truly_insightful u24 what you said on red, daxle; "In the giant woven chain of cause and effect nothing truly ever ends." nice one. 040910 ... :) __since__the__time__without__beginning... Amen. 040910 ... daxle thank you, u24. coming from you thats quite a compliment. it was actually a paraphrase of a very old buddhist' philosophy that i must have read somewhere. "The causes I make initiate chains of cause and effect that do not terminate wihen my five skandahs decide to disassoicate and pursue independent careers...Nothing ends at death. There is no real person who dies, just as there is no real person who is born. The causal flows all continue." i got that from: http://www.lioncity.net/buddhism/index.php?showtopic=6296 you can do it too, its pretty easy to be insightful with google on your side. again, thank you. 040910 ... a "point" Sudan: U.S. Genocide Declaration Harmful Fri Sep 10, 1:15 PM ET 040910 what's it to you? who go blather from