Thanks for your comments, Thorin.  And yes, diversity of opinion and experience is what makes this forum so lively and effective.  It was one of the great ironies of "knowledge", imo, that while M always SEEMED to appeal to the uniqueness of the individual, the outcome was that we all came to think and talk alike--same language, same look, same bliss, same zombiness in the end!  So vive la difference and let's truly be ourselves now!  Can you imagine how it would be if no-one, anywhere, had EVER "made room for the doubt-maker!".  Robotic, that's what....doesn't bear thinking about.

Cheers!

Shelagh