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      <title>A Message of Hope, Love and Light</title>
      <category>article</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Dear AOKW Luminaries and Friends,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I cannot help but comment on the profound shift of consciousness that has just occurred as a result of this US election. It cannot be described in any other way but this: Awakening. Humanity has just been Awakened to the possibility of a New World Order; one that may now be built upon a foundation of Open Dialogue, Cooperative Collaboration and Equal Fellowship!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, I feel that the road ahead will be quite a challenging and perilous one. The events that occur in the week ahead may test our collective determination and resolve.&lt;...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:12:50 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1624</link>
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      <title>Nicaraguan President Ortega Not Welcome at Salvador Summit, Women Activists Say</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Advocates for women's rights in El Salvador are calling on their
government to bar the President of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, from
attending an upcoming presidential summit because of his attempts to
repress and intimidate women in his country.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt; In an Oct. 5 press conference, advocates from CEMUJER, a leading
Salvadoran women's group, joined other human rights groups in
expressing solidarity with Nicaraguan women. They urged Salvadoran
President Antonio Saca to tell Mr Ortega he is unwelcome at the XVII
Presidential Summit, a meeting of Central American leaders tha...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:21:36 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1616</link>
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      <title>Simple Fall 08 Ads </title>
      <category>blog</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:56:39 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1589</link>
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      <title>Simple Fall 08 Ads </title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:56:01 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1588</link>
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      <title>Simple Fall 08 Ads </title>
      <category>blog</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:54:34 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1587</link>
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      <title>Simple Fall 08 Ads</title>
      <category>blog</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:48:15 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1586</link>
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      <title>International Day of Peace Celebration</title>
      <category>article</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Please join us in a celebration of International Peace Day ! Tickets
are $40 and 25% of the proceeds will be donated to War Child of Canada
to aide in their efforts to provide assistance to war-affected children
around the world. A tax deductible receipt will be issued for every
ticket purchase. For more information on War Child of Canada please
check out their website at: &lt;a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.warchild.ca/" target="_blank"&gt;http://www.warchild.ca/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Space is limited so please R.S.V.P. before September 8, 2008 to Mr. John Daniele, (416) 799-2173.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:15:26 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1567</link>
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      <title>Women Advocates Place Gender and Guns on UN Agenda</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;violence against women included in a major United Nations initiative to regulate the global small arms trade. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; The UN Programme of Action on small arms (PoA) was launched in 2001,
and reviewed last week at the Third Biennial Meeting of States (BMS),
held at UN headquarters in New York. After intense lobbying by
advocates, gender was mentioned by several governments at the meeting.
In addition, the final outcome document refers to both gender and
civilian possession of weapons. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; Advocates hope that this will open the door to the inclusion of other
concerns,...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:10:21 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1542</link>
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      <title>Nepalese basket-weaving</title>
      <category>blog</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Woman weaving a basket in Nepal.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1029/533279338_f1fff8bb74.jpg?v=0" alt="Nepalese woman weaving a basket" width="375" height="500" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:06:38 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1455</link>
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      <title>Easy Ways You Can Help Conserve Rainforests</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: xx-large; font-family: Cheltenham-Bold;"&gt;1&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-family: Formata-Medium;"&gt;Choose foods grown on farms certified by the Rainforest Alliance&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: small; font-family: Formata-Medium;"&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small; color: #231f20; font-family: Cheltenham-Book;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small; color: #231f20; font-family: Cheltenham-Book;"&gt;
