well! I am honored and pleased to be complimented by you and several other 'believers' of various descriptions. I also enjoy the discussions and trading of ideas....and, it behooves me to stay tolerant and reasonable, hmmm? Who knows, I might need several of you to vouch for me in the next life/incarnation/level of consciousness/ if I prove to be wrong...*grin*... "Awww...he's a good guy, he just had his higher consciousness disconnected when he was 9 by not eating his vegetables."
(That sounds a bit like Pascal's Wager, where he argues that it is 'safer' to believe in God, 'cause if God exists, you'll be MUCH better off....but 'ol Pascal missed a whole bunch of possibilities, and 'God' might be a cosmic pratical joker who is giggling at all our wild guesses.)