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		<title>James Ray &#8211; The Prison Want Ads</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 21:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yakaru</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[James Arthur Ray, motivational speaker and star of The Secret, was found guilty of negligent homicide and sentenced to two years jail, after he cooked three people to death in a bogus sweatlodge in 2009. He is due for release on July 12 this year. I have been wondering what James Ray will do upon his [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spiritualityisnoexcuse.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11324384&#038;post=5306&#038;subd=spiritualityisnoexcuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Bruce Lipton Fans &amp; Commenters&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 10:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yakaru</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just received an email from someone who thought that I should treat Bruce Lipton&#8216;s teachings on the Biology of Belief as a provisional hypothesis awaiting further confirmation or disproof. Okay, let&#8217;s consider the arguments for and against. &#8230; There are two common arguments against this position. One is that Lipton&#8217;s teachings are in fact [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spiritualityisnoexcuse.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11324384&#038;post=5308&#038;subd=spiritualityisnoexcuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Atheism is not a &#8220;controversial position&#8221; for a scientist</title>
		<link>http://spiritualityisnoexcuse.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/atheism-is-not-a-controversial-position-for-a-scientist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 08:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yakaru</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Atheisim]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been intending to write something about this for ages, but I was never quite sure how to approach it.  Happily the theologian John Haught has solved that problem for me, by saying something which succinctly reveals a very common misunderstanding both about science, and about the recent popular outbreak of atheism. John Haught, like [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spiritualityisnoexcuse.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11324384&#038;post=5275&#038;subd=spiritualityisnoexcuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Note to Neale Donald Walsch &amp; His Fans &#8212; &#8220;I&#8221; am not God</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yakaru</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The thing that I call &#8220;I&#8221; is nothing at all. It doesn&#8217;t exist. It&#8217;s an illusion &#8212; a necessary illusion for social functioning and probably for normal mental functioning too. It gives continuity. But if you go looking for it, you won&#8217;t find it. Some kind of consciousness obviously does exist, and there&#8217;s a door [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spiritualityisnoexcuse.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11324384&#038;post=5225&#038;subd=spiritualityisnoexcuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Neale Donald Walsch&#8217;s &#8220;Conversations With God&#8221; &#8212; Some Historical Background</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2013 11:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yakaru</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Neale Donald Walsch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conversations With God]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[All this &#8220;You are God&#8221; stuff has a long history and includes a fairly profound mystical tradition as well as a rather non-profound political history. The reasons for this strikingly checkered past should swiftly become obvious to anyone who stops and thinks about it.  The &#8220;God&#8221; refers to the ultimate in alpha males, and the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spiritualityisnoexcuse.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11324384&#038;post=5192&#038;subd=spiritualityisnoexcuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10 things New Agers Don&#8217;t Understand About Science: Part 1 &#8212; Science says life is &#8220;just&#8221; chemical reactions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yakaru</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to this series of ten posts on the most common misunderstandings about science, which form a surprisingly large part of the foundation for New Age teachings. Just for the record, many of the views dealt with in this series are ones which I myself have previously advocated, (though never online, and never on any [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spiritualityisnoexcuse.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11324384&#038;post=5164&#038;subd=spiritualityisnoexcuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Neale Donald Walsch &#8212; Conversations With Verbosity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 01:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yakaru</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Conversations With God]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Frank Zappa sang: Do you know who you are? You are what you is You is what you am A cow don&#8217;t make ham You ain&#8217;t what you&#8217;re not So see what you got You are what you is And that all it is &#8230; Neale Donald Walsch said: You are an Individuation of Deity, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spiritualityisnoexcuse.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11324384&#038;post=5001&#038;subd=spiritualityisnoexcuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An atheist (me) has a whinge about (some) other atheists</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 01:02:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yakaru</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The main topics I&#8217;m going to whinge about are these: misogyny, accommodationism, and attempts at creating an &#8220;atheist alternative&#8221; to supposed benefits of religion. This is a bit tangential to the main focus of this blog, but as I label myself an atheist I want to put a couple of things on the record. Before [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spiritualityisnoexcuse.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11324384&#038;post=5058&#038;subd=spiritualityisnoexcuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The New Age: Elements of Religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 14:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yakaru</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Age]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This post started off as a comment in the discussion from the previous post. It started getting a bit long, and I wanted to add some references, so I decided to put it here as a separate post. It dives abruptly into the topic and assumes a great deal, so it&#8217;s meant more as a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spiritualityisnoexcuse.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11324384&#038;post=4944&#038;subd=spiritualityisnoexcuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spirituality: WTF???</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yakaru</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Age]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The name of this blog (spirituality is no excuse) side steps many of the questions about spirituality itself. The main focus is on the way spirituality is used as a cloak for scamming and killing for fun and profit. I&#8217;m an atheist; and I see no reason to believe in any spirit world or subtle [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=spiritualityisnoexcuse.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11324384&#038;post=4937&#038;subd=spiritualityisnoexcuse&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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