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The Old World consists of everything, that is not the New World (North and South America). In other words, the Old World includes Asia, Africa, and Europe, or the entire known world (during the Asian Golden Age, European Middle Ages, and Pre-colonial Africa), after the fall of the western Roman Empire, until the Americas were "discovered," by those in the Old World. This must not be taken literally, because the "New World" was already very old (in terms of advanced civilization), as well, but I don't know of any better term.

The other continents, Antarctica and Australia are not included, in this division (as they were also unknown to people in the Old World, at that time, as well). A similar more modern term would be the Eastern Hemisphere, except that it is missing parts of western Africa and western Europe and includes Australia and part of Antarctica. The official term is the truly ugly and unmemorable Afro-Eurasia.

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Read my books to get inspired and find meaning in these uncertain times, by understanding yourself and your place in the world better. Learn the skills to use creativity in solving financial and time use limitations. Reconsider your values and priorities which will enable you to stop spending time and money on areas that don't improve the quality of your life and that of your family and friends. My books are available exclusively online and there is nothing out there remotely like them in print or anywhere else online for any price.

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My research and writing for 13.5 years in Asian, European, and African literature, philosophy, religion, and history; writing about what I learned from my experiences in the military and as a person with Schizophrenia; and a entire book devoted to my bibliography. Most of my books are a collection of short articles and poetry about my worldview, including: my unique philosophy, religion, politics, major world problems, vision of the future, my personal situation, and living with disabilities. My books are very dense and are organized in a poetic arrangement: poetry meets encyclopedia.

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"According to the diversity of natural endowments, we are all born with a stronger or weaker immediacy; the stronger, the more vigorous it is, the longer it can hold out against resistance. And this endurance, this healthy confidence on oneself, in the world, in mankind, along with all this, in God, we call faith. But in the stricter Christian understanding it is not faith. Faith is against understanding; faith is on the other side of death. And when you died or died yourself, to the world, then you died to all immediacy in yourself, also to your understanding. It is when all confidence in yourself or in human support, and also in God in an immediate way, is extinct when every probability is extinct, when it is dark as on a dark night- it is indeed death we are describing- then comes the life-giving Spirit and brings faith. This faith is stronger than the whole world; it has the power of eternity; it is the Spirit's gift from God, it is your victory over the world in which you more than conquer."

--Soren Kierkegaard in "It Is the Spirit" in For Self-Examination

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