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Creating Your Own Bucket List: 50 Things To Do Before You Die

Close your eyes. Really..try it(after you read the next few lines). Close them and imagine that you are 80 years old, and you are with your family, a few close friends, around a table decorated with your favorite food. People are smiling and laughter thickens the air around you ...Hmmm...I'm thinking mexican, italian, or better still something curried, piled high on my plate, provided all your teetth still work. But this is your vision.....The sun is quietly setting outside the window behind you, and as you glance at the latest addition to your grandchildren tugging at the hem of your pant leg, you think to yourself... Well... What exactly to you imagine you will think to yourself?

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Conspiracy to Kill Your Brain

What do we really know? Do we understand how money really works?  Do we really understand how our government is run?  Do we really know what’s in the food we are eating?  Do we even fully understand all the religious rituals we follow and where they came from? My brother and I were having a [...]

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Red Lights Mean Grow

Red lights have gotten a bad rap. So has getting locked out of your house, or car.  Or getting a flat at 1:20am in the morning, when you happened to loan you brother your jack the week before, and..well..having to walk 6 miles to your house, in a light drizzle…with dress shoes… Highway drivers can [...]

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Be Strange, Be Very Strange

Sometimes being strange is looked at as an undesired place to be. I grew up in many ways, trying my best to fit in, and be normal.  Now, the older I’ve gotten, it appears that all the progressive changes, and advances society often seems to make, are due to those who had the courage to [...]

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We’re Losing Our Religion

Something is happening in America's religious climate and many churches are feeling it. Whether they are acutely aware of it, or willing to undergo the fundamental changes needed to respond, is another matter. I just read a study from the Pew Report on Religion and Public Life which points to a significant change happening among the younger generation of the western world.

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Why Don’t You Rebel? Part 2

You've heard the voice, when you've wanted to change poor habits of health, some injustice in the world, some religious tradition you've never really critically examined, or that job you're barely tolerating. It's the voice that whispers to you that people will think you're strange, and may even laugh at you if you dare try to go against what everyone else is doing.

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Why Don’t You Rebel?

It's defined as a refusal of obedience or order. Wikipedia goes on to say that a rebellion can encompass anything from non-violent resistance, to violent, or organized attempts at overthrowing some established authority. History is full of examples of rebels who were responsible for this sort of rabble rousing. It shows the various philosophies they lived, and how they transformed the status quo with new ways of thinking.

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Your Photoshopped Life

So I was watching this video a couple nights ago on theooze.tv Peter Rollins was discussing coming to grips with the truth about ourselves.  He uses the digital representations we use online(facebook/twitter,etc) to illustrate his point. Which is, that sometimes its easier to live through a “public profile”, which is “the idealized representation of ourselves.”  [...]

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Little Red Lizard

I told myself, like you told yourself.  This wouldn’t happen again.  Driving away into the night, we muttered the silent promises people do when they’ve reached the end of themselves.  When they have discovered that they really are not just one person.  That we all have to fight a war between the best of ourselves, [...]

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10 Books That May Change Your Life

Here’s a list of 10 Books that have shaped my thinking. This list, by no means, is my top 10, nor is it necessarily listed in order of importance(Except for the 1st one).  The only real danger here is in placing yourself between the white and black pages of ideas that force one to confront [...]

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