[Mrs. Don-o]

Annalex, sometimes I wonder why I spend the time sorting through press reports, news aggregators and blog sources, and reporting on my findings. So often people respond without bothering to separate facts from speculations, or without applying the kind of critical judgment we expect from adults.

"First the verdict, then the evidence!!"

But every once in awhile, I get a thanks or a tip 'o the hat from somebody who actually did plow through it all.

And I realize there are probably lurkers who "get it," without ever telling us.

I suppose I have a hope that this all goes into the archives, the immortal internet cache, the "record," and that sometime some truth-seeker will find it useful.

Then I think of the tons of USSR archives that nobody in the West evidently wants to look at, even 25 years later.

And then I think, "Well, there is a God."

I want to thank you for your efforts, with a strictly theological hope that the efforts are not wasted.

[annalex]

Thank you.

“Theological hope” is not a diminution of hope. Truth has a value in itself, even when no one wants to know it and resists being told.