Oo! Oo!(sticking my arm up like Arnold Horshack in Welcome Back Kotter - if that doesn't date me...!) I just remembered something else that fell off my train of thought: Symbols! The power of symbolism (which is what great rituals, ceremonies, rites, ordinances, traditions, etc. are all about) - deny it at your peril! Art, music, language (both written and spoken), mathmatics, basically all the arts, sciences, and forms of communication would be defunct without the human mind's ability and willingness to use symbols. As long as we are alive and wish to relate in any meaningful way to anybody else, we will depend upon symbols! (the very type I am typing at this moment!) I mean, just the thought of living in a world where I was discouraged from creating or discovering art, because it wasn't "real" - ! Giving the intangible tangibility - isn't that what happened when (if you are a believer) the world was created, Man and Woman were shaped from the dust, the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us? I know I'm not saying anything revelatory or brilliant here, but it feels good to say it!