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	<title>Life is Worth Blogging</title>
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		<title>How I Broke Free from Various Belief Systems and Found Myself Agnostic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we are born, we are 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>
		<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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		<title>God May Be Hiding&#8230;For a Good Reason</title>
		<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;.
But [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2010/02/08/god-may-be-hiding-for-a-good-reason/</link>
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		<title>Thoughts on a Universe from Nothing</title>
		<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 sense [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2010/01/27/thoughts-on-a-universe-from-nothing/</link>
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		<title>The Paradox of the Human Brain</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2010/01/24/the-paradox-of-the-human-brain/</link>
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		<title>A few good shots of Ghent center</title>
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		<link>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2009/12/02/a-few-good-shots-of-ghent-center/</link>
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		<title>Traditional Religion, Science, and the Search for Meaning</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2009/11/27/traditional-religion-science-and-the-search-for-meaning/</link>
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		<title>ISI data shows lethargic progress of science in the Philippines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Until the mid-seventies, the scientific productivity of the Philippines was comparable to that of Thailand and Malaysia and a little better over Indonesia. More than 40 years later, the overall productivity of Filipino scientists (i.e. those working in the Philippines) has gone far below the remarkable outputs of Thailand and Malaysia. As of the last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2009/10/11/isi-data-shows-lethargic-progress-of-science-in-the-philippines/</link>
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		<title>M. Scott Peck&#8217;s Four Stages of Spiritual Development</title>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2009/06/15/m-scott-pecks-four-stages-of-spiritual-development/</link>
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		<title>The quickest way to build your own self-hosted Wordpress blog site</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nowadays, building your own blog site with your own domain and hosting is very easy to do. You don't have to know even the basics of HTML or PHP programming... All you need is passion to have your own blog and basic internet/computer skills (e.g. knowing how to type and click). If you are looking for the quickest way to build your blog with domains like www.your-name.com or www.whatever-name.com, here it is...in just three easy steps.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2009/01/29/the-quickest-way-to-build-your-own-self-hosted-wordpress-blog-site/</link>
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		<title>The best site to find graduate scholarships online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was browsing the net for sites that contain info about scholarships abroad, I stumbled upon one site that became very valuable for my search for PhD scholarships. This site is Scholarship-Positions.com. The site is easy to navigate and the scholarships are sorted in so many ways (e.g. by country, by subject, by academic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joemartaganna.com/2009/01/25/the-best-site-to-find-graduate-scholarships-online/</link>
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