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@write4u, Anil Seth, worth every second.  Short and sweet and hopeful.  Thank you.  Glad you like David.

@mriana, superb all round, thanks again.  John Shelby was one of my bêtes noires, like Richard.  No more.  Beautiful.  The WCG was cunning in that there were holidays.  Especially the massively indulgent Feast of Tabernacles.  Even my three 30+ kids have positive memories of that.  But I woke up this morning cringing with shame over not acknowledging my grandmother’s birthday.

@lausten (JD!), you’re very kind.  I should be shot in the face of course for missing the generous edit window, of which I was not aware, but ignorance is no excuse, for this of course: ‘I though[T] that people who could do propositional logic in Latin knew something’.  As for my rambling to no coherent effect, no punchline, sorry!  In my minority Hum[e]an reason I completely defer to the enlightened, humane rationalism epitomized by Richard.  But.  At the age of 14 I read James Michener’s The Source and it made the God of the Bible yearningly, mystically credible.  The rest is history.  Ian M. Banks’ (how DARE the bastard DIE on us!) Excession is still on that trajectory, as is his final, literally sublime, The Hydrogen Sonata, and the film of Arthur C. Clarke’s 2010: Odyssey Two, superbly blown away in 3001: The Final Odyssey (God DAMN!  how could I have missed 2061: Odyssey Three!  I was so far up the cultic colon). Arthur and Richard would have got on fine.  J.B.S. did.  Sorry, ramble, ramble, ramble.  In my disordered passions I want the God I can no longer rationally believe in to be the immanent ground of eternal, infinite natural and transcendent being.

In 10 years I look forward to being as positive as you three.  Arthritis and intrusive thinking willing…