&lt;p align="left"&gt;Buy coffee, tea, cocoa, chocolate, bananas, orange juice, g...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:54:33 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/102</link>
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      <title>YERT - Your Environmental Road Trip</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Get a taste for YERT and what we'll be exploring throughout our 50-state road tripping eco-adventure! Come join us and check out dozens of other YERT videos at &lt;a href="http://www.yert.com" target="_self"&gt;YERT.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 01:17:12 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/1368</link>
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      <title>Ally Request - Alternative Channel TV</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 06:27:01 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/citizens/ampedformusic/allies</link>
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      <title>Focus the Nation hiring Organizers for FTN 2009</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="highlightfontlargetitle01margin"&gt;National
Organizer, Focus the Nation 2009&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Description:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;In January 2008, Focus the Nation events reached close to
one million people in a day of education and civic engagement on global warming
solutions taking place at 1,900 locations in all 50 states. 64 members of
Congress and 15 Governors&amp;rsquo; offices participated in the events along with
hundre...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:33:13 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/85</link>
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      <title>Clif Mojo Project Slingshot: 3 $10k grants for Global Warming Solutions</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="file://www.rethos.com/C:/DOCUME~1/FOCUSN~1/LOCALS~1/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Are you an &lt;strong&gt;outdoor fanatic&lt;/strong&gt;?&amp;nbsp; An &lt;strong&gt;artist&lt;/strong&gt;?&amp;nbsp; An &lt;strong&gt;innovator&lt;/strong&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;How will you &lt;strong&gt;protect&lt;/strong&gt; the places you love and play, &lt;strong&gt;inspire&lt;/strong&gt; your community, or &lt;strong&gt;challenge&lt;/strong&gt; our expectations?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="p003333-12"&gt;&lt;a href="http://clifbar.summitprojects.com/eat/eat.cfm?location=mojo" target="_blank"&gt; Clif Mojo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span class="p003333-12"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.focusthenation.o...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:47:03 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/84</link>
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      <title>Correction of the web address! - Philip McMaster</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 01:21:43 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>Sorry, CORRECTION... the web address is:
http://www.sustainabilitysymbol.COM    hope to see you online February 1st --- Don't forget to invite 3 people to share a 3 finger Photo!</description>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/citizens/ampedformusic/inbox</link>
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      <title>You're invited to Celebrate the One Year Anniversary of 3 Finger "Peace Plus One" - Philip McMaster</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:40:03 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>Hello Sustainability Symbol Friends around the WORLD (Especially in Beijing) - 

IT'S A PARTY / CELEBRATION of the ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of the 3 Finger Sustainability Symbol... and we're having a WEB-CAM World Party connecting YOUR town with Beijing China, site of the 2008 Olympics.  

You are most welcome to attend our party celebration for the One Year Anniversary of the 3 Finger "Peace Plus One" Sustainability Symbol on February 1st at 

7pm - 9pm
Friday, Feb 1st
The Bookworm
Building 4, Nan sanlitun Road
Chao Yang District, Beijing
Tel: 65869507
www.chinabookworm.com

Plea...</description>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/citizens/ampedformusic/inbox</link>
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      <title>Think Democracy's Sexy? Volunteer with AisB!</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;As always, if you&amp;#8217;re interested in volunteering, get in touch. We need people who can:&lt;br&gt;
- graphic design
- research, blog, and write
- web design
- do some mindless data entry (if you&amp;#8217;re in the mood for some tedium, but we try to keep it to a minimum!)
- develop website content
- translate (English &amp;#8211; French)
- help out at events (hand out surveys, talk up Apathy, take pictures, sell gear) and a plethora of other things.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:02:17 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/75</link>
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      <title>My early Holiday gift to the Rethosaria - sharing an opportunity and recognizing your talent! - Philip McMaster</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:46:44 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>HAPPY HOLIDAYS !

My gift to you this season are some of the valuable Sustainability-related domains I've collected over the years.

All I ask in return is that you design a really cool site that gets people involved, spreads the Sustainability Symbol around the world and brings attention to at least one of the Climate Change related projects we're working on (Like "STOP the GLOFs") The rest will be up to you to use and design as you wish.

