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	<itunes:summary>...wielding the fateful blade of reason.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Decluttering this messy Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 03:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erick Eggleton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past week I&#8217;ve been really trying to get back into the whole blogging/web site thing. I&#8217;ve been upgrading a web site that I built a few years ago for a church here in Maryville, and I&#8217;m also starting a new blog for my writing group, The Knox Writer&#8217;s Refuge. In all the activity, I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This past week I&#8217;ve been really trying to get back into the whole blogging/web site thing. I&#8217;ve been upgrading a web site that I built a few years ago for a church here in Maryville, and I&#8217;m also starting a new blog for my writing group, <a href="http://knoxwriters.com">The Knox Writer&#8217;s Refuge</a>. In all the activity, I have realized how neglected I have left this blog. I&#8217;ve been pouring over the mess of finished and unfinished posts and pages, the collection of barley used categories, and the hoards of obsolete plugins. This blog is a cluttered mess. I never intended it to get like this.</p>
<p>I have decided to declutter this blog in the hope of making in half way usable and interesting again. For starters, I&#8217;ve deleted all the posts that have video clips from my Youtube channel. That&#8217;s not what this site is for. If you like my videos, just subscribe to my <a href="http://youtube.com/erickeVolved">Youtube channel</a>. As far as this site is concerned, I&#8217;m going to try to keep it in a text format.</p>
<p>As far as the rest of the posts, I&#8217;m going to leave them alone. I&#8217;ve tried to do too many different kinds of formats here: news, video, podcasting, etc. From now on I&#8217;m going to try to keep this blog about my personal experiences and thoughts. You know, the deep philosophical randomness that I have become known for.</p>
<p>If you like it, comment and let me know. If not, let me know anyway. I like to hear from people.</p>
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		<title>Taking a new direction</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritfx.com/2008/11/14/taking-a-new-direction</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erick Eggleton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been going over my old posts, here and elsewhere, and it has really amazed me just how much of my writings are of a religious nature. It is a theme that has permiated almost all of my thought life. Even on subjects that have absolutly nothing to do with religion and spirituality, I still [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been going over my old posts, here and elsewhere, and it has really amazed me just how much of my writings are of a religious nature. It is a theme that has permiated almost all of my thought life. Even on subjects that have absolutly nothing to do with religion and spirituality, I still have found a way to attach it in some way.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s a strange thing to look back on one&#8217;s own life, and not recognize it as your own. It&#8217;s almost as if a different person had wrote all those things, but it was me. I suppose I have changes to the degree that in a way, I <em>am</em> a different person now. I&#8217;m like a child who for the first time realizes that there actually is no such person as Santa Claus. The deep hurt and disappointment, and the fearful uncertainty of a world that I don&#8217;t have all figured out anymore has indeed changed me.</p>
<p>With that said, I intend to use SpiritfX as a conduit, a portal for anyone who wishes to &#8211; to see inside my mind. I crouch here now on the cold ground, struck down by the fateful blade of reason. I no longer know what the futre holds, for me or anyone else. All I want now is the truth; no matter what that may be. If you so desire, you can discover that truth with me.</p>
<p>The one thing that will never exist on this site again is dogma. All ideas are welcome, but all ideas will be forced through the fierce gauntlet of science and skeptisism. I will know the truth, and damn anyone or anything that finds it&#8217;s unlucky self in my path.</p>
<p>Peace and freedom of thought to all!</p>
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		<title>A little INNOCENT Halloween fun</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritfx.com/2008/11/03/a-little-innocent-halloween-fun</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:46:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erick Eggleton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been finding a renewed sense of freedom lately. When I was a believer, there were certain things; things that I was either forbidden to do or otherwise afraid to do. Simple things, such as carving a jack-o-lantern for Halloween. I know to most people this activity seems innocent enough, but for a fundamentalist Christian, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been finding a renewed sense of freedom lately. When I was a believer, there were certain things; things that I was either forbidden to do or otherwise afraid to do. Simple things, such as carving a jack-o-lantern for Halloween. I know to most people this activity seems innocent enough, but for a fundamentalist Christian, it is pan amount to Devil worship.</p>
