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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>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>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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		<title>The Resurrection of the Body</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 22:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part of the reason why I strayed away from &#8220;mother church&#8221; is my perception (whether right or wrong) that spirituality is inimical to the body. You want to be holy/spiritual? Then, deny the body. The body, with its desires (sexual, biological, etc.) needs to be tamed, nay, caged. The body is a burden. If only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nietzsche, Hume and the Buddha</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 22:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[reposting&#8230; november, 2003. best regards, ian &#8212; Nietzsche, Hume and the Buddha When I first heard of Nietzsche, it was in association with Hitler and the Nazis. I simply dismissed him as a rabid, power-hungry maniac who probably had an unhappy childhood. A classmate in college wrote a paper on this Nietzsche guy and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Prom(ethean) Knight: Thoughts on the &#8220;Dark Knight&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 22:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good thing I posted the whole thing in a forum&#8230; powtah. Eto, re-posting&#8230; &#8212; The Prom(ethean) Knight: Thoughts on the &#8220;Dark Knight&#8221; By Michael Ian Lomongo &#8212;- In Greek Mythology, Prometheus is the Titan who stole fire from the Gods and was then punished by being chained to the mountains of Caucasus, where a vulture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Than Words</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Am trying to re-post old posts August of last year which were not backed up. best regards, ian &#8212; More Than Words (More Ramblings&#8230;) One of my all-time favorite songs is &#8220;More Than Words.&#8221; It became a monster hit in 1991 or 1992, spawning a long list of other &#8220;unplugged&#8221; numbers. The song, written by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UNCONDITIONAL(?) LOVE</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read a book on &#8220;Soto Zen,&#8221; and I encountered the names of Huineng and Shen-hsiu in its presentation of the historical origins of Zen. They were both students of the so-called Fifth Ancestor (Zen Patriarch). Huineng became the successor, the 6th ancestor. &#8220;Shen-hsiu believed that all beings possessed the Buddha nature. However, he regarded [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RAMBLINGS OF A NOT-YET-EQUANIMOUS MIND</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From an autografitti post&#8230; November 6, 2008. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- Hi peeps! Hope you&#8217;re all doing fine! In lieu of writing a clear presentation of what has been preoccupying my mind these days, I will be starting a series of rambling thoughts on certain topics (love, egoism, nietzsche, buddhism, christianity, power, passion, compassion, etc.) that have held [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anicca*: This Too Shall Pass</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anicca*: This Too Shall Pass (Strains of a Brewing Song in My Mind, In Honor of Friedrich &#8220;Superman&#8221; Nietzsche and Siddharta Gautama &#8220;Buddha&#8221;) &#8212; * Pali word (pronounced &#8220;anicha&#8221;) meaning &#8220;impermanent, ephemeral, changing&#8221; I have long been searching for answers To the questions that nag my troubled mind&#8230; I have long been seeking the healing [...]]]></description>
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