Dr. Kuntz and his wife also receive visitors quite cordially: http://foldingstory.com/uc2vo/