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		<title>Fear Clings But Love Releases</title>
		<link>http://imabbb.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/fear-clings-but-love-releases/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a feeling I get whenever I decide to give away something of value. Part of me feels love, a light and airy state I enjoy. But there is another feeling there too, one a bit darker and heavier than the first. This part of me feels fear – of loss, of becoming smaller and closer to nothingness.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=imabbb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2074982&amp;post=91&amp;subd=imabbb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does Religion Have It Backwards?</title>
		<link>http://imabbb.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/does-religion-have-it-backwards-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps God created religion to find out who among us would be willing to shirk the moral obligation to personally seek him. Perhaps God wanted to see who would have the courage to reject religion and question the status quo (much the same way Jesus was reported to have done when he refuted the Pharisees). It is possible, even likely, that God gave us the gifts of intelligence, curiosity, reason, and the capacity for logic so that each of us would find genuine faith and not accept the pale, man-made imitation of faith that we call religion.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=imabbb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2074982&amp;post=79&amp;subd=imabbb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You Can Change the World</title>
		<link>http://imabbb.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/you-can-change-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By default, the world is a safe place for us. If it is dangerous, it is because we have made it that way – step by step, inch by inch – by the destructive personal choices we have made. There is darkness, but the opposite is also true. There is beauty and light in the world, also brought about by the personal choices of people.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=imabbb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2074982&amp;post=77&amp;subd=imabbb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Intelligent Creationism</title>
		<link>http://imabbb.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/intelligent-creationism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Assuming there is a creator, isn’t it possible that he created the universe by way of the Big Bang?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=imabbb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2074982&amp;post=73&amp;subd=imabbb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts Are Things</title>
		<link>http://imabbb.wordpress.com/2008/09/20/thoughts-are-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In that sense, I have to say no, perception is not reality. Yes, my lens is imperfect, and I love how I can shape my world through the practiced use of selective perception. Yes, perception filters our experience of reality, but I think that our link to pure, actual reality is a little more personal than that.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=imabbb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2074982&amp;post=65&amp;subd=imabbb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What if God Was One of Us?</title>
		<link>http://imabbb.wordpress.com/2008/09/18/what-if-god-was-one-of-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If an omnipotent and omniscient power of good pre-existed evil, then the power of good must have created the power of evil, or at least have watched it come into existence, allowed it to be. Perhaps God needed evil to exist and so he created the serpent, knowing that Adam and Eve would fall into temptation. Perhaps evil is a variable in some cosmic experiment, and we are the lab rats. Perhaps evil is necessary for us to grow spiritually.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=imabbb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2074982&amp;post=57&amp;subd=imabbb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Underlying Theme</title>
		<link>http://imabbb.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/the-underlying-theme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 15:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does God sit on his throne, picking which prayers to answer, weighing the devotion of each child before deciding who gets blessed that day? Is God really that interested in my day-to-day life that he knows the exact number of hairs on my head as the Bible claims?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=imabbb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2074982&amp;post=53&amp;subd=imabbb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some You Win, Some You Lose</title>
		<link>http://imabbb.wordpress.com/2008/09/14/some-you-win-some-you-lose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even so, when Hurricane Gustav started to look like it wanted to follow Fay on her heels, I decided to make one of my many “hurricane week” visits to Mom. In her garage, leaning against a wall and covered with cobwebs, was a familiar stack of old, heavy, difficult to install, plywood hurricane shutters.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=imabbb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2074982&amp;post=47&amp;subd=imabbb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life is Like a Pachinko Machine</title>
		<link>http://imabbb.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/life-is-like-a-pachinko-machine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[... people have the power, perhaps even the obligation, to make choices. It is said that only two things are certain in life: death and taxes. I think it should be death, taxes and choices. Remember: If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=imabbb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2074982&amp;post=45&amp;subd=imabbb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Light Through a Prism</title>
		<link>http://imabbb.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/light-through-a-prism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[God couldn’t care less what religion you claim to follow. Nor the color of your skin, nor your sex or even your sexual preference. I don’t claim to know what God does care about because there is no way to prove that for sure. I may not be able to see God directly, or know for sure what God wants from me, but there is something I can see and know – right here, with my own eyes.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=imabbb.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2074982&amp;post=42&amp;subd=imabbb&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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