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		<title>By: Love</title>
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		<dc:creator>Love</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;THELMA 
September 5, 2008 at 12:54 pm 
Dear Love, I have just read what you are writing. I think that as everybody else you have the Right for a decent job. It is in the Human Rights Declaration.
To have a health problem is something human and not a ‘fault’. You are lucky you have your mother and I am sure she makes the utmost for helping you. I have known somebody who had ‘manic-depression’ and was taking medication and was able to live a nornal life. Trust your mother and the people around you and be sure there will be a better time for you.
LOVE,
Thelma&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;THELMA<br />
September 5, 2008 at 12:54 pm<br />
Dear Love, I have just read what you are writing. I think that as everybody else you have the Right for a decent job. It is in the Human Rights Declaration.<br />
To have a health problem is something human and not a ‘fault’. You are lucky you have your mother and I am sure she makes the utmost for helping you. I have known somebody who had ‘manic-depression’ and was taking medication and was able to live a nornal life. Trust your mother and the people around you and be sure there will be a better time for you.<br />
LOVE,<br />
Thelma&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Love</title>
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		<dc:creator>Love</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Trust your mother and the people around you&quot;

This words can be poison. A good advise, but also a dangerous poison.

Just to quote an example that most people here may know; if Paulo had trusted her mum, and her dad, he would probably be in that mental home he was carried long ago.

A mother can be very dangerous for a daughter sometimes. The fact of being a mother doesn´t mean to be in the Light.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Trust your mother and the people around you&#8221;</p>
<p>This words can be poison. A good advise, but also a dangerous poison.</p>
<p>Just to quote an example that most people here may know; if Paulo had trusted her mum, and her dad, he would probably be in that mental home he was carried long ago.</p>
<p>A mother can be very dangerous for a daughter sometimes. The fact of being a mother doesn´t mean to be in the Light.</p>
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		<title>By: Blue</title>
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		<dc:creator>Blue</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The tower for me is an isolation
if I could choose, I prefer to stay on the ground 
and see things from human being&#039;s eyes
can touch, see, smell, taste everything
rather than being on the top
and see things from heaven far away
but can touch, see, smell, and taste nothing
Life is based on the earth
people need to learn from the earth
in order to understand something beyond the heaven. ^_^

Regards,</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The tower for me is an isolation<br />
if I could choose, I prefer to stay on the ground<br />
and see things from human being&#8217;s eyes<br />
can touch, see, smell, taste everything<br />
rather than being on the top<br />
and see things from heaven far away<br />
but can touch, see, smell, and taste nothing<br />
Life is based on the earth<br />
people need to learn from the earth<br />
in order to understand something beyond the heaven. ^_^</p>
<p>Regards,</p>
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		<title>By: Jacqueline</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jacqueline</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 03:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I associate towers with power - good and bad.  From a tower you can see far, protect, be safe.  From a tower you can be imprisoned, hidden and lost.  As with everything in this life, it depends who is  the keeper of the tower.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I associate towers with power &#8211; good and bad.  From a tower you can see far, protect, be safe.  From a tower you can be imprisoned, hidden and lost.  As with everything in this life, it depends who is  the keeper of the tower.</p>
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		<title>By: azilda</title>
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		<dc:creator>azilda</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Towers

Represent the very high above me, the levels to climb to, to top of all tops and then to higher tops of all tops.
One enters a tower on the first floor and is aware of the ....floors above.
The bean stalk that keeps on growing to elevate itself towards infinity.
aa</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Towers</p>
<p>Represent the very high above me, the levels to climb to, to top of all tops and then to higher tops of all tops.<br />
One enters a tower on the first floor and is aware of the &#8230;.floors above.<br />
The bean stalk that keeps on growing to elevate itself towards infinity.<br />
aa</p>
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		<title>By: Gina</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gina</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 02:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Tower of Destruction - Tarot Cards
Not a good card at all..

Rupunsel - Tale of a women trapped in a tower and grew her hair really long so that her man could climb up the tower and rescue her...

