In a message dated 8/11/99 3:59:58 AM Eastern Daylight Time, rbowman@indigo.ie writes: << It's simply the fatal thinning of the soul (which I don't believe exists - but you know what I mean) that accompanies the knowledge that Daddy or his trust fund will always be there to bail one out. Scottie B. >> Good lord, Scottie, I'm agreeing with you here :) To me, it's the difference between a victim (or child) mentality (one in which what we get is the result of what is given to us) and the adult mentality -- what we get is the result of what we have done. The same types of things happen to both people, but there's a way out of suffering only for one... Jim Jim