Almost one year ago we introduced the 3 Finger Sustainability Symbol (Peace Plus One) to the HK Environmental Protection Association. http://www.d...</description>
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      <title>Opportunity for Webmasters and Bloggers! FREE USE OF WEBSITES</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="caps"&gt;King or Queen of your own sustainability domain&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We'd like to offer you some of the valuable Sustainability-related domains collected over the years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What we ask in return is that you design a really cool site that gets people involved, spreads the Sustainability Symbol (the 3 finger symbol) around the world and brings attention to, and supports at least one of the Climate Change related projects we&amp;rsquo;re working on (Like &amp;ldquo;STOP the GLOFs&amp;rdquo;) The rest will be up to you.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Almost two years ago we introduced the 3 Finger Sustainab...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:32:14 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/64</link>
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      <title>Be a Solution Pioneer - the Sustainability Symbol Anniversary February 1, 2008</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Almost one year ago we introduced the 3 Finger Sustainability Symbol (Peace Plus One) to the HK Environmental Protection Association. http://www.dragonpreneur.com/images/3fingerPhotos/EPA_0228.jpg
http://www.dragonpreneur.com/images/3fingerPhotos/EPAgrp_0256.jpg&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Since that time, the Peace Plus One Sustainability Symbol, representing a balanced &lt;span class="caps"&gt;THINKING&lt;/span&gt; considering &lt;span class="caps"&gt;SOCIETY&lt;/span&gt;, ENVIRONMENT and &lt;span class="caps"&gt;ECONOMY&lt;/span&gt; has been shared by hundreds (maybe thousands) of people around the world.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;DragonTHINK &amp;#8211; 
h...</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:49:16 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/63</link>
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      <title>New comment - Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Guts,&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Nationalism is definitely a contender in terms of bringers of death, and I&amp;#8217;m sure religion is very often used as a tool.  But the simple fact is that the violence and cruelty of the Abrahamic religions make them particularly useful for those ends.  No government has ever used, say Buddhism, as a reason to start a war or to commit genocide.  They can&amp;#8217;t, because it truly is a religion of peace.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;You could certainly make the &amp;#8220;tool of nationalism&amp;#8221; argument in the case of the crusades or Manifest Destiny, but what about things like witch burnin...</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:45:29 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/106</link>
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      <title>New comment - Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;and this is the best part, ascended to power with tax payers $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:11:02 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/106</link>
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      <title>New comment - Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;government is responsible for the deaths of 200, 000, 000+ people in the twentieth century. 200, 000, 000+ for the nineteenth century (native americans etc.). they use religion as a tool for blinding and manipulating the masses.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;so for you people who are naive enough to believe that real servants of god are responsible for all this evil, why dont you do some research on your governments and governments throughout history. they have you wrapped around their finger while you blast believers, so continue serving the depraved evil that rules the economic, military, nutrtitional, ed...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 18:09:13 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/106</link>
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      <title>New comment - Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;For those of you claiming that criticism of Christianity constitutes hate speech, you&amp;#8217;re full of shit.  We&amp;#8217;re simply quoting your hateful scripture.  How is that libel or hate speech in any way?&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Religion, especially the Abrahamic religions have caused far more harm than good.  The crusades?  Manifest Destiny?  The holocaust?&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Of course, people will say that was all long ago.  Well, how about the Vatican spreading lies about birth control in Africa, so that condoms aren&amp;#8217;t used, thus accelerating the spread of &lt;span class="caps"&gt;AIDS&lt;/span&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;I...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 18:20:47 -0500</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/106</link>
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      <title>EcoEverest Expedition 2008 - Interested in participating? - Philip McMaster</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:02:29 -0500</pubDate>
      <description>Sorry to all the schools and organizations that asked for a presentation about the 3 Finger Sustainability Symbol... something very important that may help nudge the tipping point to Sustainable Thinking has arrived.

...and the Rethos.com community is the FIRST to hear about it!

