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By the time I was a Junior in HS, my history teachers had me lecture all their classes on WW2.

I have friends both here and gone who have forgotten more than I will ever know about spoons...but reading descriptions of spoons posted by Sellers etc I realize most of them don't know very much.

My Grandfather told me when just a mere lad as he had told my Father before me that, "They can take every thing you have away from you but the knowledge you have." To that end everything that I have some sort of interest in, I absorb all information I can and thus have knowledge there of. When I was 20 I embarked upon a journey of living the self examined life and have been doing so ever since. Relentlessly so. As a result I know what will make me twitch and more over if I pay attention I will know what makes you twitch. The practical application of having that knowledge is having the ability to thread your way through situations where the outcome is the most advantageous to yourself.

As I have described before is what I term as being able to thread the eye of the needle. Which means that you are not caught up in the emotion or visual perception of the moment but are able to see beyond that to see what is actually going on or what the situation really is. The first time I was able to consciously do that was in September 1983 when I was able to stop see the situation and thus resolve the issue at hand.

I have struggled for a long time trying to describe something else that I do. the best way to describe it is having a stereoscopic view of the world. Where I can see both sides of an issue at once which gives one a depth of vision . One that goes beyond just the visceral plain of perceptions. It is the ability to see multiple dimensions and how each interfaces with the others in order to see how a process works and moreover to know the principles of why it functions that way. You might say it is having knowledge of an unquantifiable reality.

Then there is the employment of exhibiting a certain amount of professional swager in doing what one does. Which is designed to achieve certain ends. But at the end of the day if one can not deliver the goods then the swager becomes hollow thus meaningless.