I heard him interviewed. He's basically says nothing with power point razzle dazzle. Better than bad news all the time I guess. As far as self mastery, I never said self mastery. That's antithetical to everything I believe in. I believe in expressing emotions but doing it such that no one gets hurt (certainly not to include war or variations on war) and far from the madding crowd. The point is training the emotions through appropriate expression, not mastery. Self mastery sounds to me like turning one's self into a pressure cooker. Good luck. For Julie, yeah, we do live in a three dimensional world but we have two dimensional brains. The tension between those states results in war, persecution, etc. For Paul, tsar is closer to the pronunciation. It's ts like the ts in tsk tsk, with a soft rolled r at the end. Russia never had a king, only tsars. Tsar (alternatively czar, csar, tzar) is derivative of Caesar. Eric, check this out. Everything's hunky dory in Iraq, except the Shiite militias are fighting the Iraqi troops, otherwise known as the government. Think that sounds like civil war? Nah, I didn't think so. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5293278.stm > [Original Message] > From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 8/28/2006 1:38:50 PM > Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Movie > > Irene: We replay on this list what happened; reality is > reported to you, you get mad not at the reality or the > perpetrator of the reality, but at the messenger. > > > Obviously I don't believe you are reporting reality, but a > sort of alarmist fiction that admits no correction. You may > think I am also fabulating just as stubbornly. However, you > seem to linger on past policy mistakes, rather than look > forward to new developments, in support of your view that > the sky is falling. > > Try reading _The Pentagon's New Map_ by Thomas P.M. Barnett, > for a less alarmist take on events. He's pro-globalism and > uses an information paradigm, probably has other limitations > I'm not aware of, but his is a refreshing perspective. You > can buy his book here: > > http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399151753/104-6947401-6419119?v=glance&n=2 83155 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, > digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html