Crazy Kings sent to the tower so not to bring shame upon the royals.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Tower of Destruction &#8211; Tarot Cards<br />
Not a good card at all..</p>
<p>Rupunsel &#8211; Tale of a women trapped in a tower and grew her hair really long so that her man could climb up the tower and rescue her&#8230;</p>
<p>Crazy Kings sent to the tower so not to bring shame upon the royals.</p>
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		<title>By: Liara Covert</title>
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		<dc:creator>Liara Covert</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 23:36:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>One view is the tower initially represents human ambition that is created and built up before it is disintegrated by the mind in favor of a more spiritual and holistic focus.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>One view is the tower initially represents human ambition that is created and built up before it is disintegrated by the mind in favor of a more spiritual and holistic focus.</p>
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		<title>By: THELMA</title>
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		<dc:creator>THELMA</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4_OlVzoIX1o
&#039;Don Quixote&#039;
Again the music and harmony.
Love,
Thelma</description>
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&#8216;Don Quixote&#8217;<br />
Again the music and harmony.<br />
Love,<br />
Thelma</p>
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		<title>By: nho</title>
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		<dc:creator>nho</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 12:08:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>In a dancing floor I see several signs of the &quot;tower&quot;.
Think that the dance is a rite to the same to &quot;Earth&quot;, of which the men and women are the own towers, as in a chess game.
A &quot;tower&quot; can be  the Dj, or a person who has connected with the music and raises the hands, flowing his(her,your) channel of positive energy, with the &quot;Earth&quot;, with ritual dancing.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a dancing floor I see several signs of the &#8220;tower&#8221;.<br />
Think that the dance is a rite to the same to &#8220;Earth&#8221;, of which the men and women are the own towers, as in a chess game.<br />
A &#8220;tower&#8221; can be  the Dj, or a person who has connected with the music and raises the hands, flowing his(her,your) channel of positive energy, with the &#8220;Earth&#8221;, with ritual dancing.</p>
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		<title>By: Karen</title>
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		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The tower could be anyone new you meet. 
Some, once you start to climb the stairs it all gets too hard and proves not worth the effort. These types of towers you could tend to their grounds with them, as the steps crumble and the view is cloudy. Not too bad you need to walk away from it, but nicer from a distance. 
Others, lure you onward and upward, revealing more of the beauty the more effort you put in.
These rare beings, offer a breathtaking and life changing view of the world once you reach the pinacle. These are the towers from which beacons shine. Where you both beam brighter in each others presence.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The tower could be anyone new you meet.<br />
Some, once you start to climb the stairs it all gets too hard and proves not worth the effort. These types of towers you could tend to their grounds with them, as the steps crumble and the view is cloudy. Not too bad you need to walk away from it, but nicer from a distance.<br />
Others, lure you onward and upward, revealing more of the beauty the more effort you put in.<br />
These rare beings, offer a breathtaking and life changing view of the world once you reach the pinacle. These are the towers from which beacons shine. Where you both beam brighter in each others presence.</p>
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		<title>By: Love</title>
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		<dc:creator>Love</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 08:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Thelma,

Thank you for your kind words.

Love.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Thelma,</p>
<p>Thank you for your kind words.</p>
<p>Love.</p>
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		<title>By: JR</title>
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		<dc:creator>JR</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 02:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tower

Light in the Darkness?

Mystery horded, protected?

All darkness with a tiny light resting at the top,

Whether Rapunzel or navagational beacon

Sort of like us.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tower</p>
<p>Light in the Darkness?</p>
<p>Mystery horded, protected?</p>
<p>All darkness with a tiny light resting at the top,</p>
<p>Whether Rapunzel or navagational beacon</p>
<p>Sort of like us.</p>
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		<title>By: Brenda Tucker</title>
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		<dc:creator>Brenda Tucker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The tower is something that was built by human hands and for this I am exceedingly glad. Now that the time has come for the destruction of the tower, I am not angry. I can see that it has to be. I am glad that it existed built by humans for the time that it did. 

