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		<title>Should Debate About Religion Be Open And Without Restraint?</title>
		<link>http://digital-dharma.net/2010/08/30/should-debate-about-religion-be-open-and-without-restraint/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Religion should not enjoy a privileged status, especially when many religious people strive to influence politics and public policy based on their religious beliefs. Do I violate some rule of civil discourse if I draw or publish a cartoon lampooning the Catholic Church&#8217;s position on abortion when the Catholic Church is trying to influence public [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digital-dharma.net&amp;blog=36950&amp;post=6688&amp;subd=digitalzen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Am I A Buddhist?</title>
		<link>http://digital-dharma.net/2010/08/22/am-i-a-buddhist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:15:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://digital-dharma.net/?p=6677</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Occasionally people find the stuff I write interesting enough to comment.  One reader made some remarks yesterday that I found intriguing, and I thought I&#8217;d share his comment and my response with you. The question of &#8220;Who Is A Buddhist&#8221; seems to occupy some folks&#8217; minds quite a lot, since I see blog posts and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digital-dharma.net&amp;blog=36950&amp;post=6677&amp;subd=digitalzen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>LMAO!</title>
		<link>http://digital-dharma.net/2010/08/20/lmao/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Currently reading a pre-release copy of Brad Warner&#8217;s new book, Sex, Sin and Zen &#8212; available on Labor Day. Watch for a review. Filed under: Books, Buddhism, Fun, Humor, Mindfulness, Right Understanding<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digital-dharma.net&amp;blog=36950&amp;post=6669&amp;subd=digitalzen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PAWS after 10 years?</title>
		<link>http://digital-dharma.net/2010/08/19/paws-after-10-years/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 10:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Addiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To Kevin, Your uncle is not suffering from PAWS after 10 years.  In the worst cases, Post-acute withdrawal lasts only about two years after complete abstinence.  Complete abstinence includes opioid and synthetic opioid pain meds as well as all benzodiazepine tranquilizers, among other drugs. There are a number of other conditions with similar symptoms, including [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digital-dharma.net&amp;blog=36950&amp;post=6663&amp;subd=digitalzen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Youre Dead. Now What? &#8211; The Chronicle Review &#8211; The Chronicle of Higher Education</title>
		<link>http://digital-dharma.net/2010/08/17/youre-dead-now-what-the-chronicle-review-the-chronicle-of-higher-education/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-dharma.net/2010/08/17/youre-dead-now-what-the-chronicle-review-the-chronicle-of-higher-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Youre Dead. Now What? &#8211; The Chronicle Review &#8211; The Chronicle of Higher Education. Filed under: beliefs, Philosophy, Theology<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digital-dharma.net&amp;blog=36950&amp;post=6661&amp;subd=digitalzen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friday the 13th &#8211; Origins, History, and Folklore</title>
		<link>http://digital-dharma.net/2010/08/13/friday-the-13th-origins-history-and-folklore/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-dharma.net/2010/08/13/friday-the-13th-origins-history-and-folklore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sixth day of the week and the number 13 both have foreboding reputations said to date from ancient times, and their inevitable conjunction from one to three times a year (there happens to be only one such occurrence in 2010, in the month of August) portends more misfortune than some credulous minds can bear. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digital-dharma.net&amp;blog=36950&amp;post=6659&amp;subd=digitalzen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://digital-dharma.net/2010/08/11/6646/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I run across people, on the Web and elsewhere, who seem directionless. They don&#8217;t seem engaged with their lives. Some seem simply to exist passively, with little pleasure and no discernible joy. Others flail around at this and that, become intrigued or outraged by every small thing that crosses their path and may, briefly, stop [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digital-dharma.net&amp;blog=36950&amp;post=6646&amp;subd=digitalzen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Banyan Deer &#8212; a parable of courage and compassion (Book Review)</title>
		<link>http://digital-dharma.net/2010/08/04/the-banyan-deer-book-review/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-dharma.net/2010/08/04/the-banyan-deer-book-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 02:29:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://digital-dharma.net/?p=6633</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s remotely possible that even those folks who consider themselves &#8220;serious&#8221; Buddhists may not have gotten around to reading the Nigrodhamiga-jataka (part of the Pali Jataka, a collection of 500 stories about the Buddha&#8217;s earlier lifetimes).  Somehow, I find myself able to forgive such lapses.  However, in addition to being a renowned writer of, among [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digital-dharma.net&amp;blog=36950&amp;post=6633&amp;subd=digitalzen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wealth, poverty and compassion: The rich are different from you and me</title>
		<link>http://digital-dharma.net/2010/08/01/wealth-poverty-and-compassion-the-rich-are-different-from-you-and-me/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-dharma.net/2010/08/01/wealth-poverty-and-compassion-the-rich-are-different-from-you-and-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[LIFE at the bottom is nasty, brutish and short. For this reason, heartless folk might assume that people in the lower social classes will be more self-interested and less inclined to consider the welfare of others than upper-class individuals, who can afford a certain noblesse oblige. A recent study, however, challenges this idea. Experiments by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digital-dharma.net&amp;blog=36950&amp;post=6626&amp;subd=digitalzen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Special Report: High finance and corporate pot, California style</title>
		<link>http://digital-dharma.net/2010/07/27/special-report-high-finance-and-corporate-pot-california-style/</link>
		<comments>http://digital-dharma.net/2010/07/27/special-report-high-finance-and-corporate-pot-california-style/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I don&#8217;t especially like the idea of introducing another legal drug to add to the problems we have with alcohol, it seems inevitable.  It is certainly preferable to the completely inhumane laws that now send people to prison for selling weed, while down the street the government sanctions the sale (and taxation) of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=digital-dharma.net&amp;blog=36950&amp;post=6620&amp;subd=digitalzen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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