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	<description>Life, and what it 'means' (if anything).</description>
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		<title>Mid-life</title>
		<link>http://mombacho.wordpress.com/2011/04/14/mid-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you get to a certain age you realise that more and more people you know are dying: classmates, friends, friends&#8217; partners, relatives&#8230; What effect does it have? Does it give you a renewed determination to live your remaining years to the full? Or, does it rather simply reconfirm your belief that &#8220;life is crap [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mombacho.wordpress.com&amp;blog=148999&amp;post=279&amp;subd=mombacho&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>100 things to do before you die (2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[read a story book with a warm-bodied, wriggling, innocent, full-of-wonder-for-life, little three-year old; observe the warmth and affection between an old man and his equally old dog; hop all the way around your garden / up your street, just because you can; stick your nose in an aromatic herb plant; paddle on the sea shore [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mombacho.wordpress.com&amp;blog=148999&amp;post=277&amp;subd=mombacho&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>100 things to do before you die</title>
		<link>http://mombacho.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/100-things-to-do-before-you-die/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you noticed how every bookshop has shelves full of book advising you what you simply must do before you die? There&#8217;s: unforgettable places to see, unforgettable journeys to make, unforgettable walks to take, and even unforgettable places to have sex &#8230; before you die. (By the way, why must they all be unforgettable? When [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mombacho.wordpress.com&amp;blog=148999&amp;post=273&amp;subd=mombacho&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Church and State</title>
		<link>http://mombacho.wordpress.com/2010/09/12/church-and-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 16:58:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joseph Ratzinger will shortly visit the UK as the Head of a State &#8211; the Vatican. But Ratzinger is also the Head of a Church &#8211; the Roman Catholic Church. In fact, for a billion Catholics, Ratzinger is the direct successor to the apostle Peter to whom, according to some interpretations of some texts, Jesus handed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mombacho.wordpress.com&amp;blog=148999&amp;post=269&amp;subd=mombacho&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dread of death</title>
		<link>http://mombacho.wordpress.com/2010/06/06/dread-of-death-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 11:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recommend Irvin Yalom&#8217;s excellent book on death anxiety &#8216;Staring at the Sun&#8217;. Here are some thoughts that I have retained from it. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom and, inevitably, diminish and die. Our wish to survive and our dread of annihilation will always be there: they [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mombacho.wordpress.com&amp;blog=148999&amp;post=265&amp;subd=mombacho&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Between Monster and Saint</title>
		<link>http://mombacho.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/between-monster-and-saint/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 19:53:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is a harsh world, indescribably cruel. It is a gentle world, unbelievably beautiful. It is a world that can make us bitter, hateful, rabid, destroyers of joy. It is a world that can draw forth tenderness from us, as we lean towards one another over broken gates. It is a world of monsters and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mombacho.wordpress.com&amp;blog=148999&amp;post=261&amp;subd=mombacho&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A small victory for common sense</title>
		<link>http://mombacho.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/a-small-victory-for-common-sense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 20:34:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC News reports that the UK High Court has disallowed a man the right to challenge his sacking for refusing to give sex therapy to gay couples. He had claimed that his Christian beliefs did not allow him to deal with gay couples. However, Lord Justice Laws said legislation for the protection of views held [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mombacho.wordpress.com&amp;blog=148999&amp;post=257&amp;subd=mombacho&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I hope the wretched organisation will vanish entirely&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://mombacho.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/i-hope-the-wretched-organisation-will-vanish-entirely/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:36:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Doubt and certainty]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This from an interesting interview with Phillip Pullman in the Guardian: The other subject of his vitriol is the Catholic church. &#8220;It&#8217;s been caught with its trousers down, in many different ways, hasn&#8217;t it?&#8221; he says of the recent abuse scandals. &#8220;They didn&#8217;t expect this sort of thing to happen, this sort of thing to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mombacho.wordpress.com&amp;blog=148999&amp;post=254&amp;subd=mombacho&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sharing the blame..</title>
		<link>http://mombacho.wordpress.com/2010/04/16/sharing-the-blame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:59:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, now we know: according to the Pope, it&#8217;s all Christians who have to do penance because of the child abuse committed by priests and the cover-ups by the male hierarchy. &#8220;I must say, we Christians, even in recent times, have often avoided the word &#8216;repent&#8217;, which seemed too tough,&#8221; he said. But now, under attack [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mombacho.wordpress.com&amp;blog=148999&amp;post=250&amp;subd=mombacho&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Death Anxiety</title>
		<link>http://mombacho.wordpress.com/2010/03/27/death-anxiety/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 20:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my &#8216;to read&#8217; list: In &#8216;Staring at the Sun&#8217;, Irvin Yalom asserts that the fear of death is at the heart of much of our anxiety. Once we confront our own mortality, he believes, we are inspired to rearrange our priorities, communicate more deeply with those we love, appreciate more keenly the beauty of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mombacho.wordpress.com&amp;blog=148999&amp;post=248&amp;subd=mombacho&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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