Threating your life? On a total tangent, Hehbris stalked MsMittens, I hear. This is the internet! Haven't you been reading the papers? The internet is a tool of satan! (And SATAN, ironically, is a tool of the internet. Heh.)

Look, it's a community. It might be a tad bit dysfunctional, but at least it's dysfunctional. As for that whole 1% thing, whatever. It could be that most people here can't understand you, or that you really don't have a point... who can say.

There's one bit from an Orson Scott Card book (Harmony/Oversoul series) where two characters debate over whether reality is what one character thinks it is, or whether the master computer is just tricking him... It's sort of a matrix-like thing really, and I agree with the main character's end-decision: If you can never tell one way or the other, believe what you want to believe most.

I ought to audition to be some sort of 'Net-Polonius.