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To: Solon who wrote (54520)

5/14/2014 6:47:32 AM

From: 2MAR$

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Germans or Mughals the reality has always been some dynastic tribal legacy operating, in a nutshell the psychology of all religion & gods are the expression of tribalism/nationalism which can be traced back all the way like a common ancestor (at the root of the tree of life).

Speaking of the Mughuls at their height,ruling over 150 million subjects, nearly 1/4th of the world's population, with a combined GDP of over $90 billion (under rule of Shah Jahan who built the Taj Mahal). Towards the end of that dynastic rule, there was one last great Urdu poet & social commentator called "Ghalib".
en.wikipedia.org

(you might grow to be fond of him, he was a "liberal Mystic" ;0)

At the age of thirty he had seven children, none of whom survived (this pain has found its echo in some of Ghalib's ghazals). There are conflicting reports regarding his relationship with his wife. She was considered to be pious, conservative and God-fearing.

Ghalib was proud of his reputation as a rake. He was once imprisoned for gambling and subsequently relished the affair with pride. In the Mughal court circles, he even acquired a reputation as a "ladies' man". [9] Once, when someone praised the poetry of the pious Sheikh Sahbai in his presence, Ghalib immediately retorted:

“	How can Sahbai be a poet? He has never tasted wine, nor has he ever gambled; he has not been beaten with slippers by lovers, nor has he ever seen the inside of a jail."

To: Solon who wrote (54520)	5/21/2014 6:16:08 AM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 69300

Serendipity...was sharing that blurb of the Quatari royal's $250mil purchase of that Cezzane "The Gamblers", as it would turn out Iqbal informed me that he picked up his own in a Paris art shop and has been enjoying it already for the last 23yrs He replied "Qatari have spare change of 250 mil to spare I have a copy of Cezane that I picked up 23 years ago from an art shop inParis that has given me a lot of pleasure of mind and sight. Horses for courses Runi I suppose. I always lookat it and remember Rumis saying ' I am a gambler who has lost everything but the desire to gamble one last time. '" Come, come, whoever you are, Wanderer, idolater, worshiper of fire, Come even though you have broken your vows a thousand times, Come, and come yet again. Ours is not a caravan of despair. ~Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi#Teachings