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		<title>Welcome</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Website will be devoted to essays and insights related to diversity, addiction/recovery, psychological growth issues, global perspectives, the disenfranchised,  aesthetics, and cultural values. The core value streaming throughout the essays I write will be about returning to our innocence, which sometimes requires a trauma, a jolt, an invasion of the “other,” or a paradigm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some Thoughts About Reality: The &#8220;Manifestations&#8221; of the &#8220;Tao Te Ching&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[                                                  Free from desire, you realize the mystery                                               [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Modernism and Religious Orthodoxy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2013 13:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultural Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adaptation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Birth Control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Condom]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Embryonic Stem-Cell Research]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heliocentrism, Evolution, and the Bible Modernity does not have a good track record with some religious enthusiasts. In the eyes of many religious conservatives, modernism is associated with a godless secularism and a culture of excess, sexual libertarianism, and moral relativism. Although scientific inquiry has been around a very long time, it has often had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obsolescence and the Upgrade</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“You are what you eat,” they say. If you believe advertisers, we are what we drive, what home we live in, what rental car agency we use, how manicured our lawns are. And, if ads are getting it right, a clean, sanitized bathroom becomes the wished-for goal of every woman (clean bathrooms appear to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mystery and the Sacredness of Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roman Catholicism and the Marian Miracles I grew up in a 1950s Roman Catholic culture in which I was taught that a virgin gave birth to Christ. I was later told that, several centuries later, the same virgin, Mary, appeared to a select group of barely literate, impoverished Portuguese children at a place called Fatima. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Or Not To Be</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been designed for death, Cordially aligned to destiny, Tempering my heated wanderings, These lungs still full of fresh air, The treads of my pumping heart Firm against your warm back. One lane still open To a slumbering apple, An unweeded garden, A tired August rose An ample sun Dipping its spotted arms Into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Institutionalization of Religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultural Values]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Religion&#8217;s Dependence on Leaders, Credentializing Insiders, Myths Throughout our 200,000 year existence on this planet, humans have never suffered from a lack of gurus, priests, imams, ministers, rabbis, popes, bishops, monsignors, and rinpoches. Or even, if I may be so bold, spiritual motivational speakers. If history tells us anything, most faith-believers seem to have a need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/poetry-2/love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 04:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have learned To parcel out affections By degrees, in smaller doses Exhaled tenderly; Surrendering to the whole lot Leaves me no surplus To draw from, When I am restless To pursue A single passion Avoiding the slow spring rain That creeps into  fields Of summer&#8217;s full bounty. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Magdalene (21)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Magdalene Poems]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I married you, my lovely, Because I knew You would be lured By those who would Camp unabashed On the edges Of your calm Pretense of responsibility. You would have your furtive bees Circling another limpid flower, These wily squatters Claiming spaces Foreclosed, too often, By the cautious Flashes of your tedium. &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>God&#8217;s Imaginings</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/poetry-2/gods-imaginings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the arched beams Of sacramental wood, God feels The steady stream of the willing, Not the rubber-band Figures, bent, slouched Along urine-smelling corridors, Frail doilies Of their former selves, Curled in their dumb memories Of medicine cabinet Doors aching in Their hesitancy To speak of cures, Doubtful anodynes Against the curse Of what He [...]]]></description>
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