I'm off to Nepal to help with the EcoEverest expedition -  

if you are interested in participating, enjoying an amazing adventure, and helping bring a "three finger focus" to this area of the planet where climate change and global warming are having a measurable and devastating effect RIGHT NOW... please se...</description>
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      <title>Ally Request - Li Li Parsons</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 21:46:51 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/citizens/ampedformusic/allies</link>
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      <title>Ally Request - DragonTHINK</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:07:32 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/citizens/ampedformusic/allies</link>
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      <title>Write for Celsias - Climate Change Site</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Celsias is rapidly becoming the &#226;&#8364;&#339;go to&#226;&#8364;&#157; online destination for emerging and seasoned writers to showcase their passion for the environment, sustainability and global warming.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;ul&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;Get published alongside world&amp;#8217;s climate change thought leaders&lt;/li&gt;
		&lt;li&gt;Develop an online following&lt;/li&gt;
		&lt;li&gt;Become a recognized authority online&lt;/li&gt;
		&lt;li&gt;Be read in over 120 nations&lt;/li&gt;
		&lt;li&gt;Get paid&lt;/li&gt;
		&lt;li&gt;Save the world&lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;/ul&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Contact us at  www.celsias.com/contact-us  and you could be published by supper time!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 22:35:25 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/opportunities/view/41</link>
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      <title>New comment - Call Out Litter Bugs</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I love this post.  I hate it when people litter.  It&amp;#8217;s stupid considering there&amp;#8217;s probably a trash can of some sort just a short walk away.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;I especially hate it when people throw litter out of their cars.  My car may look like a tornado hit it, but at least it will make it to the trash eventually rather than on the side of the highway!  The trash of course, not my car!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:43:35 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/141</link>
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      <title>Ally Request - Nia</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:50:18 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/citizens/ampedformusic/allies</link>
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      <title>New comment - Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;This is a wonderful a book on the topic of whether God exists. It is well written. presents both sides of the argument clearly, and is enjoyable.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;esqmsm&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:20:44 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/106</link>
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      <title>Tofino - Canada's Westernmost bastion of Sustainability</title>
      <category>blog</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Today we saw the reasons why the Sustainability Symbol and  DragonTHINK are so important.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Whales&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Sea Lions&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;1,000 year old trees&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Storms&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;We are on the West coast of British Columbia&amp;#8217;s Vancouver Island, witnessing the omnipotent power of nature.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Humans are truly so insignificant on the Earth &amp;#8211; we&amp;#8217;re only &lt;span class="caps"&gt;ONE&lt;/span&gt; species &amp;#8211; and it&amp;#8217;s only our numbers, our multiple horsepower machines and selfish, uncooperative ways that leverage our impact in such devastating ways.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Tofino i...</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 13 Oct 2007 02:08:34 -0400</pubDate>
      <link>http://www.rethos.com/news/view/493</link>
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      <title>New comment - Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Religion prevents critical thought and proper questioning. It favors  complete submission to an all powerful authoritarian figure. The reason many people despise religion is probably because it is a fascist concept, one Jesus deliberately tried to oppose, but the powerful had the last word. Now he is the figure to which we submit, and give all our faith. Instead, Jesus argued, we must give all our faith to ourselves, for the kingdom of heaven is within you and around you. &amp;#8220;If you bring forth what is within you, what you have will save you. If you do not bring it forth, what you do ...</description>
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      <title>Ally Request - Jamie Baratta</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:39:52 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Are you a great designer, or translator?</title>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;We are in the process of translating the word/concepts/phrase of&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;span class="caps"&gt;SOCIETY&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2. &lt;span class="caps"&gt;ENVIRONMENT&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3. &lt;span class="caps"&gt;ECONOMY&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;... into the languages of the world, and adapting the different ways of writing to the three fingered hand symbol.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can see a sample of the Sustainability Symbol in Chinese script on this message.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Your name will be forever associated with the chosen modification of the symbol that represents &amp;ldquo;Society, Environment, Economy&amp;rdquo; in your linguistic communi...</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:15:45 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Convert website into something attractive</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;The three finger Sustainability Symbol is beginning to attract attention on and off the internet. This is a double-edged sword.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;On one hand, more and more people are learning about the campaign (personally passing it along from one individual to another),&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;on the other hand, our website stinks.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#8217;s homemade, and as you will see, I&amp;#8217;m no web designer!&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;If there are any talented web designers out there in the Rethosarian community, please have a look at www.DragonTHINK.com and make a suggestion of how we could use some of the existing conte...</description>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Ken</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:00:27 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I think that before one comments on atheism, particularly in relation to Dawkins, one should read the book.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;I have read it and recommend it highly, in addition to Christopher Hitchens&amp;#8217; God is Not Great and Sam Harris&amp;#8217; The End of Faith (as well as Letter to a Christian Nation). All of the questions and issues posted in the comments are addressed in these books (less so in Hitchens&amp;#8217; book, which if you had a liberal arts education, this might be the one time it comes in handy. With all of my education, I still had a list of 30 references within the text that I ha...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:36:16 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;The following is my opinion, and only my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Beliefs are widely regarded as a good idea.
Religion is widely regarded as a bad idea. 
Religion causes wars, murder, oppression, racism, sexism, homophobia, overpopulation, and all manner of unsavory things.
