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I'm passionate about

translation, so I get enthusiastic about anything from butterfly valves to linear pipe tensioners and epidural anesthesia to skin tension in micropiles or Lower Moesian legates and tax planning.

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• A reply on Talk: Yang Lan: The generation that's remaking China

  May 29 2012: Stefan, Everybody's cutlural values everywhere is taking a hit because of the preeminence of the Western media and English language. And traditional values are "taking a hit" in the West too.
  
  Somehow, Westerners have this wild dream of "unspoilt" peoples at "unspoilt" travel destinations when people are actually inquisitive and acquisitive. I hate to tell you, but most Tibetans want a 4WD utility vehicle, flatscreen TV, iPad and anything else that glitters in a shopwindow.
  
  The Dalai Lama is all very saintly and knows his Buddhism backwards and forwards but (1) not everybody is a lama or wants to become one and (2) he has a weakness for Gucci shoes himself.
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  A reply on Talk: Jane Fonda: Life's third act

  Apr 12 2012: Somebody once said a pessimist was an optimist with more information.
  
  Wars have been up recently; so are police officer killings by 25% year-on-year (says the FBI) and there's more.

• A reply on Talk: Jane Fonda: Life's third act

  Apr 12 2012: People change and, lacking life experience, kids tend towards extremes out of idealism. Ms. Fonda went from Ho Chi Minh to Ted Turner and outgrew both.
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  A comment on Talk: Jane Fonda: Life's third act

  Apr 12 2012: "Third Act"? Hinduism long ago divided life into three stages (1) Learning (2) Doing and (3) Teaching.
  
  "finding commonalities instead of differences"? Buddhism and Hinduism teach "All is One" to children.
  
  "hardwired neural pathways"? Buddhism, Islam and Hinduism have been teaching for some time too that a thought is a deed.

• A reply on Conversation: Religious Bridge

  Dec 18 2011: From what I gather, Ms. Armstrong seems to focus on the monotheisms. Personally, I like having lots of divinities on my altar, always leaving space to add in more. Otherwise it's like having a box of 64 crayons, all the same color.
  
  Just an opinion.

• A reply on Conversation: Religious Bridge

  Dec 18 2011: "God" is in business for Himself -- likely HERself, actually: if we attribute to such a being the power to both give and take life, then woman is the better analogy for women can be taught to kill and, I'm told, make better hitmen than men because, in some situations, a man will break down and abort whereas a woman won't.

• A reply on Conversation: Religious Bridge

  Dec 17 2011: The trouble with monotheists is that they will commit the bloodiest deeds in His name, acts they would never commit in their own name.
  
  As an atheist, agnostic or polytheist, you have to assume full personal liability for all your deeds: there is no way to pass the buck by kicking it upstairs and claiming you were "just following orders."

• A comment on Conversation: How would you redesign the current high school program?

  Dec 7 2011: Please forgive my poor taste.

• A comment on Conversation: How would you redesign the current high school program?

  Dec 6 2011: When games and other tools of indoctrination repeatedly involve you in experiencing a given virtual reality more intensely than direct personal experience,and thereby to trust it more, they strangle your soul.
  
  Have a nice day!

• A reply on Talk: Wael Ghonim: Inside the Egyptian revolution

  Dec 5 2011: Moi aussi.