> >An interesting point, clinicly depressed individuals routinely rate
> >their own personal power and abilities more accurately than non-depressed
> >persons.
> >
> >Truth is not always power.
>
> Clinically depressed people have chemical imbalances (I think by
> definition), so you may be stretching a bit by drawing some causal
> correlation between truth and depression.
Sorry, not trying to draw a causal link (that's you damn rationalists job
after all :-) but rather make an observation.
Have you ever read Voltaire's very short "The Story of a Good Brahmin"?
-Prof. Tim