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| Articles about Chapter Four |
| Chapter Four: Of the City of Carshle | | 2008-03-06 12:37:00 | | Presh and Fidge arrived in Carshle at dusk. It lay no more than a half-mile from the edge of the enormous ridge and a cold breeze pushed down through the ragged streets, accelerated by the raised ground. Carshle itself looked like any other city, if Presh had a clue what a city looked like. Unfortunately, Presh couldn’t remember anything at all, except how to walk, talk, and, he hoped, how to eat. There were no towers, no castles, and no walls—except for one that kept the majority of the small town’s goats at bay—and no buildings over two stories tall. There were six streets, including those that crossed over each other, and a modest population of one hundred and thirty-three—according to Fidge. Carshle was, to put it simply, a very small town with very small hopes and ambitions. The homes of Carshle were a hodgepodge of straw-topped and thatched roofs. A few warm lanterns burned down the main road where an inn, a stable, and two remarkably rowdy pubs sat—a third was | | By: The World in the Satin Bag | | |
| | CHAPTER FOUR | | 2005-09-04 00:20:00 | | INTERMEDIATE SOCIALIZATIONNot in spite of, but by virtue of, the absence of self-discipline and the incognizance of self-divinity, we floundered into our “entry level” positions of relationship experiences, the whole of which would constitute our paths curriculum throughout the remainder of our physical incarnations. Having now examined some of the framework (from the eternal perspective), we can return once again to what is manifest and witness that each day brought a host of challenges for the newly settled former nomads to overcome, and since adaptation was the rule of thumb applied to lifestyle choices during these formative years, the reasons for doing anything one way or another weren’t so much conscious decisions as they were following the physical path of least resistance. In this manner, our behavior varied widely depending on our surroundings and availability of resources, especially food and shelter. It’s obvious that when people came together in locations where all the necessary supplies were not plentiful year around, they would learn to rely on their trade-ability with each other, and travelers passing through, to fill the larder with essentials not found locally. The inclination toward compromise––to adapt rather than aggrieve, to include instead of preclude––made the wannabe villagers the exception to that chaos the rest of humanity was struggling to survive. Case in point, those ancients who had advanced the characteristics that enabled tolerance, no doubt the most beneficial position––considering all the possible circumstances––at that time, were counted among the very few in a population whose normal level of civility was otherwise quite barbaric. The next “best” of us were still savages. Where vast “virgin” areas of the globe harbored an abundance of everything needed to thrive, the clan / tribe group populations could swell into the thousands before becoming so innumerable that a division of its members might be | | By: THE HIGH WATCH, a View of God's Unfolding Divine P | | |
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