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	<description>Getting to know Jesus over here.</description>
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		<title>Peace about it.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently considered the very common Christianese phrase &#8220;I feel at peace about it.&#8221; It&#8217;s been a buzzword as long as I can remember, and I have been fluent in Christianese for about the last 23 years. It&#8217;s a great way to insinuate that God has confirmed your thoughts. The problem with the term is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seasons Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If I were just a rat in a maze, I&#8217;d be fired. I would chew holes in the walls before I&#8217;d be relegated to wandering pointlessly and stupidly through a bunch of arbitrarily placed obstacles. Unlike the computer named Joshua from the movie WarGames, I recognize futility fairly quickly and reject it thoroughly. The season [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://himalayan.us/blog/2010/08/05/seasons-change/</link>
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		<title>The Life-cycle of a Nation.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The birth of a nation is often much like the birth of a child. It&#8217;s usually severe, violent, and bloody. America was born under pretty normal circumstances. Just as was, Rome, the USSR, and, well, pretty much all of them. They come into being on the backs of passionate men &#038; at the cost of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://himalayan.us/blog/2010/07/24/the-life-cycle-of-a-nation/</link>
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