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if you don't go to school,

  • if you don't go to school,
  • but stay home and fold stories on FOLDINGSTORY, you must be very cool. I skipped school, I'm folding stories. I must be cool.
  • 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
  • godmother, whom I would have forgotten if not for
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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?
  • 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.
Started
2018-12-11 19:21:37
Finished
2018-12-28 13:48:17

7 Comments

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    MadWorld Dec 28 2018 @ 15:43

    SlimWhitman...seriously...that last line is impressively awe-inspiring
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    KieferSkunk Dec 29 2018 @ 03:47

    I wholeheartedly agree. Well done. :)
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    SlimWhitman Dec 29 2018 @ 05:58

    Why thankyou! The name "Dr. Rusty Kuntz" inspired me. Chalk up one more home run for Rusty :-)
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    Woab Dec 29 2018 @ 13:16

    Perhaps more needs to be written about Dr. Rusty Kuntz , professional amateur geologist of Wilderness, Utah.
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    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?
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    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.
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    BlastedHeath Apr 01 2019 @ 20:51

    Dr. Kuntz and his wife also receive visitors quite cordially: http://foldingstory.com/uc2vo/

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