Yes, solitary confinement takes away everything a human needs to tell apart what is real and what isn't. After 3 days people start getting hallucinations and 15 days is enough to cause permanent psychological damage. 2 years of this torture is something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.

That makes them important, not essential

In germany farmers haven't grown genetically modified plants since 2012 and there is only 1 kind of gmo corn and 1 gmo potato allowed in the eu. And everywhere in the world where gmo crops are the norm, farmers are pressured into growing them by big companies. And you can't tell me that spraying pesticides with planes is a good idea. And did you know that some farmers in south america even grow organic corn because it's cheaper to loose some of it to nature than to buy the pesticides because everything is adapting to the use of those pesticides rendering them almost worthless and resulting in the use of more pesticides which of cause cost more for the farmers.
Maybe you don't, but I think that's a very good reason to fear gmo crops

I think this is from the book/film "Hogfather" where death has to pretend to be the Hogfather (who is the discworld version of santa) to save hogswatch (christmas)

Oh, right, didn't see that

Wikipedia says its american...

You're missing the point. For example by comparing children to monkeys with paintbrushes you were fucking disrespectful from the start! This is why I wrote a comment in the first place. Because people like you seem to see children as not able to learn anything and and you know how that is for a child? Fucking frustrating. Stop looking down on them! It can't be that hard.

Of cause meditation isn't just sitting still. You have no idea how I meditate or why I meditate and now you are making assumptions after criticizing me for assuming something about you. Why?
And I didn't call you an asshole I just said you behaved like one.

I apologize for making this false assumption but you're still behaving like an asshole

Well your comments above, especially the one about how "meditation is an art, high art that demands long and hard training" definitly sounded like that...

The ability to meditate isn't determined by age and you act like a dick saying YOU have "mastered the art of meditation" but no child can learn to meditate and I think that needed to be said here

Meditation is reaching a certain state of mind. And @rosalinas who do you think you are to be able to read every kids mind! I always liked meditation as a kid and I still like it, but I have to say it was easier for me as a child to reach that certain state of mind. Just because something is hard for adults it doesn't have to be impossible for children so take your fucking elitism somewhere else!