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		<title>The Avengers: Great Movie, but Disturbingly Violent.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 21:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Living Life Without a Net</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I enjoyed The Avengers.  It was a well acted, well directed, intense movie, and I&#8217;ll probably see it again on the big screen, which is extremely rare for me.  As super-hero movies go, it is as high quality as anything I&#8217;ve seen in recent years.  (Although personally, I think the first Iron Man will hold up better to &#8230; <a href="http://livinglifewithoutanet.wordpress.com/2012/05/14/the-avengers-great-movie-but-disturbingly-violent/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livinglifewithoutanet.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6240915&#038;post=4373&#038;subd=livinglifewithoutanet&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shania Twain and the Welfare System:  America&#8217;s Fixation on Beating the Odds.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Living Life Without a Net</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What could Shania Twain and the U.S. welfare debate have in common?  It sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but I believe there&#8217;s something very profound to be discovered in the comparison.  If music is indeed a reflection of our culture, then I believe Shania&#8217;s greatest hit reveals a profoundly dysfunctional fixation with &#8230; <a href="http://livinglifewithoutanet.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/shania-twain-and-the-welfare-system-americas-fixation-on-beating-the-odds/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livinglifewithoutanet.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6240915&#038;post=4338&#038;subd=livinglifewithoutanet&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This is Why it&#8217;s Wrong to Tell Women to Cover Their Bodies.</title>
		<link>http://livinglifewithoutanet.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/this-is-why-its-wrong-to-tell-women-to-cover-their-bodies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 02:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This may seem like just another big-haired 80s pop song to you, but it&#8217;s way more than that to me.  In fact, I&#8217;m going to be a bit self-indulgent and say that this otherwise innocuous bit of music trivia is a microcosm of my coming of age, and a perfect example of what I&#8217;ve become. &#8230; <a href="http://livinglifewithoutanet.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/this-is-why-its-wrong-to-tell-women-to-cover-their-bodies/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livinglifewithoutanet.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6240915&#038;post=4325&#038;subd=livinglifewithoutanet&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>According to science, people are mostly good.</title>
		<link>http://livinglifewithoutanet.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/according-to-science-people-are-mostly-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent study gives us a fascinating look into how humans &#8220;naturally&#8221; behave.  Scientists collected data from the online game Pardus, which has over 300,000 players, and crunched it through a series of analysis techniques for complex systems.  The game is one where the players are free to behave in any way they choose, with no &#8230; <a href="http://livinglifewithoutanet.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/according-to-science-people-are-mostly-good/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livinglifewithoutanet.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6240915&#038;post=4312&#038;subd=livinglifewithoutanet&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Atheist Empathy, or &#8220;How I Got My Conscience Back.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to tread in dangerous territory with this entry.  For one thing, I&#8217;m going to lay bare a lot of the inside of my brain.  And I&#8217;m always a little wary of making myself too vulnerable in front of the impersonal, anonymous world of the internet.  For another, I&#8217;m going to admit something that &#8230; <a href="http://livinglifewithoutanet.wordpress.com/2011/08/25/atheist-empathy-or-how-i-got-my-conscience-back/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livinglifewithoutanet.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6240915&#038;post=4157&#038;subd=livinglifewithoutanet&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Movements, herd mentality, and leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Living Life Without a Net</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[‎&#8221;The noble title of &#8220;dissident&#8221; must be earned rather than claimed; it connotes sacrifice and risk rather than mere disagreement.&#8221;  &#8211; Christopher Hitchens &#160;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livinglifewithoutanet.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6240915&#038;post=3944&#038;subd=livinglifewithoutanet&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conspicuous Consumption</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Living Life Without a Net</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s very easy for some of us to jump on the anti-consumerism bandwagon.  We look at soccer moms driving their 1.7 kids 2.4 miles to school in their Ford Excessives, and we smugly note that there is not so much as a deep pothole to test their off-road capability.  We rail against the excesses of &#8230; <a href="http://livinglifewithoutanet.wordpress.com/2011/06/14/conspicuous-consumption/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livinglifewithoutanet.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6240915&#038;post=45&#038;subd=livinglifewithoutanet&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do Religious People Make Bad Gamblers?</title>
		<link>http://livinglifewithoutanet.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/do-religious-people-make-bad-gamblers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 23:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Living Life Without a Net</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every once in a while, I stumble on a little gem.  A couple of days ago, I was playing research assistant for a friend, and in the process of tedious data mining, I found this: People, who score high on self-transcendence are viewed as being creative, satisfied, patient, selfless, and spiritual (Kose, 2003). However, Kose &#8230; <a href="http://livinglifewithoutanet.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/do-religious-people-make-bad-gamblers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livinglifewithoutanet.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6240915&#038;post=3364&#038;subd=livinglifewithoutanet&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fifty Years of Science and the Human Spirit</title>
		<link>http://livinglifewithoutanet.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/fifty-years-of-science-and-the-human-spirit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Living Life Without a Net</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Edwin Hubble]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Yuri Gagarin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Fifty years ago today, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin&#8216;s Vostok spacecraft spent 108 minutes orbiting the earth.  Since then, we&#8217;ve made footprints on the moon, and sent unmanned vehicles to all 8 planets.  At this moment, the New Horizons spacecraft is racing towards the Kuiper Belt and the dwarf planet, Pluto. We&#8217;ve discovered quite a lot in fifty &#8230; <a href="http://livinglifewithoutanet.wordpress.com/2011/04/12/fifty-years-of-science-and-the-human-spirit/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livinglifewithoutanet.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6240915&#038;post=2874&#038;subd=livinglifewithoutanet&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meaning and Nihilism</title>
		<link>http://livinglifewithoutanet.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/meaning-and-nihilism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 19:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Living Life Without a Net</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[meaning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nihilism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent repeat of the &#8220;meaning discussion&#8221; got me thinking on a slightly different track.  The conversation was predictable: Theist:  But what do you believe in if you don&#8217;t believe in a higher purpose?  Life is meaningless without it! Atheist:  I don&#8217;t need &#8220;higher&#8221; purpose to have purpose.  I make my own purpose and so &#8230; <a href="http://livinglifewithoutanet.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/meaning-and-nihilism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=livinglifewithoutanet.wordpress.com&#038;blog=6240915&#038;post=2388&#038;subd=livinglifewithoutanet&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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