[Tilikum Turbo]

My childhood friend has been on a long-slippery slope of what I call de-evolution.

Once highly intelligent(and well educated), being around his nutcase prepper, paranoid delusional 'wife', he is now transformed into a shadow of the earlier person I knew.

Now 50, all of his unfulfilled goals and aspirations in life can be blamed on the gov't, the pyramids on the dollar bills, the secret societies such as the Mason's, conspiracy claims, etc. All drivel from someone speaking like he just crawled out from under a rock in the Appalachian's. As a young man, he used to save his money...but his wife has fixed ALL that....perpetually broke now.

His wife in the 80's once stated that the US Govt had already sent men to Mars...yet, when I asked her to validate that claim, from that moment forward
I was the enemy. And she's been feeding my friend a boat-load of shyte ever since.

Not deeply religious, however there is a quote I remember from the Bible: "so as a man thinks...that is what he becomes"

Have ANY of you ever met a truly successful person in your life who is looking
at life in such terms? We all change as we get older, but I look at this as an excellent example not to hook up with a stupid woman. We warn our daughters when they go on dates what to look out for. We should do the same for our sons as well.