Skyweir wrote: historically speaking the world has always need more laughter and less prigs lol - unsourced)

This is just the kind of unfounded, spontaneous, anti-intellectual, feel-goody statement that erodes the pursuit of Truth, as we define it. Where is the argument in this statement? How is anyone supposed to oppose such a position? How anti-Priggish of you! I suppose you would have us put on music, and dance, and just get along??!
As for Tom's statement, I don't even know where to begin. You think truth just descends like rain from some spiritual realm?? YOu would think that some God just made up truth and pours it out in some profligate precipitation? No! We have to sit around and figure it out ourselves!
(btw Tom, kudos! That rocked!!
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