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		<title>Why Do We Exist?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 02:07:02 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>I think every human being has got to ask this question at some point in their lives, if not many times in their lifetime. So, being the thinker that thinks too much&nbsp;&#8211; I am reflecting on Ecclesiastes 3:1-8</h3>
<h4 style="text-align:center;"><strong>big bang &#8211; quantum physics &#8211; m-theory &#8211; string theory &#8211; supergravity &#8211; Zeno Effect</strong><br />
**looks at watch** time doesn&#8217;t exist</h4>
<h2 style="text-align:center;"><strong>Basically Good Theory</strong></h2>
<p style="text-align:left;">This particular universe follows a strict and repetitive pattern, mathematical laws in which X will always = X, These laws of nature don&#8217;t evolve or change (as in magnetism, physics, gravity, etc).&nbsp; This isn&#8217;t saying that everything is understood about them &#8211; but it&#8217;s less about understanding the laws and more about understanding that these laws exist and are NOT theoretical.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Every time you drop an apple, it will fall to the ground. end of fact.</p>
<h4 style="text-align:center;">It is impossible for anything in this universe to exist from nothing or to exist for no purpose.</h4>
<p style="text-align:left;">To humans the world is just a bundle of sensations and emotions &#8211; but in reality it&#8217;s actually a living breathing BEING of its own&nbsp;that exists among many different space dimensions that share one dimension of time.</p>
<h4 style="text-align:center;">We are REAL, it&#8217;s TIME that doesn&#8217;t exist<br />
and yet it&#8217;s the one law that everyone follows with complete faith.</h4>
<p style="text-align:left;">So if in &#8220;theory&#8221; there are 10 dimensions (which I believe there are) overlapping each other with perfectly aligned electro-magnetic fields of energy &#8211; we exist because we already existed.&nbsp; I know that sounds crazy&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;because I&#8217;m the one that just wrote it!&nbsp; Man thinks he is so intelligent because of these laws of science &#8212; even though these same laws repeatedly prove how stupid man is.&nbsp; I&#8217;m still working on this&nbsp;deep philosophical question and I&#8217;ll be updating the article, adding links as I verify information &#8212; and quite possibly changing my view as I continue to learn more about the subject!&nbsp; I would love to know what other people think as I work through this &#8212; so leave a comment and let me know!</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">&nbsp;</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">&nbsp;<sup class="versenum">1</sup>To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">&nbsp;<sup class="versenum">2</sup>A time to be&nbsp;born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">&nbsp;<sup class="versenum">3</sup>A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">&nbsp;<sup class="versenum">4</sup>A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">&nbsp;<sup class="versenum">5</sup>A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">&nbsp;<sup class="versenum">6</sup>A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">&nbsp;<sup class="versenum">7</sup>A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">&nbsp;<sup class="versenum">8</sup>A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. (<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+3%3A1-8&amp;version=KJV&amp;src=embed">Ecclesiastes 3:1-8</a>, <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/versions/King-James-Version-KJV-Bible/?src=embed">King James Version</a>)</p>
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		<title>Got Shit?  Join the Club!!!</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If the title offends&nbsp; you &#8211;<a title="Just Shit" href="http://basicallygood.wordpress.com/2007/07/09/just-shit/" target="_self"> Don&#8217;t Read This</a>!</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>&#8230;the dumb ass speaking with man&#8217;s voice forbad the madness of the prophet.<br />
2 PETER 2:16<br />
</strong>(in context at bottom)</p>
<p>Oh how I have missed writing!&nbsp; I&#8217;ve missed a lot of things lately actually &#8211; it&#8217;s amazing how life just takes over and totally consumes your entire existence until you become NOTHING.&nbsp;</p>
<p>I am not NOTHING.<br />
I am SOMETHING!</p>
<p>My momma said so&#8230; and she is the one who has encouraged me to start writing again after a very dismal and depressing few years writing about what other people think is important.&nbsp; These topics usually include; themselves, their business, their lives&#8230;. I have even written about door knobs &#8211; yes, DOOR KNOBS.</p>
<p>I refuse to be a pathetic person that gives in to the morally demeaning role of writing about other people&#8217;s <a title="Trivial Shit" href="http://basicallygood.wordpress.com/2007/07/09/just-shit/" target="_self">trivial shit</a>.&nbsp; Sorry, but that&#8217;s just the way I see it.&nbsp; There is so much more to life than making money, so much more to living than just existing &#8211; which is all I&#8217;ve really done for the past few years and I am officially DONE!</p>
