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		<title>My Current Ritual (or addiction)</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/07/28/my-current-ritual-or-addiction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a smoker. I like to say that I&#8217;m a &#8220;social smoker&#8221;, because that makes it sound more acceptable (at least, to my ears), but that&#8217;s probably a fiction us social smokers invented. I started smoking in high school, because everyone else was doing it and because the cigarettes that I smoked (not tabacco, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>LDS Temple Ceremony goes Prime Time.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/07/lds-temple-ceremony-goes-prime-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/07/lds-temple-ceremony-goes-prime-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently some aspect of the LDS temple ceremony will be portrayed on HBO&#8217;s Big Love (tonight?). Here&#8217;s a picture that was forwarded to me, apparently from TV Guide: Mormons are decrying this as sacrilegious and disrespectful, of course, but as one of thousands who was hoodwinked into going through the ceremony and socially coerced into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>#Lent09</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/02/25/lent09/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/02/25/lent09/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I told a professor here (who was running a forum on the Question of God) that my religious background is ex-Catholic but that I am an active blogger in the ex-Mormon part of the Bloggernacle; that my husband is humanist, my father-in-law is Buddhist, and my mother-in-law is First Nations/Pagan. I got an awesome look [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zulu Tattoo</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/02/02/zulu-tattoo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/02/02/zulu-tattoo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 02:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t remember when I first wanted to get a tattoo, but it was sometime in high school. I wanted a yin yang on my ankle. In college, I finally got it, but at the last moment, I changed its placement to my lower back. It was amazing. It was transcendent. It was painful. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sparks! (I&#8217;m Back)</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/12/21/sparks-im-back/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/12/21/sparks-im-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a few weeks when I first stopped being able to find time to blog, I kept windows open in Safari to the point that it was neigh on impossible to shut down my computer, for fear of losing all the wonderful and amazing links I was going to share! But then I got into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanksgiving 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/11/27/thanksgiving-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/11/27/thanksgiving-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanksgiving is a religious holiday. When the pilgrims first gathered to give thanks that they made it through their first few months in a wild new world, they weren&#8217;t thanking the natives for helping them, they were thanking their god for making the natives to help them. As a harvest festival, it has its roots [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meditation v. Prayer</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/11/13/meditation-v-prayer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/11/13/meditation-v-prayer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:51:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had my first final today. In preparation, I spent some time on the library&#8217;s balcony, enjoying the view, the silence, and the not-school-ness. I also spent some time in the library&#8217;s prayer room. (I also spent some time watching the Shiba Inu Puppy Cam, but this post is not about that.) Hanging out in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the Masquerade</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/31/the-masquerade/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/31/the-masquerade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Driving past the high school today, I saw a number of costumed people. Even at the law school, there are plenty of people dressed up. Halloween is the day that this society acknowledges that mask. We all wear different masks throughout the day, throughout the year (the corporate yes-person, the dutiful child, the loving spouse). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Biblical Fail</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/30/biblical-fail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/30/biblical-fail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to post this, since it&#8217;s lolreligion. By now, I&#8217;m sure everyone has heard that a particular Christian called others to join in prayer at the bronze bull on wall street to ask god to &#8220;shift from the bull and bear markets to what we feel will be the &#8216;Lion’s Market,&#8217; or God’s control [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: Update from the Gay Marriage Files</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/17/spark-update-from-the-gay-marriage-files/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/17/spark-update-from-the-gay-marriage-files/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[California, post Supreme Court decision (that discrimination based on gender is discrimination), now uses marriage licenses that ask for the names of &#8220;Party A&#8221; and &#8220;Party B&#8221; to the marriage. As someone who still doesn&#8217;t feel like the word &#8220;wife&#8221; applies to her, I think this is pretty awesome. It is, however, causing waves. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zombie Jesus</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/08/28/zombie-jesus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/08/28/zombie-jesus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My cousin does a lot of babysitting. She recently babysat a kid who was trying to tell her about a friend&#8217;s imaginary friend, Genius, who was a reverse zombie: he died but then, instead of wanting to eat your brains, he wants us to eat his. It took my (Catholic) cousin a long time to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s (Secret) Prayer</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/07/27/obamas-secret-prayer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/07/27/obamas-secret-prayer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During Obama&#8217;s recent visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem, according to tradition, he wrote a prayer on a piece of paper and left it there. However, since he is under media scrutiny right now, it was stolen by a young seminary student (who should have known better!). While I disagree completely with its theft, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: Religion and Death</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/07/12/spark-religion-and-death/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/07/12/spark-religion-and-death/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Religious majorities are not allowing minorities to be buried in their graveyards. Fine on the outside, until one realizes that there is often only one (religious) graveyard serving a community.]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1089</guid>
		<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>Baptism</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/02/28/baptism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/02/28/baptism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:19:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think that the discussion over at Isaac&#8217;s post deserves another forum. I&#8217;m very interested in y&#8217;all&#8217;s experiences (hat-tip to my Southern linguistic roots) experiences with baptism. When you were welcomed into your (current or any number of former) church, what was the ritual of welcoming? What did you think about it? Did you stand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birthday Tradition</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/02/11/birthday-tradition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:27:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Meme]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[this was just shared with me today: my sister&#8217;s mother-in-law wishes everyone happy birthday for everyone&#8217;s birthday. This may either be a Dutch tradition, an Indonesian tradition, a Dutch-Indonesian tradition, or just the mother-in-law in question. So she calls my sister on her husband&#8217;s birthday and says &#8220;Happy your husband&#8217;s birthday!&#8221; I think this is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/02/11/death/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/02/11/death/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When my husband went to Tibet with his father for his (the father&#8217;s) 60th birthday, they each brought me back a priceless gift. My husband brought a jewelry set that is precious to me because it signifies the moment that we both knew we would get married. My father-in-law brought back a Buddhist mala made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Age Old Celebrations</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/02/04/age-old-celebrations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/02/04/age-old-celebrations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Atheism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Doubt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to a few parties this weekend, certainly more than in a normal weekend, and therefore had cause to muse about the fact that this weekend was Imbolc, a Pagan holiday marking one of the eight sections of the year (more known ones include the Solstices, May Day, and Hallowe&#8217;en). It&#8217;s one of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ironically, Following Jesus&#8217; Counsel</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/01/23/ironically-following-jesus-counsel/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/01/23/ironically-following-jesus-counsel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 08:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quakerism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To &#8220;swear not at all.&#8221; I received a jury summons today, and after reading it, realized that I might run into some difficulties as a Quaker and an atheist. Any Quakers or atheists out there want to tell me how I can avoid swearing an oath on the Bible, so help me God? Update: After [...]]]></description>
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