ROFL Aqva. I admit, I prefer the KISS principle.
Keep it simple stupid!

In my late teens I lived for a few years in Paris.
Now if you ever want to get into philosophical navel
gausing, Paris is your city. They come in every shape
and size, with every varied philosophy that you can
imagine.

In the end, all that speculation, turned out to be
little more then verbal masturbation by a multitude
of people. The answers have not come from Freud
or Jung, but from neuroscience, from evidence.

So these days I am a skeptic. If people make claims,
they should provide evidence. That includes the
Catholic Church and those old farts in Rome.

The rest is mere speculation and hardly worth the paper
its written on.

Yabby, There is no first step to the scientific method with out speculation, with out hypotheses. A good person of science and I mean those before the cutting edge, are persons of broad thinking and willingness to consider multiple approaches and avenues of thought. Not people who have discovered it all on a bust up in Paris as a teen and have quit with their frontal lobe. No scientific discovery has been brought about by individuals afraid to explore the unknown or engage all modes of thought. K.I.S.S is the working mans version of a scientific and philosophic rule that entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily which is interpreted as requiring that the simplest of competing theories be preferred to the more complex or that explanations of unknown phenomena be sought first in terms of known quantities. Better known as Occam's razor. And usually misquoted.
I put mental masturbation right up there with the other. Both enjoyable exercises and neither for anyone that can't hold a thought.

"I put mental masturbation right up there with the other. Both enjoyable exercises and neither for anyone that can't hold a thought."

Thats fine by me Aqva, as I always say, whatever gets you through
the night :)