I recognize that the tower or axis of our planet revolves around the greatest life at any given time existing on that planet, and now I am committed to teaching others about a new kingdom of nature which I have named girasas. That they have built the tower or lighthouse is also my greatest joy because I want to know them as fully as I can with the time that we have together and when we again participate in the life of the planet, it will be the destruction of the tower built by the lower kingdom of animals that has to take place and we will be their guides for a time, causing events that instruct but do not dominate, as a kingdom has rightfully a time spent on the globe in their fullest capacity before learning about the coming of the higher kingdom and taking up the watchword from them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The tower is something that was built by human hands and for this I am exceedingly glad. Now that the time has come for the destruction of the tower, I am not angry. I can see that it has to be. I am glad that it existed built by humans for the time that it did. </p>
<p>I recognize that the tower or axis of our planet revolves around the greatest life at any given time existing on that planet, and now I am committed to teaching others about a new kingdom of nature which I have named girasas. That they have built the tower or lighthouse is also my greatest joy because I want to know them as fully as I can with the time that we have together and when we again participate in the life of the planet, it will be the destruction of the tower built by the lower kingdom of animals that has to take place and we will be their guides for a time, causing events that instruct but do not dominate, as a kingdom has rightfully a time spent on the globe in their fullest capacity before learning about the coming of the higher kingdom and taking up the watchword from them.</p>
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		<title>By: anneke</title>
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		<dc:creator>anneke</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>tower: removed from the world/reality; something phallic; trapped in idealism.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>tower: removed from the world/reality; something phallic; trapped in idealism.</p>
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		<title>By: Kazendim</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kazendim</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tower of song by Leonnard Cohen</description>
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		<title>By: Monika</title>
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		<dc:creator>Monika</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I cannot explain why, but when I imagine a tall tower I have to think of Pan&#039;s flute again.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I cannot explain why, but when I imagine a tall tower I have to think of Pan&#8217;s flute again.</p>
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		<title>By: Walaa Hamdan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Walaa Hamdan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>it&#039;s the link between the ground, and a limitless sky..
between reality and infinite dreams..

&lt;3</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>it&#8217;s the link between the ground, and a limitless sky..<br />
between reality and infinite dreams..</p>
<p>&lt;3</p>
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		<title>By: THELMA</title>
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		<dc:creator>THELMA</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dear Love, I have just read what you are writing. I think that as everybody else you have the Right for a decent job. It is in the Human Rights Declaration. 
To have a health problem is something human and not a &#039;fault&#039;. You are lucky you have your mother and I am sure she makes the utmost for helping you. I have known somebody who had &#039;manic-depression&#039; and was taking medication and was able to live a nornal life. Trust your mother and the people around you and be sure there will be a better time for you. 
LOVE,
Thelma</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Love, I have just read what you are writing. I think that as everybody else you have the Right for a decent job. It is in the Human Rights Declaration.<br />
To have a health problem is something human and not a &#8216;fault&#8217;. You are lucky you have your mother and I am sure she makes the utmost for helping you. I have known somebody who had &#8216;manic-depression&#8217; and was taking medication and was able to live a nornal life. Trust your mother and the people around you and be sure there will be a better time for you.<br />
LOVE,<br />
Thelma</p>
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		<title>By: THELMA</title>
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		<dc:creator>THELMA</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Towers remind me of the troubadours and their romantic era.
I am just readint in the newspaper: &#039;The new tower of Babel in Dubai has not yet finished and it is supposed to be higher than 700 meter height. It is going to be the highest buildin of the World. 
As you said above, dear Paulo Coelho the tower of Babel represents the vanity of the people, but at the same time the desire to reach God. 
In Metaphor, we use it whenever we want to express misunderstandings. Each one speaking &#039;his own language&#039;!!
In Greek, whenever we want to express a big noise, confusion we say : BABYLONIA.
Love,
Thelma</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Towers remind me of the troubadours and their romantic era.<br />
I am just readint in the newspaper: &#8216;The new tower of Babel in Dubai has not yet finished and it is supposed to be higher than 700 meter height. It is going to be the highest buildin of the World.<br />
As you said above, dear Paulo Coelho the tower of Babel represents the vanity of the people, but at the same time the desire to reach God.<br />
In Metaphor, we use it whenever we want to express misunderstandings. Each one speaking &#8216;his own language&#8217;!!<br />
In Greek, whenever we want to express a big noise, confusion we say : BABYLONIA.<br />
Love,<br />
Thelma</p>
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		<title>By: Santosh Kalwar</title>
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		<dc:creator>Santosh Kalwar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Tower is associated with our imagination. What we imagine, is what we think the particular thing is associated with. A tower is the peak, a high tall thing which can be used in many ways.

Early it represented evil, later people associated with the positive connotations. It also represents the place where death meets the birth. It is the place where people some time go and kill themselves. 

It can also be place where people go and enjoy themselves. It is the place in our mind which always demands something from the things associated in the real world. With these things, we can associate anything.

