...to go to bed and so must I....

Dun dun de dun dun dun dundun...dun de dun dunn dunn.

Klansland?

It seems to me Mary Anne that your views are secretly as ironclad as those you wish to label.

Goodness and kindness has its own hidden prejudices - there is the prejudice of the educated over the non-educated an almost automatic feeling of superiority which must be supressed and understood as fallacious.

This comes with an even greater understanding and the understanding that all are equal in an infinite sense and have the same innate value and infinite potential.

Being a public servant can make one feel secretly a bit better than others who do not. It may not be a conscious thought but lurk in the subconscious.

One also must learn to see that all the people you encounter daily are not the same age. And I am not talking about dozens of years...I am talking about tens of thousands and possibly even millions of years.

You will learn to recognize it over time when you look for it.

These boards are the same way. The literacy rate here exceeds most places - there may be better sites out there. I post here much more right now because MSNBC space bbs is acting retarded and staying down for no good reason.

I don't like the banning bit here. I never did. I still don't.

I think this place would be a HECKUVA lot more interesting if more conflict existed.

Conflict EXPANDS and promotes development.

This BBS is like Heinlein's description of the earthlike world in Starship Troopers that did not get enough radiation and so mutations were down and this retarded growth.

Conflict and exchange of ideas refines ones views...and a new POV may reaffirm views or help it evolve in certain aspects.

Mary Anne, you will be missed. Of course as soon as I responded to a post of yours - I very seldom got a response....which is fine of course. But us Klansmen and mutual masturbators are icky to be around....I wouldn't want to respond to me either!

Best wishes,

SDAI-Tech1