My sincerest apologies about my last couple posts.

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bpiatt said:
Look at it this way man, right now your credibility and character are pretty much in the dumps as most people are concerned. Coming clean is basically your only option to slightly rectify this situation and gain any respect back.
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This ^. Take a deep breath, think about how deep the hole already is, and stop digging. It's still early in the conversation and not too late to be truthful. No need to drag this out, dude.
 
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It does to me.....
 
Honestly I'm not very educated about the situation or very interested...

I'd just like to point out that I have a ten year old sister who does have the ability to write on the level that you all described. Shes very bright and in high level writing and mathematic classes at her middle school.

Now I have no idea whether his claim is true or not, and honestly I won't really lose any sleep either way. I just wanted to point out to everyone that it is indeed a possible scenario.

-MC
 
medcommander said:
Honestly I'm not very educated about the situation or very interested...

I'd just like to point out that I have a ten year old sister who does have the ability to write on the level that you all described. Shes very bright and in high level writing and mathematic classes at her middle school.

Now I have no idea whether his claim is true or not, and honestly I won't really lose any sleep either way. I just wanted to point out to everyone that it is indeed a possible scenario.

-MC
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Your sister doesn't write like an adult, you don't write like an adult(no offense), and the OP's statement isn't probably considering the evidence. Zach and his 12yo cousin are the same individual: ~Zach.
 
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I understand your skepticism. I actually am a very good writer but grammar has never been my strong suit. Most of the time I have to review over a paper two or three times to catch all of my errors. That said when I was in middle school I wrote on a high school level, and so does my sister. I have to admit I haven't gone through and read all of the supposed posts that the twelve year old supposedly wrote, but from what people have linked I personally find the writing a bit juvenile.

Like I said before I have no idea whether Zach's statement is true or false. I just wanted to point out that children are smarter than you think (Or the average adult dummer than you think).

-MC
 
This is very hard to believe, even when I have a 12-year-old sibling that I know has writing skills on that level. Like others have mentioned, there are too many similarities between the posts by you and your 'cousin' (granted I haven't looked through all of them). For your sake, I sincerely hope you're telling the truth. But my instincts disagree.
 
medcommander said:
I understand your skepticism. I actually am a very good writer but grammar has never been my strong suit. Most of the time I have to review over a paper two or three times to catch all of my errors. That said when I was in middle school I wrote on a high school level, and so does my sister. I have to admit I haven't gone through and read all of the supposed posts that the twelve year old supposedly wrote, but from what people have linked I personally find the writing a bit juvenile.

Like I said before I have no idea whether Zach's statement is true or false. I just wanted to point out that children are smarter than you think (Or the average adult dummer than you think).

-MC
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Quit trying to derail this thread. If you don't know what's going on, either find out or back off.

If "Zach" had such a smart 12-yr old cousin, why would this cousin be interested in stealing his identity, and then go into a rant over how his knife gift to dad failed before ripping into a Mod here?
 
In related news, the dog ate my homework. I mean, my neighbors dog, which died 9 years ago. I think. :)
 
Man, I know I am guilty on several occasions of drunk typing...... well at this point saying 'several' would be an understatement, anyway we all make mistakes. I mean I have posted some reeeaallllly stupid crap when I was drunk, probably some sober too.

Though I never blamed my stupidity on my 5 year old son stealing my account. If if that's the truth, it's a pretty hard sell.
 
No lasting scars on me...The OP's original thread and posts along with a few other non-related recent posts make me roll my eyes and wonder if I'm wasting my time, but again, no lasting scars.
 
Thomas W said:
No lasting scars on me...The OP's original thread and posts along with a few other non-related recent posts make me roll my eyes and wonder if I'm wasting my time, but again, no lasting scars.
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I can understand, but you must see that the good far outweighs the bad, right? You are not wasting your time.
 
I let my seven-year-old onto Bladeforums this morning and he posted this up. No lie!

Kids say the darndest things.

Guyon said:
Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind.

It falls into this difficulty without any fault of its own. It begins with principles, which cannot be dispensed with in the field of experience, and the truth and sufficiency of which are, at the same time, insured by experience. With these principles it rises, in obedience to the laws of its own nature, to ever higher and more remote conditions. But it quickly discovers that, in this way, its labours must remain ever incomplete, because new questions never cease to present themselves; and thus it finds itself compelled to have recourse to principles which transcend the region of experience, while they are regarded by common sense without distrust. It thus falls into confusion and contradictions, from which it conjectures the presence of latent errors, which, however, it is unable to discover, because the principles it employs, transcending the limits of experience, cannot be tested by that criterion. The arena of these endless contests is called Metaphysic.
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Guyon said:
I let my seven-year-old onto Bladeforums this morning and he posted this up. No lie!

Kids say the darndest things.
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Originally Posted by Guyon
Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind.

It falls into this difficulty without any fault of its own. It begins with principles, which cannot be dispensed with in the field of experience, and the truth and sufficiency of which are, at the same time, insured by experience. With these principles it rises, in obedience to the laws of its own nature, to ever higher and more remote conditions. But it quickly discovers that, in this way, its labours must remain ever incomplete, because new questions never cease to present themselves; and thus it finds itself compelled to have recourse to principles which transcend the region of experience, while they are regarded by common sense without distrust. It thus falls into confusion and contradictions, from which it conjectures the presence of latent errors, which, however, it is unable to discover, because the principles it employs, transcending the limits of experience, cannot be tested by that criterion. The arena of these endless contests is called Metaphysic.
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For this heresy he must be burned!

OK, I'll admit I didn't read it all, but there must be something offensive in there somewhere, right?
 
Guyon said:
I let my seven-year-old onto Bladeforums this morning and he posted this up. No lie!

Kids say the darndest things

Originally Posted by Guyon
Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind.

It falls into this difficulty without any fault of its own. It begins with principles, which cannot be dispensed with in the field of experience, and the truth and sufficiency of which are, at the same time, insured by experience. With these principles it rises, in obedience to the laws of its own nature, to ever higher and more remote conditions. But it quickly discovers that, in this way, its labours must remain ever incomplete, because new questions never cease to present themselves; and thus it finds itself compelled to have recourse to principles which transcend the region of experience, while they are regarded by common sense without distrust. It thus falls into confusion and contradictions, from which it conjectures the presence of latent errors, which, however, it is unable to discover, because the principles it employs, transcending the limits of experience, cannot be tested by that criterion. The arena of these endless contests is called Metaphysic.
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I'm impressed with your son's vocabulary, but confused why a five year old from Tennessee types in British English. ;)

But as for the OP: I tutored for years. Wish more of my students had been like your cousin...
 
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