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...the dragons' terraforming the Gobi from sea to land (historically accurate) in a desire for power and amid excessive pride. In doing so, they release an ancient enemy and their bane, the Azghun Demons, that had driven them into the sea in the first place. The problem is that the dragons have grown lazy and dumb, and while they once had a cadre of sorcerers to call upon, th...

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...Jackie Covault's unrestrained enthusiasm was and will continue to be both an inspiration and "goad." The references to Chinese mythology and the ... ... a desire for power and amid excessive pride. In doing so, they release an ancient enemy and their bane, the Azghun Demons, that had driven them i... ...ong dormant. The pointed tail curled lazily back upon itself and flicked an annoying nugget from beneath a scale, leaving behind the protective coa... ...d slightly: If ever the future remembers us, there'll be some aerodynamic justification for the tail's fine point. Perhaps? Once it had been a sou... .... Cats, like most, admire their own traits in others. His color wasn't just silver, but a shifting variety of mirrored shades. His snout was str... ...n ooze between the scales. Mei-chou didn't like the ooze either. It was just another irritation she endured. The Dragons' need for gold had been... ...f you take her too seriously. You and your magic work behind the veil of illusions, behind appearances, in places general dragonkind can't even ima...

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...oyed the human race. What remains of mankind, struggles to survive in barbaric clans suppressed by Masters and false doctrine. Known as Project Noah, an underground community seeks to restore civilization by rehabilitating those snatched from the surface. An enemy from the past is out to re-establish a plan to cleanse the earth. Assaults on both the surface and underground...

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...sanity of power had almost succeeded in eradicating life from the planet. An electronic security wall surrounded the main city blocks, having not se... ... for territorial supremacy, they all united on one issue, the loathing of an imaginary enemy. Clan teachings drove fear of those allegedly keeping th... ... Roxanne lowered her tone and continued. "No one survived this one; let’s just start the burning." "You know the routine," Alex replied, continuing t... ...bers on the job. "Yeah, I know." Roxanne rubbed tired eyes. "You know me, just hate those first few days." She sneaked a sideward glance, not anticip... ...ting the accumulation, she lowered the binoculars. The moment called for an emotion, yet this she could not express. Common sense told her that it ... ...worked closely with the mature aged man. Stephen saw himself as more than just the head of the Medtech section and personal physician to Alex. The r... ... public view. Nonetheless, twenty years of inhumane conditions created an illusion that he was in paradise. The man had come from a well engineered ...

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...ome collateral aspects regarding the artistic and speech means used. There is an unintentional practice, of course, but it leads to exaggerated asser... ... is full of contradictions himself. His childish trust in people becomes, not just once, an unfair suspicion. Optimist, he builds with meticulousnes... ... contradictions himself. His childish trust in people becomes, not just once, an unfair suspicion. Optimist, he builds with meticulousness and gift ... ...ight. Modest nature, as all genuine human values, he is seized sometimes with an unmeasured vanity what makes him feeling the equal of every state l... ...ssible, the impossible too! The symbol of the paradoxism: A spiral - optic illusion or vicious circle. The subsequent development of th... ...ning the paradoxist current and its founder, Florentin Smarandache, - we will just say for the time being that Paradoxism’s Aesthetics represents a ... ...ns of some Stanescu, Sorescu, Cartarescu, George Anca, Florentin Smarandache, Justin Panta, N. Coande etc. The democracy of culture (including liter... ... towards solution, but never reaching it, in a ceaseless process. Because the illusion of equilibrium permanently turns itself into its opposite. The... ...of this paradox, for the modern artist the referent lacks or it gives just an illusion of its existence (“false referent” works). In this way the re...

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...rd and breathed upon it. Once. Twice. Three times. The ember flared, casting an evil hue upon his face. The flame spread until green fire filled, then... ...ammered gold sheath. Atop the dagger-tooth hilt of the sheathed blade rested an emerald the size of his thumb. Thomas drew in a sharp gasp and his arm... ...ard the fairie. “You wish to try?” “No,” Talix squealed, darting up to hover just below the cave’s ceiling. Dirkk slashed down with the dagger, etchi... ...d frame. He sat her before him. “Now watch and listen.” From the fairie came an anguished shriek. A popping, like whole eggs left too long on the fire... ... and popped it in her mouth. Oregano and garlic flooded her senses. Perfect. Just like the crystal-laid table, the open bottle of Zinfandel wine, and ... ...ger Kelsey opened the door. “Yes?” The young woman didn’t answer right away, just stared. Then her voice came out in a small whisper. “Mister Samson, ... ... this time they tasted like sawdust. Regan smiled as she swallowed, then her illusion of nonchalance was shat- tered when the beans did not go down. C...

