Not sure. My rule of thumb is that good feelings (as long as no one is getting hurt, including the self) reflect the truth. Lousy feelings reflect crap that we learn in childhood. When people are feeling lousy about themselves (like they're failures, that kind of thing), guaranteed it's introjected messages from childhood (read: what their parents told them or what they misunderstood and blamed themselves in their childish magical thinking way) that they're hearing in their unconscious and translating into feelings. Nothing to do with reality. That applies only if nobody is getting hurt. More and more I think we're all going to die anyway. Eat the thing, enjoy it and forget about it. (Just don't hurt yourself or anyone else while doing it.) ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Stone To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: 2/10/2006 8:09:30 PM Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Snowballs are falling At 08:05 PM 2/10/2006, you wrote: UV light can destroy the retina. It has to be filtered out by UV glasses. Tanning beds are also UVA rays. UVA does nothing for bones or other conditions. They make some people feel a little less pale. Besides, as long as the unconscious FEELS like it is getting nurtured by those darned rays, it should be all good right? beyond the pale, pale