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Blessings to you Ken. i do so appreciate your dedication to the pursuit of knowledge and truth and your contributions here. I have spent 78 years doing as you too appear to have done so.

When I emigrated to Cape Town in 1999, my dream was to sail the seven seas but that didn't happen because my angels intervened and another course/ route/direction of my life took place and the destination was - wait for it - back to UK in 2009 which I have spent all my life trying to get away from!

As a young child I could never understand why I needed to go to bed in the daylight! My mother suggested (she never dictated to me) that I read a book until I fell asleep. This worked, and I have read in bed ever since having completed, I guess, thousands of books. But I still retained the urge to go south, permanently, which i achieved in 1999.

My life has almost been planned for me - I have always had a sense of 'mission'. I have never 'applied for a job' as i have always been 'headhunted' (much to my surprise) for I don't think I am anything special, but now I do know I am special to my Creator and that is enough for me.

My needs have always been provided for - enough, but never in excess - thus I have not stored up material 'wealth' - my father was the same. He always joked that he had no money worries because he had no money! My mother was the provider -half Jewish - she was good with money.

My father completed his doctorate in divinity in the 1920s but was uncertain about continuing in the church until he had decided what people needed. He embarked on 6-month odyssey on the road as a tramp/wayfarer and ended up at a friary here:

https://www.hilfieldfriary.org.uk/abouthilfield/ He decided that the most important thing people needed was shoes! It was not surprising as he had tramped around UK for 6 months.

My father became an apprentice cobbler (7 years in those days). and he looked after my feet so well that even now, my wife admires their condition. (It is important to recognise that your feet are the only contact you have with mother earth)

I followed my father in 2014 to Cerne Abbas,when my wife returned to SA for a 3 month holiday and reunion with her family. I spent precious time with brother Samuel and the other brothers as part of my search for meaning and enlightenment of my mission on my earth-walk. It has only recently been revealed to me, when my Creator has called me to his work in his time, not mine. This little book explains it all so very well:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Illusions-Adventures-Reluctant-Richard-Bach/dp/0099427869

I do not, and have never appreciated living 50 N of the equator - my place has to be in the tropics and Cape Town suited me well. When my Creator, YHWH, allows perhaps I shall return to my paradise - or not. This little poem sums up my life thus far: https://www.onlythebible.com/Poems/Footprints-in-the-Sand-Poem.html

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Incidentally, the British pension system seems to be under attack by derivative instruments not well understood by definition. That is a recipe for disaster and I don't think the number crunching mathematical construct creating ones were aware of the flaws in their methodology.

Just saying - calculus is flawed.

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