I'm sure if you're tired of it, it must be tiresome! :) But I can't pass up your question anyway, because I still have some letters left on my keyboard. Reality is not a concept. Yes, we have all sorts of concepts *about* reality, but reality itself isn't conceptual.... it's just "what is". Human beings are basically crazy, for the most part. And one of the things that makes us that way is that we keep trying to "grasp" reality and reduce it to concepts -- we want to slice it up into pieces that we can name and build theories and models about. We do this because reality makes us nervous -- in particular, it's constantly changing, and we like predictability -- it appeals to our need to control things. So we don't like the "impermanence" of reality, and we form conceptual systems, and cling to those systems, as a way of taming the wildness of reality so that we can feel like we're in control. But this clinging to ideas actually accounts for some of our most persistent and painful forms of suffering: ego, resistance to change, avoidance of death, etc. There's a real turning point that can occur in the development of a human being -- a transition in understanding which transforms their relationship to life -- and that turning point is associated with realizing that reality cannot be tamed or controlled -- that there's no point in trying to chop it all up into neat little systems and put labels on everything and argue about whose system is "right". All of that is about trying to turn reality into what it isn't: a concept. When we learn to let it be, and give up the fight for control, that's when life really begins.

No, for me the prospect of modem down-time is the scary one!

Not really, I tend to escape it quite a bit.

Well, what's the alternative?

I prefer total delusion,it is more fun......wow look at those pink fishes on the wall.