Based on what people have done in the past with tower, we try to do the same but the result does not occur different because, what some body else have already discovered, we will discover the same.

No difference is found when the tower in one region of the world gives light to every one around the village and in the next region it is used for the same purpose. But what if, some body uses as the negative symbol and in some other place it is associated with positive symbol.

What we associate with &quot;tower&quot; is what we associate with the &quot;mountain&quot;, &quot;heights&quot;, our emotions and with the happiness. All these associations are some how inter related and these inter relation gives us one common thing in our mind.

These association tells us that, we think differently on different things which is totally wrong. All these are for good purpose. Nothing is build just like that. Everything around the world comes with values and with some purpose.

Imagine a world where there was no water, no mountains, no green leaves and now imagine you being in such world. What would you associate with your life then ? 

Our associations can be different on different things but those are just our perceptions. And I think perception differs in many ways from people to people, from culture to culture and from country to country, also from religion, sex, race, and through many other ways.

Anyways, to answer what you associate with tower- I would rather say that I do not associate anything with tower simply because I do not associate anything with any entity. It does not mean that these things are useless but it means that- these are useful and there is no association. These things also have life and these life will only be understood once we understand what is life.

Knowing something and telling something which you do not know are two different ways of looking at things in our life.

I do not know what is the association of what, but I can surely tell you that-whatever we associate is just a false assumption on our ideas in our general mind.

Tower can be assumed as death, but at the same time it can also be associated with life, light or whatsoever. It depends on what a person is thinking while he is thinking of association of the things being asked.

It also depends on the past experiences and future demands or desire with the things for example &quot;tower&quot;.

Well, I think I have given my point on what I associate on what, I need to read others point too.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tower is associated with our imagination. What we imagine, is what we think the particular thing is associated with. A tower is the peak, a high tall thing which can be used in many ways.</p>
<p>Early it represented evil, later people associated with the positive connotations. It also represents the place where death meets the birth. It is the place where people some time go and kill themselves. </p>
<p>It can also be place where people go and enjoy themselves. It is the place in our mind which always demands something from the things associated in the real world. With these things, we can associate anything.</p>
<p>Based on what people have done in the past with tower, we try to do the same but the result does not occur different because, what some body else have already discovered, we will discover the same.</p>
<p>No difference is found when the tower in one region of the world gives light to every one around the village and in the next region it is used for the same purpose. But what if, some body uses as the negative symbol and in some other place it is associated with positive symbol.</p>
<p>What we associate with &#8220;tower&#8221; is what we associate with the &#8220;mountain&#8221;, &#8220;heights&#8221;, our emotions and with the happiness. All these associations are some how inter related and these inter relation gives us one common thing in our mind.</p>
<p>These association tells us that, we think differently on different things which is totally wrong. All these are for good purpose. Nothing is build just like that. Everything around the world comes with values and with some purpose.</p>
<p>Imagine a world where there was no water, no mountains, no green leaves and now imagine you being in such world. What would you associate with your life then ? </p>
<p>Our associations can be different on different things but those are just our perceptions. And I think perception differs in many ways from people to people, from culture to culture and from country to country, also from religion, sex, race, and through many other ways.</p>
<p>Anyways, to answer what you associate with tower- I would rather say that I do not associate anything with tower simply because I do not associate anything with any entity. It does not mean that these things are useless but it means that- these are useful and there is no association. These things also have life and these life will only be understood once we understand what is life.</p>
<p>Knowing something and telling something which you do not know are two different ways of looking at things in our life.</p>
<p>I do not know what is the association of what, but I can surely tell you that-whatever we associate is just a false assumption on our ideas in our general mind.</p>
<p>Tower can be assumed as death, but at the same time it can also be associated with life, light or whatsoever. It depends on what a person is thinking while he is thinking of association of the things being asked.</p>
<p>It also depends on the past experiences and future demands or desire with the things for example &#8220;tower&#8221;.</p>
<p>Well, I think I have given my point on what I associate on what, I need to read others point too.</p>
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		<title>By: Philippe</title>
		<link>http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/09/01/weekly-free-association-the-tower/comment-page-1/#comment-52643</link>
		<dc:creator>Philippe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I associate the tower with wisdom, with knowledge, with the challenge of aboard that knowledge but also with the warning to not fall in the temptation to hide that knowledge from the others. The tower on the monastery from &quot;The Name Of The Rose&quot;...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I associate the tower with wisdom, with knowledge, with the challenge of aboard that knowledge but also with the warning to not fall in the temptation to hide that knowledge from the others. The tower on the monastery from &#8220;The Name Of The Rose&#8221;&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: E.M. Flick</title>
		<link>http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/09/01/weekly-free-association-the-tower/comment-page-1/#comment-52638</link>
		<dc:creator>E.M. Flick</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I believe that the Tower is tranquil serenity and persistence.

