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		<title>This so-called Reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a strange dream the other night. That I had a strange dream is not unusual – nearly all my dreams are strange or surreal in some way – it’s just that on this occasion I made a conscious effort to remember what was unusual about it. I’ll quickly summarize the plot: I need [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theministryofsillythoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10813274&amp;post=280&amp;subd=theministryofsillythoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Love, Hope &amp; Optimism &#8211; Thanks, Jack</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 22:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;My friends, Love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we&#8217;ll change the world.&#8221;                                     Jack Layton,                                     1950-2011<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theministryofsillythoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10813274&amp;post=264&amp;subd=theministryofsillythoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Kiss in the Chaos&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://theministryofsillythoughts.wordpress.com/2011/06/24/a-kiss-in-the-chaos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 23:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn’t mean to go three months without posting, honest. I could blame it on a lot of things – a dead computer at home, playing parent to a parent, etc. – all legitimate excuses, but no. I blame it on the hockey. When your home team (in my case, the Canucks) goes on a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theministryofsillythoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10813274&amp;post=250&amp;subd=theministryofsillythoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Fukushima Legacy New Energy Contest</title>
		<link>http://theministryofsillythoughts.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/the-great-fukushima-new-energy-competition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 04:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems every time I want to write about something I think is important, another thing I think is important comes along and grabs my attention. Thank you, inventors of television advertizing, for my short attention span. But I digress… The shocking images from Japan’s earthquake/tsunami/reactor failure should remind us living on North America’s Wet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theministryofsillythoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10813274&amp;post=239&amp;subd=theministryofsillythoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Bethlehem&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 23:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently heard again for the first time in years the Chris De Burgh song “A Spaceman Came Travelling” – a twentieth-century take on how the first Christmas might have happened – and it made me wonder about perceptions of reality. For instance, can you imagine yourself as a shepherd tending to your flock one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theministryofsillythoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10813274&amp;post=227&amp;subd=theministryofsillythoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Real New World Order, in Three-Part Harmony &#8211; Part III: Co-operation Over Competition</title>
		<link>http://theministryofsillythoughts.wordpress.com/2010/12/22/a-real-new-world-order-in-three-part-harmony-part-3-co-operation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 20:17:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are told over and over again that competition is good, that it is necessary and that it brings out the best in us. We are told that companies, countries, communities and individuals must become and remain competitive, or… what? We fall behind, that’s what. By this logic, being competitive therefore should translate into getting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theministryofsillythoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10813274&amp;post=222&amp;subd=theministryofsillythoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Real New World Order, in Three-Part Harmony: Part II &#8211; Sharing Over Greed</title>
		<link>http://theministryofsillythoughts.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/a-real-new-world-order-part-ii-sharing-over-greed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 18:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The biggest shopping days of the year are almost upon us, as well as Buy Nothing Day, an attempt by some to restore sanity to our consumption-driven lives. In  case you didn&#8217;t know, Buy Nothing Day this year in North America is November 26th. If you succeed in doing what the name says, I&#8217;d like to hear how you managed to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theministryofsillythoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10813274&amp;post=215&amp;subd=theministryofsillythoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Real New World Order, in Three Part Harmony: Part I &#8211; Trust Over Fear</title>
		<link>http://theministryofsillythoughts.wordpress.com/2010/11/14/trust-over-fear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 01:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What in the world are we so damned afraid of, anyway? Are immigrants really trying to take our jobs away from us? (They usually make more jobs; if not, then why is there a new ethnic restaurant opening in some part of town each week?) Is there a terrorist hiding under my bed? (By the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theministryofsillythoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10813274&amp;post=212&amp;subd=theministryofsillythoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Reverent Attack on Violent Irreverence</title>
		<link>http://theministryofsillythoughts.wordpress.com/2010/10/02/a-reverent-attack-on-violent-irreverence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Oct 2010 23:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, I was using a computer at my local library (Why? See last post&#8230;Murphy&#8217;s Law Month). Two kids at nearby terminals were playing a computer game. Some kinda war game. They were about seven years old. I couldn&#8217;t help but notice when I overheard one of them brag about &#8221;committing suicide&#8221; to evade capture by his companion. A seven-year-old, flippantly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theministryofsillythoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10813274&amp;post=206&amp;subd=theministryofsillythoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Murphy&#8217;s Law Month</title>
		<link>http://theministryofsillythoughts.wordpress.com/2010/09/14/murphys-law-month/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 19:56:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever had one of those “Murphy’s Law’ Months? I think I am having one right now. #1) I am having a rough go in terms of finding stable, long-term work. Always an issue when you have bills to pay. #2) On the matter of bills to pay, isn’t it usually the case that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theministryofsillythoughts.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10813274&amp;post=197&amp;subd=theministryofsillythoughts&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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