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		<title>Building a Sunday morning community of free-thinkers</title>
		<link>http://thenomaddiary.com/2012/05/08/building-a-sunday-morning-community-of-free-thinkers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 14:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Baxley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not only a disbeliever in the teachings of organized religious entities, I find the general paradigm of intentional polarization that most (if not all) of these institutions promote to be a threat to a fully functional society. I have witnessed far too many otherwise intelligent people find faith in a “single, inarguably correct [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenomaddiary.com&#038;blog=13704405&#038;post=883&#038;subd=adventureandy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Health is a social obligation</title>
		<link>http://thenomaddiary.com/2012/04/09/health-is-a-social-obligation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 17:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Baxley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thenomaddiary.com/?p=873</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Historically speaking, to be healthy was to be fed well, such that one avoided disease and starvation.  And while this aim remains relevant for much of the developing world, citizens of wealthy nations (at least for now) no longer need to concern themselves with putting food on their first-world tables.  The pressing dietary issues for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenomaddiary.com&#038;blog=13704405&#038;post=873&#038;subd=adventureandy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You will die soon.</title>
		<link>http://thenomaddiary.com/2011/12/21/you-will-die-soon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Baxley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I once again find myself confronted by the notion that existence is merely an impossibly brief intermission between two infinitely consuming periods of non-existence.  Time, as it relates to individual experience, can be divided into three distinct categories: pre-you, you, and post-you. Being presently fully immersed in the &#8220;me&#8221; phase of this process, I cannot [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenomaddiary.com&#038;blog=13704405&#038;post=844&#038;subd=adventureandy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The (r)evolution of a giant.  How tomorrow could be better, and how you could help.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Baxley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In late 2004, a handful of elite kids decided to try something out for the first time.  By early 2005, a couple million more had joined them.  In the beginning, prior to the spark, nobody was on it.  Nobody.  It crept in quietly, ghost-like, as all great addictions do.  By the time we recognized it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenomaddiary.com&#038;blog=13704405&#038;post=826&#038;subd=adventureandy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An era of discontent: 7 Reasons and Remedies for the listlessness of early adulthood</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 01:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Baxley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sadness and happiness are slippery words, two I believe to be overused in the western discussion about sustainable well-being.  To describe someone who battles mild depression as an unhappy person would be off base, as would be labelling a person with a generally positive affect as happy.  In reality, humans spend very little of their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenomaddiary.com&#038;blog=13704405&#038;post=820&#038;subd=adventureandy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why we wake up in the morning</title>
		<link>http://thenomaddiary.com/2011/05/19/why-we-wake-up-in-the-morning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 07:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Baxley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each morning 7 billion people arise to a single task- to be the architects of an existence that is rich in both quality and meaning.  The complexity and diversity of the human experience is evident in the endless number of ways these terms are personally defined, but a basic unity of purpose is difficult to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenomaddiary.com&#038;blog=13704405&#038;post=806&#038;subd=adventureandy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feed the pig!</title>
		<link>http://thenomaddiary.com/2011/04/13/feed-the-pig/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 04:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Baxley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the beginning of my senior year in college I found myself with a very abstract travel dream.  I knew I wanted to take an extended backpacking trip when I graduated, but I had very little idea where to go, and I definitely didn&#8217;t know how I was going to pay for it.  There were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenomaddiary.com&#038;blog=13704405&#038;post=799&#038;subd=adventureandy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A.F.R.E.S.H.M.E.- A brief manifesto of change</title>
		<link>http://thenomaddiary.com/2011/04/01/a-f-r-e-s-h-m-e-a-brief-manifesto-of-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:17:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Baxley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A wareness F reedom R ationality E thics S implicity H ealth M indfulness E xperimentation A brief manifesto of change Positive change, whether it happens on a personal, national, or global scale, begins with awareness.  If we are to actualize our innate potential, we must first learn to differentiate between the forces holding us back [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenomaddiary.com&#038;blog=13704405&#038;post=794&#038;subd=adventureandy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ethical eating and impending upheaval in the American farming industry</title>
		<link>http://thenomaddiary.com/2011/03/09/ethical-eating-and-impending-upheaval-in-the-american-farming-industry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 17:15:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Baxley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the state of morality in America?  When our story is told by historians, what kind of story will it be?  Will it be a tale of greed, oversight, and disaster, or one of self-correction and redemption? Many would argue that we&#8217;ve made great progress.  Skeptics would turn to the dealings of corporate America for evidence [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenomaddiary.com&#038;blog=13704405&#038;post=778&#038;subd=adventureandy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The last of the quiet spaces</title>
		<link>http://thenomaddiary.com/2011/03/04/the-last-of-the-quiet-spaces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 02:32:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Baxley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I  recently read Henry Thoreau&#8217;s description of the hours he passed in a gently swaying canoe, fishing and philosophizing upon the moonlit stillness of his beloved Walden pond, and I sensed stirring within me a familiar urge to seek solitude.  For Thoreau, it was the serenity of the pond and the dense surrounding Massachusetts woodland that would inspire the clarity necessary to create Walden,  a work that has since been recognized as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thenomaddiary.com&#038;blog=13704405&#038;post=770&#038;subd=adventureandy&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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