I'm not going to kill anyone -- neither literally nor figuratively, neither physically nor spiritually. That's why I got out of the army: I finally realized that I didn't want to eliminate my nation's enemies by taking their lives; rather I wanted to eliminate their enmity by improving their lives (as with education, etc.).

I don't believe in "tit for tat" retaliation, so one person saying something nasty doesn't give another the right to "get back at them" by also saying something nasty. WikiLove, which traces its heritage back to the Bible, suggests rather that "A soft answer turns away wrath".

(Recently I made the mistake of 'jokingly' insulting JTD, but to my dismay he took me seriously and I ended up by offending him. I really regret this.)

It will be better if Robert (RK) makes the effort to restrain himself from slapping people with the N-word; and it will also be better if others make the effort to avoid antagonizing Robert with personal remarks.

I know it's hard to stick to the subject matter; so many times I think to myself, "What's wrong with these @#$% people? Can't they understand something so simple as A? How can they be so stupid as to persistently confuse B with C?" *sigh* If you only knew how many posts and/or edits I delete instead of sending...

Ed Poor, aka Unsolved Equation