Very well said.
I do try and consider ALMOST anyone's input and see what I can learn from it.
However, I do tend to have a knee-jerk response that's extremely combative and resistent to the chronic 'agin-it' naysaying which seems to crop up hereon so persistently whenever anything prophetic or supernatural enters the discussion.
And the assaultive, insulting, derisive etc. flavors of it just beg me, somehow, to slap them down in kind.
I'm not particularly proud of that. I just hate seeing such an attitude carry the day so easily, repeatedly, chronically.
I suppose I should learn from my betters who don't stoop to such depths.
I certainly have no delusions that I'll influence the naysayers AT ALL. Concrete is not usually so flexible! Fossilized granite craniums worse.
But I have the fantasy or delusion that lurkers might learn something from at least seeing that there is another perspective.
I think I may have another delusion--that annoying the naysayers by slapping back at them in kind will be some sort of aversive stimulus. That's probably insanity. It probably only feeds their obnoxiousness. LOL. Silly me. I should keep that in mind more.
Much appreciate your thoughtful and wise posts. I appreciate sounding boards.