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		<title>The 3rd Level of Consciousness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 14:34:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All things considered, you will reach Level Three&#8230; CONSIDER ATTRACTION In the beginning, there was attraction. Things attract each other because they like to be closer to some things than to others. These inherent preferences are the root of all change in the universe. Because of attraction, new things emerge. You see: Sometimes like attracts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nerd Nihilism</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You can&#8217;t just go around bashing the Singularity like that!&#8221; &#8220;Well, why not? Isn&#8217;t it due the same scrutiny as any other statistical or theoretical extrapolation?&#8221; &#8220;No. Just no.&#8221; &#8220;Why is that?&#8221; &#8220;Don&#8217;t you understand?! &#8212; the Singularity is a sacred tenant of Nerd-dom, beating out even force-fields and light-sabers in conceptual God-status!&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benjamin F. &amp; Siddhārtha G.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[( Individually ) If you would not be forgotten, As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worthy reading, Or do things worth the writing. ( Equitably ) The constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. ~ Benjamin Franklin ~ ( Absolutely ) He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shenzhen, Maybe Five Kilos</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:11:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So hard writing about China five thousand years old wielding power, the width of their culture not to mention mass compared to let&#8217;s say America, at only 250 grams. The concept is flabbergasting yet awfully trite i.e. unimpressive generally, but if that&#8217;s your subject matter then you gotta write about it, and how better than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foundation for the Last Question</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE MEANING OF LIFE IN A DEVELOPING UNIVERSE John Stewart (source) Member of the Evolution, Complexity and Cognition Research Group The Free University of Brussels Abstract: The evolution of life on Earth has produced an organism that is beginning to model and understand its own evolution and the possible future evolution of life in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Haiku</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AVERAGE OUT raining patterns drop their meanings lost stopped on the black umbrella tops ~ OPTION MAZE where is the exit? lost in a supermarket must i buy something? ~ IMPLANT work implant installed; in the mall, in the forest, wireless slavery.]]></description>
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		<title>U a Fan of Memetics?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. Which idea is more toxic? A. We should inoculate ourselves against the most toxic ideas. B. It&#8217;s all subjective; we cannot objectively classify ideas. 2. Which belief would be most convenient were you to believe in it? A. Chaos and physical laws rule my life. B. God and fate rule my life. 3. Which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Examined Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Cornel West on the importance of philosophy and the examined life. He says so much in every sentence, I had to watch it at least three times to take it all in. We are being towards death. We have desire in the face of death. We face dogmatism and attempt dialogue within a cultural [...]]]></description>
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