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		<title>First Podcast: Benj talks about the environment</title>
		<link>http://lateralus.wordpress.com/2007/01/30/first-podcast-thoughts-about-the-parteeeeeeh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
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Do you care about the environment?  Is hugging trees your favorite past time?
My First Podcast 
Yes, its archaic. I used Sound Recorder to do this and Odeo sucks. New users are not allowed to upload podcasts on that blasted site. It&#8217;s a small .wav file (less than 500kb) and it will run on your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lateralus.wordpress.com&blog=167130&post=124&subd=lateralus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The No Greeting Policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2007 16:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got more than fifty messages over the holiday period that pretty much had the same message &#8211; it was a short and obviously sent en masse to every other person that this individual knew. There is nothing wrong with holiday cheer. It&#8217;s the perfect time for families to get together and spend time with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lateralus.wordpress.com&blog=167130&post=114&subd=lateralus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Atheism In The Philippines</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;

It&#8217;s quite unfortunate that despite the Philippines&#8217; status as a melting pot of cultures and races, the country still stays very traditional and retarded in its acceptance of more liberal ideology. Atheism is not even a new school of thought, but to this day, Atheism has still yet to penetrate mainstream media and if you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lateralus.wordpress.com&blog=167130&post=99&subd=lateralus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Bratzinger Fallout</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Oct 2006 09:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my past entry, I was very vague when it came to challenging christians to take a stand against Joseph Ratzinger&#8217;s obviously (mis)calculated bigotry that comes at the worst of times when religious and cultural lines are very much tense and volatile. As expected, people decided to go with the obvious &#8211; I was calling [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lateralus.wordpress.com&blog=167130&post=84&subd=lateralus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Your Pope is a bigot. What does that make you, catholic?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am sorry.

So catholic, what does that make you?
Make a stand.
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		<title>Right In Two IV: Bracing For More Hypocrisy &#8211; Roman Catholic Style!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Sep 2006 10:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It didn&#8217;t take long, after all. The cardinal formerly known as Joseph Ratzinger does it again.

At a recent speaking engagement at Regensberg University in his native Germany, the former member of the Hitler Youth Movement quoted Emperor Manual II Paleologos (Byzantine Empire) on his discourse regarding the historical and philosophical differences between islam and christianity [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lateralus.wordpress.com&blog=167130&post=79&subd=lateralus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For The Weak: The Da Vinci Code Conundrum</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2006 17:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benj</dc:creator>
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Disclaimer: This is not about the movie. This post is a direct reaction to the christian response before the movie was released in local theaters.
Prior to the worldwide release of the movie The Da Vinci Code last month, conservative quarters from the roman catholic church went up in arms to ban the public exhibition of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lateralus.wordpress.com&blog=167130&post=37&subd=lateralus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Right in Two [Part III: Atheism, dekonstrukted]</title>
		<link>http://lateralus.wordpress.com/2006/05/19/right-in-two-part-iii-atheism-dekonstrukted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2006 13:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Due to the palpable sense of confusion, bigotry and misconception by some visitors in this site, I’ve deemed it necessary to write a position paper on atheism – or whatever you think my philosophy should be called. If you feel that my atheism is not as consistent with conventional atheism, you can attribute that to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lateralus.wordpress.com&blog=167130&post=27&subd=lateralus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Right in Two [Part II: Thank your god]</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 May 2006 08:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sound was deafening.
I swear I didn’t see it coming. I’ve always looked on both sides before crossing this very intersection. I’ve done it a million times, but as I am about to know in a few moments, it only really takes one mistake to have it all crashing down. It was blunt force that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lateralus.wordpress.com&blog=167130&post=24&subd=lateralus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Right In Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2006 11:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>benj</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since time immemorial, it seems like man has always been obsessed in dichotomizing the realm of possibility. It&#8217;s not necessarily a bad thing considering that the early man&#8217;s perception in being able to discern whether something is edible or toxic by merely looking at something could&#8217;ve improved the chances of the species for survival, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lateralus.wordpress.com&blog=167130&post=18&subd=lateralus&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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