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...il from relativity to psychology and M-Theory to quantum physics – they are just taken that littl bit further, the imagination is stretched! So,... ... 6 1 . Introduction. Just what is the nature of reality? Let’s face it, we take reality pretty... ...nowledge seems to strengthen and add consistency and solid foundation to an external reality which can apparently never be questioned. We go abou... ...angle, and people watch and wonder, but tend to dismiss it as no more than an interesting sideshow, outside the province of the all- important, all-... ...experienced by those uninvolved. As the children could not be found by an extensive search, it also suggests that not only time, but space, was... ...e we reluctantly leave this fascinating – if unorthodox – subject, I would just like to mention the abstract notion we regard as “time”. When t... ...hysical “prison” they have so far inhabited. They believed reality was an illusion, “Maya”, as Eastern religions would have it, and to a certain e...

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...Do we really know what meaning to give to the term PERSON? In this book, the author proposes, through an in depth dialog with the students of the S.U.R. (Sophia University of Rome), the following answer: a PERSON is a spiritual, unifying principle that is endowed with its own freedom and its own identity, it is an end unto it...

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... because it seems possible to see that within the human world what we have just named “the law of the impossible” is the most important of all the l... ...ieve that it is. The human being itself is the result of the passage from an animal life form to a life form that is no longer animal. What this me... ...tep towards something considered impossible before. This step has required an effort on the part of millions of human beings over the course of mill... ...of human beings over the course of millions of years. Another example of an evolutionary step: a psyche in the animal world exists, just as it doe... ...other example of an evolutionary step: a psyche in the animal world exists, just as it does within humanity, but the human psyche is by now very diff... ... It seems to me that you are talking about the evolution of our society to justify … 11 ANTONIO: Oh no, maybe this is where the problem lies. I... ...nd that power has everything. It also means that power is fundamentally an illusion, because it promises enjoyment that will always come tomorrow. Th... ...true pleasure, and the authentic need will never be satisfied. We create an illusion that the need will be satisfied, since we all think we are leani... ...completely deformed Christ’s message and they amplified this promise, this illusion, by taking from the Egyptians the idea of the kingdom of the afte...

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... OF GOD 53 IS AMERICA A CHRISTIAN NATION? 57 WHO GETS TO GO TO HEAVEN? 63 DEISM 65 PANTHEISM AND PANENTHEISM 67 AGNOSTICISM 68 ATHEISM 71 SATANISM 96 AN IDEA OF A BETTER SOCIETY AS A BASIC ASSUMPTION 97 THE SOURCE OF POWER IN A SOCIETY 104 FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF A SOCIETY 104 TYPE OF GOVERNMENT108 USING GOD’S LAWS FOR SOCIETY 112 SOCIAL CONCERNS—DO UNTO OTHERS 114 ECONO...

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...sity.‖ —―Glad to meet you Dr. Chan. Wanda Wang suggested that we meet you when we were in Singaling.‖ —―Glad to meet you all. Please just c... ... do something from a psychological need for power, then rationalize their actions based on the assumptions that Wanda talks about. I may have an inf... ...s watch or his money. The general lack of reasoning ability in our human race is sad, when we all think we are thinking, but we are generally just r... ...so many rats in a maze. ―Oh, if I only had infinite knowledge and could tell the world my plan! But, unfortunately, I do not. I have neither an inf... ... ages, many sages have written about who and what we are, it took the beginnings of psychology to begin to focus seriously on our motivations. Just a... ...hat any drive for power we might have, which he called sublimation, is only a small part of the pleasure drive. Alfred Adler, as you know, was an ear... ...or a religious afterlife and our civil laws are based on that premise. But is it true? Some say what we consider to be free will is merely an illusi...