<p>How is it that I profess to be&nbsp;a Christian and so blatantly cuss on my blog you ask?&nbsp; Well, first off I don&#8217;t believe that God is offended by my use of an <a title="Old english meaning of the word shit" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shit" target="_self">old english term that basically boils down to dung</a>, it&#8217;s us crazy Americans that turned it into some vile profanity &#8211; we seem to be&nbsp;really good at that.&nbsp; I tease my mom that I&#8217;m going to write a book some day called My Mom is Gay and Smokes Fags &#8211; how&#8217;s that for politically correct? But it&#8217;s true&#8230;. or at least it was 30 years ago or so.&nbsp;</p>
<p>Secondly, I simply don&#8217;t give a shit anymore.&nbsp; No matter how much sugar you pour on lemons, thow a bit of shit in there &#8211; it&#8217;s never going to be&nbsp;lemonade, even if you say it is &#8211; I&#8217;m not swallowing that crap.&nbsp; You can spend your entire life devoted to service, helping others, loving the unlovable&nbsp;and fighting for what&#8217;s right &#8211; but the bottom line is that WE are not in control, WE never were and WE never will be.&nbsp; No matter how good you believe yourself to be &#8211; they WILL judge you and condemn you&#8230;. and eventually crucify you.&nbsp; Personally, I&#8217;ve decided that&#8217;s just fine &#8211; I don&#8217;t give a shit.</p>
<p>Does this mean I&#8217;m not a Christian anymore?&nbsp; Absolutely not &#8211; I am a better Christian now because I get it.&nbsp; It&#8217;s not about what you do &#8211; it&#8217;s about what you don&#8217;t do, and why you don&#8217;t do it. I don&#8217;t blow up buildings, I don&#8217;t abuse children, I don&#8217;t hurt animals, I don&#8217;t lie, cheat or steal, I don&#8217;t shed innocent blood, I&#8217;m not an adulterer, there is not an evil bone in my body &#8212; I don&#8217;t even kill freaking spiders.&nbsp;&nbsp; I don&#8217;t &#8211; because I have true faith in God and greatly underappreciated gifts called morals, integrity and character.&nbsp; I give more than I take, I love more than I hate &#8211; above all I believe in love, real love &#8211; not the candy coated crap they sell on Valentines day.&nbsp; I never said I was perfect &#8211; I said I was basically good and that&#8217;s enough for God, it&#8217;s everyone else&#8217;s opinion that I don&#8217;t give a shit about anymore.&nbsp; When I stand before Jesus on the day of atonement &#8211; I know in my heart that I have nothing to be&nbsp;ashamed of, that&#8217;s a very awesome place to be people!!</p>
<p>So are you with me or against me?&nbsp; Guess what&#8230;. I Don&#8217;t Give A Shit!<br />
<a title="I.D.G.A.S. - I don't give a shit!" href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Happy-TX/IDGAS/131103870271428" target="_self">Join my club</a>&nbsp;&#8211; it&#8217;s a wonderful place to be in these last days&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Live, Love, Forgive<br />
ENDURE TILL THE END!</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">2 PETER 2</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">&nbsp;<sup class="versenum">1</sup>But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">&nbsp;<sup class="versenum">2</sup>And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">&nbsp;<sup class="versenum">3</sup>And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth&nbsp;not, and their damnation slumbereth not.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">&nbsp;<sup class="versenum">4</sup>For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">&nbsp;<sup class="versenum">5</sup>And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">&nbsp;<sup class="versenum">6</sup>And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha&nbsp;into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">&nbsp;<sup class="versenum">7</sup>And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked:</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">&nbsp;<sup class="versenum">8</sup>(For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">&nbsp;<sup class="versenum">9</sup>The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">&nbsp;<sup class="versenum">10</sup>But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">&nbsp;<sup class="versenum">11</sup>Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">&nbsp;<sup class="versenum">12</sup>But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">&nbsp;<sup class="versenum">13</sup>And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you;</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">&nbsp;<sup class="versenum">14</sup>Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease&nbsp;from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">&nbsp;<sup class="versenum">15</sup>Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the&nbsp;way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">&nbsp;<sup class="versenum">16</sup>But was rebuked for his iniquity: the dumb ass speaking with man&#8217;s voice forbad the madness of the prophet.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">&nbsp;<sup class="versenum">17</sup>These are wells without water, clouds that are carried&nbsp;with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">&nbsp;<sup class="versenum">18</sup>For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">&nbsp;<sup class="versenum">19</sup>While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">&nbsp;<sup class="versenum">20</sup>For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">&nbsp;<sup class="versenum">21</sup>For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.</p>
