Ebbie - It's just normal human curiosity and past investment that keeps bringing me back. Same as most people who post here. ;-)

See, it works this way. At some point, for some reason, one drops in on a thread. It might even be a thread that is on a subject that one normally has no interest in...and believe me, I have VERY little interest in Proposition 8 and whether or not Californians support it or oppose it...I don't give a hoot one way or the other.

However, mere curiosity caused me to drop in here at some point, and I read some posts. The way that people were going after each other and some of the specific things they said in those posts kind of troubled me, and I felt an urge to comment on that.

That led to people reacting to my comments. Their reactions stirred me to make further comments. I got accused here and there of some things that really surprised me (such as the notion that I'm a moral relativist)...so, like anyone, I reacted to that also. And so it went.

After awhile I had invested quite a bit of time trying to explain my ideas and stuff. When you've made a significant investment of time and effort on any thread, it becomes ever more likely that you will return again and again and check on what's happening lately on that thread. It becomes a self-renewing process.

You get curious as to how someone else might have responded to the last thing you said, so you check in and take a look. Then you see something new that somebody said (like your last post where you are talking to me), and you feel like, "Well, I should maybe reply to that..."

And so it goes! ;-D

It's sort of like a perpetual motion machine, and it's driven by the most common and universal of human impulses. This thread, after awhile, becomes its own justification for why I return to it again and again, whether or not I have any interest in same sex marriage in California.

Like the USA in Vietnam or Elvis in Las Vegas, I have become quite accustomed to being here by now, and it's likely I'll be around for awhile yet....because I can't help wanting to see what happened since my last post. ;-)