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		<title>Ayn Rand vs. Buddha</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 00:13:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I suppose the biggest thing I'm thinking about right now is her suggestion that the meaning of life is to work hard to accomplish something.  She implies that if we work hard, create something, be successful then you will be happy and you have helped the world.  This philosophy is directly opposed to the Buddhist one which says that we should just accept that nothing is truly fulfilling in life and that we shouldn't strive to accomplish something big because we will end up being disappointed.]]></description>
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		<title>Death revisited</title>
		<link>http://www.happypsychotic.com/545/death-revisited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 21:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It had to be asked: What was it I was so attached to?  Is it just something in the imagination?  When you have done time in a mental hospital, that is never a trivial question.  If he wasn't just imaginary, then where did he go?  Do real things just disappear like that?  If they do, then the conservation laws of physics are in trouble.  But if we stay with the laws of physics, then the Chris that disappeared was unreal.  Round and round and round.  He used to run off like that just to make me mad.  Sooner or later he would always appear, but where would he appear now?  After all, really, where did he go?]]></description>
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		<title>What to do?</title>
		<link>http://www.happypsychotic.com/543/what-to-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 00:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can't figure out what to do with my life.  I know that life is short and that fact motivates me to stop wasting time.  The problem is that I can't think of anything that is not a waste of time.  ]]></description>
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		<title>The God Who Wasn&#8217;t There Review</title>
		<link>http://www.happypsychotic.com/519/the-god-who-wasnt-there-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 15:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>McLovin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So last night I was browsing through an online documentary site which lists full documentaries that you can watch online for free and I came across one called &#8221; The God Who Wasn&#8217;t There &#8221; by Brian Flemming.
You might recall Brian Flemming as the guy behind the shit storm that hit the news airwaves called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Philosophy of Life</title>
		<link>http://www.happypsychotic.com/482/a-new-philosophy-of-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've realized now that there is no purpose to life - there is nothing that can make me truly and completely happy.  I think that there are many people in the world that feel completely happy but I think they're living a delusion.]]></description>
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		<title>Dieing to Live</title>
		<link>http://www.happypsychotic.com/478/dieing-to-live/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:47:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Barry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Way back when I was in high school, I remember my world religions teacher teaching us (the class) about Zen Buddhism and actually, he told us that was his "religion" (if it can be called that).  The only point that stuck with me was that he told how ideally, a Zen Buddhist person would never hold on to any grudge or anything.  Someone in the class even asked what he would do if somebody murdered his son and he said that he would be angry, but that he would try to accept it and move on with life.  I laughed to myself when I heard that and though he was stupid.  I don't think he's stupid anymore.]]></description>
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		<title>What Are You Selling?</title>
		<link>http://www.happypsychotic.com/467/what-are-you-selling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I find this ad to be very annoying due to its misleading nature.  But of course, it is not alone in the world of advertisement.

I've created 3 categories to differentiate the ways I see people try to sell things 1) Obvious 2) Diversionary and 3) Secretive/Accidental.  I'll list a few examples of each and we'll decide what we like best.]]></description>
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		<title>Is it the human condition to not be content?</title>
		<link>http://www.happypsychotic.com/462/is-it-the-human-condition-to-not-be-content/</link>
		<comments>http://www.happypsychotic.com/462/is-it-the-human-condition-to-not-be-content/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are born rich, you aren't content because you want to get out to "the real world" and be a regular person.  If you are born poor, you constantly strive to be rich thinking that will bring contentment.  If you are a genius you think that you over-analyze everything and are unable to simply be content like people with average intelligence.  If you aren't very bright, you believe that the cause of your discontent is because you just aren't smart enough to do the right things.  If you are destined to inherit your parents' business (whatever it is), you don't want it because it's too boring (and probably too easy), while if your parents have nothing for you to inherit, that is also bothersome.]]></description>
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		<title>Suffering and Its Meaning</title>
		<link>http://www.happypsychotic.com/450/suffering-and-its-meaning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished reading the book "The Book of Calamities: Five Questions About Suffering and Its Meaning" by Peter Trachtenberg and I have come up with 3 main categories to describe suffering.]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem with Thankfulness</title>
		<link>http://www.happypsychotic.com/333/the-problem-with-thankfulness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Psychotic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was taught from an early age that it's a great thing to be thankful.  Whether I was thanking God or thanking a person, this was a "good thing" to do.  By reminding myself of all the good stuff in my life (including things we often take for granted like health, clean water, shelter etc.) I would often feel happy and content.]]></description>
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