None of the above has anything to do with the initial post lol&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;The initial post is about a book. This book uses strong words to efficiently describe the author&#226;&#8364;&#8482;s viewpoint on (I&#226;&#8364;&#8482;m assuming the Christian version of) God. Those are all words designed to affront, without a doubt. I&#226;&#8364;&#8482;m beginning to get the impres...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:12:56 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;religion is just a way for people to organize themselves and create social boundaries that used to be necessary to ensure good economic behavior, &amp;#8220;do unto ones neighbor as you would have them do&amp;#8221;. However in the era of global capitalism we are discovering new and more efficient ways to organize ourselves to ensure positive sum outcomes, like rethos, and social awareness to issues such as global warming&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:00:27 -0400</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 20:36:43 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Ian Wooden</title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 15:30:16 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Conserve the Rainforest</title>
      <category>Opportunity</category>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Support an organization that works to conserve biodiversity and ensure sustainable livelihoods by transforming land-use practices, business practices and consumer behavior.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:32:14 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - Call Out Litter Bugs</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;ve been told I look damn fine in tutu. I think I could make a great litter fairy. I would probably also carry a whip. Everyone would fear my tutu..&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:13:43 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - Call Out Litter Bugs</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Wouldn&amp;#8217;t it be great if every city had a team of &amp;#8220;Litter Maids&amp;#8221;, like metre maids who could roam the city all day, ready to give tickets to litterers they catch in the act??&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Since we don&amp;#8217;t have those (yet) one of the best ways to illustrate the enormity of the problem is to join in, or initiate community clean-ups.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Here in Calgary, there&amp;#8217;s a riverbank cleanup every spring.  The city organizes it, and gets companies or groups to gather their members to volunteer.  My boyfriend and I did it this spring with his company, and it was great.&lt;/p...</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:50:50 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Read it recently&amp;#8230; phenomenal book&amp;#8230; his documentary series &amp;#8220;Root of All Evil?&amp;#8221; is a need-to-see.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:27:07 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Philip McMaster</title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 18:59:02 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - Richard Dawkins - The God Delusion</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Cruelty and Violence in the Old Testamenthttp://skepticsannotatedbible.com/cruelty/ot.html&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Cruelty and Violence in the New Testament
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/cruelty/nt.html&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Cruelty and Violence in the Book of Mormon
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/BOM/cr/long.html&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Cruelty and Violence in the Bible
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/cruelty/long.html&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Cruelty in the Quran
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/quran/cruelty/long.html&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:22:24 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Also, I disagree with Richard that the horrible things done in the name of religion were done by misguided zealots. The misguided zealots you are referring to were misguided by the Bible. The particular religions that I&amp;#8217;m opposed to are Islam and Christianity- because they&amp;#8217;re both incredibly barbaric. Islam in particular because Muslims still have the annoying habit of following the specific tenets of their religion rather than picking and choosing the tasty parts like Christians tend to do these days.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;For example, Let&amp;#8217;s say that I&amp;#8217;m a Christian who want...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:15:09 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Interesting article out of the journal Nature.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;http://dericbownds.net/uploaded_images/vmpfc.pdf&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Basically, the researchers took a sample of people with lesions in the ventromedial pre-frontal cortex and asked them questions that required them to make moral judgements. &amp;#8220;If your village is being occupied and you and some villagers are hiding in a basement but your baby starts crying loudly, do you smother the baby in order to avoid detection and the death of everyone in the basement?&amp;#8221; People with damage (Very paraphrased) were far more likely to say yes in s...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:04:30 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Thanks Mary for questioning my statement &amp;#8211; it certainly does sound a little arrogant, and maybe I&amp;#8217;ve chosen my words poorly. However, I would argue that there&amp;#8217;s a difference between &amp;#8216;belief&amp;#8217; and &amp;#8216;faith&amp;#8217;.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Theism is a belief in a god, based on faith or trust. Atheism is a belief that there is no god, based on reasonable doubt.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;An analogy I considered is that of the British legal system, whereby the accused are innocent until proven guilty. Certainly to maintain their innocence at first is a position that requires a great deal of...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:57:03 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;#8220;I can say without doubt that this isn&amp;#8217;t a faith.