Thank you, Jetter.
Yes, you are right - he did not understand. But not because he isn't intelligent - actually I find listening to his mind quite fun and stimilating (!). Rather, its because he sees reality through a prism. A good prism - I love science and am very thankful that we have evolved to live so securely through the power over matter - but the value of that prism should never be used recklessly (the environment and non-human life) or aggressively through the mind's absorption with its power over things(science yelling down the next possible paradigm of perception, even though their own evolutionary evidence says that it is bound to happen).
Yes, I am trying to learn how to talk better and need to learn more. I think I am getting better, but please remind me when I get self-indulgent and talk into my own mirror rather than to another person. I try to bring many different threads together to see an issue from multiple views at once, and this can make the "normal" way of thinking stop sometimes. But sometimes it is not the mind's comprehensive intelligence or vocabulary that is an obstacle, but the sight itself. Knowledge should always seek to point beyond itself. Sometimes we have to squint at first until the thinking mind becomes accustomed to what is seen.
Also, I try to add something that will catalyze a dialogue along, or make someone play fair, usually through Socratic devices that probe but do not threaten. Again, I have not always been this way; if you look at some of my older threads I could get in there and yell with the best of them! I've learned since then, and many people here have helped me with this (have been my teachers...).
Basically, smart people like you and detlof and krusty and gregm and all the others are exciting to me - in the end, regardless of the ideas, it is about meeting. Things can be discovered ("whenever two or more gather in its name...").
