Regarding ego, 282etc, of COURSE I have an ego too! It's what keeps me coming back incessantly to this forum and having these contentious arguments with people like you and BillD, getting in one last word, knowing perfectly well all the while that it's a completely vain and futile futile exercise...but it's just too irresistible. It's my immature little ego that can't resist getting in one more WHACK at you guys...because my opinion of your attitude is identical to your opinion of mine.

We are both in the grip of ego reactions, and I know it.

I ever I can silence this chattering ego of mine, you will not find me here arguing about these matters at all anymore, I can assure you. I'll have much better things to do.

I laugh at you guys, and I laugh at myself too. We are all victims of the very same weaknesses. Egos playing wargames against egos, seeking verbal victories that are meaningless.