@ Pandora - Thank you for the warm welcome and kind comments! I'm glad you have enjoyed what I have written, both here and in the other thread. I put a lot of time into the other thread I started, so I'm glad people are reading it as well as commenting on it.

I have enjoyed reading your posts as well! You pop up quite a bit just scanning through posts looking for info. Very insightful, you are!

@ SWIMfriend - I wrote up an essay and posted it in the "Open Discussion" area, and that raises some questions. You can read it if interested. I really have a lot more to say though... I'm just "testing the waters" at this point, so to speak.

Most of the discussions that I like to divulge into are very lengthy and require lots of background info on the subjects/perspectives at hand. The essay I wrote should serve as an example of the type of thing I'm interested in discussing, but there is certainly much more I could bring up. I'll try to write up some more stuff soon, coming from different angles... I enjoy writing very much, but it can be time consuming!