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Some Quotes
« on: October 01, 2022, 10:18:00 am »
“If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.”
Samuel Beckett

“Man is unique among the species in being sometimes driven by impulses to kill for no social or biological gain, but simply out of passion.”
From author Brian Masters

“Man is the only species that is a mass murderer,’‘the only misfit in his own society. Why should this be so?”
Ethologist Niko Tinbergen

From Fotos Antiguas e Historias del Paraguay -FB
Translation
History of Sanber (San Bernardino, a town 55 km from the capital, )

"In the city of San Bernardino once lived an astrologer of German origin, his name was Walter Bauer. Bauer was born in the German city of Gutenberg on January 18, 1887 into a family of bankers.
His passion for astrology awoke in him since he was a child and he began to publish several books on the subject. He traveled to several countries in Europe and the East where he studied oriental philosophy. He received his doctorate in Philosophy and Letters and was a member of several intellectual academies in Europe.

One day Dr. Walter Bauer left everything and plunged into the adventure of traveling through America. He had passages through Argentine provinces living as a hermit. He walked on foot, with just enough clothes, sleeping in the open, feeding himself with whatever nature offered him or with the generosity of the people.

Those who came to see him say that the doctor had a typical German appearance. He had long golden hair that reached his waist, a bushy beard and blue eyes.

It was in 1924 when Doctor Bauer arrived in Paraguay. He settled in the botanical garden for a while (some suspected he was a spy) and then moved to the city of San Bernardino in a small house on the shores of Lake Ypacaraě. In the village he was known for his mostly accurate predictions.

It is said that he advised Marshal Estigarribia (a Paraguayan military commander in the Chaco War -1932-1935) himself to suspend his airplane flights (shortly after Estigarribia died in an aeronautical accident) and the famous French writer Antoine de Saint Exupery, who had visited him, had told him that he was going to be famous thanks to art rather than for his aviator skills. Today the Frenchman is better known as a writer than as an airplane pilot (he fought during the Second World War and disappeared at sea).

Bauer had in his humble hut several books and instruments to consult the stars, he lived alone accompanied by a large number of cats. Already long-lived, a brother of his came from Germany with the intention of taking him back to his native country, but he refused, causing the displeasure of his relatives. Finally the oracle passed away in the city of San Bernardino on December 6, 1965."

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Re: Some Quotes
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2022, 03:34:04 pm »
Thanks Don Raul.
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