To qualify the above comment.
Anyone who has read my commentary elsewhere will know that I seldom take anytrhing seriously fro any length of time.
At the risk of declaring a defacatory area, you cam onto MY turf acting like an ass hole. Not nice, what ever your motives were. I can find Lucian's activities amusingly determined now, having the benefit of hindsight. Alas, unlike your own, godlike, self most of us have to learn. I would cordially suggest that if you have a problem with that, we take it private and we shall discuss the moral high ground there. Otherwise, I would suggest that you are simply belligerent and grudge bearing, which precludes an open mind, and which confirms most peoples views on 'skeptics' (using the abhorrent Webster spelling) as a bunch of keel-less individuals who scream at the chaos 'I DON'T BELIEVE!!!!!'
However, looking at your own oeuvre, I know I'm pissing in the wind. I would do better trying to explain archery to a rock than try to explain open-mindedness to such...
My aged Mother taught me 'treat everyone as equals until they prove you wrong' I may not have lived by that axiom, but I have at least taken the concept on board. Usually the guy who comes out slugging has something to prove. That was something my Father taught me, as a man who was boxing three out of his weight for the Allied Forces in the Mediterranean. If you can stop slugging for a moment, I think you'll find we've always been batting for the same side.
The enemy is the noise, the pretentious, the belligerent and the
fool. It is a common one. We have no business sniping at each other. However... I am simply wasting bandwidth trying to explain that. You now have your pre-conception and that is a comfort zone. I can appreciate that, having spent some time in psychotherapy.