I always picture a tower sitting on a behemoth of a mountain, and it poised there alone. In my mind there is always ivy growing up the side. It shows that it stands there alone, and it is not afraid of anything mother nature or time can throw at it.

No one dares go near it even though it does nothing to them. Just its simple presence sheds an aura about the whole mountainside. Its beautiful, and fearful all at the same time.


Ultimate power corrupts ultimately,
E.M.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I believe that the Tower is tranquil serenity and persistence.</p>
<p>I always picture a tower sitting on a behemoth of a mountain, and it poised there alone. In my mind there is always ivy growing up the side. It shows that it stands there alone, and it is not afraid of anything mother nature or time can throw at it.</p>
<p>No one dares go near it even though it does nothing to them. Just its simple presence sheds an aura about the whole mountainside. Its beautiful, and fearful all at the same time.</p>
<p>Ultimate power corrupts ultimately,<br />
E.M.</p>
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		<title>By: rosa de los vientos</title>
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		<dc:creator>rosa de los vientos</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Erroque, prisión, comunicación entre el cielo y la tierra.
Proverbios 18:10 &quot;Torre Fuerte es el nombre del Señor, a ella correrán los justos y se pondrán a salvo&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Erroque, prisión, comunicación entre el cielo y la tierra.<br />
Proverbios 18:10 &#8220;Torre Fuerte es el nombre del Señor, a ella correrán los justos y se pondrán a salvo&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: sabine</title>
		<link>http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/09/01/weekly-free-association-the-tower/comment-page-1/#comment-52577</link>
		<dc:creator>sabine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have never thought about this, so after a minute of thinking I came to this:

To me, towers are a way to isolate yourself from everything else, to be able to see everything from up high in that tower and admire the beauty of everything you cannot normally see. 

This isolation can also be bad, in the way that it could be used to control a certain population, watching over what everyone does. Or you can hide anything on that tower that you do not want people to know. Or you can use it to protect something from any evil and danger. 

I think a tower should be used to admire everything from below and to protect something &quot;good&quot;. Unfortunately there are also bad ways in which you can use a tower. So in short, towers have a good side and a bad one. It just depends how we use it and see it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have never thought about this, so after a minute of thinking I came to this:</p>
<p>To me, towers are a way to isolate yourself from everything else, to be able to see everything from up high in that tower and admire the beauty of everything you cannot normally see. </p>
<p>This isolation can also be bad, in the way that it could be used to control a certain population, watching over what everyone does. Or you can hide anything on that tower that you do not want people to know. Or you can use it to protect something from any evil and danger. </p>
<p>I think a tower should be used to admire everything from below and to protect something &#8220;good&#8221;. Unfortunately there are also bad ways in which you can use a tower. So in short, towers have a good side and a bad one. It just depends how we use it and see it.</p>
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		<title>By: Anneliese Flores Clar</title>
		<link>http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/09/01/weekly-free-association-the-tower/comment-page-1/#comment-52571</link>
		<dc:creator>Anneliese Flores Clar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t have anything agains towers, but I don&#039;t like heights, no more than 2 stories. I don&#039;t like high buildings, it&#039;s not my thing!  I don&#039;t think men has to build a tower to get to God or the heavens, besides it wouldn&#039;t work.
God is inside of us and in all Creation.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t have anything agains towers, but I don&#8217;t like heights, no more than 2 stories. I don&#8217;t like high buildings, it&#8217;s not my thing!  I don&#8217;t think men has to build a tower to get to God or the heavens, besides it wouldn&#8217;t work.<br />
God is inside of us and in all Creation.</p>
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		<title>By: Love</title>
		<link>http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/09/01/weekly-free-association-the-tower/comment-page-1/#comment-52534</link>
		<dc:creator>Love</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I am looking for a job.

