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	<title>The Redemption of Todd M. Fay &#187; responsibility</title>
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		<title>Giving Up: Day 1,853.</title>
		<link>http://www.toddmfay.com/2010/02/giving-up-day-1853/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd M. Fay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was doing alright, again. Then confronted, again. Then crumbling, again. The same issues. Money. Work. Responsibility. The same feelings. Anger. Disillusionment. Hopelessness. Over and over again. For 20 years. A spotlight on it, the past four years. This year. Next year. It never ends. No one gets through to me. I get through to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lust &amp; Addiction.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:23:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd M. Fay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A note about my experience with sex and sex addiction. It&#8217;s a very complicated subject. I think people in our society &#8211; by and large &#8211; resist most all introductions to &#8220;new&#8221; manifestations of addiction &#8211; sexual or otherwise. I understand this. It appears, at first, behaviors positioned under the umbrella of addiction, are at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>George Washington&#8217;s Farewell Address &#124; 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.toddmfay.com/2009/12/george-washingtons-farewell-address-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd M. Fay</dc:creator>
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President George Washington&#8217;s Farewell Address (1796) revised using contemporary language. Originally published on The Daily Paul. (c) 2008 Todd M. Fay
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
To my friends and fellow Americans:
The time to elect a new President of the United States of America approaches. It’s time to think about who deserves your vote for the most important office in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Agnostic Shift.</title>
		<link>http://www.toddmfay.com/2009/09/the-agnostic-shift/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd M. Fay</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA["What The Bleep Do We Know Anyway?" (Film)]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am trying desperately to understand God, and the universe we live in.
Catholic Roots
I came into the world to Catholic parents. I left the church unceremoniously. I didn&#8217;t receive my confirmation &#8211; the coming of age ceremony in Catholicism &#8211; and it was my choice. I chose not to get confirmed because I wasn&#8217;t ready [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Bondage to Bondage</title>
		<link>http://www.toddmfay.com/2009/09/from-bondage-to-bondage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd M. Fay</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[abundance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alexander Tyler]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dependence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: Originally published on my Myspace.com blog on November 16, 2007.
Quoting Alexander Tyler (an 18th Century Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh) reflecting on the demise of the Athenian Republic 2,000 years earlier:
&#8220;A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power of the People. Fear of the People.</title>
		<link>http://www.toddmfay.com/2009/09/power-of-the-people-fear-of-the-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd M. Fay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An acquaintance from my political life recently quoted the following:
“Impotentes defendere libertatem non possunt: Those without power cannot defend freedom.”
My sentiment is this:
A lack of power is not what afflicts us. We have the power; always have. What we have is a surplus of ignorance. We ignore the fact that each of us, some day, [...]]]></description>
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