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;There is a difference between the words &amp;#8220;faith&amp;#8221; and &amp;#8220;religion&amp;#8221;.  Both theism and atheism are positions on &amp;#8220;theos&amp;#8221;.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Atheism is a position that theos does not exist  The position is a belief or faith in that, as a philosophical proposition, there is no proof of the non-existence of theos.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Theism is a position that theos does exist  The position is a belief or faith in that, as a philosophical proposition, there is no proof of the existence of theos.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 16:13:57 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Nour&amp;#8217;s response sums up a lot of good points, and the final idea &amp;#8211; that we don&amp;#8217;t need a god for us to be good &amp;#8211; is paramount. I am an atheist, and I can say without doubt that this isn&amp;#8217;t a faith. Dawkins explains this; it isn&amp;#8217;t necessary to prove something doesn&amp;#8217;t exist, in fact that&amp;#8217;s practically impossible, rather proof has to be presented in favour of a theory &amp;#8211; otherwise absolutely any suggestion must be accepted until disproved.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;I do not agree in dismantling people&amp;#8217;s beliefs (unless those beliefs lead them to harm...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:34:47 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Hello guys! I guess I need to catch up! haha 
First of all, I&#226;&#8364;&#8482;d like to address Ian&#226;&#8364;&#8482;s statement- that &#226;&#8364;&#339;religion has its place in the world as does everything else&#226;&#8364;&#157;&#226;&#8364;&#166; Ian, this is a very strong statement. Not everything in this world should have its place&#226;&#8364;&#166;.if we allow ourselves to think this way, we might as well justify the existence of violence, war etc&amp;#8230; This is exactly why we are having this discussion.. not to decided whether religion should exist- it did and it does, but let us try and think where it is taking us from here&#226;&#8364;&#166;. how we are using this experience of reli...</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:23:01 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Religion has its place in the world, as does everything else. If it didn&amp;#8217;t, it would&amp;#8217;nt be here. I think that if we respect other people&amp;#8217;s passions and beliefs, and take the time to learn about them, we can all be better off.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:47:54 -0400</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 22:33:48 -0400</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 00:27:04 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;eh, you&amp;#8217;re right folks, my reply was unnecessarily hostile.  I&amp;#8217;ve got my own reasons to feel so strongly about Christianity, but those reasons don&amp;#8217;t justify being mean to strangers.  my apologies.  I&amp;#8217;ll try to be a bit friendlier in future discussions.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;still, I can&amp;#8217;t help thinking it&amp;#8217;s odd that no one thinks it&amp;#8217;s hate speech for christians to say that I&amp;#8217;m going to burn in hell for eternity because I don&amp;#8217;t share their imaginary friend, but when I call them delusional all of a sudden I&amp;#8217;m the big nasty angry athiest.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:56:09 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Let us not debate in anger, particular on matters of religion. Progress can only be achieved when we lower our shields and listen. I don&amp;#8217;t want to sound patronizing, but too often religious debate becomes heated to the point where substance is diluted.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Let us step back for a moment and channel this discussion in a meaningful direction. Perhaps by debating whether or not atheism is faith.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;I am of the opinion that atheism is not a religion but it is the faith that there is no god and that religion is of little to no value.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:27:48 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Alex told me that he believed that &amp;#8220;debates&amp;#8221; would be such an amazingly viral approach to getting the Rethos.com name out there. My Heart of Hearts felt nah, how about &amp;#8220;solutions&amp;#8221;. To be wrong- even if only temporarily- what a let down.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:50:45 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Lynx- Man I don&amp;#8217;t know why you hate religion so much but if I were you I would start taking the log out of my own eye before helping someone with the splinter in their own. I was under the impression, hopefully not a misguided one that this site was for people to make a positive change in the world rather then yet another site to knock everyone else&amp;#8217;s beliefs for the sake of making ourselves feel smart, justified, or whatever else it is people seek when they insult one another. Surely despite our differences of belief we can agree on world issues that we both may be able to e...</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 18:01:40 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>Alliance Accepted! - Kaitlin Huston</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 14:49:58 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;athiesm is not a religion, it&amp;#8217;s a lack of religion.  and science isn&amp;#8217;t a religion either, it&amp;#8217;s a method for testing and refining hypothesis.  anyone who would seriously argue that science IS a religion obviously either wasn&amp;#8217;t paying attention in their high school science classes or had an incompetent teacher or both.  religions are based on faith, science take &lt;span class="caps"&gt;NOTHING&lt;/span&gt; on faith, ergo it is not a religion.  this is a simple logical syllogism and can even be broken down to an equation as follows:&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;a requires b, c does not have b, th...</description>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Very well done Christine!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:58:14 -0400</pubDate>
