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well, happy to c there are some few book lovers left, such as john and ness... my lonely life feels less alone...
for next meeting, i propose ancient greek meeting with ancient india
1 dionysos travel to india: a must read poem by nonnus of panoplis (b careful! unfortunatly too much violence, like in most greeks' public myths. they mzy have learned non-violence from india)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysiaca
2 scepticism, already present in socrate's confession of ignorance, took a strong breathe when inquiring indians' culture and buddhism, starting with pirrho
therefore we may read sextus empiricus: outline of pyrrhonism
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextus_Empiricus
ok la?
Yunnan's Manhu band storming international charts
Posted byGood songs and atmosphere.
Love song may sound bizarre to unexperimented ears.
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Let us protect minority people rights !
Ok?
Scientists "99 percent" certain SARS originated in Yunnan bats
Posted bydolphin: ok, animal exploitation as cause of sars transmission was my memory from the time, as i were in china.
now it seems they link the animal transmission to civet, which i guess are used in poor conditions, yes?
www.who.int/ith/diseases/sars/en/
From student to sculpture artist: 20 years in Yunnan with Matti Dubee
Posted byi remember him as a cool guy... keep art alive instead of money! yes?
Scientists "99 percent" certain SARS originated in Yunnan bats
Posted bywao, interesting epistemology guys! make me wanna come back shangri la and talk with you about deep philosophy drunk...
to get back to sars and bats, one must not forget that 1 reason of the spread of the deadly disease was the horrible life conditions of industry animals, which are denied most hapiness and freedom rights
yes?
Tourist arrest in Yunnan underscores larger national problem
Posted bythis is the classical hungry ghost problem: fulfilll my desires or i ll b violent...
hungry ghosts are "me" in om mani pedme hung, just before "hung", hell beings...