""By aligning yourselves with your 'buddies' and trying to 'elaborate' their VERY polarized, and oft recklessly uneducated positions, sometimes you tend to thoroughly embarrass yourself, while trying to draw their 'approval'....""

I have two points to make here GfS

1. I do not slavishly follow anybody else, nor seek anybody else's approval, especially not yours. I look at the evidence and draw conclusions from it, which is why I am often disrespectful to those who twist or ignore it.

2. Whenever you drop the airy fairy mystical crap, there is just a glimmer of the rational debater, but never quite enough .

You could, if you took the trouble, be coherent. You rarely take the trouble and frankly your more excitable rants are virtually incomprehensible.

You may have noticed that I tend to post in bursts with quite long gaps. This is because I have other things to do in the real world which keep me almost as busy as when I was in full time employment.

So I don't have the time or energy to decipher long, hysterical screeds.

Perhaps a step back from the mystic and spiritual? You could always start another thread on that subject?

Don T.