<p>Well, we got ourselves a pumpkin Friday, and I carved that bad boy up with the most demonic looking face that I could muster. It was fun, and I don&#8217;t feel the least bit guilty about it. This is a small thing, I know, but for me it&#8217;s a big leap forward. I can now have a scary looking, candle lit gord on my porch, while passing out candy to little kids dressed up like demons, ghosts, and witches, and not have to repent afterwards.</p>
<p>I feels good to live free from guilt.</p>
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		<title>I was wrong</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritfx.com/2008/11/02/i-was-wrong</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erick Eggleton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know it&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;ve posted on this site, and many things have changed with me since then. For those of you who know me or have followed SpiritfX in the past, what I&#8217;m about to say will come as a shock to you, but I have to say it. So, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I know it&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;ve posted on this site, and many things have changed with me since then. For those of you who know me or have followed SpiritfX in the past, what I&#8217;m about to say will come as a shock to you, but I have to say it. So, love me or hate me, I must be true to my own self.</p>
<p>I have lost faith in my religion.</p>
<p>The religion that I have clung to, whole heartedly believed, based my life on, fiercely defended, and tirelessly pushed on others&#8230; I am now convinced is false. It has taken some time, and much soul (and fact) searching to bring me to this conclusion. The path that I had to take to bring me to where I am today was one of the hardest things that I have ever done. It is a long story and I will write it, but for now I must simply make my stand.</p>
<p>I believe and have damn good reason to believe that Christianity (and all other religions for that matter) are completely and utterly not real. I believe that they are a fantastic mixture of myth, semi-true events, and outright lies designed to control and passify the &#8220;unwashed masses&#8221; of humanity.</p>
<p>To make a long story short; whatever self-reinforcing mechanism that was drilled into my gullible mind when I was indoctrinated, is now broken. It took one serious slap in the face of a life event to break it, but it is without a doubt broken. I have woken up out of this religion induced dream, and now I think I can finally see the world as it truley is: a place of hard, cold reality, but infused with hart-stopping wonders that make it all worth it.</p>
<p>I am happy to be alive, and to be living the life that is unique to me. I will do my own thinking from now on. I will love my fellow man and be a good person, absent the fear of punishment if I don&#8217;t or the greedy expectation of a reward if I do. I will do the best to make this world a better place for those who come after me, and no longer be concerned with the imminent apocalyptical return of a deity. I will love my fellow human beings and this wonderful world for what they are and what it is. I will be free!</p>
<p>As for this web site, I haven&#8217;t decided what I want to do with it, so for now I will leave it up. I need a place to share my thoughts and feelings in the days to come.</p>
<p>For those of you who I have bashed, made fun of, and tried to harass into seeing the world the way that I once saw it: I am truly sorry.  I know this is no excuse, but I really was under the influence of a mind altering substance, namely the bible. I cannot change what has been said or done in the past, but I give you my word that in the future things will be better.</p>
<p>Until next time.</p>
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		<title>Down for a while</title>
		<link>http://www.spiritfx.com/2008/02/01/down-for-a-while</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 20:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Erick Eggleton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first time I&#8217;ve been able to get online in at least a couple of weeks. We just move our base of operations from Knoxville Tennessee, to the neighboring city of Maryville. It&#8217;s closer to the mountains, and in a much better neighborhood. We don&#8217;t have our Internet hooked up yet, so I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is the first time I&#8217;ve been able to get online in at least a couple of weeks. We just move our base of operations from Knoxville Tennessee, to the neighboring city of Maryville. It&#8217;s closer to the mountains, and in a much better neighborhood. We don&#8217;t have our Internet hooked up yet, so I&#8217;m posting this from a nearby Panera Bread Cafe.</p>
<p>Anyway, with any luck, we should be rolling again by the middle of next week. There is much to be done, and very little time to do it in. Stay tuned!</p>
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