gee, golly, Little Hawk...I seem to pushed one of YOUR buttons. That was pretty harsh.
...you ask me...
"But why do you doubt it? Why would you have any opinion on the matter at all?????"...I have answered this for you before, in various ways....but- one more time.

Because the world is full of folks pushing opinions on the matter who have no more access to ultimate information on it all than I do!<
Because superstition, wishful thinking and careless reasoning are being palmed off as 'insights' and 'truths', and people are being hurt, deluded, cheated, misled, misinformed, tricked, lulled, and otherwise fed concepts, beliefs and dubious information that creates much of the worlds woes.

Now, that being said, 'some' of this is relatively harmless and even understandable in view of our history and being only a few decades out of tens of thousands of years into being able to sort it out clearly. It is not easy to substitute research and work for quick "knee-jerk" (to quote a friend) responses to 'interesting' experiences and ideas.

I repeat....(but will no doubt be mis-heard again)...I am not in the business of proving that this...or that...claim is absolutely **wrong**, but merely showing that claims need substantiation beyond what is usually presented.
   I want, when I object, question or complain about certain notions to merely leave the alternative view nearby, in hopes that fence-sitters will think twice.

In spite of what you keep pegging me with, I'd LOVE to see certain things shown to be true. I just don't choose to buy into them blindly.


oh, daylia...re:" you are still full of doubt, still cursing the essence of your existence"
...piffle! I get along fine with my existence, especially since I detect no 'essence' to contend with one way or another. *grin*

Amos...I have seen the wonderful metaphor of the relevance of "the man behind the curtain"....it's a pity there aren't more little dogs available.