A little bit of philosophy: A tribute to David Hume

"There is an inconvenience which attends all abstruse reasoning, that it may silence, without convincing an antagonist, and requires the same intense study to make us sensible of its force, that was at first requisite for its invention. When we leave our closet, and engage in the common affairs of life, its conclusions seem to vanish, like the phantoms of the night in the appearance of the morning; and 'tis difficult for us to retain even that conviction, which we had attain'd with difficulty." David Hume

The curse of human investigation is that we invent the subjects we think need to be thought about. Once these have been invented it requires the same drive or passion to make a study of this supposed subject matter- as if this has pre-existed our need to study it. This strange self-gratificatory predisposition results in a frenzy of analysis and desperate quest for evidence, resulting, oh! sad sad day, in the most lavishly obtained conclusions vanishing before our eyes as we enter the domain of the real world.

Here is one worth having: If she shows obeisance to proof, whether of the rational or empirical kind (which she does), then stepping out of the closet must start, as soon as possible, looking the same as inside the closet. He is done with such a dual existence. It is a lie that eats away at his integrity.