To everyone on the internet that thinks they are the end all and be all of knowledge!

I've got some really great hard to see fossils here today. I spent the last 15 years trying to figure out what this was! Always knew there were fossils in these rocks. But despite all I could do or say. I was laughed out of one fossil forum after another. Every time I posted these I get pretend paleontologists coming out of the woodwork to call me every kind of stupid because I flat told them they were wrong. These were not just rocks. The fossils are there you just have to look. I've picked up more than 300 rocks with traces of these fossils and over and over again I was told there was no fossils there! Well, thanks to a very lucky find earlier this week I finally IDed these things. And I was right just like I always knew I was..... That's not true... I've doubted my sanity for years! But now I know what these are. I know what they look like... Having seen more than glacier crushed pieces! These are Blastoid fossils! Crushed broken and messed up in every way possible but fossils none the less. When you know in your gut that the whole world is wrong.... You have got to stick with what you know is true. I never gave up looking for answers despite the worst kind of treatment by almost everyone I spoke to about these. My own family wouldn't even agree with me. But in the end I found it and figured it out on my own..... Well my own and a bit of help from Charles Trautwein.....one of the best geologists working! Who, though he couldn't really see them either, never once said I was wrong or that they were not fossils. If you ever have a chance to meet this man just know there is not a better man any where on this earth .... Thank you Charlie!

Don't ever let anyone tell you you are stupid. You may be wrong, you may not have all the facts. You may need to learn more. But when you know something is true don't let any internet bonehead tell you you are stupid for not seeing it their way. No matter what they CLAIM their qualifications are. There is nothing on this planet so ignorant as a man full of book learning a degree. Remember that and persefeckenvere!