[Askel5]

Well ... let's not discount that one Magic Bean that is your brain which susses out the truth from all sources and cobbles together the personal faith on which conviction you perpetually challenge the Magic Bean beliefs of others.

I take your "reverently" -- as applied indiscriminately to Christ, Buddha, Rand and Aristotle ... as if they all were somehow equals as prophets -- with a grain of salt.

In any case, if ever all your bits of truth meld into something the rest of us can taste, please ring the dinner bell. I, for one, will come running to see how rich is the stew on which you intend to dine for eternity.

(Or at least until -- poof! -- you and all your discerning return to the dust of the Void from whence you came.)

[Doctor Doom]

as if they all were somehow equals as prophets

Each has a good thing to say here and there, and some faults.

In any case, if ever all your bits of truth meld into something the rest of us can taste, please ring the dinner bell.

Not likely. I seek for my own knowledge only. But if I can teach you something of value in the process, I am humbled by the concept.

(Or at least until -- poof! -- you and all your discerning return to the dust of the Void from whence you came.)

Okay by me. Why does that concept bother you so much?

[The Good Hunter]

...return to the dust of the Void from whence you came...\

Postulate ye that we sprang from a void?