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WHAT IS ON THE GOLD SCALES SITE? The Gold Scales is an extensive,
family friendly site, rich in content. It contains classic works, and a quite large collection of traditional and modern wisdom, including sayings of avid thinkers, sound art and various extracts. Here are many proverbs, quotations, tales and fables too. That is the main profile. [LINK]Despite some frivolity and personal opinions of mine, I sincerely hope to honour Shankaracharya Brahmananda (1871-1953) and his gurudeva Krishnananda on this site. Maharishi (1917?-2008) who brought TM to the world, was a disciple of Sri Brahmananda. - Tormod Kinnes
SITE OWNERSHIP AND LOCATION. The non-profit site is located at the University of Trondheim and has been up since 1995. The site owner is the cultural historian Tormod Kinnes, MA.
A SOUGHT OUT SITE. Acclaim selections: [LINK] Among the most visited pages are Norwegian folktales, other folktales, and proverb pages. There have been many million visitors to the site the last years.
TOPICS THE SITE DEALS WITH. As part of its art content the site presents
art paintings, especially paintings from the history of art, but
not in a systematic way, and not on all its pages. Very wide benchmarks for the picture
content are formally okayed by the university, and the site is within their bounds. But while a picture may delight adults, one should check pages if children are to take them in, or the other way round. Parts of the site's humorous, original art content bear some likeness to art of Picasso.
Welcome to select topics and themes, informative essays, and non-demagogical surveys. Even though the site contains prolific and critical investigations of the famous guru Paramahansa Yogananda, the site is far from anti guru. And like Dr Philip G. Zimbardo I don't say sects and cults are bad in all cases, but that the free society may hold better promises in store for those who can handle it, especially if one's inner basis is good enough and not violated overly much.
NO MISSION. This 'No' is Japanese. 'No' in English means something else. We offer works that could enrich your life, widen your horizons, and go into understandings that offer progress or other benefits. Hovering conditions need to be all right and not too detrimental too. Dogmatic belief is out; although there may be exceptions to that good rule and other general attitudes. It should be wise to take to heart what is deeply feel to be true and good, well and rightly, and things could open up. [PURPOSE]
A GOOD GRASP: As public service we offer gifts without strings in the form of on-line books, chapters, extracts. Some of the works are in the public domain.
It could be worth while to some to stand up to some rights, learn to learn with interest, or do it technically OK by sound methods. If so, it is indeed possible to assimilate with interest. The one who is able to follow his or her interests - or some of them - may go on with interest or develop as a person and learn to apply knowhow with skill to support herself or himself and a family, and so on as the circle widens, as Buddha shows. [BUDDHIST PAGES] [LEARNING PAGES]
WHO VISIT? Of about 63 000 monthly visitors since 19 Jan 2008, about 28 000 came from the United States. The most typical US visitors attend Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, and the University of Virginia, according to Quantcast. Visitors also use sacred-texts.com, gutenberg.org, and accesstoinsight.org and wikiquote.org.
In 2007 there were visitors from 209 countries/territories.
IS ALL FOR FREE? Yes, tales, proverbs, discourses, expositions, and art. No strings are attached.
Literature
Ebu: Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica 2007 Ultimate Reference Suite DVD. London: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2007.
USER'S GUIDE to abbreviations, the site's bibliography, letter codes, dictionaries, site design and navigation, tips for searching the site and page referrals. [LINK]
DISCLAIMER: [LINK]
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