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   rt.schizophrenia   
   From: being@apolka.sign   
      
   Venus as a Boy wrote:   
   > schrieb Noah Sombrero:   
   >   
   >> Here is another place where you need to go to university to even   
   >> understand what you are saying.   
   >>   
   >   
   >I just take my father as an example, he never studied and only was   
   >educated as an electrician, but to get a job at Siemens Electronics he   
   >visited electronics seminars where he learned the basics of electronics   
   >and also the basics of CPU circuits studying basic CPU's he was so good   
   >at it that he even made me understand the basic CPU circuits and   
   >finnished the seminars with an A grade (Not university seminars but   
   >something like a community school). That was some 40 years ago or so   
   >when i was 10 years old, and he became so ambitious about Computers that   
   >he convinced me of weilding/building a 8086 PC together, which then   
   >where like the non plus ultra! And i am sure he understood the CPU's   
   >circuits and basic electronics so well that he could have build basic cpu's.   
   >   
   >Conclusion: You don't have to be a wizard or a genius to understand the   
   >world!   
      
   Agree. Totally.   
   My father built telescopes for fun.   
      
   He didn't need to be educated by an institution   
   with walls and professors in a class-room setting.   
      
   A friend of mine probated an estate of his parents   
   without being a lawyer. He simply took the time to learn   
   on his own, what needed to be done to be acceptable.   
      
   Another friend of mine restores cars, for fun.   
   He didn't learn how by going to school.   
      
   Lots of examples can be given where people don't need   
   to go to a university to understand various phenomena.   
      
   A way is a way and yet might not be the only way.   
      
   Noah is an interesting conversationalist.   
   He is rational enough to make sense and generally   
   speaking is pleasant enough to not offend me   
   as he generalizes given his Way with words.   
      
   - thanks to the both of you! Cheers!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)