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All About Eve

March 2, 2007 – 10:51 am

I found myself in a church classroom today. How and why I got there is unimportant to this story. The important thing is that I was sitting there in a little kid’s plastic chair, and I looked over at the various propaganda posted on the wall for the children to read, stumbling on the […]

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Beyond Rational: How To Discuss Contentious Topics and Keep Your Cool

November 30, 2006 – 10:18 pm

In “civilized” society, we know that one of the cardinal rules is that there are certain topics one just simply does not bring up: politics, religion, money, and sex. The problem, of course, is that without these subjects most dinner parties devolve into inane conversations about the weather, and online communities such as Newsvine would […]

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Effective Magic: Hybrid Religions and Social Advancement

August 17, 2006 – 9:03 pm

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In the United States, we are intimately familiar with the “melting pot” philosophy. Being mostly a country of immigrants, we began with a blending of cultures. Over the years, we just kept adding to it. Everyone who comes here adds something and we are all better for it. Though there has been […]

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Why Animals Don’t Have Souls

June 10, 2006 – 10:45 am

When I was in the tenth grade, I had to do a research paper for my English class. I decided to do mine on animals in laboratory research. I have always identified with animals more than with people (I think it has something to do with having been raised by housecats, with my parents […]

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