Is childhood fundamentally a different state than adulthood, a different kind of animal, so to speak? If so, is there that moment of transition, a discontinuity, where childhood switches to off and adulthood switches to on. Few will argue that puberty is such a discontinuity in the physical sense; the capacity to bear children goes [...]

 
Out here how do you know if and when those Gelug Buddhist guys will be out looking for the newest dalai lama, number 15 tulka? Norbu is wise for his years, he has listened to the monks. He knows that upon the death of the Dalai Lama and consultation with the Nechung Oracle, a search [...]

Insure
Insurance covers debt expansion and societal breakdown
Isolationism
Now they offer payment protection for insurance payments
Protection against debt fallout
Push sales to increase debt
Push insurance to increase debt
Push loans covered by loans for assets to increase debt
Spend way beyond your means to keep the banks in business
Spend to stimulate the economy
Stimulate the economy
So when money travels fast
The velocity [...]

Ja, my family came from Swabia. Four generations now we have been here in Fremont, Ohio. My great grandfather came here in 1886 and became a farmer. My grandfather sold the farm and opened a tractor dealership. My father changed the farm dealership into selling Chryslers, which is what I do. We are a good [...]

He was born on the ranch, issue of a strange and convoluted story of adventure in the Himalayas that led to that child born on the ranch. Of course he would go to the Community School and of course his parents would form patterns of silent hate that ended with another child and divorce. Were [...]

 
There on the front page is a picture of someone he knows, knows well, he had thought until this moment. The picture is a police mug shot above the headline; “Is this Murder?”
The story goes on; “District Attorney seeking help from the state supreme court before pressing charges … new and uncertain legal grounds … [...]

The following are questions George has written down to ask himself. I haven’t located any document with George’s answers and don’t even know if he has attempted to answer them in such a systematic way, but I thought I could take a go for myself anyway (especially since I have avoided any kind of question [...]