Mike: Beliefs are all we have. But you gotta admit, they're a lot of fun. A truth is fun too until somebody capitalizes its "t." . Yet if I say, "The mystery of existence is truth," I have stated a belief that is a truth ... a truth whose precondition is that it cannot be proved. "If you believe it," you might say. "But I don't have to believe it," I could counter. "I don't have to believe in the mystery of existence. I either notice it or don't." Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html