I want to explore the negative polarity.

[Dtris]

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Are you willing to spend 1000 lives being used and abused by others to have a chance to have a handful of lives at the top.
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That one is so often overlooked.  Ra (or was it Quo ?) mentioned that many of those starving in Africa are living through this because they are walking the negative path and not doing a great job at it.

I wasn't aware of that coming from confederation sources. Probably from Quo then. I am still in 1981 for my read thru of the entire backlog. I will eventually finish this body of work.