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...of breakfast drifting throughout the small kitchen. “Smells good, dear.” “I just wish I knew where she was.” Adolph frowned. “Did Aislinn acted o... ...oward the girl proved difficult as Aislinn attempted to disguise her intent. Just as she finally grew near enough that she could almost reach out an... ...each out and touch the girl’s ragged cloak, she gasped as the other girl took an object from a seller’s cart. The merchant, too engrossed in convin... ...ying her request, aye. The guards preventing her the chance, no. “I request an audience with King Patrick,” she said, looking him in the eyes as be... ...nger. Aislinn was a small child, nearly eight, but her determination was not an object to mock or ridicule. Aislinn held her head up high and strol... ... Become a female knight! She stared at him. King Patrick seemed a kind and just ruler. His hair was mostly dark, only a strand or two of white m... ...uld have thought the robe would be cumbersome, but instead it helped with the illusion. She tried again despite her screaming aching muscles. This ...

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...logical and religious explanations. At the center of scientif- ic thinking was an analysis of reality, and the search for scientific answers to age-o... ...heory emerged: Quantum Mechan- ics, also known as Quantum Theory. This spurred an ongoing revolution in physics whereby all measurements yielded only... ... measure- ments actually measure?” This principle implies that the concept of an “objective process” becomes irrelevant. Moreover, beyond the measur... ... ator wants to give, but only to give back to the Creator. The creature gives just as the Creator gives. However, this is not the end of the proces... ...is a result of our ever- growing will to receive. Once the spiritual structure just described materializes, the matter that forms our world is create... ...anders, the renowned Danish researcher who published a book entitled The User Illusion. Norretranders notes an intriguing point regarding the functi... ...ence called “Quantum Mechanics.” This branch acknowledges that the theory we just presented is incorrect, and that there is in fact an element of c... ...ten- tions, (everything we do here and the rest of our human life) is only an illusion. There is no love, no hate, no passion, and no satisfaction. ... ...think that the Creator exists and has any bearing on us. It is precisely this illusion that enables us to perceive the Light as something that exist...

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...ook was published under the title The Mystical Chorus by Millennium Books [an imprint of E.J. Dwyer (Australia) Pty. Ltd.] in 1995. This second editio... ...ibb. Typeset in Times New Roman and Futura, using the program Mellel, with an Apple iMac. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors are grateful for permission to ... ...hiraz, “The Sufi Path of Love,” tr. R.A. Nicholson, Mysticism— A Study and an Anthology, ed. F.C. Happold, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. John... ...nown, principally because of the Crusades and other wars past and present. Just what Islam taught and practiced was, however, little known in the West... ... Yugoslavia. When this chapter was first formulated, nine years of war had just ended between Iraq and Iran which, among other causes, found a basis i... ...h a particular set of beliefs. Beliefs may be intellectual statements, but just as often they are statements which try to convey an experience and onl... ... that everything he had believed and all his religious experiences were an illusion and that what he had been attempting to achieve, in effect, perpet... ... of the quality of life is possible, a view which Gautama rejected as pure illusion. The move from viewing karma as the result of reincarna- tion to b... ...tama realized that belief in reason, like belief in religion, is purely an illusion. The inability of the human intellect to understand the de- pths o...

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...ffers both the answers and a practical way to avoid suffering and lead a wholesome and happy life. Now, the wisdom of Kabbalah is being revealed like an open book, to all people of all backgrounds. The wisdom of Kabbalah is a contemporary method that reveals how to achieve the best in life. An Interview with the Future is intended for every person who wants to learn about ...

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...not within our reach, and science simply cannot answer it. But it is not just about the question - why do things exist, but also about the question... ...development, or else it will not endure. After that, humanity should feel an inner need to discover that extra, hidden sense. The method that was g... ...d in our senses themselves. There is a very accurate method that develops an additional sense called the “sixth sense”, a “screen” or a “returning ... ...our five senses at birth, but we ourselves must develop the sixth sense. An individual is suddenly ‘summoned’ from above; he feels compelled to exp... ... - and even if he denies Him, doesn’t understand His actions, or fails to justify Him altogether. 15 of 263 Interview With The Future T... .... The only thing the Creator wants is contact with his creatures that is just a little better then the one he had with the settlers in the Negev, h... ...t this freedom (our own state, our own government and independence) is an illusion. It is given to us precisely so as to come to a deep comprehensio... ...m. Only then will the ego activate its mind and become wiser. There is an illusion that the path of pain is the path to the spiritual world. But tha...

