Name: Alphagold1 IP: 18.63.1.19 Subject: inanity Email: Website: http:// Let see how much I can get out before my laundry calls for me again to attend to its wayward needs. I hate folding. As to depression, I would answer that, but its no good. Some things must be face to face. I've learned too well that such things are best done with a physical presence. But one thought: In such a "I'm going to put on a happy face even though I've repressed any emotions I have at all" it is no surprise that people's lives in general are on a downswing. Consider even detecting such a person an exercise in empathy. And now, I present the true reason for this message. The study of logic. The study of logic is simply a procedure for thinking. Do I have any disagreement on that point? Logic manipulates facts and ideas in such a way as to generate a train of thought. There are of course, other methods. Scattered Thoughts, circular reasoning, Spontaneous blast of clarity alternated with fuzziness, and random association. Of all of these, Logic is perhaps the only one which can consistently get us anywhere. Using any other thought process, we can get to any destination potentially a whole lot faster, but also have the chance of not getting there at all. No, Logic is our best chance for continuing our meager existence, for what we can not do by brilliance, we can do by worrying it through. Logic is a process with rules and axioms and the like. It does not depend on chance insomuch as the information involved has been gleaned through freakish accidents, which they may very well have been. We study logic only if we want to get somewhere intellectually, and have a good, though not assured, chance of getting there. Logic is like water. Jolt may be fun every once in a while, but water will keep you alive when all the Jolt's gone. As for art. most people do it for its own sake. Don't ask me, I don't understand it either. I like stuff that entertains, or is functional myself. Beauty is good too. Take a Su-37. A sweeter machine you shall not find. Deadly(i.e. Functional), Beautiful, and highly entertaining at airshows. but that's just me. Everyone has their own brand of poison, some are more expensive than others. Art is what you make of it, and most of it looks like crap to my uncultured eye.Woefully incomplete, but I must attend Laundry now. Have Faith. Have Fun. Have Mercy. Ever and Always. Alphagold1