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[Violet]

A grip upon what? Are we all identical spoons made at a spoon factory? Everyone, and everything... is different. I am certainly not reassured by the amount of contradiction pouring from you... "We are not clones", "Wait, yes we are", "No, i never said that", "We're all clones". Honestly... that is reassuring?

What is the point in discussing this with you at all? It is like trying to make a theist see reason: very difficult. I discuss because I don't think you're stupid, Eilon. You haven't met many 16 year olds... have you...? I am insulted to be drawn into a class based society... especially one for how many years I have lived.

How can you refute my Hitler analogies when you say things like this? I'm baffled...

You are no different.

There's not need to be insulting towards me because I don't think you're any better than where you age suggests you should be.

I am no different? If you can honestly say that I am normal, a paradigm of my age: No WONDER you see SO MANY people JUST LIKE ME running about! Haha! The idea is absurd... how can you not see this?

"There's no need to be insulting towards me because I don't think you're better than what your ethnicity suggests you should be." Can you honestly not draw a parallel to this and what you just said? Age, ethnicity, sex, name, religious background... All of these can be used to compare what you just said... so forgive me if I can easily link a number of your statements to something that Hitler might have said.

Do you interpret the statement of "Everyone is special." to be "Nobody is."? I'm me, I am not you... You are not anyone else... and you are different from me. All of us are different... therefore none of us are the same... and therefore almost everyone is an exception to such a thing as an age-line.

"As immature as most 16 year olds"... /sigh, I tire quickly of being insulted, Eilon. I do not need reassurance from you... I get that from the people in my life who matter. Insults? I most defiantly don't need any more of those. You tell me to stop insulting you at every turn... but in many posts you do not respect the ideal so readily you ask of me. This is hypocrisy...

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I was like that too Elionnwy. So there's just another person to support that theory.

I thought I was mature till I was 18, then I thought I definitely was.

Since then I've had more humility grow. I think in some ways I am and some ways I'm not.

Even the most mature person on the planet (if they couldn't actually be defined), isn't 100% mature. Apologies if I've done nothing more than state the obvious :S

EvF

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We are never done growing because of our age, EvF... for as long as we are conscious: we can always grow a little more.