Dave, I am suggesting nothing about what YOU might believe or not believe. I am asking some questions about life, because asking those questions interests me. If you have already asked those same questions...great! As long as anyone is willing to ask questions, they are still open to learning new things.

As McGrath recently posted on another thread:

The basic point of involving yourself in an online discussion needs to be, not to try to convince other people who disagree with you (you are never going to do that) but to clarify what you yourself think, and find out more about what other people think.

That ought to be engraved in gold and put at the top of this forum! Because that is IT. If more of the people who came here would just follow that kind of approach to dialogue instead of being paranoid and trying to verbally destroy the other people they talk to here, it would be a far more agreeable place.

I don't come here to fight with people or to convert them to anything, I come here to express myself in words, to talk about things that interest me...or that amuse me, sometimes...and to clarify my own thoughts by expressing them, and to hear other people's thoughts, thus getting to know them better, which helps me understand the rest of humanity better.

And that's it. Period.