Its been a while

Its been way too long since I posted on here!

This last semester I took Intro to Philosophy and learned so much and have been annoying anyone and everyone who will listen with this fact and I have been taking the time in between semesters to just devour books and again have been annoying everyone with this new information and I want to put it down in text and plan to do so hopefully a post a week or so!

 

 

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