The paragraph you quote, Ebbie, is simply a list of various hypothetical possibilities, and nothing more than that. It's a philosophical look at how governments often behave, that's all. I find it much more interesting to observe how people behave and to understand why they do it....the study of human motivations...than to spend hours trying to didactically prove to anyone whether or not Oswald was the sole killer of John Kennedy...cos I know none of us can prove that one way or another anyway. If we can understand how and why people behave the way they do, though, then we can better understand ourselves, and life in general.

Governments often conceal much from their people, and they do it for a great variety of pragmatic reasons, some of which are probably quite justified, others of which are not. And I find that interesting. It's why I take everything they say with a grain of salt, because it might be partly true, it might be all true or it might be completely false, and the general public isn't in a very good position to know for sure about that. And that's how it's always been.

I have no idea if Oswald killed Kennedy or not, if he acted alone or not, if there was a larger conspiracy or not, and if the Warren Commission covered stuff up or not. I don't BELIEVE anything specific about it except that Kennedy got shot in Dallas and died....I merely have some doubts and suspicions regarding the official version of what happened. And I will never know. ;-) And neither will any of the rest of you. And there it stands.

And there isn't a damn thing any of us can do about it. Still we talk about it. Why?

Because we like to talk and assert (and defend) our own identity by talking! It gives us something to do in those idle minutes, and we can't resist expressing ourselves. It engages us. ;-D And that's all there is to it. It's the same reason that other people spend an hour or two yakking on the phone and gossiping about their neighbours and relatives. They LIKE to talk.

Examine your own motivations. I do that all the time, I examine my motivations and behaviour, and I am both amused and somewhat chagrined over the valuable time I waste here daily yakking to the rest of you about stuff that won't change anything or accomplish anything, because I simply can't resist doing so. And the same goes for the rest of you. If you react to this post of mine and type something in response to it, you will be doing the very same thing I have just alluded to.