there are benefits to both approaches, and people either seem to like the balance or they just discard one aspect altogether and focus on the other.
Some people really enjoy and appreciate the research and the scientific aspects, others simply could not care less and find the whole topic unhelpful. They want help for how to live and that's that.
I too appreciate that people tend to be very polite and accomodating about the different approaches regardless of whether they find one or the other more suitable to their own needs.
I'd like the board to encompass as many posters as possible while still staying on target, and also staying a courteous place to be. Usually I think that is pretty much the case.
- H
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