Thanks general. I hope your book does well. It's risky business, yes, and accountants aren't generally known for taking risks, are they? I am as adverse to it as you could possibly get. Then again, I am very restless, and I feel displaced in life as far as my profession is concerned. I mean, my purpose is to squeeze every half a cent out of my big conglomerate company's bottom line, so that the CEO can afford to fly some more African wildlife onto his ranch in Mexico, so that he and his millionaire buddies can get pissed up and go on safari! Please! This guy's got animal heads mounted on the walls of his office (intimidation tactic). Anyway, I would give just about anything to be able to do something for a living that I'm actually passionate about. I can't even imagine how great that would be.
Dave,
Your uncle sounds like a very interesting man. I would love to hear about his work and how he got started. I will e-mail you today. Mine is lorisims7@hotmail.com. I do tend to relate everything to angels or demons. That probably gets old for most of you. I think that they have been referred to by different names, in different cultures, or at different times in history...it's just that in my culture, and in my day, angels and demons are what they're called. I am most familiar with the identity of these beings through what I've read in the Bible. I've noticed, through researching other interpretations and phenomena, that many different beings have completely paralleled the characteristics of angels and demons, including fairies, wood sprites, Indian spirits, new age avatars, and aliens, to name a few. I think that the reason we don't know much about these beings is because they exist in another dimension that is not tangible to us, which of course, has religion written all over it. I guess that my underlying assumption is that the Bible is true, so how do I use it to figure out what is going on around me in my life? I'm also fairly apocolyptic-minded, though I hate admitting it. The whole UFO/alien phenomenon really does a good job of sending me into that mind-set. Some people would say that I'm close-minded because of my underlying assumptions, but I also know that I'm more open-minded than a lot of Christians have been known to be (and that wasn't hard to do). I'm open to many different possible interpretations of many different concepts, and then, of course, I have been called TOO open-minded in this respect. Oh well, thanks for the info. I'll e-mail you.