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		<title>Engage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 18:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am hardly hiding, but have avoided being express in laying claim to some intellectual or spiritual pedigree for three reasons: 

To let my critics twist in the wind.
To let interested parties come this historic conversation without having to wade through the preconceptions imbedded in those pedigrees.
To illustrate that I don’t give one good rip about being an intellectual pure blood vetted by the historic consensus and refuse to pay homage to dead men’s ideas.    
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		<title>Private Virtue</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The time is now, you men of private virtue, to emerge from your fortress of solitude, and demonstrate that you are worthy of the life that bears your name.
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		<title>Lives, Fortunes, and Sacred Honor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 18:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What was the lie that man exchanged for truth? 

The answer is: man must pay to appease the gods in their endless hostility or purchase grudging benevolence of a demonic benefactor. This was how man believed he fended off life’s pain and suffering. The ultimate sick joke of human existence is man bowing before an image chipped out of stone, believing that somehow it might provide a way to think about life
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		<title>Zen of War</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 01:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Zealot is advantaged by an irrational battle of hidden, obscure principles. 

The Individual is advantaged by a rational battle of open, clear principles.
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		<title>Moral Clarity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:12:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have been indoctrinated to think that the historic tragedy is OUR existence. There is nothing more erroneous in modern philosophical thought. Whatever western sins might be, most of our assumptions drive us toward abandoning bad ideas and striving toward good ideas with all ships rising on the tide. Our GOOD ideas are always about individual liberty, freedom, social cooperation, industry and prosperity. The only parts of our philosophical background currently threatening to reduce us back to the oppression of yesteryear are the humanity-crushing predicates of Dictated Good: Pervasive Depravity and Altruism.]]></description>
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		<title>Consciousness: the Human CHOICE.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consciousness The Human Choice (Click here to listen to an Presage Publishing MP3 Audio production) By John Immel The challenge before me, in my ongoing quest to address the sources of tyranny, is the dual task of deconstruction and construction. Responding to historic tyrants and the philosophical bulwark offered by modern day theological and political [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Christian Chicken Little</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And then you remember your own fear.  Your own utter inability to say out loud what happened to you: to tell your story, to make yourself and your pains plain.  You find your eyes traveling skyward in the silent hope that it is not really falling.  And humble prayers of your own sinfulness cross your lips in the dearest hope that God will not choose today to rain down his justifiable wrath for the list of sins attached to your soul.   You hedge your bets against tomorrow: staying quiet and believing if you refuse to call for justice and righteousness that will keep you out of God's mind, away from the path of the boogieman of bad.]]></description>
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		<title>Defining Insanity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 18:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Strauch]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of the Church collectivist ideology use words like precious, helpless, loving, feeding, leading, disciplining, straying, and caring to discuss the need and objective of Church Governance.  The assumption is we are all a bunch of infants, naïve, and pure, and needing mommy's loving touch.   This is the Brady Bunch interpretation that sounds churchy and wholesome but it's really just marketing and packaging.  In another breath or three those same folk will talk of human depravity and unremitting sinfulness, and utter culpability.]]></description>
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		<title>So You Want to Tell People the Truth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:29:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A boy sought advice on how to show people the truth. He heard of a great man living atop a mountain. He walked, many miles, slowly ascending the mountain, all the while thinking of all the truths he would show people when he learned the secret. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Arena of Ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 00:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is excerpted from a book I self-published in 2000 called Blight in the Vineyard. (I’ve got a new version of that book coming, so there will be more later.) Welcome to the Arena of Ideas Do you feel the expanse of the coliseum, and the crowd looking on, and the tides of opinion [...]]]></description>
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