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...iving Iraq’s Debts XIII. Kosovo’s Iraqi Lessons XIV. The Iraqi and the Madman XV. Just War or Just a War? The Roots of Anti-Americanism By: Dr. ... ... and causes. It was a dream in the throes of becoming, a vision of liberty, peace, justice, prosperity, and progress. Its system, though far from f... ...ally molested, forcibly sodomized ("indecent acts with a child") and then murdered an 11-years old girl in the basement of her drab building in Kos... ...e in Iraq. In all these cases, the perpetrators were removed from the scene to face justice - or, more often, a travesty thereof - back home. Ameri... ...lion - its arrears to the UN peacekeeping operations, usually asked to mop up after an American invasion or bombing. It not only refuses to subject ... ...ekeepers, its bankers and businessmen, its traders and diplomats are its long arms, an embodiment of this potent and malignant mixture of supremacy ... ...od program. He said the proposal was "based on a colonialist, racist and despicable illusion that pushes the despot oppressors in Washington and Lon... ...alls for the forfeiting of the oil of the Iraqi state and implementing the colonial illusion of the removal of the State of Iraq." - he thundered. ...

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...In aesthetics, the paradox means the apparent resolution of an enigmatic situation (the result of such a process is the satisfaction of a distention), the emotional moving force being the unforeseen, the unexpected (which generates and also perturbs a new tension). Therefore, the p...

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... poet-mathematician Florentin Smarandache (paradoxism = smarandachism, in an “internal” and already notorious interpretation). A few years ago, ... ...published in his specialty, but also in literature, that he was alone and just did not bear solitude. The professional writers know this type of lett... ...writers know this type of letter. At first I’d had a reflex of restraint, justified by the lack of knowledge in this case. In addition, the professio... ... grow on, as the reading went forward, because the poems constituted only an element of the significant space of the page, the expression tended towa... ...lement of the significant space of the page, the expression tended towards an autonomy in an universe of signs, in a concentric play reinforced by th... ...at illogical logic” that Al. Macedonsky defined. The literary historian justifies the literary tenacity of the paradox with an aesthetic relation:... ...oo. Then its blazon is represented by a spiral that may create an optical illusion, but may be also a vicious circle: THE PARADOXIST LITERARY MOV... ... recent historical process of a gradual and progressive liberation of the illusion. The historian Eugen Simion observes that in the post-war poetry ... ...of the Romanian literature 60-70 decade went along with an alternative of illusion with regard to a context directed toward a tedious praise of effic...

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...g. Copyright © 2008 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribu... ...Second Enclosure Movement, 42 4 The Internet Threat, 54 5 The Farmers’ Tale: An Allegory, 83 6 I Got a Mashup, 122 7 The Enclosure of Science and Tech... ... Science and Technology: T wo Case Studies, 160 8 A Creative Commons, 179 9 An Evidence-Free Zone, 205 10 An Environmentalism for Information, 230 No... ...ohen, Peggy Radin, Carol Rose, Rebecca Eisenberg, Mark Lemley, Terry Fisher, Justin Hughes, Neil Netanel, Wendy Gordon, David Nimmer, Tyler Ochoa, Tim... ...ut I will not. This flurry of names and areas of knowledge signifies more than just the deep thanks of a dilettante. It signifies the emergence of an are... ...hy get excited about the patenting of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich? “I just thought that there were limits,” he said; “some things should be sac... ...onal fair use analysis, then the apparent clarity of the one-note rule is an illusion. The Bridgeport decision is a bad one, I believe. Among other th...

