Brian, watching your words float by is seeing myself speaking
   educated language but saying the same things.

   I can't _begin_ to explain the gratification of that sensation.

   But... somehow I don't think I have to. While I never
   _officially_ went into teaching, that "little professor (model
   of child self) --> professor (model of adult self)" has always
   suited me quite well.

   Someone who finds a very deep gratification when both someone
   really "gets it" - whoever that someone is - and also relishes a
   good challenge and a changing of paradigm (well, more akin to an
   "Inception" moment where you see yourself or your
   conceptualizations from a perspective you don't remember ever
   considering before) - understands what I mean when I say, "I
   can't _begin_ to explain the gratification of that sensation"
   (of being entirely understood).

   I often ask myself, "If I was born in a different timeline, by
   different parents, raised in a different environment, afforded
   different sets of opportunities, had similar life experiences,
   could I be that person?" - in short "alternate Timeline Kenneth
   Udut's"

   [and conversely, they are alternate timeline 'me's"]

   When the answer is a "Yes!" something in me leaps for joy.

   alt timeline Brian Hobbs = alt timeline Kenneth Udut

   I see bits of myself in everyone, and some moreso. You're in the
   moreso category. I analogize that way because I'm a sucker for
   any Time travel conceptualizations (Doctor Who fan from 8 yrs
   old on, now 43 - undoubtedly shaping the analogies I prefer to
   utilize. I could easily have said "Dude!" and you reply, "Dude!"
   or "Bro!" "Brooooh" :: FISTBUMP :: and it would've accomplished
   the same thing. I just like more words.

   And, [1]Jon Blackburn - I resonate with the problem of, "Let's
   put you in a box, stick a label on it and define you.. and shove
   you around because now you're part of this "Set", which of
   course is worse when it's groups of people being involved.

   Reminds of me Pewdiepie. I love the subculture that developed
   around his personality cult. Kids brofisting each other, a whole
   NEW Bro subculture developing. (every generation has its bro
   subculture) Speaks good for the future, 'cause, in the end, we
   can trace intellectual assent that speaks to the heart, or heart
   that speaks to the intellect back at least to Epicurian
   friendship communities... which became monasteries... which led
   to concepts of the possibility of secular Utopian societies on
   Earth starting in the middle ages... [although this was yet
   still an echoing of the forms expressed by the Greek's desires
   to perfect Philosophy, Politics - well - all the "iks" -
   movements of which Epicurus himself was a part of and
   founded]...

   ... and, well, shit.. I'm just drawing lines across a History of
   Western Civ timeline of history with a crayon and pretending
   that it means anything significant aren't I?

   Well it does. Nobody make fun of my crayon. I peeled off the
   paper because I want to.

References

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