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		<title>Viola Lessons</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 01:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By John Immel Somehow I ended up on a Frank Viola e-mailing list. Someone was very kind to add me. I suspect that the motive was either counterargument by proxy or they assumed that I would agree with what Mr. Viola is teaching. Whatever the reason and whoever put me there, thanks. I now have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Camping Lessons</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 16:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By John Immel Unless the rapture only included about four people, I’m going to assume that it didn’t happen. I know, I know, some of you are shocked. Your calculator said the same thing that Harold Camping’s calculator did. I could crack a blonde joke, but that might get me in trouble. We can just [...]]]></description>
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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>Namaste Nemesis</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:51:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Soooo… in the grand scheme of threats: the tides of European Collectivism washing across the face of American culture; the Social Gospel preached with ever increasing regularity from pulpits; Islam’s overt declaration of Christian/Western destruction; and Communisms enforced Atheism perpetrating despotism throughout entire continents.  The threat befuddling Christians is yoga? 

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		<title>Hunk of Burning Love</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 22:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alakazam poof!  Dark Ages. 

But this narrative stands against the easily verifiable historic realities: Middle East, Egyptian, and Mediterranean cities continued to thrive, as centers of learning, commerce and development long after the fall of Rome.  It wasn’t until the mid 7th century that the decline began.  In case you are unfamiliar the founding of Islam dates roughly 620 and was in full tilt conquest boogie by 700 AD.  

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		<title>Sense</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 06:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By John Immel  (Mp3 audio) Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.                                                       - George Santayana The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes.                                                       - Adolf Hitler We learn from history that men and women never learn anything from history.                                                       - Friedrich [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frauds, Papists and European Religion</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 02:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tyranny seeks to compel people to specific ends.  Tyranny is death and destruction.  You don't trip into tyranny any more than you trip in to sex.  People make very specific decisions and advocate specific ideas to get to both outcomes.
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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>Toga-Induced Christian Tribalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 18:36:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The function of tribalism is nothing more than protection.  When individuals realize they do not have the requisite strength fend off all interlopers against their person they look for ways to increase that power.  The historic challenge was to know who was willing to share mutual best interest: value you and defend you.  The easiest distinction is to gravitate to those who look like you do.  Tribal-ism is effectively racism.]]></description>
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		<title>Broom-Pushing Theology</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have decided that starting a JOB without skills is the same as GIFTING in the Body of Christ.

Why do we think this?  Simple: Uber Church leaders need free work so they need a carrot to go with the stick of "Submit to Authority."   It isn't all that hard to sell folk on the idea that "ministry" starts with lowly service and manufacture a hierarchy of important church occupations.  Big Spiritual Stuff is preaching in the big room to the big people, under the lights to 5,000 filled seats. Everything else is less important.]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Revere, Shrek, and Donkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know Paul Revere would have been screwed if the British were coming from both directions: land and Sea.   What the heck is a guy to do if they are coming by both? ]]></description>
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		<title>Out Liars and Data Sets</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of late detractors of moi have posted an overarching objection. &#8220;Objective Outsiders&#8221; are voicing this criticism: Homie John is bitter and mean and has father issues, and is failing to take his meds, and has a personality pathology&#8230;ergo (a little Old Latin for you) the nastiness of the source obscures, warps, or otherwise corrupts the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dispassion to Avoid Distortion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 05:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or maybe this post is to provide facts. A poster, MC, asked the following on my article Dear Christian Chicken Little. The question is a good one that needs some clarification. (I edited their comments for brevity, but tried to maintain the integrity of the comment.) I stumbled onto this site, and I have read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Grumpy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not to be confused as a reference to the dwarfs in that Disney Movie.  No&#8230;I am in fact referring to my emotional state. My temptation at the moment is to rant and rave and then rave and RANT! I did read Noel&#8217;s Story on www.sgmsurvivors. It takes a while to get through for two reasons. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Plot Thickens</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:38:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Immel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So 2009 will be dedicated to my taking over the world: Lots of fun and frolic on the horizon.   We will be continuing the ongoing conversation about collectivisms evil grip on humanity and its insidious effects on the church. ]]></description>
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