Oliver,
Wow!
Sorry if I sounded as if it was directed at you. I did. But in reality, I start everything off that way...yet to me none of it is personal...rather it is merely another opportunity to explain to one more soul in one more way... just another match to light a flame... Or to experience more of my own fire by being able to experience one more time the absolute spiritual essence that is pierced by the possibility of bridging the gap.

I know I must watch that because others occasionally take it personally. But I thought you were pulling my chain... and so I tugged back. I know I did this to Hobie a long while back. Didn't even realize it until I re-read it. But he was a perfect gentleman and graciously ignored me.

Speaking of which, if I may take an opportunity here to discuss what this subject brings up (though it has nothing to do with you personally though you may have the same experience): I always figure most any post, even those richly divided are merely invitations to fill in the holes. Mind leaps across the barrier and builds a bridge to 'pull together' rather than to divide. It is as though we practice a kind of politics of inclusion here on RMN.

The only ones I find that do not offer the opportunity for 'inclusion' are those self-righteous religious rants. They are destructive to a fault. Indeed, I think even the absolute duplicity of the CIA, the greed of the New World Order and horror of the boxcar shackles, pale by comparison to the meanness spewed by such small minds.

See? That had nothing at all to do with you. But Mind just has way of wanting to use the opportunity to fill in a hole it saw.

Anyway, I very much enjoy your keen mind and sense of vibrant Math. Your intellect is oftentimes a cross between a warm puppy, a bush pilot and Albert (as in Einstein). Terra put it well: You have a way with words that melts all of us.
So, if I offended, I humbly apologize! It was not my intent. I just disagreed with you...teehee...
Are you smiling...?

E.