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	<title>Mind on Fire &#187; Humanism</title>
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		<title>Idealism, Pragmatism and the Relative Value of Animal Life.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/07/20/idealism-pragmatism-and-the-relative-value-of-animal-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In response to my own feeble attempts at a vegetarian lifestyle, many of you have shared your views on eating. From these conversations, online and off, it occurs to me that there are two primary approaches to consumption: Individual morality. Consideration of impact. The two are by no means exclusive, and most people seem to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: Vermont Approves Civil Marriage</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/24/spark-vermont-approves-civil-marriage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Vermont Senate, finding (correctly) that Civil Unions for gay couples fall short of providing equal rights, voted overwhelmingly to approve Civil Marriage for gay couples. The matter still has to go before the Vermont House (and since I&#8217;m late to this, may already have gone), where it is expected to pass. The margin by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Darwin Day!</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/02/12/happy-darwin-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve already heard, it&#8217;s a two-for-one celebration: the 200th anniversary of the day when both Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were squeezed out of their mothers&#8217; wombs and into this cold world. I live in a world of ideas, words and algorithms, and these two humans, more than most, demonstrated through their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Are you really an atheist?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/12/29/are-you-really-an-atheist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[said the friend sitting next to me at Christmas Eve dinner, with a vague look of disgust on her face, like I&#8217;d just admitted to enjoying self-flagellation. I was in the company of a number of people who had escaped Western religion (all some form of Christianity) and landed firmly in Eastern religion (all some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AWOL</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/11/12/awol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sorry I&#8217;ve not been posting recently, law school has finally caught up with me and consumed my life. I had to cancel the event that makes the holidays bearable for me (a goose-filled gamer fest) because I simply hadn&#8217;t the time to prepare and plan it. One of the prospective attendants told me that, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I&#8217;m Against Proposition 8</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/16/why-im-against-prop-8/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/16/why-im-against-prop-8/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1283</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[or, xJane gets mushy Yesterday was DH&#8217;s and my 3rd anniversary. It gave me a chance to reflect on love, marriage, and rights. Specifically on why I did (and did not) get married &#038; what that makes me think about the rights of others. I did not get married so that I could bear DH&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prop 8 on Campus 2.0</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/14/prop-8-on-campus-2point0/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/14/prop-8-on-campus-2point0/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This time, Dean Starr introduced Monte Stewart, of the Marriage Law Foundation (or MLF). I bet I can guess which way this one will go. There were questions but no rebuttal. It was sponsored by the J. Reuben Clark Society, who described its mission as exploring how religious belief influences practice of the law. Proposition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: India plans to incentivize female births</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/05/spark-india-plans-to-incentivize-female-births/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/05/spark-india-plans-to-incentivize-female-births/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/05/spark-india-plans-to-incentivize-female-births/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By giving a girl&#8217;s family [...] financial benefits worth around $5,000, including health insurance, until she is 18, if she is sent to school and remains unmarried.I think this is a great idea, but I&#8217;m sure that the anti-feminists will spin it (they think that girls are more valuable than boys!!!). I also find it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the Intersection of Politics &amp; Religion</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/08/01/the-intersection-of-politics-religion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/08/01/the-intersection-of-politics-religion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 01:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1181</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My father was recently interviewed again (mp3 link, will start playing as soon as it loads; somewhat confusing page it is hosted on here), promoting his position regarding a proposed ballot initiative in the State of Washington which concerns what he would call &#8220;Assisted Suicide&#8221; or &#8220;Right to Life&#8221; but which I would call &#8220;Death [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pragmatism v. Idealism</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/07/24/pragmatism-v-idealism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/07/24/pragmatism-v-idealism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/07/24/pragmatism-v-idealism/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We make sense of the world and our relation to it through the stories we tell.  Back in my young and wild Mormon days (riding bikes with the gang down the street of Japan, doing drive by conversions), I told the story of Joseph Smith to anyone who would listen.  The cool thing was that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I don&#8217;t want to F the Ineffable.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/07/06/i-dont-want-to-f-the-ineffable/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/07/06/i-dont-want-to-f-the-ineffable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1152</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I did some bad things during my stint as a Mormon missionary in Japan.  I&#8217;d like to repent of one of them right now. Some of my Japanese friends confided deep, personal spiritual experiences with me.  In several cases I coopted their experiences for my own ends, and using my words, contorted them so that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On humanist contemplatives</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/05/17/on-humanist-contemplatives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 14:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was happy to receive a link from Rick Heller about the Humanist Contemplatives of Houston, who focus on self improvement, introspection, and achieving eudaimonia. They gather to meditate or contemplate in a serene setting, offer mutual moral support in meeting personal challenges, experience the profound in the arts, and share new ideas and traditional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Einstein: Religions are &#8220;childish superstition&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/05/14/einstein-religions-are-childish-superstition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/05/14/einstein-religions-are-childish-superstition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 05:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(It&#8217;s that time again – guest post from Zach time.) (Image from Bloomsbury Auctions) Lots of people are talking about a newly-surfaced letter by Einstein, which seems to clarify his ambiguous views on religion with the following strongly-worded statements: The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greg Graffin of Bad Religion – at church</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/05/08/greg-graffin-of-bad-religion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/05/08/greg-graffin-of-bad-religion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 17:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Hello, this is Zach Alexander &#8212; you may have read my Leaving the Garden post, and this is the first of a few guest articles I&#8217;m posting while John is otherwise engaged.) &#8220;The stuff that really brings people together, and makes us happy to live together, originates from a caring and thoughtful mind that&#8217;s been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Humanist Symposium #17</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/03/30/humanist-symposium-17/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the 17th edition of the Humanist Symposium! The Humanist Symposium is meant to be a celebration of the humanist life&#8211;its purpose &#8220;is not primarily to criticize religious beliefs or debunk the latest superstition, but to offer and discuss a positive alternative to belief systems based on the supernatural.&#8221; As such, these values fit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaving the Garden: John&#8217;s Journey</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/01/18/leaving-the-garden-johns-journey/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/01/18/leaving-the-garden-johns-journey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humanism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: This is the third in a weekly series in which we ask someone to reflect on their journey from religious conviction to uncertainty, from dogmatism to doubt. Religion is filled with stories of faith; here we will collect narratives of unbelief. It is my hope that Leaving the Garden will give voice to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carnival Sunday!</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/01/06/carnival-sunday/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/01/06/carnival-sunday/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Atheism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can gorge yourself on a smorgasbord of skeptical delights today!  Two blogging carnivals were posted yesterday: Humanist Symposium #13 &#8211; Cheesy Holiday Card Edition The 82nd Edition of the Carnival of the Godless I submitted Mind on Fire posts to each, and plan to participate in them from here on out.  In fact, Mind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How can we console others (and ourselves) without heaven or an afterlife?</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/01/04/how-can-we-console-others-and-ourselves-without-heaven-or-an-afterlife/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/01/04/how-can-we-console-others-and-ourselves-without-heaven-or-an-afterlife/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 05:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are probably as many answers to this question as there are opportunities for consoling the bereaved and encouraging the fearful.  Here&#8217;s one example from my own experience: I can&#8217;t remember whose death was involved&#8211;it might have been a relative, grandma&#8217;s bichon frisé or the body of a small animal we discovered outside.  All I [...]]]></description>
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