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		<title>Jeff G is back in the saddle</title>
		<link>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2010/03/jeff-g-is-back-in-the-saddle/2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob J</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeff G is an old friend of this blog so I thought it fitting to point out that he is back in the saddle and blogging about Philosophy and Mormonism at a new blog.
So far, the posts have taken the form of an ongoing dialogue between two interlocutors, much in the same format as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overheard in Young Men’s Today</title>
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		<comments>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2010/03/overheard-in-young-men%e2%80%99s-today/2005/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt W.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leader: Sin and Death separate us from God.
YM1: Even God sins, just look at the flood.
Leader: God doesn’t really sin, we’ll talk about it in a minute.
YM2: I thought was like the God before our God who did all that stuff.
Leader: There was no God before our God.
YM1: Yes there was, there were Gods the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bar Exam (Updated and Revised)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 03:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt W.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I made some major errors in this post initially. Please read this revision
In 2002, M. Russell Ballard, with the endorsement of President Hinckley, issued a challenge to the church that we strive to send those who are truly able and worthy on missions. A few years after, Blake Ostler posted over at Times &#038; Seasons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Men do everything they do in order to get&#8230;&#8221; (Or, they did it for the nookie)</title>
		<link>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2010/02/men-do-everything-they-do-in-order-to-get/1952/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2010/02/men-do-everything-they-do-in-order-to-get/1952/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Geoff J</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The claim by evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa is that &#8220;men do everything they do in order to get laid&#8221;.  Although Kanazawa is clearly going for some shock value with his claim, I must admit that I find his arguments compelling.
Kanazawa&#8217;s most recent in the series of blog posts supporting his claim is this post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dennett &#8211; Freedom Evolves (lecture)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob J</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Determinism vs. free will]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I am worried this answer will crater the discussion that continues on the previous thread, so I&#8217;m opening a new thread to discuss Dennett&#8217;s lecture on his book Freedom Evolves.  I know it is sort of stupid to post about this when I haven&#8217;t read the book yet, but oh well.  Consider this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To you we&#8217;re not deep</title>
		<link>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2010/02/to-you-were-not-deep/1934/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2010/02/to-you-were-not-deep/1934/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 21:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob J</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over at Mormon Insights the erudite S. Faux has been blogging an very interesting series on consciousness and the brain.  One of the recurring themes in that series is that consciousness is a physical phenomenon which will eventually be entirely explained by physics.  As I explored in my previous post, I believe that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rocks have feelings too</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jacob J</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago I advanced the idea that rocks are free, if the compatibilists are correct.  Although this suggestion was called &#8220;ridiculous&#8221; by the esteemed Jeff G, the three detractors[1] of my view mostly convinced me that it is a very useful way of illuminating the issue.
According to compatibilism, humans act freely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review:Ignite, How to Spur Immediate Growth in Your Church</title>
		<link>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2010/02/reviewignite-how-to-spur-immediate-growth-in-your-church/1925/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2010/02/reviewignite-how-to-spur-immediate-growth-in-your-church/1925/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt W.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nelson Searcy&#8217;s new book for Evangelical churches on achieving rapid growth should be of interest to any Latter-day Saint. One of the stated purposes of our church has always been to &#8220;Proclaim the Gospel&#8221;. In order to effectively do this, one basic necessity is getting people to come to church. And that is what Searcy&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Engagement Survey Results</title>
		<link>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2010/02/engagement-survey-results/1866/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2010/02/engagement-survey-results/1866/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt W.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mormon Culture/Practices]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Firmographics


First, we ran the survey from February 2-February 6 and had a total of 218 Responses. 4 responses were unusable due to bad data, which left 214 responses. The survey was only presented through this blog, and all respondents came to the survey via this blog, so we can safely say the responses of this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Survey on Church Engagement</title>
		<link>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2010/02/survey-on-church-engagement/1858/</link>
		<comments>http://www.newcoolthang.com/index.php/2010/02/survey-on-church-engagement/1858/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt W.</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several corporations use a 12 question survey to measure how engaged their employees are in the company and use this as a measure to determine the quality of the workplace. I thought it would be interesting to apply these questions to the church. 
You may take the survey here, or link to it here
I will [...]]]></description>
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