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		<title>Uncommon Sense</title>
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		<title>The Great Escape</title>
		<link>http://think4self.wordpress.com/2009/02/07/the-great-escape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains”, said Jean-Jacques Rousseau in The Social Contract. And try as we might, with every effort we make, we move from one form of prison to another, always confined in some way or another inevitably bound by some form, whether physically, financially, emotionally, and a whole [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=think4self.wordpress.com&blog=1103207&post=14&subd=think4self&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Opportunism Costs</title>
		<link>http://think4self.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/opportunism-costs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1969, in his ‘brutally objective’ look at the human animal, The Human Zoo,   Desmond Morris wrote:
“We have, in our relentless social progress, gloriously unleashed our powerful inventive, exploratory urges. They are a basic part of our biological inheritance. There is nothing artificial or unnatural about them. They provide us with our great [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=think4self.wordpress.com&blog=1103207&post=11&subd=think4self&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No winter lasts forever</title>
		<link>http://think4self.wordpress.com/2008/05/25/no-winter-lasts-forever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 06:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I awoke this morning to the stillness of the farm, my family all still soundly asleep, there was a song running in my head that I have not heard in a long long time. 
When I was a youngster, I was introduced to the music of John Denver by a friend, and this song [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=think4self.wordpress.com&blog=1103207&post=9&subd=think4self&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On being Educated&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://think4self.wordpress.com/2008/05/24/on-being-educated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 14:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[thinking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What does it mean to say one is ‘educated’? One definition says that it is ‘the ability to profit from experience’. Is this to say that we cannot learn vicariously, from another’s experience, or is it not necessarily our own experience that is required? If this is true, then it is not necessary for everyone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=think4self.wordpress.com&blog=1103207&post=8&subd=think4self&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Belief what we&#8217;re fighting for?</title>
		<link>http://think4self.wordpress.com/2008/05/24/is-belief-what-were-fighting-for/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 13:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, there lived Believers. It was important to Believers to Believe. And so they did. Of course, the First Difficult Thing was that they didn’t all have the same Beliefs. 
Before I explain why this was Difficult, it’s important to explain what Beliefs were. Beliefs were ideas about Being, and yet the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=think4self.wordpress.com&blog=1103207&post=7&subd=think4self&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Symbols, the Sum and the Substance</title>
		<link>http://think4self.wordpress.com/2008/03/22/the-symbols-the-sum-and-the-substance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[reality models]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[That humans are self-important needs no supporting argument. Uncle Frank always used to say that egocentrism was unavoidable and at the time I hated that idea; it invalidated the foundations of my ontological reality at the time and placed me squarely in the middle of the existential vacuum: a universe where my perspective was always [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=think4self.wordpress.com&blog=1103207&post=6&subd=think4self&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Everything’s gonna be alright</title>
		<link>http://think4self.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/everything%e2%80%99s-gonna-be-alright/</link>
		<comments>http://think4self.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/everything%e2%80%99s-gonna-be-alright/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s probably the most common song lyric. Of course, I don’t know whether statistically that is true, but it appears so often that it seems to be an assumption shared by many, embodied in such trite affirmations as “Everything happens for a reason” and “Everything works out for the best”, New Age mottos that slip [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=think4self.wordpress.com&blog=1103207&post=5&subd=think4self&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Species who would be King</title>
		<link>http://think4self.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/the-species-who-would-be-king/</link>
		<comments>http://think4self.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/the-species-who-would-be-king/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 09:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Animal Cruelty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Animal Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humans rule Planet Earth. Much like a King who is ‘master of all he surveys’, the human dominance of the third rock from the sun is complete.
And yet the human monarch is not content. His desire for control has yielded circumstances which now threaten the lives of all denizens, and the changes to the living [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=think4self.wordpress.com&blog=1103207&post=4&subd=think4self&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Secret: Positive Thinking&#8217;s New Clothes</title>
		<link>http://think4self.wordpress.com/2007/05/17/the-secret-positive-thinkings-new-clothes/</link>
		<comments>http://think4self.wordpress.com/2007/05/17/the-secret-positive-thinkings-new-clothes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 07:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Derek</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Positive Thinking]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No doubt, you will have heard of The Secret. If you haven’t, Google it and check out the video.The Secret’s claim is quite simple &#8211; you can have whatever you want, just visualise it, and it’s yours. Apparently, we create our reality with our intentions &#8211; our thoughts cause things to happen, not just within [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=think4self.wordpress.com&blog=1103207&post=3&subd=think4self&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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