Fair enough, The Snail. ;-) I figure everyone has a right to be bored by anything they do find boring.

John from Kemsing - "why do we die? And why is it that, for millenia, man`s span has always been seventy years?"

I don't know.

I suppose that we die for the same reason everything else does...entropy. All physical things appear to have a limited lifespan. I don't know if man's lifespan has always been about seventy years...but it may be so. If it is, I can't tell you why. Why is a budgie's lifespan 7 to 15 years?

We don't know. It just is, that's all. I accept the fact that we don't know everything and we never will know everything. I accept that there are some mysteries we cannot solve...we can just observe them and make poetry about them.

Religion has arisen mostly in an attempt to answer the great mysterious questions that we have the most difficulty answering, and that's why I find it so interesting a subject. It looks into the great questions of life. I'm not much interested at all in the deity/idol/ritual aspects of religion. I'm interested in the philosophical questions it raises.