42 - Don't hold your breath on that one! :-) Nothing is so adamant and offensive as sheer ignorance confronted by a new idea.

Bill - You'll find I agree with Amos on pretty well all of what he said. Your brain would avail you nothing without the active intelligence of your spirit coursing through it, just as a radio would avail you nothing without a broadcast program to play through it and a purposeful intention to tune in the station, and electricity to power the device. Your spirit is the intelligence, energy, and purpose analagous to those. Your brain is the receiving/transmitting device, and nothing more than that.

Wolfgang, however, would probably say it's the other way around, and that the physical brain has given rise TO all those other things I mentioned.

Like I said before, one of us is clearly looking through the wrong end of the telescope. Either that, or we're both half right. :-)