pompous?

Hmmm... yesterday's post read OK to me when I sent it. I'd been thinking about consciousness and immortality a lot lately for a story I'm writing. But when I re-read it today it sounds pompous to me. Is it just the (slightly starved) light headed state I'm in today? Or does it read that way to you too?

I don't want to sound know-it-all, so if it comes across that way I need to fix it.
(I actually think of myself as slightly stupid.)

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