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Marie-Christine — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 09:14:55 -0000

Paul from Austria where are you from then ?
You say you are not from Austria nor are you an American?
only to satisfy my curiosity that is all :)

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avishek satpathy from india — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:49:29 -0000

hi there,
its been the way of the world, to de destroyed..then being rebulid..markets have crashed before..markets will crash after. what matters is how we spend the time between the 2 crashes. people shall continue to live life, might complain a bit more..but nevertheless they shall live on..I cant help myself from quoting hemmingway.."man is not made for defeat"..there will be obstacles..but weve to jump over them, we might stumble.. but then that gives us an opputunity to rise up again
I think man and crisis ..are like wind and dust..they are always together..inseparable..but never affecting each oters spirit..crisis needs man to survive..so also man needs problems to survive..come nov 2009 ..we shall see people smiling..happy..be it terrorist attacks..or market crashes..we shall witness man always has a reason to live for..to struggle for..

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sampono — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 03:59:27 -0000

in the name of god i start my word.
one second either.we have no idea to the next.
all up forward is written.
we know how to planning.and planning is a pray.
once you believe for what has been planned .this is as such a strong believing in pray to God.GOd full fill only the strong believe of pray.

when planning come to reality. do not think that you know the future. its not.

far before we born all is written.MAKTUB
by GOD.

*i must say GOD not he or she.
bcoz god has no sex

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Shehla — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:21:19 -0000

One year from now.....we would definately be on the ages old transition road........whereever we be,we will be having an even better understanding of life.once the journey of life began in ancient history it has to move forward.that is the only truth.life can never travel backward.

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Seema — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:23:25 -0000

"Everything which has to happen has already happened before" and "there is nothing new under the sun".

So, in November 2009, I would still be basking in the sun munching peanuts and thinking about how much God looks beautiful!

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Yajna — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:10:15 -0000

Dearest Paulo,

I've been thinking about this question all week and i've decided to write on where i want to be, before i talk about the world. I know its off topic, but asking myself where i wanted to be required me to think of exactly what i want to achieve next year, and just thinking about it help me sort my priorities . I hope atleast that my family and friends remain safe and healthy as they are currently. Next year this time, i hope to back home after achieving excellence in my studies for the year. I hope to have made my parents proud in that regard, and i also hope that i can significantly improve a childrens home. I do wish to progress with my writing and arts. When i look back on this year, i smile because i've grown so much as an individual and i am becoming more of the person i know i can be. I only hope that this time next year i feel like i do now, like i've made a difference, like there is hope, and most importantly, like i've progressed inside.
Truthfully, what i want most for next year, is for my parents to start living their dream. I'm beginning to see both of them grow older, and i'm tired of seeing them struggling and sacrificing for my brothers and i to have everything that we desire. It is time for them to truely settle their dreams at heart. This year God has been great to us, and recently things are really looking up, i just pray that they continue in our favour because i can feel that this period in our lives are crucial and it is time that we succeed. I pray God guides my parents, brothers, friends, me and everyone for that matter, through this next year and while i know things will change, i pray its for the better. Should it not be, i pray we are given the strength to carry on until they do improve.

Thank you for being
Yajna

PS Maybe everyone should do what i did, look at yourself and see what your aim is for the year, post it and hopefully see how close you came to achieving it. :) sorry again, i know its off topic.. But it just felt right for me to write this :) mwah

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Monika — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:53:32 -0000

Dear Paulo,

this speculation competition is really a clever trick of you! ;-)
Everybody here wants to know, who will win and this way you motivate your readers to hold the line for another year. (In deed I started writing here in November 2007.)

Now to your question: I have no idea at all what will be the state of the world next year in November. Let me say it in a more sophisticated way: A wise woman (or man) prefers silence to speculations. You don’t need to answer all questions. Que sera sera!

Nevertheless I don’t want to duck out of this challenge entirely and will dare to speculate about one thing I know best: me.
I really rely on your promise, because it will be an interesting experience to read these lines one year later again in your blog.

