Msseeker and smartcookie:
What you are doing is very wrong. This goes beyond debating the efficacy of different customs. Your attacks on our way of life are condescending at best.
There are many things I could criticize about your way of life, and many of them would be straight from the words of the gedolei acharonim.
Yet, our worlds seem to have called a truce, and we have decided to respect each other’s avodas hashem. It behooves you to keep the peace.