To: William Rogers, Rsbiomedical, Diesel Power, TXBill, Mercedes Fred, BENZ-LGB, TANK, Snibble, Sflori, Jason Beal and any other with an input on this thread.

First of all, I offer an apology and ask for forgiveness to all those who took offence, were upset, angered, annoyed or simply disappointed with the short statement I made in response to William Rogers's post and for any discord this may have caused to a wonderful bunch of members that you guys are.

I have to acknowledge that by trying to synthesize a stream of thought into a very short statement to avoid Occam's razor, I was unwittingly lending my statement to a profuse ways of interpretation. For this I can only take full responsibility.

Secondly, notwithstanding the commotion unleashed on this sensitive subject, I must say that the responses engendered were conveyors of those most precious human values which were reflected on each post, and these were: Courage, Altruism, Hope, Faith, Truth, Idealism, Loyalty, Unselfishness and the value of Pleasure. For this guys, I am indebted to you all.

To all these values there is an immense overriding raison d'etre and I will endeavor to portray them in my own small way:-

The Vicissitudes of Existence

The uncertainties of life and the vicissitudes of existence do not in any manner contradict the concept of the sovereignty of choice. All evolutionary creature life is beset by certain inevitabilities.

Consider the following:-

1. Is courage (strength of character) desirable?. Then must man be reared in an environment which necessitates grappling with hardships and reacting to disappointments.

2. Is altruism (service of one's fellows) desirable?. Then musts life experience provide for encountering situations of social inequality.

3. Is hope (the grandeur of trust) desirable. Then human existence must constantly be confronted with insecurities and recurrent uncertainties.

4. Is faith (the supreme assertion of human thought) desirable?. Then must the mind of man find itself in the troublesome predicament where it ever knows less than it can believe.

5. Is the love of truth and the willingness to go wherever it leads, desirable?. Then must man grow up in a world where error is present and falsehood always possible.

6. Is idealism (the approaching concept of wisdom) desirable?. Then must man struggle in an environment of relative goodness and beauty, surroundings stimulative of the irrepressible reach for better things.

7. Is loyalty (devotion to highest duty) desirable?. Then must man carry on amid the possibilities of betrayal and desertion. The valor of devotion to duty consists in the implied danger of default.

8. Is unselfishness (the spirit of self-forgetfulness) desirable? Then must mortal man live face to face with the incessant clamoring of an inescapable self for recognition and honor. Man could not dynamically choose the wisdom in life if there were no self-values to forsake. Man could never lay saving hold on righteousness if there were no potential evil to exalt and differentiate the good by contrast.

9. Is pleasure (the satisfaction of happiness) desirable?. Then must man live in a world where the alternative of pain and the likelihood of suffering are ever-present experiential possibilities.


Thank you Guys for your tolerance.

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