I enjoyed your diary, and appreciated that you posted it here. There is no other place that I go to everyday, so if it was somewhere else I would have missed it, to my detriment.

In fact, I rarely read diaries, for want of time. I'll open a bunch which have titles that might be interesting, but I rarely read more than a couple lines in and even more rarely read past the fold. I am already in trouble with every project that I am working on, and each interesting thing gets me deeper in trouble. So, always the Salon, sometimes the OT and less sometimes the diaries.

But your title was provocative, at first glance seemingly counter-point to the recent "why not more females" thread...even though I don't know if 'woo woo' had been brought up there. (Without checking, I remember that Fran stomped on the sub-thread of 'meta-physical' cleverly enough, before it could gather either steam or condescension.) In fact, it was a counter-point to the mega-thread of a few months ago that still leaves a scar on ET members...at least upon me.

And thus, my attempt at humor...(he says, getting ready to explain the joke once again)...that we were set up to take your story seriously, reflecting elements of our kinder selves rather than clever rat-a-tat-style of idea enforcement.

And even though I did not otherwise comment on any of the other mentioned threads, I am more sympathetic to the side that shan't be described as metaphysical (for fear of denigrating it) than to the side that must forcefully remind us that it is science, based upon the methods that have so obviously brought sanity to the society.

Not that I don't like science, for I am a technology person. It's just that science forgets how limited its scope of understanding is, fixed at only what it can see from the narrow shelf of the subtended angle of its place(s) of expertise on the ExpandoMaticSphere of all potential knowledge.

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.

Frank Delaney ~ Ireland