Reply #102: are you trying to be a motivational speaker

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fuggedabadit. I'm older than you, can do PDeq, probability and stochastic calculus. Those classes are on my college transcript which I hang on the side of my home, which is a van DOWN BY THE RIVER!!

You claim that you are not materialistic and yet when you say "I am not successful yet" it sounds like you are giving a purely materialist definition to the word "success". And that, as William James said, is our national disease.

If you want to help "SOCIETY" then stay far away from mentoring. You help an underprivileged kid to materialist 'success' does not help society. It only 'helps' that kid. He will then be the meanest, fastest, and best prepared rat in the rat race. The rat race will still be a bunch of lemmings racing for a cliff, and furthermore it is like war, a strange game, the only way to win, is not to play.