Oh my, oh my...so many great posts here... :-)

Roger the skiffler - Just my own opinion, but I think anyone who refers to breasts as "boobs" should be shot, pissed on, and run through a trash compactor. A "boob" is a stupid person. "Boobs" are 2 or more stupid people.

Ebbie - It is kind of amazing that MMario found a dozen people who all agreed on something as contentious as this! Usually you can't get a dozen people to agree on anything less basic than that sex is enjoyable or "it's hot out there today". Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

smoking man - Right on, brother!

SeanM - Science is a religion, based upon observation and testing of various observable physical and energetic phenomena, according to a specifically reductionist viewpoint of reality. Within its own parameters it makes perfectly good sense. Outside of them it is as oblivious to actual experience as any other religion. Its high priests do not take kindly to "heretics" or members of other belief systems, and they guard their turf jealously. As the centuries go by, these high priests frequently succeed in demolishing previously "known and proven scientific facts" and replacing them with new ones...a process that will no doubt continue until people stop wondering if Elvis is still alive or not...and even beyond that, I trust.

Spaw - Now just how the hell would you know what "a pea in the Grand Canyon" looks like? I know for a fact that there are no peas in the Grand Canyon. I read it in Scientific American. :-)

Amos - We are ALL faking life in some way!

All of us - Y' know, folks, there is probably NOTHING more hugely appealing to the human ego than to think that one knows something highly significant that very few other people are aware of. It makes you feel really important yourself, and superior..."Oh, if they only knew! The poor deluded fools..." Ah, yes, it's a hard thing to resist, being a TRUE BELIEVER. I accuse all highly opinionated folks, including myself, of this particular mental maneuver...on occasions. We are all, in fact, functionally insane, according to someone else's definition of reality and common sense. Not to mention downright silly...

- LH