<p style="text-align:left;">&nbsp;<sup class="versenum">22</sup>But it is happened&nbsp;unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned&nbsp;to his own vomit again; and the sow&nbsp;that was washed to her wallowing in the mire. (<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Peter+2+&amp;version=KJV&amp;src=embed">2 Peter 2</a>, <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/versions/King-James-Version-KJV-Bible/?src=embed">King James Version</a>)</p>
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		<title>I Am Trying</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
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<p style="text-align:center;">I am trying to be a better Christian<br />
I am trying to be a better person<br />
I am trying to be a better mother<br />
I am trying to be a better wife<br />
I am trying</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Sometimes its just too hard<br />
I want to quit<br />
I want to run away<br />
I want to escape<br />
but I don&#8217;t, I stay<br />
I will always stay</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Because I wouldn&#8217;t want to be better<br />
if I didn&#8217;t love God<br />
if I didn&#8217;t love people<br />
if I didn&#8217;t love my children<br />
if I didn&#8217;t love my husband<br />
and I do.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">So because I love<br />
I stay and I try<br />
I will always try.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ecclesiastes 1:14 I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind. I can&#8217;t tell you how many times I have prayed these exact words; What DO you want from me Lord? I truly love the Lord with all of my strength and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basicallygood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1271411&amp;post=292&amp;subd=basicallygood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3 style="text-align:center;">Ecclesiastes 1:14</h3>
<h3 style="text-align:center;">I have seen all the things that are done under the sun;<br />
all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.</h3>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;">I can&#8217;t tell you how many times I have prayed these exact words; What DO you want from me Lord? </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;">I truly love the Lord with all of my strength and all of my heart and all of my soul&#8230;but now what? For me, there is this constant, strengthening magnetic pull from within to serve, the only problem is that I have no idea what it is I am suppose to do. Most people that have witnessed me, and my behavior, this past year are probably convinced that I have some rare form of adult spiritual attention deficit. I hop from one mission to another in a heartbeat, continually waiting for that special one that is going to fill this great need of servitude in my heart. There have been times that I, myself, have thought there was something seriously wrong with my brain.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;">All I can say is that it hasn&#8217;t been for lack of trying on my part. Although none of my missions have filled the need in my soul, they have each nourished it in some way. The greatest thing I have achieved is a true love for people. In the past, I have always shied away from interacting with others. Maybe out of fear, maybe distrust, but more than likely just plain old lack of self-esteem. Other people seemed to have it all together and here I was still trying to figure out how to just be a decent wife and mother.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;">I have to admit that I started losing faith in my purpose. I gave everything I was doing 100% and yet nothing was bearing fruit as far as I could see. So I quit. Maybe the Lord didn&#8217;t have a purpose for me, so I might as well just do the dishes and be done with all my hopes and dreams of being a true servant. It wasn&#8217;t until I quit that I started to hear the Lord&#8217;s answer and it was nothing near what I imagined. In the quiet of my heart, He asked what I wanted. Of course this started another argument in my mind, surely He missed a prayer or something because I wanted to serve HIM. But no, He doesn&#8217;t miss prayers; He knows my heart even when I don&#8217;t, so why was He asking ME what I wanted? This definitely sent me into a tailspin for a while. Sometimes we get to thinking so much, that we forget how important it is to listen.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:12pt;">When I finally shut my mind up long enough to listen, the message was clear, God wants me to be happy. Whoever said that there is beauty in simplicity, knew how to listen when the Lord speaks. God doesn&#8217;t need you to change the world. That&#8217;s not saying that the world doesn&#8217;t need help, but seriously&#8230;He&#8217;s got it under control. Sometimes we get so full of our own knowledge and influence that we forget where it comes from. You alone cannot cure world hunger, you alone cannot shelter the homeless, and you alone cannot remove hypocrisy, hate and evil. What you alone CAN do is trust that all of the little things you do every day make a difference to God and HE ALONE can change the world. It&#8217;s an amazing concept I know, but definitely one worth experiencing.</span></p>
