Thank you. I needed a laugh today. You wouldn't believe the reaction I would get from people who know me if I told them I'd been referred to as Pollyanna. If you read my post a little more clearly, I wasn't saying there aren't monsters out there. I have grieved more than I care to share with the cyberspace world over so many monsters -- distant, long or soon gone, and personal. And I did not intend to imply that everything is cool. I merely was attempting to address the cause & effect basis of your theory, wondering about the logic of it. Where monster's come from is a logically fallacious reaction to my post. One does not easily counter a flaw in their logic by suggesting that a better explanation be put forth. I doubt the list is interested in a theological or philosophical dialogue on where monsters come from. Again, that would not solve the problem of the chicken and the egg notion you seem to clutch so strongly. The more I consider it, your position is pretty much a blame-game. Another hand I've played strongly over the years. But it rarely, if ever, is successful or useful.
For whatever my two cents aren't worth,
Julie Krueger
