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	<title>Against the Grain &#187; Personal Growth</title>
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		<title>Another School of Thought</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 20:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“You know, John, there&#8217;s another school of thought.” I always loved that phrase, “another school of thought.” It seems less hostile, less likely to deteriorate into a conflict-driven debate. Especially, if the sentence comes from a close friend. It is even more poignant when the discussion is about religion. I grew up in a very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Chronic Expert and Advice-Giver</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/personal-growth/the-chronic-expert-and-advice-giver/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[certainty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“My ten year-old spends too much time on computer games.” “Well, what you need to do is to ration his time. If he goes over the limit, you reduce the appropriate time on his next session. That&#8217;s what I do.” Now, keep in mind, this might be the advice of your best friend, someone you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trust</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember the day. It was fifteen years ago. I was standing outside my father&#8217;s apartment. We were engaged in a conversation about Mary, my stepmother, who had just been diagnosed with esophageal cancer. My dad made a vain attempt at telling me that he wasn&#8217;t bothered by my stepmother&#8217;s inability to travel. I didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Man&#8217;s Odyssey</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/personal-growth/one-mans-odyssey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[belief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[non-theistic journeys]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-examination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spiritual journeys]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many of my friends are believers. They have faith in a personal, creationist God. They go to Church regularly. They have families who wed and die in these churches. And they see this life as a preparation for an eternal one. Some believe that only a select few will reap the benefits of their good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Addiction&#8217;s Curse: Not Being Present</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/alcohol-recovery/an-addicts-curse-not-being-present/</link>
		<comments>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/alcohol-recovery/an-addicts-curse-not-being-present/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alcohol Recovery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[addiction]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the power of now]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Woody Allen once said that whenever he was somewhere, he always wanted to be somewhere else. We are never satisfied, it seems, to be where we are. There is always some other goal to attain, some other fantasy to fulfill, some other dessert we haven&#8217;t tried. I say that to all my twitter friends because [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultural Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberation theology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>
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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>Surrender</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/alcohol-recovery/surrender/</link>
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		<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>
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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>Self-Discovery Journeys</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/personal-growth/many-roads-many-journeys/</link>
		<comments>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/personal-growth/many-roads-many-journeys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spirituality]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://johntmarohn.com/blog/?p=152</guid>
		<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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