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	<title>Life is Worth Blogging &#187; Philosophy</title>
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		<title>Imagination and the Nature of Science</title>
		<link>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2010/03/18/imagination-and-the-nature-of-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joemar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagination is both a friend and a foe of science. It is a foe in the sense that it tends to be unrealistic, illogical and anti-scientific. It has a tendency to make something appear appealingly true without evidence. Examples of unbridled imaginations are myths, legends, fictions, and fabrications, among others. What science does is to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How I Broke Free from Various Belief Systems and Found Myself Agnostic</title>
		<link>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2010/02/14/how-i-broke-free-from-various-belief-systems-and-found-myself-agnostic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joemar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we were born, we were automatically trapped within a culture with a certain belief system. This shapes how we understand all things around us. In most cases, it also dictates how we should behave. It pervades our whole personality so much that when it is challenged and we realize that something is wrong about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God May Be Hiding&#8230;For a Good Reason</title>
		<link>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2010/02/08/god-may-be-hiding-for-a-good-reason/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2010/02/08/god-may-be-hiding-for-a-good-reason/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joemar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there ever is a God, he is probably hiding himself sufficiently enough so that our innate insatiable curiosity may lead us to investigate how he made the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the planets and life. The excitement will be ruined if he&#8217;d just appear and say, &#8220;hey! stop thinking about it, I made everything&#8221;. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on a Universe from Nothing</title>
		<link>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2010/01/27/thoughts-on-a-universe-from-nothing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2010/01/27/thoughts-on-a-universe-from-nothing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joemar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I completed watching a lecture of Dr. Lawrence Kraus on the topic of the universe coming out of nothing. It is indeed a hallmark of success of modern cosmology that all events can be traced back now, from pieces of evidence, at the beginning of the universe up to time zero. It goes beyond common [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Paradox of the Human Brain</title>
		<link>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2010/01/24/the-paradox-of-the-human-brain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2010/01/24/the-paradox-of-the-human-brain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joemar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the human brain is highly evolved and that the survival of our species critically hinges on a sufficient objective understanding of the natural world, then why is it so susceptible to imaginative and inaccurate models of thinking? Think about how some credulous religious fanatics can kill thousands of people for an anticipation of heaven [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traditional Religion, Science, and the Search for Meaning</title>
		<link>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2009/11/27/traditional-religion-science-and-the-search-for-meaning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2009/11/27/traditional-religion-science-and-the-search-for-meaning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joemar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that humans are hardwired to make some sense of life or to have some meaning. Science and religion both agree on this goal, which is to come up with meaningful models to understand everything. These two spheres of human exploration fulfill our deepest longing to make sense of the world. The only difference [...]]]></description>
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		<title>M. Scott Peck&#8217;s Four Stages of Spiritual Development</title>
		<link>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2009/06/15/m-scott-pecks-four-stages-of-spiritual-development/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2009/06/15/m-scott-pecks-four-stages-of-spiritual-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:57:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joemar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just came to read about M. Scott Peck when I was reading articles about demonic possessions and  exorcisms. He is an American psychiatrist and best-selling author who wrote about his insights into various subjects including characterization and diagnosis of evil, nature of love, existence of Satan, and about spiritual development. Many of his ideas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on truth, knowledge, the philosophy of science, God and religion</title>
		<link>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2009/01/22/reflections-on-truth-knowledge-the-philosophy-of-science-god-and-religion/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2009/01/22/reflections-on-truth-knowledge-the-philosophy-of-science-god-and-religion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joemar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, a close friend asked me several very abstract questions. I thought of this myself even before that very interesting conversation. In fact,  I have been in a lifetime struggle to answer these great questions and to find meaning in this existence, if there's any. Brace yourself...because this is going to be heavily nerdy. I am speaking to myself here. This is more of a self reflection on how I tackle the greatest and age-old philosophical questions.]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Jose Rizal: The foremost Filipino deist</title>
		<link>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2009/01/05/dr-jose-rizal-the-foremost-filipino-deist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2009/01/05/dr-jose-rizal-the-foremost-filipino-deist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joemar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are so many things that ordinary Filipinos do not know about their national hero. Even if his two novels (Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo) is being studied in high school and his life and works in college as part of the curriculum, many things have been left out of importance. Many details in the novels have been omitted and some aspects of Rizal]]></description>
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		<title>You might be a deist without knowing it</title>
		<link>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2008/12/20/you-might-be-a-deist-without-knowing-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2008/12/20/you-might-be-a-deist-without-knowing-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 09:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joemar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A large portion of the population of established religions today are nominal members, which means that they are only members by name. Most of them still attend worship/church services but some never go to church at all. Most of these nominal members believe in the essential doctrines of their religion specially those that seem to be right in their judgment. But, when the teachings of their religion go against their common sense and rational thinking, they reject them.

In my observation, many Catholics in the Philippines (I can only speak of my fatherland), especially those who are highly educated, are of this type. They choose which doctrines to believe and which doctrines to reject; a reason why they are referred to by Catholic authorities as “cafeteria-style” Catholics. I presume that nominal members of other religious groups do the same. And also those nominal members of many religions around the world do the same.]]></description>
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