I'm tolerant, Chongo, tolerant. Besides, I think we're better off without the TV. Also, I realize that as an ape in a human-dominated society you've had to put up with a lot, so I make allowances.

Richard, what I was expounding on there was a set of ideas quite common in many Asian religions and philosophies. I don't belong to any particular one of them, but they all interest me, as does Christianity.

When Jesus said "Seek ye the Kingdom of Heaven which is within", what do you think he meant?

He clearly meant that heaven is an inner state of mind. It's not "out there" somewhere. Or...he meant that God is within each human being. That's another way of saying the same thing, I think.

Could it not be that religion is simply a search for the best that lies within each one of us, and it gets compromised time and again by people's ego-driven need to build worldly power structures? Could it be that science could harmonize with that search for the best within us? I think so.