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		<title>What is the secret of the Holy Grail?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 01:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some questions to think about before our next meeting this month. Who was the Fisher King? The Fisher King was a figure in the legend of King Arthur. Now is the season of festivals in Japan, &#8220;matsuri&#8221;. Why? What do they celebrate? Is there a god or goddess of spring? A god or goddess of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not all foreigners are leaving Tokyo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last week there have been many newspaper articles saying &#8220;Thousands flee Tokyo&#8221;.  (See one example in the Financial Times and another one in the British Daily Mail.) Well, not all foreigners are fleeing Tokyo or Japan. Here is one report by Alex Bieber who is not afraid to stay and who is rather [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aristotle&#8217;s Poetics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia In the movie Shadowlands, there are a couple of scenes showing C.S. Lewis, professor of Medieval and Renaissance English Literature, teaching some tutorials. (The movie shows Lewis teaching in Oxford; he was first a professor at Oxford, then moved to Cambridge University, which is where he was teaching when he met Joy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On jumping to conclusions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image by kyz via Flickr Another commenter wrote that she felt that Lewis was saying that everyone should be Christian. Is this a feeling, or a thought? Where does this feeling (or thought) come from? Perhaps Lewis did feel this. How can we prove whether this speculation is correct or not? We cannot go back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CS Lewis and the reductionists</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Atlas Shrugged]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia A reader sent me this comment: someone said that rose represents a woman and worm that eats rose is a man, and I had similar idea at that time I remember. Now I notice that ideas of Freud has influenced on people&#8217;s consciousness much more than we expect and it became like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New addition &#8211; poetry video</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listen and read at the same time. The best kind of language practice, if you want to improve your speaking and listening. Please leave a comment to help me improve this service. Click on the links to listen to me reading the poems and read the text at the same time.]]></description>
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		<title>Ron Paul interview and other matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 03:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent Reading sessions, we discussed a Senator from Texas named Ron Paul. Paul is a free-market supporter, he has read Ayn Rand&#8217;s novels, and he has proposed 2 new laws regarding the Federal Reserve: is to audit the Federal Reserve, because the Federal Reserve refuses to say what it has done with all the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The importance of knowing the meanings of words</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Phil Donahue]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the previous blog entry, I wrote, it is important to be clear about the meanings and definitions (of words). Do you know the meaning of &#8220;capitalism&#8220;? I thought I did&#8230; until I read Ayn Rand. Then I realized I did not really know what capitalism was. I had not thought deeply about it in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capitalism and philosophy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marc Sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia In the last session, someone asked &#8220;what is capitalism?&#8221; and said that there are many different kinds of capitalism, e.g. &#8220;Japanese capitalism&#8221;. First, it is important to be clear about the meanings and definitions. The kind of economy in Britain, the United States, and Japan, is not pure capitalism because it includes [...]]]></description>
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