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      <title>New comment - Call Out Litter Bugs</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Cheers to that!&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;I call out all my friends -everyone already knows my thing with littering&amp;#8230; 
with people that i do not know (especially living in such an unpreditable place) I usually pick it up and throw it&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;On the corner of my house, there use to be a restaurant and now that it closed down the older men of the community sit there, smoke cigars etc.. and throw alll there buds and litter on the floor, Instead os saying anything, since I have moved in. I go there whenever I get the change, get a big bag, and gloves and clean it up. they see me do it and now ...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 23:27:16 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;You as well Elias. Peace.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:59:48 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Aethism is the faith that there is no god. How can an aethist prove that there is no creator? And what principles can prevent any rational aethist from becoming a nihilist as well? These are questions that every self-professed aethist should be ready to answer and discuss. I am sure that Dawkins has answers, but I do not see the benefit in abandoning religion, as though it were the source of all human struggles. This is a fallacy, in my opinion.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:34:24 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Nice talking to you Chris, I have enjoyed your posts thus far&amp;#8230;particularly the one on the effect of factory farming and the environment (which was spot on)...I look forward to engaging in more constructive dialogue with you as rethos expands into the future&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 19:57:27 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Well put. I get accused of being a hippie just about everyday, and I do understand what you are saying. I think it could work both ways, but I do feel the vast majority of people would simply think twice before tossing. Just my opinion, It may suck now and then, but it&amp;#8217;s still mine.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Perhaps they will think twice and choose not to. Another potential response to embarrassment (which I would characterize as violent rhetoric), would be anger and disdain for the entire idea of green living. I know many people who stereotype all environmentally conscientious individuals as self-righteous hippies, and go out of their way to not live similar lives. I think that it is best to avoid offending people, if your goal is to change them.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:56:55 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;As long as they see it being disposed of that would also be an effective method, but if it goes unseen, and unpunished, it will happen again and again.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;My method is not meant to be in any way violent. It is meant to be embarrassing. I wouldn&amp;#8217;t would someone calling me an effing litter bug on a crowded sidewalk. They will think twice next time they have trash in their hand. I am certain.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:47:11 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;I disagree with the violent self-righteous rhetoric&amp;#8230;a far more effective method is to pick up the litter that they drop for them and throw it away. This simple act of sacrifice and kindness has a far higher chance of changing a littering person, than yelling out slurs. In my opinion, nonviolence is highly effective in shaming individuals into changing.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:40:30 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;It is so easy to drop litter but a tuned conscience helps you stop this bad habit.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:31:16 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Atheism is a religion, as is science.  Hawkins expresses his viewpoints on both religious topics.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;While religion can be divisive, there is an equal potential for religious statements to be unifying.&lt;/p&gt;


	&lt;p&gt;Which should be emphasized?&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;I really don&#226;&#8364;&#8482;t see why ppl are still shocked by this book. There are books for other religions.. behind their disguise in what people see as morality-extremely fundamentalist books&#226;&#8364;&#166; now here is a book which backs up atheism. How is that militant to express his perspective through freedom of speech? And how is it counter-productive to produce an argument to show people how religions have caused segregation amongst them? and to demonstrate how ridiculous it is for anyone to think that they are lucky being born to their parents&amp;#8217; religion- assumed hierarchy from day 1.  This isn&amp;#8...</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 02:06:06 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Being a Christian I would have to agree with Elias&amp;#8230; militant anyting is bad. Peace is a far better cause topersue then the dismantling of one anothers belief systems.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 18:44:27 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Strong title. I watched an interview with him.. seems like a nice guy. I find it hard believing in what I have not seen with my own eyes also. Luckily I&amp;#8217;ve seen a &lt;span class="caps"&gt;UFO&lt;/span&gt; so I have no problem believing in aliens. ;)&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:01:21 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Interesting&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 12:06:16 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Looks too poisonous to even read.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:34:03 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;I think that the atheism that dawkins practices is not only fundamentalist but also counter-productive, if his goal is to encourage the search for truth&amp;#8230;militant atheism is no better than militant monotheism&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 01 Sep 2007 20:35:09 -0400</pubDate>
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