choice quotes from Tyrone on God and personal identity

[graymalkn]

Yesterday I was working with Tyrone on addition. It took him a while to get into it but he finally did. At one point, though, he started getting squirley and started veering off on random topics. Out of the blue he mentioned God, and I quickly suggested that we return to addition. At this he said, "God is just a big creepy jerk looking at us

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[topteddy]

tyrone sounds like a really neat kid... how old did you say he is?

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[graymalkn]

I just posted a really long reply to this and lost the whole thing. I'll redo it later as a new Tyrone entry.

To answer your question, he's eight going on eighteen. He already know more slang and more about drugs than I do (though that's saying very little on both counts).

[ideaspace]

That kid is gold. You need to collect it all for a book, sell it on the wisdom/self-help market, give Tyrone all the profits and get him into Harvard. Seriously.

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[graymalkn]

Why do you think I'm writing them all down as they happen? It sure ain't to keep you folks laughing.

Actually, it's funny you should post this now - it just occurred to me the other day that it might be kinda neat to collect all these entries and give them to him at the end of the year so he could look back on them in the future. That is, if the litlte squirt ever learns to read...