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		<title>If I Could Be a Character From a Book, I&#8217;d Be&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Atticus Finch. He represented to me such strength of character that is something to aspire to. He knew he was fighting a losing battle but that did not deter him from fighting it. It was on principle, to be an example to his children, that he risked his reputation and his life to defend the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mystique772.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11821480&amp;post=376&amp;subd=mystique772&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The World Would Be a Better Place If&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We could just accept each other. If we could all just embrace the idea that we are the same in that we have differences, that we are unique individuals, each with something to share, then the world would be much better for it. Lack of acceptance and a refusal to embrace beliefs and lifestyles that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mystique772.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11821480&amp;post=373&amp;subd=mystique772&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Timeless Words Of Wisdom</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. We are faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as being too late…. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mystique772.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11821480&amp;post=371&amp;subd=mystique772&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flirting with Darkness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 07:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am prone to depression. Ever since adolescence it has lurked beneath the surface. The darkest times are punctuated not only with lethargy, lack of interest or unhappiness. I&#8217;ve lost chunks of time, being unable to recall days, events, anything. Times punctuated with inability to feel any emotion, just absolute nothingness. I&#8217;ve missed weeks of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mystique772.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11821480&amp;post=358&amp;subd=mystique772&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To my faithful few&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jun 2010 23:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The people who I love most in this world are Christians, every single one of them. The people who I confide in, the ones that I trust with my life, the ones whose advice I take into account. This blog is not one where I try to focus on disrespecting a religion that many people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mystique772.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11821480&amp;post=355&amp;subd=mystique772&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lies and Deceit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 13:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sadly, honesty is rapidly depleting in our world today. More and more people are choosing to be dishonest. Lies and deceit have taken over the lives of many. Lies and deceit have destroyed the lives of many. When people lie they cause other to live a lie. Living and believing something that is false can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mystique772.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11821480&amp;post=348&amp;subd=mystique772&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gaza flotilla &#8230; May we never forget&#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The unfortunate and tragic events that took place in our world recently have been hard to stomach. Of course I&#8217;m talking about the flotilla that was making its way to Gaza with 10,000 tonnes of aid. The civilians deaths in my opinion&#8211;and in the opinion of many others&#8211;should never have happened. They were taking supplies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mystique772.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11821480&amp;post=336&amp;subd=mystique772&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Though home, I continue to rebel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 03:27:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here I am back in my home country writing on my blog for the first time since April 22. It&#8217;s almost like I have abandoned my blog and to abandon this to me would be like giving up and re-conforming which I do not intend to do. But I must say it is weird to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mystique772.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11821480&amp;post=333&amp;subd=mystique772&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monarchs and Butterflies Monarchs and Butterflies Contrasting beauty Within it lie. Civilisations and rotating lives, Cycles and inevitable change, Steadfast change remains. Visions of an acoustic world With harmonies proclaim. Drums of the heart, Rhythms flow across the plains Our Towers. The Savannahs. Cacophony of melodious refrains. Pixie leaves on the dancing wind, Axis revolves [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mystique772.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11821480&amp;post=284&amp;subd=mystique772&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Have a question for God?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been said to me over and over throughout my lifetime (almost 24 long, long years) don&#8217;t ever question God. To this I ask, &#8220;Why not?&#8221; and I think I know the real reason. Its not about being respectful or acknowledging that His ways are far out and beyond our own. The reason to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mystique772.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11821480&amp;post=325&amp;subd=mystique772&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;re in this world &#8230; and that&#8217;s the important thing.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 15:33:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have always been quite a realistic person. As such I&#8217;ve struggled with the flippant way&#8211;from my perspective&#8211;that some Christians are able to explain and identify with the things that happen in the world around them. The saying: you are in the world but not of it (developed from the scripture John 17:15-17) must be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mystique772.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11821480&amp;post=297&amp;subd=mystique772&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hi, you&#8217;re going to hell.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having purpose is an important need for many&#8211;myself included. In religion there seems to be a common goal that culminates when your life ends. Whether this be heaven or some form of nothingness, the idea of working towards something firmly exists. To achieve the greater goal there are others that must be met. Virtues that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mystique772.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11821480&amp;post=295&amp;subd=mystique772&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In which I contemplate abandoning Christianity</title>
		<link>http://mystique772.wordpress.com/2010/04/09/in-which-i-contemplate-abandoning-christianity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:04:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If my religion was ever a help to me in the past, it certainly isn&#8217;t now. As a Christian I am supposed to be desiring and working towards a closer relationship with God&#8211;which seems an ambiguous endeavour at best to develop a relationship with an invisible, intangible entity. I am supposed to aim to reconcile [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mystique772.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11821480&amp;post=283&amp;subd=mystique772&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The never ending scandal &#8230; it keeps going and going&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://mystique772.wordpress.com/2010/04/07/the-never-ending-scandal-it-keeps-going-and-going/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:28:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At this point I may as well start a category for sexual abuse by priests of the RCC on my blog. Todays news comes from the BBC reporting that  an ex-Norway bishop resigned last year because of sexual abuse. However, at the time of his resignation the abuse was not made public knowledge at the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mystique772.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11821480&amp;post=280&amp;subd=mystique772&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The never ending scandal news links II</title>
		<link>http://mystique772.wordpress.com/2010/04/02/the-never-ending-scandal-news-links-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a few more news stories. Pope sees sex scandal as test; bishops urge reform (Apr 01, 2010) Letter from 1963 indicates former Pope Paul VI knew of US priest abuse problems (Apr 01, 2010) And finally, &#8220;Dean Weissmuller says that when he was a boy at a Milwaukee school for the deaf, Father Lawrence [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mystique772.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11821480&amp;post=270&amp;subd=mystique772&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The never ending scandal &#8230; news links I</title>
		<link>http://mystique772.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/the-never-ending-scandal-contd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[XSSDVQMVYP77 Find here some recent articles that will keep you up to date with the latest abuse storm that the Catholic Church has found themselves in. &#8220;The Vatican is due to publish a letter from Pope Benedict XVI to Irish Catholics, asking forgiveness for paedophilic abuse by priests.&#8221; Vatican to issue Pope&#8217;s letter on Irish [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mystique772.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11821480&amp;post=263&amp;subd=mystique772&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God is calling&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://mystique772.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/god-is-calling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 22:03:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;God has sent me with a message for you.&#8221; &#8220;God speaks to me and through me.&#8221; For many the notion that God &#8216;implants&#8217; thoughts and messages into a person&#8217;s mind sounds a bit loony&#8211;for lack of a better word&#8211;but to may it is a fairly normal experience. Many of these kinds of spiritual declarations are made [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mystique772.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11821480&amp;post=258&amp;subd=mystique772&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The never ending scandal&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Accusations of molestation, pedophilia and homosexuality seem to always be seeping out of the Roman Catholic Church. If activity of a sexual nature is between consenting adults in the community, I have no negative words for it, I leave that to the community itself. But when these accusations are about molestation, taking advantage of a position [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mystique772.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11821480&amp;post=248&amp;subd=mystique772&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Words of Wisdom&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.&#8221; &#8220;The choice is either nonviolence or nonexistence.&#8221; &#8220;Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. We are faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history there is such a thing as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mystique772.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11821480&amp;post=242&amp;subd=mystique772&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is home to you?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For me home isn&#8217;t quite what it used to be. it has changed and remained the same. What I need and what is provided there conflict in a significant way. My perception of what home is has shifted, leaving me with no choice but to evaluate my goals and ideals. As a young woman, I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mystique772.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11821480&amp;post=222&amp;subd=mystique772&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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