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 haha, yeah, i think it's just the case that you can only really deal with your 12 disciples so when you get too many people engaging you have to get rid of the ones who are not as serious

your fault, bringing up Jesus again 
 also i'm not really a big account... i just like to get engaged with people who i perceive are adding to the conversation, mainly that actually means teaching me something... or at least making me feel like i have a student 
 That teaching thing is a gene I'm convinced. My grandparents, parents, and uncles were all teachers. But it skipped my generation. My siblings and I run away from all teaching engagements.

But if you have the passion, it's like you must teach even if it's just 12
 
 well my mother was always teaching me things but she got sick and her trade before she was a mother was nurse... and my father was always trying to teach things but he was terrible at it, super cranky and demanding, more of a tyrant of a teacher... and yeah, before that, my mother's father also a teacher and engineer