You've each got useful points...

However, Luka makes the point that one's own soul can rot from getting too mired down in the vicious cycle of thinking/feeling

No disagreement there. I didn't mean to imply that I disagreed with absolutely everything Luka said in his post or that the above wasn't good advice. I simply rebutted his statement where he opined that there is absolutely no hope for us to ever be accepted by society, not even in a "million years."