What does it mean if I dream about being trapped and trying to escape?
If you dream of being trapped, it means that you feel confined and restricted in a friendship, career or romantic relationship. You may be feeling bad physically because of your emotional worries.This dream can also mean that your rivals will get the best of you if you are not careful.To dream of trying to escape a situation or room may represent your eagerness or desperation to change your waking life circumstances. Dissatisfaction with the way things are. Finding an easy way out may not an option for you. Your wish to avoid something unpleasant. Trying to get away from something you feel stuck with. Feelings about consequences being too severe. Avoiding confrontation or a dramatic situation. Trying to avoid a difficulty.Negatively, trying to escape something in a dream may reflect your attempt to avoid responsibilities. It may also reflect your wish to get away with something wrong you know you are guilty of.To dream of escaping prison, cages, ropes or shackles represents a new sense of freedom from something that was limiting your choices or independence. A new opportunity has arisen. Avoiding continuing repression. A release from a stressful situation. Liberation of creativity.
Is the Philippines dangerous for a white guy?
If it were, then all the whit guys here would have been mugged, robbed, or killed. And there would be no one left. But there are still lots and lot of them, and I guess they are not wearing bullet-proof vests either, and are not surrounded by bodyguards. What is common among them, I think, is that they all keep their heads on their shoulders, and try to fit in. And they don't consider the locals as robbers and muggers. Thus they are able to live well and roam around freely. When you come here, just do what is sensible - - what is sensible here is what's also sensible if you should travel to Italy, to Bangladesh, to China, or to 42nd Street. Make sure you look and act friendly, so the locals will not be intimidated and will be helpful. You just might enjoy the local culture so much that you will extend your visit. Welcome to our country. By the way, you may want to travel vicariously even while you have not set foot here, thru my travel blog: http://boyplakwatsa.wordpress.com
Utopian Socialist poem ?
The lines are from Percy Bysshe Shelley's brilliant poem "Men of England" (one of my favourites)., Shelley was a radical poet of the early 19th C and is much admired by marxists., This one dates from around 1818 The word "ropes" in the third line should be "robes" The lines take no explaining - it basically emphasizes that the workers who do all the work, who really run society from top to bottom, see none of the benefits, profits, fruits etc. Its not Utopian and when Shelley was writing there were no socialists, just a lot of free thinkers, radicals and freedom fighters. The poem proper reads: Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay ye low? Wherefore weave with toil and care The rich robes your tyrants wear? Wherefore feed and clothe and save, From the cradle to the grave, Those ungrateful drones who would Drain your sweat -nay, drink your blood? Wherefore, Bees of England, forge Many a weapon, chain, and scourge, That these stingless drones may spoil The forced produce of your toil? Have ye leisure, comfort, calm, Shelter, food, love's gentle balm? Or what is it ye buy so dear With your pain and with your fear? The seed ye sow another reaps; The wealth ye find another keeps; The robes ye weave another wears; The arms ye forge another bears. Sow seed, -but let no tyrant reap; Find wealth, -let no imposter heap; Weave robes, -let not the idle wear; Forge arms, in your defence to bear. Shrink to your cellars, holes, and cells; In halls ye deck another dwells. Why shake the chains ye wrought? Ye see The steel ye tempered glance on ye. With plough and spade and hoe and loom, Trace your grave, and build your tomb, And weave your winding-sheet, till fair England be your sepulchre!