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Once in my 20s I hung out with some young teenagers at a summer camp for reasons. One night we were talking and one girl started asking questions and the rest o
by boxed 6y ago
Once in my 20s I hung out with some young teenagers at a summer camp for reasons. One night we were talking and one girl started asking questions and the rest of the group sneered at her "not knowing". She ignored them and kept asking because I was earnest and knowledgeable. Five minutes turned to an hour and I think everyone in that group learned (or at least heard) more about the origins of the universe, stellar evolution, evolution, chemistry, physics, etc, than they had learned in school up to that point.
I sometimes wonder what happened to those people. I suspect the girl who asked questions ended up way more knowledgeable than the other 10 combined.
- warent 6y agoThe sentence you opened this up with comes across kind of concerning and gross. For reasons?
- bluntfang 6y agoI'm with you here buddy. seems like he was doing something shady the way he expressed it. probably lonely and providing alcohol/drugs for minors in order to have company.
- Quarrelsome 6y ago> it sounds shady so it probably was c'mon catch people a break. Maybe they were a former alchy giving AA advice to troubled kids, maybe they don't like talking about their religion online
- dang 6y agoThat crosses into personal attack, which is not allowed here, so please don't. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- bluntfang 6y agomaybe GP was baiting for this to get a response from you, have you considered contacting them? something like "consider not making posts that make it look like you're doing something bad with children"
- gabereiser 6y agoI’m glad I wasn’t the only one who shuttered at that sentence. A better one would have been “as a camp mentor in my 20s”...