Thanks Angela, it's really good to hear more of how you think and act in relation to the LoA, and it seems a very healthy way to be. I feel that your view of my 'arguing' is slightly off, but you're right that it is a different approach. I hope in these things to discuss and for everyone to share their views, and sometimes to challenge each other's views. That's one of the benefits of discussion forums, that we bounce our ideas off others and have the opportunity to learn from each other. So I'm not really trying to make you 'wrong' and me 'right', but it's true that in order to discuss ideas I tend to use logical argument - 'argument' in that philosophical sense doesn't mean bad tempered or hostile, but it does recognise that if certain things are true, other things are false, etc. Again, I recognise that truth and falsehood aren't as important to you as to me.
So to clarify, the main antagonistic argument I have here regards those interpretations of the LoA that are about reality - the ones that assert that reality is magically influenced by our minds or utterly subjective, for reasons I've already spelt out quite enough.
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