I don't think there's a bottom to the well of knowledge. Consider it this way: You're complete just as you are. You know 100% of what you know. There will always be things you don't know, even if you were to live 10,000 years. Now, tomorrow, 50 years from now, will you know more than you do today? Yes and no. You'll still know 100% of what you know at each of those times. I think comparing is almost unfair - and we do it all of the time - you have as much right to speak about what you know as anybody else does on the planet. You're speaking from your 100%. Your 100% can't compare to someone else's 100% because for all that they might know more than you, you know more than them as well in other things. == Kinda like that. But they're really not comparable side-by-side as there's no outsider objective point of view available. We're all 100% at every given moment. When we change direction or learn something new, we're STILL 100%. == lol I just read your ADD thing. I think that's what I type so fast. I'm at 110 wpm I can never get my thoughts out quickly enough. I find the speed of the world agonizingly SLOW .. and most people even more so. I tolerate it but that's a learned skill, mostly in avoidance of people who suck my energies out smile emoticon == I wonder if we're similar: I wasn't sure if I had ADD until I read something about "hyperfocus" - that people with ADD can sometimes hyperfocus, pushing everything else in the world aside for this one thing that gains ALL of their fullest attention in a way that regular people don't generally do apparently. == I think you have an absurdist point of view maybe smile emoticon That's the closest word I found that describes me in any case, and I find what you've been saying so far to be relatable to myself. == I'm not trying to box you in or psychoanalyze btw - just drawing comparisons of similarities. I'll be 44 in a week and I've been thinking about these very same types of things since I was at least 11 yrs old and I never stopped. I went through all the normal stages someone's supposed to go through yet its like this core of me just kept pursuing this... 'something' - I don't know what it is. A drive to understand, make sense, piece things together, know more... be able to explain more to a more and more diverse set of people. I dunno - I sometimes tell ppl I'm like an alien that was put into a human life in order to study what it's like subjectively to be a human being and then report back to them when I'm done here - if the consciousness were to survive and all that. Something like that smile emoticon I don't believe it lterally, but it's the best analogy I've got so far. == I loved his stuff from elementary school - a teacher got mad when I tried to do a book report on Tom Sawyer because that wasn't "supposed to be until next year". I read it because I had it and I liked it. But I could rant about how schools do so many things wrong so I'll be good and not start smile emoticon ==