Hello Cal.

I have a flood of adjectives parading through my mind after reading your comments posted 7/7 - just received 8/14. I think that I can sum them all up simply by saying: Admirable. Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with me - and our audience - between the bars.

You'd wrote: "I stand to learn much more about understanding others." Well Cal, I stand in awe. Who are you? Your genius is brilliant! A beautiful mind you have... able to duplicate and originate such profound Thought. Do you actually aspire TO BE - empathetic? I hope you don't mind if I ask if you're in any way considered an associate within the intelligentsia? You're certainly more than an ivory towered academician! Who are you Cal - what do you do? Whatever the case may be... touché.

You say: "Since humans are (usually) much more complex than the words they write, there is much more for me to learn about understanding others." Aye, the braid of personality is often circumvented with the written word. Yet, as an educated man is as superior to uneducated men, as the living are to the dead - the written word can be an indicator of a persons heart condition per. Matt. 6:21. Thinking precedes Feeling precedes Doing, you see? Noble Thoughts inspire noble deeds. Even in the case of a charlatan aspiring to appear greater than they feel - the ennobling Thought is there to be coaxed, as you are so adept in doing. Amplifying noosphere signals... one way or another... is a pleasure, isn't it?

Thank you for your "social gadfly" acknowledgement. I too, recognized the resemblance - and barely evaded the end phenomena of those two gadflies you'd mentioned who also contended with status quo. You see Cal, in this pharisaical paradign - it's all about who dares overwhelm who. Know it alls are hardest to convince though... so the most I expect to do is simply to point out the obvious - cruel as that sometimes seems - and then much like the fabled Medusa glimpsing her reflection in the mirror, pharisaism crumbles. At least as far as its power over me is concerned. In Matt 23:27 they're called "whited sepulchres." And yes... Luke II 45/54 is the game of overwhelmings I'd mentioned. Do you know the difference between a sacrifical lamb and a scapegoat? They are both vehicles of expiation. The lamb takes people secrets to the grave, whereas the cooat is fortunate enough to be exiled - taking those secrets to the wilderness. Too many social gadflied succumb to the former, for some reason. I expect it may be related to the fact those gadfly accountants became fixated on the whistle blowing - at the expense of all other interests in life. That one is a hard one to recover from.

Constructive dialectics you say? Dichotomic considerations is certainly a process on our spiritual journey. Recognizing others - trapped by