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		<title>Not qualified</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s it. R. C. Sproul is officially not a philosopher. He continues to demonstrate an inability to understand what other people are saying just because he doesn&#8217;t agree with it. In Sproul&#8217;s rendition, Immanuel Kant taught that knowledge comes from experiences and experiences come through our senses, so that our knowledge is limited by what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cleverdialectic.com/?p=300</link>
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		<title>Slices of Brain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This card was declined.&#8221; He said it quietly, professionally, his tone a mixture of sympathy and inquiry, inquiry to suggest the face-saving possibility that there was some mistake and sympathy because we both know there wasn&#8217;t. It&#8217;s not the first time I&#8217;ve heard this. I have never been truly financially straightened, but from some muddled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cleverdialectic.com/?p=298</link>
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		<title>Sacrificing first principles for first priorities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s happening. The enemy is getting in the back gate. From the day I set foot out of my parent&#8217;s house I have been telling myself to remember my priorities in life; not to get caught up in things that don&#8217;t matter when they are over. Remember to do the things you be pleased that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cleverdialectic.com/?p=295</link>
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		<title>Philosophy is gentrified name-calling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Philosophy is kind of interesting because philosophers break their own rules. As far as I know they always do; I haven&#8217;t studied them all. (Ha ha.) I got to watch R. C. Sproul make himself look unintelligent. The man is intelligent, but he went ahead and broke his own rule, on video. He explained the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cleverdialectic.com/?p=293</link>
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		<title>I was hoping you wouldn&#8217;t ask</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just failed a screening interview. It wasn&#8217;t even a phone screening. It was an online survey and I was unwilling to lie enough to pass through the filter. On my resume I just avoided the awkward bits where I didn&#8217;t quite meet the requirements, but then to submit it I had to check boxes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cleverdialectic.com/?p=291</link>
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		<title>A Marriage of Conquest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I read this disturbing call to marriage (Hat Tip Hip And Thigh). Elysse Barrett writes from and to my &#8220;Christian, conservative, homeschooling&#8221; circle and, in my judgment, accurately represents our subculture&#8217;s gestalt&#8211;both its behavior and its self-criticism. The priority behind this essay, and much of the talk in my crowd, is the (re)establishment and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cleverdialectic.com/?p=277</link>
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		<title>Wither the wind bloweth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is strange to me that my thoughts can fly like leaves before a storm, rushing and tumbling in the terror and despair of the calamity that drives them on. Each leaf itself is an inconsequential tatter, but they flee like an army in route, and it is hard not to run with them. Yet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cleverdialectic.com/?p=275</link>
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		<title>Disaster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Used to be, on lunch breaks, I would take a walk. I get an hour lunch and I could get pretty far. In twenty minutes I can get to the deli, so I can actually get a slice of pizza or something quick and make it back within my hour. It&#8217;s not all that far [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cleverdialectic.com/?p=273</link>
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		<title>Just Say No</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Years ago my credit card company sent me an offer&#8211;more of a notice, if I recall&#8211;that my card was going to be converted to a &#8220;Business&#8221; card. (Yes, in fact I still have the notice from July 2006 giving me the choice to decline the conversion pending on my account, and emphatically stating I had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cleverdialectic.com/?p=271</link>
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		<title>Nothing Good Can Come Of It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having a low view right now of the prospects for my current company and for my potential to develop into any interesting roles within this company. Having an itch to walk away from it and find somebody who knows what they are doing and cares enough to do it right&#8211;not just successfully making money, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cleverdialectic.com/?p=269</link>
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