To begin with, Hello. This site is reading intensive. If you don't know how to read, find a site with only pictures. In that case, good bye. For the rest of you, thank you that life, truth and reality are things in which you have at least a modicum of interest. The hope is that our interest in life, truth and reality will increase--exponentially if possible. For it is quite certain that our civilization is imperiled by a foolish disregard for reality. Science was once devoted to reality. Empirical science was developed so that reality could be studied, known to be reality, and carefully understood by anyone with access through five simple human senses.

Truth is what corresponds to what is real. A tree is real. A mountain is real. To say that a tree is a tree and a mountain is a mountain is to speak what is true. To say that a tree is a river is to speak a lie. To say that a mountain is picket fence is to say something absurd.

Life requires both reality and the courage of our convictions to say what is real. And we need to say it out loud so others can hear. Many seem trapped in denials of reality. To deny what is real is not a sickness. It is a corruption of life. To deny what is real is a mortal wound self-inflicted. Optimism about mankind's well-being continues with a rapidly decreasing amount of evidence that optimism is still a warranted conclusion.