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I've been to India four times in the last thirty years, but every time I visit a library there, I don't find too many literary resources; a few about European and western literature, but obviously more from Indian sub-continental writers, which is understandable, but I expect not find "The Great Gatsby" or criticism on Emily Dickinson or letters written between Fitzgerald and other writers. The heat and dust simply decomposes printed materials. Air conditioning exists in small-scale enterprises like higher-end shops and big university libraries, but in other places, air-conditioning is probably simply not cost-effective.

Certainly, I seek to defend the U.S. in all of its major reform processes, but why can't the census be shorter, less intrusive into personal financial details, less about personal information, and be voluntary (at least for some of the more intrusive questions)? If we defend democracy and freedom, the census should seek to encourage participation, not legally require it, and to add insult to injury, make the required answers so personal as to have declared names, salaries, medical conditions, aspects of property ownership, and cleary labled with a governmental fine for not answering questions. This seems too controlling for our typically flexible democratic ideals.

Like many esoteric sayings and beliefs, the saying, "It's not what you know, it's who you know," is a gross oversimplification. Certainly, for buying a car, or getting an admired professor for a course, or having friends to finish homework, the "who" factor is vital. However, if the end of progress or highest aims are the goal, then after knowing the people who achieved the highest aim (getting through the chaff), what do you do at the top? Do you either revel in knowing how empty and singular you are at the top? Or, do you now seek to really enjoy the "what" or the content of things and ideas, not only people to help you?

Atomic particles can be seen as atomic waves. Science fiction novels who parody society's technological advances take poetic license on new theories in physics. What implications for a social conscience do the newest theories raise?

Auras, the astral body, psycho-somatic causes and conditions of the body-mind, the body-mind as an entity, the neurological "self" which is not only the muscles, tissues, and organs, but the brain-nerves-system; even cultural "identity" is not simply the body, but an assimilation of tradition, talents, skills, and a resume, but still more than all of these

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In psychic skills, practice, and efforts, projection as an generative exercise often produces negative or mixed results in the immediate space. This seems to suggest that either desire cannot be relinquished in any enterprise (in an effort to acquire "purity" of mind or intention, since the purer the medium the easier the effecting of the psychic functions), even though the agency from which desire emerges may be yourself, or another person, or some agency unknown. The other suggestion is that reality or the state of being and consciousness that is most beautiful and fulfilling needs no real effort to be sought; if it is real, it should be self-projecting or self-sustaining or self-effulgent.

Completed a lot of quests in the south in the eastern kingdoms, but my human priest is simply considered hostile by alliance elves. Why is this? How can she be considered friendly?

My boss from my prior job at a distillery on the edge of a national forest, used to give motivational walks through a few hundred yards of a section of a forested trail after lunch to us, his employees. The trailhead took us through a national forest, but we never went in very far. I actually left the job because he was slightly eccentric -- believed in bigfoot and considered himself a bigfoot researcher, and was not afraid to talk openly about the beliefs. He would talk about stick structures and how he left "gifts" for sasquatch in the forest, where an elusive bigfoot would return gifts to him. Weird, but he was a good manager, though, and very detail-oriented. He would explain much about wildlife and ecology and the types of trees native to West Virginia mountains and so on. A prior employee who had immigration problems borrowed the boss's car for helping someone else who was an illegal alien, but the boss felt sorry for that employee, so he let him borrow the car. The police or immigration officials interrogated the boss and wanted to search his car. The prior employee hid the boss's car near the forest trail where we had motivational walks. The police never found the vehicle, but the boss stated to everyone in the distillery that the evidence had been moved and the case was closed. Now, in my case, I let the boss borrow my pickup to transport some kegs of chemicals to another location across the county line and didn't want to get stopped or searched. I lent him my pickup but not my trailer, which has two flat tires and a broken axle, but I forgot to take off the trailer key from the key ring. Unfortunately, I missed the opportunity to meet him before I quit when I heard from another employee that he would be interrogated again by the officials. He had told me on the phone that he would leave my keys in a squirrel hole in one of the trees on the forest trail where we had motivational walks and the pickup behind the tree. I went there a few days later and found the keys, but my pickup was gone, though the tire tracks of it being backed to that spot were pressed into the ground. I knew that boss was trustworthy, but it was getting dark outside, so I returned the next day and found my pickup a mile or so away on another trail, with no tire tracks whatsoever to show it was driven there. It took me and a friend with a tow truck an entire separate day to haul it back to the road. And the trailer key was gone. I still haven't figured out what truly happened. Now, thankfully, I work for YWCA, but I have no key for my trailer anymore.