On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:36 AM, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That reminds me of all of the various things that I will do When I have > The Time (small unrepresentative sample follows) > > This has the makings of a[nother] monster thread. > Here goes: * Get financially literate* Make sense of how the rational (logical) and irrational (moral) sides of the brain reconcile * Make sense of how mass consumption and individualism manage to pretend they are unrelated * Visit every continent in the world just to make the claim of having done that * Do the rickshaw rally * Visit Tibet and Xinjiang and understand what life is like on the other side of the Himalayas * Visit Varanasi and observe the interplay of its three claims as a site of learning, ritual and tourism * Grok the mythologies that inform the prominent cultures of the world -- Kiran Jonnalagadda http://jace.seacrow.com/