I've actually already read those essays (which I really enjoyed, BTW), but still often cannot see how you've arrived at your conclusions on the topics we've been talking about recently.

For the rest of your comment, you seem to have misunderstood my grandparent comment. I was asking you to respond to my arguments on each of the threads we were discussing, not just to tell me how you would answer each of my questions. (I was using the questions to refer to our discussions, not literally asking them. Sorry if I didn't make that clear.)