Which is exactly why making assumptions explicit is helpful (not just in this discussion, but always!).
It clarifies where the two parties come from different angles and identifies the points that may need clarification.

I am sure I could find an answer to everything, if I could afford to devote years of studying and research. All I wanted was a simple, straightforward, "YES" or "NO" answer. If there isn't one, all I wanted was someone to say so. A single post would have done. Instead, we've had two pages of discussions going nowhere.

There you go again. That "answer" is absolutely useless to me. "Yes" and "no" are exact opposites. They are mutually exclusive. It's either-or, it cannot be both.

<snip the rest of your response that, YET AGAIN, did not answer my question>

I give up. It is all off topic anyway. Apologies to rinigus for accidentally hijacking the thread.