Hello, Alffe:

First, for a needed laugh, to see the source of your avatar, the singin' dancin' frog, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=I45u...eature=related.
"One Froggy Evening": Nobody who sees that cartoon will ever forget it. It came out in 1955: what a year -- the same year as "Rebel Without A Cause" and "Blackboard Jungle," the two pillars of the youth culture. "How Much is That Doggy in The Window," "Tennessee Waltz," "Shrimp Boats" -- after 1955 American popular music never went back. The same was true for many other things -- for better and for worse. In brief, Alffe, your avatar is on the cutting edge -- which edge I'm not sure, maybe of the absurdity of life.

Your post is WONDERFUL!! Its link is easy to overlook, so look again everybody! http://tetchua.blogspot.com/2007/12/...ical-view.html.

The best comment I ever found about all that was Albert Camus' question to nihilists: if life is meaningless, then how can death be meaningful? (Unfortunately, perhaps, nihilism isn't my problem, but so be it). Elsewhere, Camus says to wouldbe Che Guevaras and others ready to die for an idea: anything worth dying for must also be worth living for. Kirilov, Dostoevsky's nihilist in "The Possessed," makes many unacceptable declarations before killing himself; however, he says one thing with true clarity: free will, such as is manifested in the determination to take one's own life, is what is devine in mankind. Of course, free will can be manifested in many ways, probably as many as there are people.

Again, I thank you for something I'll be going back to -- frequently. Right now, for example