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		<title>Julia wants me to write this.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have the word &#8220;reality&#8221; in the title of this blog, but it occurs to me that I look at the concept of what is &#8220;real&#8221; in a bit of an eccentric way. Many people say &#8220;real&#8221;, without thinking, to mean &#8220;physically existing.&#8221; For example, if I tell you about my friend Julia, and someone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=watertraveller.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1580168&amp;post=13&amp;subd=watertraveller&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wonderful thoughts to sidetrack me from complaints</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 07:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been not so well lately. I have every reason to be in a bad mood: I&#8217;m tired, I&#8217;m feeling nauseous, my sleep cycle is a wreck, and my seasonal allergies are acting up on top of all that. But I have cats. I&#8217;m not in a bad mood, because every morning I wake [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=watertraveller.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1580168&amp;post=12&amp;subd=watertraveller&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s wrong with punishment</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 07:04:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day before the execution of Saddam Hussein, I remember hearing a newscaster say something that I don&#8217;t think I can ever forget. I have a terrible memory for events and for quotes, but when I heard her say this, it chilled me. She said: &#8220;There will be full justice. Not just partial justice, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=watertraveller.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1580168&amp;post=11&amp;subd=watertraveller&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The best lesson is caring, not scaring.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me tell you a tale of two signs. I&#8217;m talking of the sort of signs found outside of churches, with changeable letters&#8211; often displaying sermon themes, Bible passages, or invitations to bake sales. Where I live, you can hardly drive down a road for long without seeing one, although the church denominations are at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=watertraveller.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1580168&amp;post=10&amp;subd=watertraveller&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Teach the field, not the exercises.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>You can&#8217;t be better now if you were never flawed to begin with.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People, in general, don&#8217;t like to hear that they&#8217;ve made mistakes&#8211; obviously, because it&#8217;s not a good feeling to admit to oneself that one has. But I tend to find that for my part, I&#8217;d much rather be told about a mistake than to continue making it. Yes, it hurts to be told, and I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=watertraveller.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1580168&amp;post=8&amp;subd=watertraveller&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Don&#8217;t put all your eggs in one basket.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 06:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m usually not one to suggest that people follow proverbs, but I think this one is sensible advice: don&#8217;t put all your eggs in one basket. Because if the basket falls, everything will be broken. People&#8217;s hearts are the same way. Most people don&#8217;t want to feel as though they are solely responsible for someone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=watertraveller.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1580168&amp;post=7&amp;subd=watertraveller&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deciding to have a bad day</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 00:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today was supposed to be a terrible day, I knew ahead of time. I was up far too early to feel well-rested, I&#8217;ve spent the whole day in airports, and I have many miles to go before I sleep. When I do arrive at my destination, I&#8217;m going to have to put up with a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=watertraveller.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1580168&amp;post=6&amp;subd=watertraveller&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are video games violent?</title>
		<link>http://watertraveller.wordpress.com/2007/08/24/are-video-games-violent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 21:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No. Video games are not any more violent than, say, books. &#8220;But wait,&#8221; someone cries. &#8220;What about all that footage we&#8217;ve seen of horrible graphic video game violence? We know there are violent games. We&#8217;ve seen them.&#8221; And yes, it&#8217;s true; there are violent games. Completely aside from the question of whether violent games can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=watertraveller.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1580168&amp;post=5&amp;subd=watertraveller&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spreading happiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:54:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello world! I hope for this blog to become an expression of positive ideas. I&#8217;m a recovering pessimist and cynic; I used to think negative thoughts all the time and was terribly depressed as a result. But I didn&#8217;t want to be unhappy, and I was determined to change that. I am feeling much better [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=watertraveller.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1580168&amp;post=3&amp;subd=watertraveller&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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