<h3 style="text-align:center;">Psalm 13:5<br />
But I trust in your unfailing love.<br />
I will rejoice because you have rescued me.</h3>
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		<title>The Woman at the Well: John 4:3-30 in the Holy Bible</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>No pun intended&#8230;. but very well put!</p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align:center;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><strong>You weren&#8217;t there<br />
the night He found me<br />
You did not feel what I felt<br />
when he wrapped<br />
his love all around me<br />
and you don&#8217;t know the cost<br />
of the oil in my alabaster box</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>- Alabaster Box, CeCe Wynans -</strong></p>
<p>My husband and I were reading Genesis tonight, more specifically &#8211; the story of Joseph and how his own brothers sold him out because of jealousy. I got to thinking about character again &#8230; more specifically, attacks on your character.</p>
<p>If it wasn&#8217;t bad enough that Joseph&#8217;s brothers sold him out as a slave, his lot got much worse. Joseph found favor with Potiphar, an officer of the Pharaoh, and according to the bible &#8220;&#8230;his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand&#8221; (Gen. 39: 3). In view of the excellent character of Joseph, Potiphar placed great confidence in Joseph and he excelled &#8212; even as a slave.</p>
<p>Then enters Potiphar&#8217;s wife. She wanted Joseph &#8212; and tempted him, but loyal not only to Potiphar &#8211; but to God Almighty, he showed amazing strength and character above approach, but what did he get for his efforts? He was accused of assaulting his master&#8217;s wife and thrown into prison.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sure many of you have experienced this, I know I have. You do everything you know in your heart that is right, and yet the weight of the world slaps you in the face and you wonder&#8230;.why God? Where did I go wrong this time? I wonder if Joseph thought the same, or if he was 100% confident in the decisions he made.</p>
<p>I have to admit&#8230;many people have called me different in the course of my life. I use to take offense at that in the beginning, but the longer I live &#8211; the more I appreciate that I am different. I don&#8217;t want to be a cookie-cutter image of somebody else, I just want to be me. I get weary of people trying to pour me into the mold of what they think I should be, or what society deems &#8216;acceptable&#8217;, because I know that it does not reflect who I truly am.</p>
<p>According to the <a href="http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/dictionaryhome.aspx">World English Dictionary</a>, character is the set of qualities that make somebody or something distinctive, especially somebodies qualities of mind and feeling. Going by that definition, when people attack your character &#8211; I think it implies that that they don&#8217;t want you to be distinctive, they want you to fit the mold and go with what society deems acceptable. Isn&#8217;t this the sand-pit of youth? Peer pressure? Is there ever an age where we outgrow the need to be one of the crowd? To be accepted as who we are?</p>
<p>Sometimes I feel I&#8217;ve kept my mouth shut for long enough. Yes world&#8230;I do have a backbone! I don&#8217;t want to be like you, and although I&#8217;m sorry you don&#8217;t understand that, I&#8217;m tired of wasting time on the trivial matters that you find so important &#8211; - because as far as I&#8217;m concerned, they aren&#8217;t really that big of a deal.</p>
<p><strong>Where is your money now?<br />
Where is your power?<br />
Where is your freedom?</strong></p>
<p>I have faith, extraordinary faith. God works all things toward good and I believe that, no matter how many fingers you want to point at my mistakes. I never claimed to be perfect &#8211; just basically good, and I believe that <em>this is the humbleness that God desires</em>.</p>
<p>Call me lofty, egotistical &#8211; whatever word you want to plug in there</p>
<p><strong>- but as the world fails you,<br />
- and judges you,<br />
- and condemns you</strong><br />
- &#8211; <strong>you remember these words: </p>
<p style="padding-left:30px;"><strong>God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong</strong>.</p>
<p>May <a href="http://www.cecewinans.com/">God Bless CeCe Winans </a>for this song! I just want to be me and love the Lord, I just want to be happy &#8211; and that&#8217;s okay &#8211; - so look in the mirror before you want to judge who I really am &#8211; because <strong>you don&#8217;t know the cost of my alabaster box!</strong></p>
