Staff:
Good to see you back.
I will start very simply. First, I will add the phases of the moon from my wall calendar and the equinoxes and play a bit with that additional information. I notice we reach the equinox in less than a month and that date coincides with the last quarter of the moon. Does that mean anything other than an additional influence of unknown importance and take notice there of and govern yourself accordingly?
Of all the other celestial-bodies, is there one that seems more important than all the rest? Where do you get those figures (asc/dec)?
Let me add my commentary on your China information. I delivered a paper at a hospital in Hangzhou back in 1987. We spent time in Bejing and Nanjing as well. Perhaps things have changed since the student riots, but your friends observations and mine at that time are entirely different.
I found Bejing crowded with bikes, low in automobile traffic, with a haze yes - otherwise it was clean, pleasant and the people were very friendly. The same may be said of Nanjing. Hangzhou was as picturesque a city as any I have ever visited in Asia; and that ranges from Pakastan to Japan and includes most places in between. Squatting and taking a leak along the street is common place in some rural areas of Asia. I saw none in the areas of Bejing I frequented.
In Hangzhou two American doctors in our group wandered off one night and wound up in a distant, local-hangout-type bar - they both got drunk. Guess what? They were returned to the hotel by their singing Chinese drinking buddies in a cab. Try that in Boston, New York, LA, Chicago, Miami, etc.
The riots may have changed things - I hope not. Still I question the intent of an American news media that fomented the situation (imagine an arrogant foreign journalists behaving like Dan Rather at the Kent State); however, that is another subject.
Good to have you back.
Ciao, Ted |
