David:

My life in the past year especially has indicated to me that what you say is absolutely true. My truth (so to speak) cannot be forecd upon anyone who isn't ready to hear it.

Your point is well taken . . .

However with regard to belief and sifting through the bullshit --- I will now defer to one of my gurus --- the immortal author ROBERT ANTON WILSON --- who said the following:

"Everybody nowadays thinks they must have an ‘opinion’ on everything, whether they know anything about it or not. Unfortunately, few people know the difference between an opinion and a proof. Worse yet, most people have no knowledge at all about the difference in degree of between a merely legal proof, a logical or verbal proof, a proof in the soft sciences like psychology, and a proof in the hard physical-mathematical sciences. They are full of opinions, but they have little ability to distinguish the relative degree of proof upholding all these various opinions. We say ‘seeing is believing,’ but actually, as Santayana pointed out, we are all much better at believing than at seeing. In fact, we are seeing what we believe nearly all the time, and only occasionally seeing what we can’t believe." --- Robert Anton Wilson, from COSMIC TRIGGER (pg. 33)

By the way, if you have never heard of or read the book COSMIC TRIGGER --- I would recommend it highly.

Peace and all the best to you and yours . . .

Your friend,

KDB = Buffalo, NY USA