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	<description>The Philosophical Ramblings of Mark Virtue</description>
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		<title>You&#8217;re sitting in a chair in the sky!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 01:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I reckon two things today (I’m in a reckoning kinda mood): I reckon Louis C.K. is the finest stand-up comedian alive. And I reckon that we (Western society) have got to be the most sublimely fortunate people in history, and yet at the same time we’re also spoilt, blasé and inexplicably miserable (or, as Louis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you remember the world before&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I reckon the world has changed a lot since I was born. I&#8217;ve been compiling a list of all the things that didn&#8217;t exist when I was born &#8211; things that have come into existence since the late Sixties (well, in Australia anyway). I think there&#8217;s actually an endless number of them, so I&#8217;d like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irony</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 06:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I reckon Alanis Morissette hasn&#8217;t got a clue about the meaning of the word &#8220;Ironic&#8221;.  Which is ironic, seeing as she wrote a song about it. An old man turned ninety-eight, won the lottery and died the next day. It&#8217;s a black fly in your Chardonnay, It&#8217;s a death row pardon two minutes too late. Isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time Travel</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2005 03:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I reckon time-travel &#8211; the sort we see in science-fiction stories and movies &#8211; is simply not possible. It is not possible &#8211; no matter how advanced your technology &#8211; to invent a machine that can transport a human being back in time. The article below is the transcript of a presentation on Time-Travel I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quotable quotes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2005 14:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I reckon everyone should have at least one quote attributed to them before they die. Here&#8217;s two of mine&#8230; 1. Reliability is to the future what honesty is to the past A &#8220;reliable&#8221; person is someone who talks about the future and what they say turns out to be true (e.g. &#8220;I will be there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven Years to Go</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2005 07:05:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I reckon the world as we know it will be ending shortly. I&#8217;ve felt this for some time now. I think it started back when I was a kid, but I first got a solid sense of it in 1988, when I was 23. What am I talking about here? The World War III notion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expectations are the Root of all Unhappiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2005 12:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I reckon this one&#8217;s almost too simple to be true:&#160; Expectations are the root of all unhappiness.&#160; I&#8217;ve been thinking about this for a few years now, and I&#8217;ve yet to come up with a counter-example.&#160; The only time we&#8217;re ever unhappy is when we had an expectation that our lives would go a certain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 1999 04:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This particular ramblings episode was supposed to be a vast and broad-reaching dissertation on the future of mankind. Just some light reading before tea-time. I had (still have) this vision of how unrecognisable the human race will become over the next thousand years or so. Technological, sociological and spiritual advances were to be melded together [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Love and Fidelity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 1999 04:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I reckon I think about love a lot. I don&#8217;t suppose I&#8217;m unusual in that regard &#8211; it&#8217;s probably one of the most thought-about topics in the history of &#8211; well &#8211; history. One thing I&#8217;ve noticed about myself and my musings on love is that no matter what age I am, I always seem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Polite Amount of Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 1999 03:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I reckon there&#8217;s a question of decorum that has never been satisfactorily answered. Any reader who finds the word fart offensive should stop reading about seven words ago, for my question indeed deals with the breath of the nether regions. And the question is this: What length of time should a reasonably decent fellow wait [...]]]></description>
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