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		<title>Joe the Plumber &#8216;Nomics (Part 2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let me just get one thing straight from the very beginning. I do not, in any way, begrudge conservatives or conservatism. I am conservative in quite a few ways. No, I don&#8217;t care if gays get married, and I don&#8217;t believe it is a threat to the makeup of the nuclear family. I am, however, a strong proponent of &#8220;pay-as-you-go&#8221; economics. This is an economic style that believes the government should not borrow money to spend money (unless during a national emergency, which our economic crisis most certainly is). I ...


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		<link>http://www.justtalkaboutit.com/?p=628</link>
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		<title>Is religion the psychological equivalent to taking steroids?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have to preface this post by saying that in comparing the two, I am in no way trying to suggest that religion should be made illegal. I realize that if we all found out god wasn&#8217;t real tomorrow, far too many people would lose their minds and make our world a literal hell.
That said, I now return you to our regularly scheduled program&#8230;
At first glance, comparing religion to steroids can seem a bit bold and even offensive to a lot of people, which is understandable. That doesn&#8217;t mean the ...


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		<link>http://www.justtalkaboutit.com/?p=607</link>
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		<title>Obama wouldn&#8217;t be president if Michelle was white</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I normally don&#8217;t like getting into these hypothetical race discussions, but this one is very telling: If Obama had fallen in love with a woman that looked more like his own mother, he may not have sniffed the Democratic Convention in 2004, much less received enough votes to become president back in November.
It&#8217;s no secret that people still have strong feelings against interracial marriage &#8212; specifically between a white and black person. We&#8217;ve obviously come far in these past hundred or so years where it was against the law to ...


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		<link>http://www.justtalkaboutit.com/?p=594</link>
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		<title>The End of Times: Don&#8217;t believe the hype (Part 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We have all heard it before, religious folks pointing to the signs of &#8220;moral decay&#8221; in our society as an indication of things to come. Most often, these folks are foreshadowing the end of our world, and the return of Christ to save the believers and to damn the non-believers.
For the non-believers, when they ask how these folks are so certain of our impending doom, they are responded to with biblical prophecies. Some come from Isaiah and some come from Revelation, but the general tone is almost always the same. ...


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		<link>http://www.justtalkaboutit.com/?p=585</link>
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		<title>If god exists, it would&#8230;(Part 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone has their own interpretation of god. Our environment, our experiences, and what we were taught all play into whether or not we believe in god, and if so, what it looks and acts like. Well, I figure I might as well join in on the fun and lay down my version of a personified god if one were to exist.
I have to preface this by saying that I don&#8217;t currently believe a god actually exists, but since I haven&#8217;t ruled out the possibility all together &#8212; you know, the ...


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		<link>http://www.justtalkaboutit.com/?p=568</link>
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		<title>People would sooner defecate in public than talk about religion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t have any facts to back that up, I just used it as a pretty graphic illustration of how much people can&#8217;t stand to openly talk about religion. Sorry for getting your hopes up if you were expecting facts about people pooping in public.
Something like 80% of people in this country consider themselves to be Christian, and yet by my own estimation, I&#8217;d say about 2% of this segment (yes, I&#8217;m saying only one out of 50 Christians) will actually openly discuss their religious beliefs.
I get the sense that ...


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		<link>http://www.justtalkaboutit.com/?p=502</link>
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		<title>Superstition ain&#8217;t the way&#8230;naw, naw, naw!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I may have listened to Superstition by Stevie Wonder about sixty gabillion times in my life, but like most songs I listen to, I just liked the sound and barely paid much attention to the actual lyrics. I mean I knew most of the words, but it just never dawned on me that this was almost an unintentional atheist anthem of sorts until I actually read the lyrics:
When you believe in things that you don&#8217;t understand, then you suffer. Superstition ain&#8217;t the way.
Now I&#8217;m pretty sure that Stevie didn&#8217;t mean ...


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		<link>http://www.justtalkaboutit.com/?p=506</link>
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		<title>Non-belief: So easy, a caveman could understand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is actually very simple stuff. It only gets complicated when people try and justify their beliefs by adding a ton of extra nonsensical things into the equation.
Well, here it is in a nutshell:
When someone says something extraordinary, we don&#8217;t believe them unless there&#8217;s a compelling reason to do so. That&#8217;s it.
When I say &#8216;we&#8217;, I mean Christians included. No one can be perpetually naive and gullible as to believe everything anyone says. Humans naturally use discretion&#8230;some are just more consistent with their discretion than others.
That&#8217;s why people don&#8217;t believe ...


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		<link>http://www.justtalkaboutit.com/?p=481</link>
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		<title>TBS rewards Tyler Perry&#8217;s weak buffoonery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not even going to try and hide it that I&#8217;m hatin&#8217; on the guy. He&#8217;s incredibly successful at what he does and has made a ton of money in the process. This isn&#8217;t necessarily a knock on Tyler Perry the man, but just these incredibly wack TV shows that TBS is promoting like they&#8217;re the funniest thing since Afro Ninja.
I&#8217;ve seen a couple of his movies and they were actually pretty funny but that&#8217;s got nothing to do with the fact that these two TV shows &#8212; House of ...


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		<link>http://www.justtalkaboutit.com/?p=462</link>
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		<title>Happiness&#8230;is a little yellow pill?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There I sat, fidgeting in my all-too-familiar chair, hoping my clenching fists and white knuckles were going unnoticed. And there my therapist sat, leaning forward much more comfortably in his own chair, giving me an all-too-familiar speech.
&#8220;You really should consider taking an SSRI. So many of my patients have had wonderful results on them. It&#8217;s just a temporary crutch to help get you through the hard times and really get the most out of your therapy. It&#8217;s not forever, it&#8217;s just a few months.&#8221;
I could not help but wonder as ...


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		<link>http://www.justtalkaboutit.com/?p=399</link>
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