Dear Monika of November 2009,

all in all it was a good year for you. There were some troubles of course, but you fought well, did not give up hope, always tried to improve and above all you were always true to yourself.
You grew a little older, but also a little wiser. You can be proud on all the things you have managed in the last year. When you are reading these lines once more, thank God for the precious gift of life and for the all the love you achieved. Keep on going your path with faith!

Best wishes for another year
Monika of November 2008

I pray, that you, Paulo, will also be healthy and alive, when you repost these entries in November 2009! You are supporting me with your words a lot on my way to soundness!
Besides that I often have pure fun with sending comments. (I hope you are sharing my kind of humour and this also applies to you, when you read them!)

See (or read) you all healthy and alive in November next year.
All give your best – I want to win this competition!

Love
Monika

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sabah — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 14:25:35 -0000

peace for everyone.
all i know is that a year from now people who are hungry and naked and afraid or astray or alone will remain forgetton and anonymous to all the somebodies who rule and control the political and economic worlds.
sad but unfortunately true..
* sabah from lebanon

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Harold — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 11:45:02 -0000

Paulo,
Well if that if my previous mail is my biggest mistake this next year it will be a good one for me. It seams to me that the world has too many leaders that seperate and pull people apart. I have a great hope that Obahma is a leader that will organize and give people a united purpose. There will always be people in the world whose sole purpose is to kill another i will never understand this thinking. I do respect the fact that there is a negitive force that we need to continue to fight--Like a Warrior. So if in the next year there is any change I believe we will see it in the streets, be it protesting or dancing. If you are happier next or your heart feals more hope-- dance and let everyone know it. Bloging on your butt will not get it done.

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julymorning — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 08:54:56 -0000

What are the problems?

1. THE ECONOMY. Basically there are more products out there then the money that the people that may be interested in buying them have. Solution? Give those people more money. By whom? Which way?
a. Government rabats and incentives. They are a one time thing and cannot provide a long term solution.
b. Teach a different kind of business philosophy: investors be less interested in the immediate profit and more interested in the health of the entire society... is it feasible?????? In one year....??????? Nop. It may take a few generations from what I have seen in the industry, in the real life...

2. Terrorism. Basically there are people out there that think that life is not worth a cent. Their own or the others. How could Obama change this? Neee...

I think that in a year from now it will be business as usual. The enthousiasm of this recent election will vanish away. Some things may be better while others will be worst... Corruption will be alive and well everywhere in the world, growing like a cancer that lies in the humanity's genetics and the nice people will continue to struggle here and there getting with God's help small victories, small little miracles that will hold as usually for about three days...

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Jeanne d'Arc — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 05:35:04 -0000

Noah,
....J'arrive....avec mon cheval (un bonus ) ...et mon armure.

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Evelina — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 01:32:28 -0000

Hi, everybody!
Deep in my heart I DO believe that the war in Iraque will have been finished by November,2009.
All the nations will unite in their resistance to terrorism.
The relations between Russia and America will become more friendly.
May be, Obama and Medvedev will have even met by November,2009.
With love and respect to all of you, EVELINA.

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Schkiper — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:04:53 -0000

Прогноз.
Мир будет жить как обычно:люди будут умирать, кто богаче станет ещё богаче. И никому не будет дела ни до кого. Опять где-то кто-то с кем-то будет воевать и не будет времени остановиться и оглянуться назад. Остановиться и спросить себя: кто я? зачем я? куда идёт мой путь?
И так будет через год, и так будет всегда...
Так будет всегда. Пока мы, люди, не уничтожим друг друга... И это очень печально...

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amber — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 12:25:09 -0000

In one years' time, we will be living in a world of love and respect and people will smile to each other in the street. Our children will be care free and our families will be at peace.

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the lone ranger — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 08:02:40 -0000

Noah - Book me in for a cruise

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Simran — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 05:53:35 -0000

well many things can happen a year from now. Looking at it in a positive way, many problems could be resolved. I wouldnt like to comment on the economic crisis , because it is next to impossible to really know whether we are in the time of recession or progress ( okay there are some indicators but nobody can be 100% sure).2008 has been quite an interesting year, a lot has happened, so I hope that we have been able to learn from it.