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<p>I am no better than the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q49BbfgJbto">woman at the well</a>, but I know the power behind the throne &#8211; - worship whatever God you want, but I know for a fact that I am saved! Can you confidently say the same? Time is growing short, let the Lord <strong>fill your cup from a well that never will run dry</strong>!</span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[NASA’s orbiter is sending back evidence of massive volcanism, strange impact craters and magnetic tornadoes that funnel plasma directly from the sun to the planet’s surface. We’re seeing a very dynamic planet that has a lot going on today. read more &#124; digg story<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basicallygood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1271411&amp;post=253&amp;subd=basicallygood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>NASA’s orbiter is sending back evidence of massive volcanism, strange impact craters and magnetic tornadoes that funnel plasma directly from the sun to the planet’s surface. We’re seeing a very dynamic planet that has a lot going on today.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/messengermercury/">read more</a> | <a href="http://digg.com/space/This_Just_in_Mercury_More_Exciting_Than_Mars">digg story</a></p>
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		<title>Ex-Astronaut: Global Warming Is Bunk &#8211; Science</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 13:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Global Warming]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[global warming is hogwash]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;global warming scare is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision-making.&#8221; read more &#124; digg story<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basicallygood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1271411&amp;post=251&amp;subd=basicallygood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;global warming scare is being used as a political tool to increase government control over American lives, incomes and decision-making.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,493624,00.html">read more</a> | <a href="http://digg.com/space/Ex_Astronaut_Global_Warming_Is_Bunk_Science_2">digg story</a></p>
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		<title>A Jewish Holiday, Once Every 28 Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Basically Good</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[April 8]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the celestial calculations of a Talmudic sage named Shmuel, at the outset of spring every 28 years, the sun moves into the same place in the sky at the same time and on the same day of the week as it did when God made it. This charged moment provides the occasion for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basicallygood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1271411&amp;post=248&amp;subd=basicallygood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>According to the celestial calculations of a Talmudic sage named Shmuel, at the outset of spring every 28 years, the sun moves into the same place in the sky at the same time and on the same day of the week as it did when God made it. This charged moment provides the occasion for reciting a one-line blessing of God, who makes the work of creation.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/us/04religion.html">read more</a> | <a href="http://digg.com/space/A_Jewish_Holiday_Once_Every_28_Years">digg story</a></p>
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		<title>The Elephant in the Room. Ignoring Unsustainable Growth</title>
		<link>http://basicallygood.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/the-elephant-in-the-room-ignoring-unsustainable-growth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Basically Good</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Good or Bad?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[club of rome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economic crisis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite all the debate about the economic crisis and possible remedies, there has been almost talk about the overriding issue; the transformation of our economy from unsustainable growth to sustainable growth. There are many possible effective solutions that are being overlooked. read more &#124; digg story<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basicallygood.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1271411&amp;post=247&amp;subd=basicallygood&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Despite all the debate about the economic crisis and possible remedies, there has been almost talk about the overriding issue; the transformation of our economy from unsustainable growth to sustainable growth.  There are many possible effective solutions that are being overlooked.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Elephant-in-the-Room--by-David-Model-090207-898.html">read more</a> | <a href="http://digg.com/politics/The_Elephant_in_the_Room_Ignoring_Unsustainable_Growth">digg story</a></p>
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