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		<title>A Year Without Facebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can I do it? Can I spend a year without Facebook? My cousin Aeon influnced me to deactivate my Facebook account. I knocked on her door. Asked her to drink with me. I felt depressed. I needed some drinking buddies. Nica also joined us. I deactivated my Facebook account on January 9, 2012. I hope [...]]]></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>For Sharon (And All the Many Brave People in the World)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 20:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For Sharon (And All the Many Brave People in the World) I stood Like a statue Unmoving, unseeing Not speaking, not wanting To break The fragile silence that Engulfed us like A wall oppressing, Suffocating, separating Me&#8230; from you. But I was dying to live! And breathe, and see The many things I haven&#8217;t seen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From &#8220;The Book of Lights&#8221; by Chaim Potok:</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 23:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From &#8220;The Book of Lights&#8221; by Chaim Potok: &#8220;From the age of fifteen until the age of twenty-one he lived in the apartment world of his aunt&#8217;s whispery talking and his uncle&#8217;s coughs and brooding silence, and he did not know which was more frightening. For a while after his cousin&#8217;s death he thought his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pantheism Revisited</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230; Listen to Me in the truth of your soul. Listen to Me in the feelings of your heart. Listen to Me in the quiet of your mind. &#8220;Hear Me, everywhere. Whenever you have a question, simply know that I have answered it already. Then open your eyes to your world. My response could be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Books Liked/Loved</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Books Liked/Loved: The Count of Monte Cristo (Alexander Dumas) El Filibusterismo (Jose Rizal) The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint-Exupery) The Favourite Game (Leonard Cohen) Thus Spoke Zarathustra / Genealogy of Morals (Friedrich Nietzsche) The Trial / Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka) Doktor Faustus (Thomas Mann) Cubao Midnight Express (Tony Perez) The Alphabet of Grace (Frederick Buechner) Zen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Thousand Bitter-Sweet Poems for Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Thousand Bitter-Sweet Poems for Women By Michael Ian Lomongo, March 21, 2001 Last March 10, I watched PETA&#8217;s &#8220;Komedi Club,&#8221; a festival of 10 to 15-minute plays written by members of the PETA Writers&#8217; Bloc. In celebration of the International Women&#8217;s Day, the plays featured during that weekend (March 8-10) were written by women [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comments on &#8220;Against Interpretation&#8221; by Susan Sontag</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reaction on Against Interpretation by Susan Sontag Posted in autografitti@yahoogroups.com, August 5, 2003. &#8212; I can understand the dislike that Sontag has for hermeneuts and their penchant for reducing a work of art into its purported meaning, especially when such meaning is made to appear as esoteric and accessible only to initiates. I&#8217;m inclined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading with Understanding</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[a post in autograffiti, may 9, 2003 &#160; I once gave a remark: &#8220;Read and read, until you understand.&#8221; Rather harsh? But it wasn&#8217;t meant to be a slight on anyone&#8217;s intelligence. Understanding (a text) is not necessarily premised on one&#8217;s intelligence. Tama ba &#8216;yon? My point is that you need more than intelligence to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Writing on the Wall: Welcome to Autografitti</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Ian Lomongo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was my first post in autograffiti@yahoogroups.com. May 6, 2003. &#8212;- Hi to everyone! Thank you for joining Autograffiti. As mentioned in the invitations you received and the description of the homepage of this new e-group, this is meant for artists and philosophers of all stripes, colors, and kinds. Why Autograffiti? Err&#8230; For want of [...]]]></description>
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