Since both your educational and professional background tend to play a major influence in your various beliefs, I think this would be a grand topic to start in an attempt to figure out more of why some people here think the way they do.
(Mods- let me know if this is an acceptable topic- I read through the rules and don't think there's anything that this violates)
I'll start-
B.A in history at a state university, with an emphasis on revolutionary/late colonial U.S. history.
Current profession is in the field of electrical engineering. Attempted to go to law school but failure to achieve stellar LSAT scores killed that ambition.
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