Sue Harris wrote: >> I seldom contribute because I feel I would either be ignored, the list people would not accept my postings, or someone would just call me stupid even when I think I DO truly have something to contribute that I haven't prevously seen on the forum. << Oh Sue! Just go on and be stupid, like the rest of us. I'm on a few scholarly level forums, and I probably make a complete ass of myself on a daily basis. Besides, you might be surprised to find that even your "stupid" posts resonate with other members, and develop into something worth for us all. Moreover, not only are you cheating us out of your contributions, but you are missing out on the fun. It's fun making an ass of yourself, trust me, I know first hand. And it shifts the learning mode into high gear to put your thoughts into words. To be honest Sue, we're all stupid, even the sharpest among us, and in our past. And the smart ones have long since discovered that the more you know the more you know that you don't know. It's only the young, and uneducated, that think they know everything. So join the ranks of us stupid ones, and have some fun. And damn it, quit cheating us out of your contributions. "I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much more of it." - MT - Letter to W.D. Howells, 2/10/1875 "Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them--and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon--laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,--push it a little-- crowd it a little--weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand." Mark Twain - The Chronicle of Young Satan, Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts "When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." -Mark Twain "The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder."~Huston Smith Harold