On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 08:15:20PM -0500, Peter H. Granzeau wrote:
> I'm thinking about Dragaeran vital statistics--we see no evidence
> that Dragaerans have more than a very few children (more closely
> approximating modern Western demographics than anything else, it
> would seem). Given their very long life, one would think that births
> and deaths are very rare occurrences. . . .
IMHO this is an area where Dragaeran textev just doesn't hold up. Given
the apparent small family size, relative rarity of marriage, and amazingly
high number of people getting killed, textev inevitably leads one to the
conclusion that Dragaerans are in a steep population implosion.
--
Realize that life is a situation comedy that will never be canceled. A
laugh track has been provided, and the reason why we are put in the
material world is to get more material.
From "Swami Beyondananda's Guidelines for Enlightenment"