Opinions? Long before men went into space one Astronomer Royal: "Space travel is bunk! Utter bunk!" Patent Office many years earlier: "Everything that can be invented has been invented." Celebrity? "It's impossible to get hurricanes in this country" (Met Office). Then why is Britain called the hurricane capital of Europe?

Science? Theorems from axioms (assumptions). Mathematics? Irrationalists, Transcendalists etc. Genii? A carpenter proved Isaac Newton wrong concerning longitude. Einstein? Clocks slow down under gravitation or acceleration just as a fat man would slow your breathing by sitting on your chest. 'Time' is not a substance. If you are stationary and you see a moving clock showing time slowing down or speeding up it's simply reflected light. Light is external not internal. (Not forgetting the 'rubber sheet' of space!) Incontinent! Intelligent in their thousands? Japanese and Hindus clap their hands to wake their gods. In their millions? '666 - the mark of the beast'. Even if almighty god existed would such an ominscient, omnipotent god go around branding people with three sixes like some old cowpoke working on a ranch? Prelates, primates, dinosaurs and dodos! Blind obedience: Abraham was willing to sacrifice his son Issach to an invisible god.

Trust? "We've been eating GM crops for years, surreptitiously fed to us - including wheat for decades."

Medical science? "Stem cell therapy can cause cancer. Stem cells can turn into tumours."

Guardian Angel? Swans have enough trouble getting airborne! Your guardian angel, your alter ego? Consider multiple personalities where "an individual, depending on which personality rises to the surface, will develop allergies, skin rashes, rheumatism, stigmata, etc; etc. Those manifestations will just as quickly disappear when that particular personality subsides." You're never alone with an alter ego! Still feeling lonely? Well, we are growing further apart: television, telephone, teletouch (tangible reality), law? "Hanging offences in 19th century Britain: stealing a spoon; writing on Westminster Bridge; damaging a fish pond and so on."

"Causes of madness: squeezing a pimple". Today "The neurological study of emotion." Studying millions of cells and millions of sparks will reveal millions of cells and millions of sparks. Look at the end result - a hand reaching for something: emotion. Fancy words like 'Hippocampus' explain nothing. Find a fancy word for "jigsaw". When you look at the brain as a whole you get the picture. We are like other animals. Count the number of fingers/claws on other species - lion, bear, aligator, like us 'five'. Everything takes time? True. "Euclid's flat geometry remained unquestioned for 2000 years." But when you feel that someting is wrong, your response should be like "greased lightning". As I have enough paper left I will specify my next two sources: Express News - "Princess Diana's Death - embalming was done to destroy evidence of pregnancy; alcohol test of driver never verified; CCTV of crash site never made available..." And of course the only survivor, the bodyguard, conveniently lost his memory.

The higher they are the harder they fall.

'Sunday Times' 19.02.06 (and "Science") "...Psychosurgery for personality disorders. Children , 11 and 12 yeards old are having brain surgery for being 'sullen.' Thousands performed every year in US and UK. A high court can order it without your consent.

Psychocivilising society by drilling holes in the skull and pushing electrodes into the brain. Dali Lama, addressing scientists in Washington DC, favours brain surgery for 'every day' people in order to eliminate such emotions as jealousy etc. "Like coring an apple" as one brain surgeon put it."

The Silence of the Lambs. Why people are not protesting by marching in their millions I don't know. Probably because people just do not love each other enough. The reason why we still need money. Build a totem pole of copper, silver and gold with rolled-up fifty-pound bank notes for dreadlocks. We could all kneel or dance around it!

Sex? Sex is to reproduce, to continue contrast - change - emotion. (consiousness) Pleasure? Many species simply lay eggs which the male then fertilises. No congress take place. No intimacy, no intercourse. Human? "Many women lose their sex drive at the menopause when ovulation ceases"

There's my cannon. My artillery is commonsense.

Contrast - Change - Emotion.

Politics and Religion - you're wrong, I'm right! Anything for a punch-up.