Quite true. I've been on a quest to dismantle my assumptions
  about "the way things are" - finding beliefs that I hold to be
  true and trying to find out, "WHERE" did I get that idea from.
  Is it mine?

  The thing that surprises me over and over again, is no, I can
  trace it back to a person, a group, an idea - to something
  typically from before I was born, but quite often, to something
  during my lifetime. Someone inspired me. I started wanting to
  impress them, as if they were there. I would say the kinds of
  things they would like. And I wouldn't even be conscious of it.

  I don't mind being a "speaker for the dead" as it were, but I
  like knowing *who* I'm speaking for. It'd been somewhat
  disturbing at times, and quite enlightening.

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