If someone call me and ask me for any reference or what have I been doing durin these years, what could I tell them?

The truth?

The truth is personal and also a long story. But if I simplify the truth, most people wouldn´t offer me a job.

The other choice is to say lies, but I prefer to not consider that.

If I tell them that I cannot provide references because I have been sick or with a depression, who is going to employ me?

Besides, I don´t want to tell about that to them. I would be too exposed, too vulnerable.

I have been for years living with my mother in a bedroom of the house.

I have tried to escape twice, but by that time, I left my mother´s house with an attitude that was not the correct one. And the work experiences that I had by those times were obviously a disaster and I have no contact with the people I worked for, so I have no references.

I cannot lie but if I say that I have been sick ... well, I neither want to open my Heart to people that I do not know.

I don´t know what I can I do.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I am looking for a job.</p>
<p>If someone call me and ask me for any reference or what have I been doing durin these years, what could I tell them?</p>
<p>The truth?</p>
<p>The truth is personal and also a long story. But if I simplify the truth, most people wouldn´t offer me a job.</p>
<p>The other choice is to say lies, but I prefer to not consider that.</p>
<p>If I tell them that I cannot provide references because I have been sick or with a depression, who is going to employ me?</p>
<p>Besides, I don´t want to tell about that to them. I would be too exposed, too vulnerable.</p>
<p>I have been for years living with my mother in a bedroom of the house.</p>
<p>I have tried to escape twice, but by that time, I left my mother´s house with an attitude that was not the correct one. And the work experiences that I had by those times were obviously a disaster and I have no contact with the people I worked for, so I have no references.</p>
<p>I cannot lie but if I say that I have been sick &#8230; well, I neither want to open my Heart to people that I do not know.</p>
<p>I don´t know what I can I do.</p>
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		<title>By: Sibila Maria India</title>
		<link>http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/09/01/weekly-free-association-the-tower/comment-page-1/#comment-52533</link>
		<dc:creator>Sibila Maria India</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>loneliness
excluded
isolation
prison
arrogance</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>loneliness<br />
excluded<br />
isolation<br />
prison<br />
arrogance</p>
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		<title>By: Alexandra</title>
		<link>http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/09/01/weekly-free-association-the-tower/comment-page-1/#comment-52446</link>
		<dc:creator>Alexandra</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Now I remember the pain while trying to read the compusory novel,by Virginia Woolf,&quot;To the Light House&quot;.I know is considered great writer,for the new style,free flux of conscioussness,but really boring.Was really tough .Then the seminar on that topic.Double pain.So.there the light house ,like one tower,was one constant presence,and the intermitent light ,resembled the changes of the inner life that we should see,or the light on the stage,that iluminates one new actor.
The tower may be one prison.The Tower of London,or the tower in wich poor ladies in distress were waiting for the knights to rescue them.I can write much,but I stop here.Bye</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now I remember the pain while trying to read the compusory novel,by Virginia Woolf,&#8221;To the Light House&#8221;.I know is considered great writer,for the new style,free flux of conscioussness,but really boring.Was really tough .Then the seminar on that topic.Double pain.So.there the light house ,like one tower,was one constant presence,and the intermitent light ,resembled the changes of the inner life that we should see,or the light on the stage,that iluminates one new actor.<br />
The tower may be one prison.The Tower of London,or the tower in wich poor ladies in distress were waiting for the knights to rescue them.I can write much,but I stop here.Bye</p>
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		<title>By: Love</title>
		<link>http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/09/01/weekly-free-association-the-tower/comment-page-1/#comment-52424</link>
		<dc:creator>Love</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It´s true that the past was terrible, painful and dark. But the past is gone and now we both have Evolved. There is no point in trying to escape, I´m fine here.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It´s true that the past was terrible, painful and dark. But the past is gone and now we both have Evolved. There is no point in trying to escape, I´m fine here.</p>
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		<title>By: Love</title>
		<link>http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2008/09/01/weekly-free-association-the-tower/comment-page-1/#comment-52423</link>
		<dc:creator>Love</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>But she is being very good to me now, she is helping me.

AndI love her.

I don´t know why I have written the other messages.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>But she is being very good to me now, she is helping me.</p>
<p>AndI love her.</p>
<p>I don´t know why I have written the other messages.</p>
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