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		<title>One Sorry Horse, a.k.a., Balinguynguy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 29, 2008. To read about it, go to this link: http://xn3cts.com/one-sorry-horse/]]></description>
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		<title>A Quote from Nietzsche&#8217;s &#8220;Untimely Meditations&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by: they do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still on Dan Brown&#8217;s Recuperation of the Sacred Feminine</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cultural symbols have some kind of consistency. And rightly or wrongly (I mean, one could always present arguments that would show the inappropriateness of a symbol or sets of symbols), the associations have been formed and set through the millenia. One cannot simply do away with a symbol that has been passed and accepted by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Deliberately Ignoring Something Because of the Hype</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I loved the Matrix and Moulin Rouge, despite their being hyped. On the other hand, I did watch Lord of the Rings 1 &#38; 2, but stayed away from 3. Tried reading book 1, but just managed a few paragraphs, and then stopped&#8230; (Well, perhaps someday&#8230;) Did &#8220;The Unbearable Lightness of Being&#8221; have that much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Does It Matter! (On the Da Vinci Code, Foucault&#8217;s Pendulum &amp; Other Matters)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read &#8220;The Da Vinci Code&#8221; in 2005, after deliberately ignoring it for quite some time because of the hype. And then saw the movie later. Well, the wealth of information (esp. regarding symbols) is generally sound. But it doesn&#8217;t hold a candle to the erudition of Umberto Eco&#8217;s &#8220;Foucalt&#8217;s Pendulum.&#8221; (I have yet to understand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Non Sequitur (A Reflection on Wong Kar Wai&#8217;s &#8220;2046&#8243; and &#8220;In the Mood for Love&#8221;)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;2046.&#8221; If you fell in love with Mr. Chow (Tony Leung) and Mrs. Chan (Maggie Cheung) &#8212; who, along with Zhang Ziyi, was in Zhang Yimou&#8217;s &#8220;Hero&#8221; &#8212; in Wong Kar Wai&#8217;s &#8220;In the Mood for Love,&#8221; you shouldn&#8217;t miss this wonderful masterpiece of a sequel! If you haven&#8217;t seen &#8220;In the Mood for Love,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vipassana for Nietzscheans?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;He remembered his sadness well, but he could no longer remember what had made him so sad. It was that way with everything: even sadness passed, even pain and despair, as well as the joys. Everything passed, faded, lost its depth, its value, and finally there came a time when one could no longer remember [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tantric Sex</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tantric Sex Tantrayana&#8230; Vajrayana&#8230; And all we ever notice is the sex! (Just look at how our Christian conditioning has warped our minds&#8230;) What&#8217;s so special about tantric sex? Nothing much. It&#8217;s just that it becomes a sacred/holy activity. A prayer. A rite/ritual (not in its pejorative sense). So, it&#8217;s pretty much how all sexual [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happenstance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 21:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember this film I saw in one of the French Spring Film Festivals, &#8220;Chance or Coincidence&#8221; about an &#8220;eventologist&#8221; (or someething) whose &#8220;other&#8221; job is to find connections/meanings in the chance occurences of life. I don&#8217;t remember the details of the story, it&#8217;s a love story (I think). I liked it, and also this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Resurrection of the Body Too: The Misunderstanding of Christianity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some people say that Christianity has been misunderstood. It looks to me more like it is Christianity which has misunderstood! The world, perhaps even Christ! I&#8217;m not associating Christ with Christianity. When Nietzsche wrote &#8220;Der Anti-Christ&#8221; (usually translated as &#8220;The Anti-Christ&#8221;), his polemics was directed more to Paul and Christendom/Christianity, (a note in the translation [...]]]></description>
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