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[This message contained attachments that have been removed.] Q--So what is Nukkad to you? A--Nukkad is a safe place for me. [A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular. -Adlai Stevenson, statesman (1900-1965)] MCG ========================================== On 3/28/08, tcmceus wrote: > > So how would you categorize Nukkad? > > 1. Is it an alternate reality to you? > You pass the greater part of your your time in one, be it your home, or > office, > or club, or even a retreat. Is Nukkad an addition to these? > > 2. A more intimate home away from home? Home is something very different > to different people. To some home is where the heart is, to others it is > where the > heart decidedly is not. Is Nukkad a surrogate home in one form or the > other? > > 3. Is it an alter ego? The usual haunts one is in do not allow free > expression, out > of delicacy, discretion or deception. If you speak your mind, a price > must be paid > for it. Is Nukkad a place where you get to say what you want to say, > because > there is no significant realtime payback to watch out for? > > 4. Is it a place where you can act out your hidden desires? The real > world is > often not the place which accommodates this. Is Nukkad where you get to > be the part time poet, loose moralled lover, prolific priest, righteous > warrior, > blasphemous bully, someone who says something for no other reason than > that it can be said without any real consequences? > > The list of possibilities could go on ad infinitum. > > So what is Nukkad to you? > > -- > Arya-Holmes > Acufree.Com Inc > http://www.acu-free.com > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all > evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still > savages. -Thomas Edison, inventor (1847-1931) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > To join/leave, use the form at: > http://www.mumbai-central.com/nukkad/#options > This list is archived at: > http://www.mumbai-central.com/nukkad/archive.html > > -- Prof. M C Gupta MD (Medicine), MPH, LL.M., Advocate & Health and Medico-legal Consultant mcgupta44@gmail.com www.writing.com/authors/mcgupta44 http://mcgupta44.blogspot.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- When one knows women one pities men, but when one studies men, one excuses women. -- Horne Tooke ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ To join/leave, use the form at: http://www.mumbai-central.com/nukkad/#options This list is archived at: http://www.mumbai-central.com/nukkad/archive.html
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