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    • 38 Ratings
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    Is Religion Essential to Society?

    JANUARY 19, 2009 9:51PM

    By Rick Lucke


    Topics: belief and religion, environment, family, politics, science, society, god, christianity, secular, atheist, atheism

    • Editor's Pick
    • 71 Ratings
    • 1756 Views
    • 102 Comments
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    Sunflowers

    SEPTEMBER 6, 2011 12:08AM

    By Algis Kemezys


    Topics: belief/religion, dried flowers, plants, surreal. nature, chilly, frost, fall, travel, photography, family, environment, design, health, poetry

    • Editor's Pick
    • 66 Ratings
    • 4336 Views
    • 102 Comments
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    Chasing Fire

    APRIL 13, 2011 8:34AM

    By nanatehay


    Topics: environment, kansas, flint hills, tallgrass prairie, spring burn, prairie fire, tallgrass national preserve, the red buffalo, lower fox creek school, chase county

    • Editor's Pick
    • 74 Ratings
    • 2056 Views
    • 101 Comments
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    The Bridge Between Angry Streets

    AUGUST 18, 2010 11:16AM

    By Gary Justis


    Topics: true story, death in a family, family, redemption, angels, chicago, south side, environment

    • 31 Ratings
    • 1385 Views
    • 100 Comments
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    Where Radical-Right Rhetoric Leads: House Burns in Tennessee

    OCTOBER 8, 2010 4:36AM

    By Jonathan Wolfman


    Topics: television, politics, news, family, environment, economy

    • 56 Ratings
    • 2468 Views
    • 99 Comments
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    Open Call: What losing OS would mean to you.

    JUNE 24, 2012 1:24PM

    By fernsy


    Topics: environment, musings, real vs not so real, my sisters art, loss, murphys law is the best law i've found, that's me waving goodbye, doris demands pictures, meta makes me feel beta

    • Editor's Pick
    • 37 Ratings
    • 6903 Views
    • 97 Comments
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    When I Invited the neo-Nazi to the Jewish Sleepaway Camp

    NOVEMBER 2, 2010 7:35AM

    By Jonathan Wolfman


    Topics: belief/religion, environment, politics, nazis, american nazi party, actors, sleepaway camps, jewish camps, the holocaust, holocaust survivors, economy, family

    • Editor's Pick
    • 37 Ratings
    • 2056 Views
    • 97 Comments
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    Turkish Vignettes of Wonder

    OCTOBER 15, 2010 8:58AM

    By Algis Kemezys


    Topics: travel, photography, environment, belief/religion, animals, bergama, turkey

    • 34 Ratings
    • 758 Views
    • 95 Comments
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    ONE-SENTENCE SUNDAY: Legalize and Tax the Drug Trade

    SEPTEMBER 19, 2010 7:26AM

    By Jonathan Wolfman


    Topics: research, science, politics, news, health, environment, family, economy, business, legalisation, illegal drug trade

    • Editor's Pick
    • 75 Ratings
    • 2967 Views
    • 94 Comments
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    Beauty and the Pricks

    FEBRUARY 9, 2012 3:18AM

    By Algis Kemezys


    Topics: thorny, desert, arid, plants, garden, cactus, travel, photography, family, environment, design, comedy, animals

    • Editor's Pick
    • 80 Ratings
    • 6232 Views
    • 94 Comments
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    Why I Hate Camping: A Glossary

    DECEMBER 3, 2009 8:29AM

    By john blumenthal


    Topics: snakes, koa, hot dogs, neanderthal, motel, swiss army knife, tent, sleeping bag, poison ivy, camping, trave, sports, open call, food/drink, environment, comedy, animals

    • 67 Ratings
    • 2053 Views
    • 91 Comments
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    On my deck with praying mantis

    JULY 1, 2010 6:52PM

    By tr ig


    Topics: feminism, family, environment, economy, comedy, belief/religion, tink told me common tags are fun

    • Editor's Pick
    • 54 Ratings
    • 2125 Views
    • 89 Comments
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    Speaker Nancy

    NOVEMBER 3, 2010 11:54AM

    By Roy Jimenez


    Topics: economy, environment, feminism, news, politics

    • Editor's Pick
    • 78 Ratings
    • 2457 Views
    • 89 Comments
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    Tulipalooza

    APRIL 8, 2010 12:11PM

    By Sparking


    Topics: tulips, tulip festival, skagit valley, skagit valley tulip festival, 27th annual skagit valley tulip festival, mt. vernon, la connor, washington, travel, open call, environment, spring flowers, photography

    • 14 Ratings
    • 1536 Views
    • 88 Comments
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    janie smithie et al has jumped the shark

    MAY 5, 2012 6:06PM

    By Elizabeth Priddy


    Topics: fiction, environment, family, technology

    • Editor's Pick
    • 72 Ratings
    • 2264 Views
    • 87 Comments
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    She Shows Sea-Shells by the Sea Shore

    JANUARY 26, 2012 8:48AM

    By Algis Kemezys


    Topics: science, travel, photography, family, environment, design, sea-shells, bodrum, aegean, halicarnassus, herodotus, alexander the great, bodrum denis müzesi, bodrum maritime museum, sema sagat, animals, television

    • 32 Ratings
    • 1097 Views
    • 87 Comments
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    ONE-SENTENCE SUNDAY POST: WHY WE'RE SO VIOLENT

    AUGUST 8, 2010 5:09AM

    By Jonathan Wolfman


    Topics: violence, pre-history, animals, hunting skills, living in groups, predators, environment, food/drink, health, science, technology

    • 31 Ratings
    • 3939 Views
    • 86 Comments
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    Obama to Ayn Rand/Paul Ryan/Eric Cantor: "IN YOUR FACE!"

    APRIL 13, 2011 3:27PM

    By Ron Robinson


    Topics: open call, obama, paul ryan, april 13 budget speech, republicans, economy, news, politics, environment, belief/religion

    • Editor's Pick
    • 64 Ratings
    • 6798 Views
    • 85 Comments
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    "It's Tradition, I Had No Choice" Nellie's Story

    JULY 22, 2010 5:49PM

    By Poppi Iceland


    Topics: news, health, feminism, family, environment, belief/religion, illegal in the western society., a ritual in some countries, infibulation, female genital mutilation

    • 29 Ratings
    • 1596 Views
    • 84 Comments
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    "JESUS H. CHRIST!" -- "H." ? -- Where'd THAT Come From?

    OCTOBER 27, 2011 6:46AM

    By Jonathan Wolfman


    Topics: identity, nazis, rome, mysticism, religion, jerusalem, psychiatric hospitals, murders, wisdom-teachers, self-proclaimed messiahs, the expression jesus h. christ, jesus of nazareth, stressful occupations, rembrandt, ignoring teachers of wisdom, environment, mental health

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