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	<title>Been Thinking About &#187; Ideas to think about</title>
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		<title>Studies in Contrast</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/11/14/studies-in-contrast/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bible Ah-Ha!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ideas to think about]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[contradictions]]></category>
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Does the Bible contradict itself?
More than a few people have written books or hosted websites to say that they lost their faith after seeing how often the Bible contradicts itself. Some have spent a lot of time compiling lists of apparent discrepancies in both Old and New Testaments.
Collections of alleged Bible contradictions are apt to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>65</slash:comments>
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		<title>Letterman Without a Laugh</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/10/02/letterman-without-a-laugh/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/10/02/letterman-without-a-laugh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 11:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ideas to think about]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesus]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sexual unfaithfulness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sin]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beenthinking.org/?p=7124</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Long time, late night host and comedian, David Letterman told his audience last night that he has had sexual relations with members of his staff. CNN story.
The story needs to be made public, he said, since he had appeared earlier in the day before a Grand Jury to give testimony in an extortion case.
Letterman said [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>49</slash:comments>
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		<title>Hope for A Dying Dead Sea</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/09/14/hope-for-a-dying-dead-sea/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/09/14/hope-for-a-dying-dead-sea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ideas to think about]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dead sea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jordan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[water level]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beenthinking.org/?p=6780</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Dead Sea is dying. Water levels of what the Bible also calls The Salt Sea, already rest at the lowest on earth (1378 feet below sea level), and are dropping at a rate of three feet a year.
The problem has developed not only from natural weather cycles, but also from the amount of water [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Geico Gecko</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/09/11/the-geico-gecko/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/09/11/the-geico-gecko/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:05:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ideas to think about]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gecko]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kingdom of God]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beenthinking.org/?p=6760</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Science article by Henry Fountain in the New York Times yesterday tells an interesting story about the little Gecko whose animated likeness has been  so cleverly used in the TV Gecko/Geico Insurance commercials.
According to the author, &#8220;Like some other animals, the gecko can perform a neat trick when threatened by a predator: it can [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>Seeing as We Are</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/08/27/seeing-as-we-are/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/08/27/seeing-as-we-are/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 12:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ideas to think about]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the thoughts that has intrigued me over the years is that, &#8220;We see things not only as they are, but as we are.&#8221;
I&#8217;ve wondered whether that could be one way of paraphrasing Paul&#8217;s words to Titus when he wrote, &#8220;To the pure all things are pure, but to those who are defiled and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>58</slash:comments>
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		<title>Don&#039;t Kiss the Saint</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/08/24/dont-kiss-the-saint/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/08/24/dont-kiss-the-saint/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ideas to think about]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Madrid AP news item  caught my attention over the weekend. It reported that the emergence of Swine Flu has necessitated a new rule: “Don’t Kiss the Saint.”
For hundreds of years visitors to one of Roman Catholicism&#8217;s holiest shrines— claiming to hold the remains of the Apostle James—have hugged or kissed a statue Spain&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>37</slash:comments>
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		<title>Peace Child</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/08/18/peace-child/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/08/18/peace-child/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ideas to think about]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wisdom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peace child]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[redemptive analogy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beenthinking.org/?p=6507</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Don Richardson, author of Peace Child and Eternity in their Hearts, is known for a discovery that he and his wife, Carol, made among the  Sawi people of Dutch New Guinea.
At the time (1960s) the Sawi people were headhunters, at war with rival tribes, and absorbed in a culture of aggressive self-protection.
To the Richardsons&#8217; dismay, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>46</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bragging Rights for Losers</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/07/23/bragging-rights-for-losers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/07/23/bragging-rights-for-losers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ideas to think about]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Add new tag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bragging rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feeling down]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[losers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beenthinking.org/?p=6220</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This isn&#8217;t going to be about losing pounds.
It&#8217;s about feeling down, confused, and wondering why prayers keep coming back like undeliverable e-mails, or unopened envelopes marked &#8220;return to sender,&#8221; &#8230; and then finding help from someone who endured similar fears and frustrations&#8211; but to a far greater degree.
He had made a name for himself. The [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Wonder of Boredom</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/07/21/the-wonder-of-boredom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/07/21/the-wonder-of-boredom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ideas to think about]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[angels]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boredom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[demons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Elisha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heaven]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wonder]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beenthinking.org/?p=6205</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[He knew things he wasn&#8217;t allowed to talk about. Bound now by a law of silence he lived with the memory of being caught up into what he called &#8220;the third heaven&#8221; where he says he heard things that a man is not allowed to repeat.
Am wondering whether he was allowed to see anything.
He didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>What Can We Learn From our Dog?</title>
		<link>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/07/17/what-can-we-learn-from-our-dog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.beenthinking.org/2009/07/17/what-can-we-learn-from-our-dog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mart De Haan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ideas to think about]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pet]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.beenthinking.org/?p=6189</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Surveys show that 43 million households own a dog.  Some of those pets are service dogs. Others are used for security or hunting.  More than a few have been inherited by parents of college age children who left them behind. But most are kept for companionship.
Because of the love many of us have for the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>34</slash:comments>
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