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		<title>Yes, It Really Was That Bad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent a lot of my young adulthood trying to figure out what was wrong with me. I was smart enough, or intuitive enough, to know that something needed to be addressed, I just couldn&#8217;t figure out what it was. I was fraught with anxiety, painfully self-conscious, depressed, smoking pot daily, and sliding into heavy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Use Wikipedia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Wikipedia.com: A wiki ( /ˈwɪki/ WIK-ee) is a website that allows the easy creation and editing of any number of interlinkedweb pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor. Wikis are typically powered by wiki software and are often used to create collaborative wiki websites, to power [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Morality and Religion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That which is outside the possibility of choice is also outside the province of morality. &#8212; Ayn Rand The fundamentalist religious people, such as those pushing a creationist agenda in public schools that I wrote about in my last post, believe that the godlessness of modern secular culture has created a moral crisis that is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bravenewkitty.com/?p=853</link>
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		<title>Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed&#8211;Propaganda At Its Finest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you believe in god, I don&#8217;t. If you don&#8217;t, then I do. &#8212; Alan Watts, paraphrased I like to to learn about points of view that I disagree with or flat out believe to be wrong. Learning about other points of view not only helps me clarify my own thoughts, it also sometimes changes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bravenewkitty.com/?p=843</link>
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		<title>First, Look Within</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I talk a lot about how profoundly childhood can affect adulthood, about family dysfunction and abuse and invalidation and less-than-perfect parents. I want to be utterly and completely clear that none of this is about blame. Ever. It is about understanding. If you learn one lesson in life, it should be to look within first. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bravenewkitty.com/?p=830</link>
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		<title>Am I In An Abusive Relationship?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many may think the answer to this question is obvious, but often it is not. If your partner uses physical force or the threat of it when he&#8217;s angry or to make you behave a certain way, then yes, of course you are in an abusive relationship. But emotional abuse&#8211;belittling, shaming, derision, disappointment, name-calling, emotional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Building Self Esteem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I enjoy watching interviews of people who&#8217;ve had a lifetime of success. Paul McCartney, for example, or Robert Plant, both of whom I&#8217;ve seen recently on talk shows. They are so comfortable with themselves, so relaxed, and they have an air of confidence that they seem to almost take for granted, but not at all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>START Swimming Upstream!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Stop Swimming Upstream, I talked about how fighting and avoiding unpleasant emotions saps energy and vitality. But another kind of upstream swim does the opposite, and is essential to personal development, happiness, spiritual growth, or whatever else you want to call the movement toward Wholeness: swimming upstream against the tide of popular sentiment. We [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bravenewkitty.com/?p=815</link>
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		<title>Angry Pasttimes, Angry Feelings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[All evil is potentially vitality in need of transformation.&#8211; Sheldon Kopp, #20, Eschatalogical Laundry List In a recent comment, Kara said, “I know some people who can&#8217;t stand to be sad, but spend a lot of time being angry. You can tell by what movies they watch, what lyrics they like, etc&#8230;” I think this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bravenewkitty.com/?p=796</link>
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		<title>Eat-Pray-Love: Gag Me!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I must preface this post by saying that I had never heard of this book until ads for the movie came out, so I don&#8217;t know how much Hollywoodizing was done to turn the story into a romantic comedy where maybe there wasn&#8217;t one. If this is the case, I apologize to the author in [...]]]></description>
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