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A Different View           by TWayne Martin                     Copyright © 2010 by TWayne Martin

Quite often our world view is influenced - even created - by the opinions we get from the news media.

But most of the stories could be viewed from a completely different slant and a totally different world view would result.

Let's take a look through that different view.

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Labyrynth           by TWayne Martin                     Copyright © 2010 by TWayne Martin

When I was sixteen, I invented a code - okay, a cipher; simpler than a code to crack - and thought I would use it in a story. It never got used but I have had several people puzzle over it and come away empty. I put this up on the internet in 1992 and no one has yet been able to crack it. (Or, if they had, they haven't told me yet... not likely, but you never know.)

So, here it is again, waiting for someone to tell me how easy it was to decrypt.

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Back to the Tribe           by TWayne Martin                     Copyright © 2010 by TWayne Martin

Most historians today treat the aboriginal tribes with some disdain.

Yet there were certain social structures in place and attitudes in the tribal era that we should be embracing today.

They treated people better than we do and offered more opportunities for those we would term handicapped.

We see them as disabled, the tribes saw them as "other-abled". Everyone had a purpose in the tribe, there were no disposable people.

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