I do hope that we all join together to make this place worth living in, CHANGE is what we all have to make so we can see some results- its funny to see how people expect this to happen through one person- many changes need to occur: acceptance of all human beings( forgetting the idea of racism), knowing that we all live on the same planet and that we ALL need to contribute a little bit to it, to focus on important things of life than (only) fashion, celebrities etc. :).

One has to fall in order to rise( my own phrase)- so we have fallen...its time to rise ;)

Kisses to everyone, God bless

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daffodils and roses — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:34:54 -0000

remember that the internet is the most powerful tool of mass-consciousness in the world. Freedom is at stake. Let's use it wisely.

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joanne — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:17:29 -0000

i am not so aware of the real condition of the world, all i know is that there is a financial global crisis happening today . in one year from now, we all expect change.. if the superpower country is in darkness and as the newly elected president sits on position, i guess there is nowhere else to go but in the light where there is more hope..
based on the news article i read, "darkness has a way of compelling light by the sheer need of it"..
honestly, as a college student, i expect more of my own future one year from now.. to pass all my subjects and to graduate on time.. but i also know for a fact that whatever happens in the world tomorrow will definitely affect my own world in the future..
we all seek for a better tomorrow, where there is no war but only peace, no poverty but abudance.
yes, there is lot to learn. but there is nothing wrong in hoping for the best. in darkness, we can see the light, and the light is shining brightly!

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ashraf monzer from Lebanon — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:41:12 -0000

I do not think I am able to speculate how the world will be in a year from now. But the fact is that after all we are humans and we like to know what is going to happen in the future so we try our best to exhaust our mental abilities in order to GUESS what is going to happen in the near future.

I believe that since the American Elections are over, and we have seen how have won. This will not affect the Middle East, because if it was either of them both would have the same policies against the Middle East but one is more diplomatic than the other, but the results are the same. But there is a possibility that US would go back to US and stay in US and mind their internal business.
If this happens in one year from now, China is the rising power now, and unfortunately Iran is the one controlling the Middle East.
And if the US (also one year from now) mind their business and take the cover off Israel, then we are looking at a new middle east.

Where as in Lebanon, (my home country) nothing has changed since 1984. Lebanese actually think that the world revolts around them, The Lebanese lands is being sold by bits and pieces to Syria and Israel, step by step. Syria negotiating with US means one thing it is not being funded by Iran anymore and this also means one thing, the link between Iran and Hezbollah has been broken.
So there will be a clash in Lebanon, and again Syria will interfere to solve the clash (as it did back then for 30 years)

Israel won't accept a Muslim country with Nuclear that made clear that as soon as the nuclear is finished they will drop it on Israel. So there will be something concerning Iran from Israel covered by the Americans but with no American troops.

And Afghanistan will stay as it is right now. Iraq.
Iraq...Iraq...Iraq is something. In Iraq I think the American & co. troops will start withdrawing in slow manner.

Economy. If Iran was hit, the economy will rise again and become as stable as it was before. There will be fixation for the economical problems in US since the new president's main concern is economy (which I don't totally agree, what does it matter if the economy is good and a nuke has been created to be dropped over them?).

And I will gain bits and pieces of experience in one year :)!

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Georges — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:19:04 -0000

Conditions apply - no pretzels.

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Oussama — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:04:20 -0000

Noah - I'm giving it serious consideration -

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Tintin — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:03:24 -0000

Message pour Noah -
Je veux m'inscrire rien que pour l'aventure.

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SENAD — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:50:33 -0000

QUESTION FOR YOU PAULO COEHLO?
Where are you going to be in a year since you ask everybody this question,what about you?

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Savita Vega — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:41:39 -0000

Oops! Forgot - one more card:

HEALTH/ECOLOGY:
There is an argument over some sort of official document or global decree pertaining to public health or the environment. A piece of extreme legislation reflecting the struggle between the masculine and feminine energies at play here. Essentially, the masculine is enraged by and attempting to subdue and dominate the feminine. There is death in the air (famine? pestilence?) meaning that many lives hang in the balance, and will be effected by the outcome of this decree or anouncement.

So there you have it - November 2009, in a nut shell!