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...of Estissac IX. Of the Parthians Armes X. Of Bookes XI. Of Crueltie XII. An Apologie of Raymond Sebond XIII. Of Judging of others' Death XIV. How t... ... thousands more, to tell them in their owne, what they would be taught in an other language. How nobly it is descended, let the father in the ninth ... ... one Chapter found my selfe over-charged, whereto the charge or choise of an Honorable person, and by me not-to-be-denied Denefactor (Noble and vert... ...est and in love-sypathising friend, Maister Doctor Guinne, of whome I may justly say what my Authour saith of his second- selfe Steven de Boetie ( Li... ...verie solid. They are companions, if not masters of the lawes: That which justice could not worke on their heads, it is reason it effect upon their ... ...there is no reason we should refuse the unfolding of our felt wrongs unto justice and our libertie. And specially to refuse good subjects, the glory... ...sides. A Kings estate, no greater good provides. He seeth they are but illusions and vain deceits. He may haply be of King Seleucus his advice: '... ... which tend to some profitable end: being so apt to imprint all manner of illusion in man's minde, that it is injustice not to feed them rather with ... ...h are the subiects by whose authority and abusive reverence imposture and illusion is more easily lurked) they proceeded to certaine visions and str...

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...new_optimi sm/ People who exercise violence in the pursuit of what they hold to be just causes are alternately known as "terrorists" or "freedom fi... ...d by the members of the group and, most important, on hate and contempt directed at an "enemy". The latter is, almost invariably, the physical or c... ...loyalties and alliances of these people shift effortlessly as ever escalating means justify an ever shrinking cause. The initial burst of grandiosi... ...s and alliances of these people shift effortlessly as ever escalating means justify an ever shrinking cause. The initial burst of grandiosity inher... ...o cynical and bitter pragmatism as both enemy and people tire of the conflict. 3. An inevitable result of the realpolitik of terrorism is the coll... ...and political groups. And, taking everything into account, the IMRO was fighting a just war against an abhorrent enemy. Moreover, to some extent,... ...e name given to a group of 9 symptoms (see: DSM-4). They include: a grandiose Self (illusions of grandeur coupled with an inflated, unrealistic sens... ...ouls. The narcissistic leader prefers the sparkle and glamour of well-orchestrated illusions to the tedium and method of real accomplishments. His ...

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...Vol. 1: TripStone hates to kill her gods but she must feed her people. An accomplished hunter in the Masari village of Crossroads, she is charged with the ritual slaying of the sacred Yata. Her comrade Ghost tries to end Masari dependence on Yata meat by performing experiments punishable by ...

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...ction between physical cannibalism and how my societies fed off each other, an observation I used in my marketing. Editor Ellie Daulton provided fur... ...download. "What is so beguiling about a specialist predator is the idea of an intimacy with the Beast! For if, originally, there was one particular... ... him as she slipped her rifle off and placed it on the ground between them: an honor bestowed for an honor. She watched as the Yata continued to wri... ...pon FeatherFly's sour face and healing forehead and thought of the person. "Just remember," she scolded, "that a Yata gave his life to help save you... ...ot to cry. "Without him the Masari would die." Abri pouted. "Why can't they just die?" 12 Elissa Malcohn Deviations: Covenant Not a demon voice, ... ...ie?" 12 Elissa Malcohn Deviations: Covenant Not a demon voice, that one. Just an innocent boy asking an innocent question. Zai stroked her child... ...d 108 Elissa Malcohn Deviations: Covenant impossibly distant, an optical illusion muffled in waves of heat unrelieved by shade. Sweat stained the... ... a dream, surrounded by bottled atrocities that were not supposed to exist. Illusion. How could he have destroyed what never was? WindTamer was bes...

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...e Disruptive Engine - Innovation XI. Governments and Growth XII. The Distributive Justice of the Market XIII. The Myth of the Earnings Yield XIV.... ...War and the Business Cycle XXV. America’s Current Account Deficit XXVI. Anarchy as an Organizing Principle XXVII. Narcissism in the Boardroom XXVI... ...direct experimentation would have yielded far better results. The outcome has been an embarrassing divorce between economic theory and its subjects... ... makes most people both irrational and unpredictable. Either one cannot design an experiment to rigorously and validly test theorems and conjec... ...and narratives offer an organizing principle, a sense of order, predictability, and justice. They postulate an inexorable drive toward greater welf... ...ding he follows the prescriptions. His belief in the existence of linear order and justice administered by some supreme, transcendental principle i... ...to accept a pay cut even when inflation is zero or less. This is called the "money illusion". Admittedly, it is less pronounced when compensation i... ...lly pernicious ... The idea that ... rights have a deeper moral underpinning is an illusion. Morality itself is an illusion., just another weapon o...