Ham

I remember that as well.. "he turned to the wall and gave up the spirit" or something of the sort.. p65 of Light through an Eastern Window.. "It seems to me that Hindus know how to die more gracefully than some Christians.... A Hindu seems to have a premonition as to when he is going to die, so he puts on his good clothes, lies down on the bead and calls the family to the bedside to give them a final blessing. The Holy Book is brought and a suitable passage is read. Then he raises his hand in blessing and expires." Then the vicster made some mention about how Pillai just believed to die.. turned to the wall, closed his eyes.. and just quietly expired.. I think this is where this came from.. One thing one could say.. herr vicster did not die exactly in a "graceful" manner.. whined and complained and hissy fitted to the end.. ran to geero for sympathy.. "boo hoo, they've all abandoned me in da usa.."

Doesn't seem it would take too much "discerning of spirits" to detect a fella, with a striking resemblance to Brad Pitt in a black suit, just sauntering onto the back of the trailer..

some sycophants have thought up a simpler solution. Just hold some kind of "wild card" that is one doesn't relish the treatment "ahem* training, off they go..don't have to relocate priests, mogs, or whatever.. just make it the victim *ahem* trainees fault.. any system which holds this kind of wild card over Any Body's life, I hold in high suspicion.. whether they are only some kind of innocent bible thumping only beating the snot out of followers or not.. Yeah.. we don't *abuse* them, we just beat the snot out of them with the old vicster's teachings.." ha. why does one seek that kind of power, without having intent of USING it? I haven't met an exception, yet..

The answer may be simple. Why? Maybe they just want to do an interview or something when *he* shows up..

No, I don't believe this any more.. I'd say more, but in a "biblical" sense, it would sound "nuts"..

and it is VERY difficult to prove anything in an environment where *they* can skip the packing up step and ship one off in the middle of the night..

Maybe the question is (or should be) what are YOU doing here? seems most other people have half a clue why they are here.. just a thought..

I dunno.. you really need to go to a GS wienie roast.. :) are there any planned? I would propose one (at my individual convenience..) sometime in late December..between the fall and spring semesters.. only time I've got. I've been to one on *your* terms.. I just got finished canning up about 9 gallons of tomatoes. just one gallon in December would make the most awesome GS chili you have ever had.. :) Anybody want to come? small gathering, or large? there are a few here, who I've never met.. that I'd love to meet..

was that really the last "demon"? what if you found out EVERYTHING you believed was for lack of better words, "wrong".. I had something like that happen.. in a fraction of a second.. :) and it didn't really hurt or anything.. maybe it was beyond that.. well, I wanted a few answers. I asked for it..

and remember.. you have an uncle in the furniture business. (from http://www.dbusiness.com/DBusiness/September-October-2009/Old-Line-Retailers/ ) maybe its just a coincidence.. uncle.. harry.. used furniture.. then harry didn't end up dead in the trunk of his car.. I suppose coincidences only go so far..

Have you developed a few *new* skills from the last time you've been here? we come back to the same *problems*, with a new set of skills.. and the experience looks entirely different than it did, ten, fifteen, twenty.. forty years ago.. maybe you never "grew up"..

Hmm.. maybe I know them.. maybe not.. are they hiding out in otherwise legitimate businesses and or professions?

Maybe its just an ageing organization, which wants to "retire" in a rural setting.. smaller, less people.. less "witnessing"..

If they are "moving".. what I wonder.. are they going to leave a forwarding address?

I was thinking of the "just get over it" suggestion some offer. the whole problem with that is, if one is living and learning, one is generally offered a different set of tools to analyze the "problem" year after year.. I've looked at some things I posted a few years ago, and it looks pretty trivial. I don't think a person "gets over it".. just often gets another set of tools to honestly take a look at the experience..

my first few days in Real Analysis.. the instructor is *wonderful*.. "now this is OK with you all?" Gawd.. at least he asks.. I can't figure out what is a legitimate *question* in this to begin with.. "yeah.. we're *OK*.." but I'm starting to get it.. last lecture I could actually follow what he was saying.. vewy, vewy scary.. I think it is the "make or break" point in mathematics.. It's the "same freaking stuff".. but on a whole different level.. we take off the training wheels.. the best I understand..

what I find astounding.. people actually ask "why are you going over the SAME FREAKING STUFF, year after stinking year.. there are whole new sets of possibilities.. whole different levels of deception and reality.. with the same set of facts (call them truths if you wish)..

Interesting.. I feel like I've been a moron.. Have you read the preface in Bullinger's "How to Enjoy the Bible"? this KIND of dialog is really not much different than Bullinger's description of his *high government* new *friends*.. very, very interesting, at least to me.. he left them un-named. For politically convenient reasons of course.. the whole point was: *they* sought Bullinger out, for the *gweatness* of da wordagawd he had to offer.. I'm starting to have a lesser regard for *Dr* (though he really was, unlike this pseudo 20th century counterpart) Bullinger.. he gets some respect from me though.. unless I learn different..

it would be rather "profitable" (ahem, choke, excuse me..) to go back and interview this un-named Indian Official.. so we deal with yet another breach of honesty and documentation.. he's quoted *somebody*'s words, and did not credit the source.. I'm trying.. but I just can't find one "right" concept in this situation..

Could have been one of your shill witnessing events you describe, Waysider.. you know.. an Indian official on the train.. herr manogawd.. and a supposed lame man paid five american bucks (probably a fortune in those days) to illustrate the "gweatness" of da word available to them.. I find it vewy vewy interesting he omits the man's name.. apparently that was not "important".. what was.. was the supposed guy's position.. so self-serving, no?

why didn't he NAME this supposed high ranking official? maybe he couldn't remember the name.. "I've hob knobbed with the elite of Parliment in New Delhi.." kinda vague..

apparently, his wet behind the ears not halfway yet around the block namesake of a grandkid doesn't offer much objection either..

But don't worry. There is still life for a ham.. just takes a whole heck of a lot more real estate than a postage stamp sized lot in the city will provide.. which is all I have, for now.. in layman's language, it means I need really, really long (or high) antennas.. if I want to talk to anybody in France, England.. Yugoslavia.. the last solar maximum, before work, I would talk with at least a half a dozen stations in Europe on ten meters with less than ten watts rf in the morning.. if I don't see the same thing for fifty years or so.. oh well.. it was fun once.. You know.. if Marconi was born in these lean times in the 1600's we may never have seen the radio art advance in the manner it has..

hmm. You convince me OK.. but what about the Sowers? His "holiness's (?)" words are carved in stone, dontcha know..

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