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uniforms to say who they are because you don't have this ... instant recognition. If you were to meet a policeman and you instantly or intuitively knew that he was a policeman, you wouldn't need the uniform. Doyou see what I mean? Apparently we again were at a place where mental communica- tion and intuition were commonplace and highly developed. You saidyour job involved the settling ofarguments. Is this a difficult thing to do? Sometimes, yes. Sometimes the issues can be very complicated. : Do the others always listen to you? For the most part, yes. They respect my authority or wisdom. There wouldn't be any advantage to disagreeing. The whole purpose of mediation is to solve the problem. And to argue against the mediator would be self-defeating in its purpose. You know how peopleare,it's hardfor them toagreeon things. People here are that way. This is not the same because the people there would be more accepting of another person's viewpoint. lasked if he would be able to give me an example of the type of argument he would be called upon to settle and he related the following case. There isin the Signus constellation at this time a-we hesitate to use the term 'war," for that is not appropriate. There is a strong disagreement between the race ofentities who are... The vehicle Se ee tower ee has no reference points on which to translate this. We have no background with which to manufacture the concepts here. We will simply try to give the situation.-There are two races here concerned. This isa disagreement over who has territorial rights toasystem ofinhabited planets. One race feels that it has claims because they were the first to explore this system. The other race feels claim because they are descendents ofthis system. The situ- ation is thus: There was transmigration from this system to other planets. And the transmigration resulted in a race of beings which soon developed into an interstellar fleet or had the capa- bility ofsuch. The civilization had lost track and had soon lost knowledge of its inheritance from this system. And so after _ The Fi ourth-DimensionaCity