Thanks for the sites. I will have to spend a bit time pondering them. You mentioned a background in world history and I would like to pose a question to you. In the history of differing civilizations and cultures there seems to be a very basic difference that happened early on and set the course of the societies. How different cultures are going back in time many centuries. There seems to be a very basic trend that is difficult to alter once set in motion. There are early initiators in the life of a society and generation after generation is built upon this initiation. I remember as a boy reading teachings of Socrates and I am sure a boy in another part of the world might do the same with Confucius. And how different a view of the world we would each walk away with.

Regards.