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	<title>Against the Grain &#187; Personal Growth</title>
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		<title>Overconfidence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine, for a moment, that you are overhearing a male neurotic narrator talking about his steamroller overconfidence. You are the listener and observer. Feel free at any time to interrupt him, to offer him advice, or, if you are willing, to identify with him. Be patient with him; he does manage to offer himself some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christianity and Mammon</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/cultural-values/wealth-poverty-and-christianity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I grew up in a religion that preached “poverty of spirit.” It was a high-church Christian religion with lots of rituals, pomp, icons, and incense. As a child and an adolescent, I was told that poverty existed on a higher, more spiritual plain than wealth because, if I were poor, I would not be distracted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking About Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aesthetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Literary Criticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought about love once And then decided to See a movie instead. I thought about love again Just yesterday as the Inflated clouds dragged Themselves through The brush of blue sky Sealing into paper- Wrapping silence One eager plane with its Tired cargo of travelers. And today, well, I cannot tell a lie. I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forgiveness</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/cultural-values/forgiveness/</link>
		<comments>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/cultural-values/forgiveness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultural Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I grew up in a religion in which confession was a weekly ritual. As I child, I remember standing in line outside the confessional waiting anxiously for my turn to go into a dark private room and begin with the words, “bless me father, for I have sinned.” Then I would recite my litany of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Surrender</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/alcohol-recovery/surrender/</link>
		<comments>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/alcohol-recovery/surrender/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alcohol Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alcoholism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Before I started to write an essay on surrender, I went to my twitter page and tried to send another one of my many “What are you doing” twitter messages. Up popped a mysteriously serious black-and-white message, “HTTP Server Error 503.” I was back in Kafka land, the world of high-tech jargon, a cosmos that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senior Citizens</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/cultural-values/the-senior-citizen-moi/</link>
		<comments>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/cultural-values/the-senior-citizen-moi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultural Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retirement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the recession hit America this past year and the unemployment rates continue to hover around 10%, older Americans are becoming increasingly paranoid about the threat of being let go or bought out by their employers—for the sake of raising the bar, let&#8217;s just call it the Willy Loman syndrome Older full-time employees are often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Discovery Journeys</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/uncategorized/many-roads-many-journeys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because I was well into my adulthood before I began to figure out who I am, it is difficult for me to see where the desire to know about myself  could ever be a bad thing. The self-knowledge journey continues and, I hope, will be with me for the rest of my life. On the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Socialism, Capitalism, Capitalocialism</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/uncategorized/mild-ravings-of-a-capitalocialist/</link>
		<comments>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/uncategorized/mild-ravings-of-a-capitalocialist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultural Values]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the recent controversy over Health Insurance, it occurred to me that I remain an incorrigible  Jekyll-and-Hyde  when it comes to public services. On the one hand, I want my roads to be fixed, my DMV to have short lines, my Social Security Office to answer its phone. On the other hand, I complain every time  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friendship, A Transformational Narrative</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/international-film/friendship-a-transformational-narrative/</link>
		<comments>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/international-film/friendship-a-transformational-narrative/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aesthetics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cultural Values]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[friendship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genocide]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sociologists have given us pretty accurate stats about the majority of us marrying or having intimate relationships, endogamously—that is, inside of our class, race, religion, and/or economic status. Exogamy is the exception, not the rule. Even if we know someone from another culture in the workplace, most of us still go home to our homogeneous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alcohol Rehabs versus Peer-Group Recovery</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/alcohol-recovery/alcohol-rehabs-versus-peer-group-recovery/</link>
		<comments>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/alcohol-recovery/alcohol-rehabs-versus-peer-group-recovery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alcohol Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the many years that I have been in alcohol recovery, I still remain grateful that alcohol rehabs were available when I first chose to stop drinking. During the first year of my sobriety, I continued to go to an out-patient counselor whose professional experience proved to be invaluable. However, around the last month of [...]]]></description>
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