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		<title>Mapping out religious beliefs and learning to think</title>
		<link>http://www.julietbennett.com/2010/11/22/mapping-out-religious-beliefs-and-learning-to-think/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 01:54:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Bennett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I drew this up flowchart / map of religious beliefs about three years ago. I agree with this quote in part. Thinking can be terrifying. At the time I drew up this map I was at the beginning of an emotional process of learning to think &#8211; discovering where the worldview of my upbringing fit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What makes more sense?</title>
		<link>http://www.julietbennett.com/2010/07/30/what-makes-more-sense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Bennett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What makes more sense? 1. That God selected ONE species to be his “chosen” species, abandoning all His other creations to nothingness. OR 2. That God values ALL of his creations. The idea that humans are the only creations with souls, is a narrative created by humans not God. What makes more sense? 1. That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can Buddha help us deal with the elephant?</title>
		<link>http://www.julietbennett.com/2010/07/20/can-buddha-help-us-deal-with-the-elephant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Bennett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India/Nepal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am starting to understand what Buddha meant when he said all life is suffering. No matter which financial situation you are born into, we always want more. It is very rare we reach a stage where we happily say “enough”. The more chocolate I have, the more chocolate I want. The more countries I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IS LIFE MEANINGLESS?</title>
		<link>http://www.julietbennett.com/2010/07/17/is-life-meaningless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 03:53:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Bennett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Meaning of life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Meaningless! Meaningless!&#8221; says the Teacher. &#8220;Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.&#8221; What does man gain from all his labor at which he toils under the sun? Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises. The wind blows to the south [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capitalistic karma: reinterpreting reincarnation</title>
		<link>http://www.julietbennett.com/2010/07/05/capitalistic-karma-reinterpreting-reincarnation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 23:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Bennett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India/Nepal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capitalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[karma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reincarnation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Walking up in the mountains outside Kathmandu I contemplated the connection between the world’s inequalities today, the actions of one’s ancestors, and the idea of karma and reincarnation that I had been reading about in some books on the Eastern Religions. Be they the ancestors who split from the group to discover new worlds fifty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Documentaries: The Truth Is Free</title>
		<link>http://www.julietbennett.com/2010/04/17/free-documentaries-the-truth-is-free/</link>
		<comments>http://www.julietbennett.com/2010/04/17/free-documentaries-the-truth-is-free/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 23:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Bennett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[free documentaries]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bored? Never! Check out this website: http://freedocumentaries.org/index.php In particular I recommend: Manufacturing Consent &#8211; Noam Chomsky &#8230; if you haven&#8217;t seen this one you better watch it NOW! The War on Democracy &#8211; The US manipulates politics of South America The Power of Nightmares &#8211; The rise of the Religious Right in America, and Islamic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Spirit of the Times (Zeitgeist)</title>
		<link>http://www.julietbennett.com/2010/04/16/the-spirit-of-the-times-zeitgeist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 06:51:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Bennett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the hidden-away tranquility beneath the branches of large shadowy trees, in the Secret Garden hostel in a mysterious little town called Vilcabamba, in Ecuador December 2008, I met a man with white hair and a white beard. It was from this man that I first learned of the Zeitgeist&#8230; The word “Zeitgeist” comes from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Ishtar!</title>
		<link>http://www.julietbennett.com/2010/04/04/happy-ishtar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 21:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Bennett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Easter is celebrated at Spring equinox, a time that for thousands of years was a celebration of the goddess Ishtar resurrecting the Babylonian/Sumerian god Tammuz/Dumuzid &#8211; the god of food and vegetation. Ohhhh, it makes so much sense! The burgeoning of spring: a time of fertility, when rabbits lay eggs, flowers come out, seeds sprout [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to create a world war</title>
		<link>http://www.julietbennett.com/2010/03/26/how-to-create-a-world-war/</link>
		<comments>http://www.julietbennett.com/2010/03/26/how-to-create-a-world-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 05:08:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Bennett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Among my Internet surfing I came across a “creationist” website – the belief that the world is around 6000 years old – a figure derived from tracing back the genealogy in the bible from Jesus to Adam, and the seven-day creation. This belief is growing so much that more than 40% of Americans believe this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Religion Spread</title>
		<link>http://www.julietbennett.com/2010/03/18/how-religion-spread/</link>
		<comments>http://www.julietbennett.com/2010/03/18/how-religion-spread/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Bennett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You MUST check out this awesome animated map of history. It shows when each religion starts and how each one spreads across the globe &#8211; all in less than two minutes. http://www.mapsofwar.com/images/Religion.swf It&#8217;s been a busy week so I will start the Big History series, beginning with the Big Bang, very soon. Have a good [...]]]></description>
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