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	<title>On Technology and Faith</title>
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	<description>&#34;from Darkness to Light&#34;.  What I learned from technology and my views on faith.</description>
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		<title>Real Crazy Fishing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hell of a fishing trip.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well this is one hell of a fishing trip.  But I guess it takes the fun out of fishing.</p>
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		<title>Immortal Animal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read article today on a species of jellyfish called turritopsis nutricula. It may the only animal to have found the fountain of youth. This is a picture of the beauty is given below. It achieves immortality by a process called transdifferentiation. You can read more about in here Yahoo Article : The world&#8217;s only [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I read article today on a species of jellyfish called <em>turritopsis nutricula</em>.  It may the only animal to have found the fountain of youth.  </p>
<p>This is a picture of the beauty is given below.</p>
<div id="attachment_121" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 510px"><a href="http://www.thomas.ramapuram.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/turritopsis_nutricula.jpg"><img src="http://www.thomas.ramapuram.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/turritopsis_nutricula.jpg" alt="Immortal Jellyfish" title="turritopsis_nutricula" width="500" height="400" class="size-full wp-image-121" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Immortal Jelly Fish (Turritopsis Nutricula)</p></div>
<p>It achieves immortality  by a process called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transdifferentiation">transdifferentiation</a>.  You can read more about in here</p>
<ul>
<li>Yahoo Article : <a href="http://green.yahoo.com/blog/guest_bloggers/26/the-world-s-only-immortal-animal.html">The world&#8217;s only immortal animal</a></li>
<li>Wikipedia entry : <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turritopsis_nutricula">Turritopsis nutricula</a></li>
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		<title>Blogging</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 06:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started this blog to post notes to myself on the problems I faced and the eventual solutions that I worked out for them. If you notice my earlier posts they are mainly about Mysql, Java and other computer programming related stuff. However recently I seem to be blogging more about faith and philosophy. I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I started this blog to post notes to myself on the problems I faced and the eventual solutions that I worked out for them.  If you notice my earlier posts they are mainly about Mysql, Java and other computer programming related stuff.  However recently I seem to be blogging more about faith and philosophy.  I have been taking the easy route of posting videos on YouTube which is a pretty easy thing to do. </p>
<p>Although I am very passionate about the subject matter of these videos I find it difficult to express my thought on them.  Recently my posts seem to tend more towards faith than technology.   Even the videos I post on technology seem to be cool trivial tech and not languages and tools that I currently work with.</p>
<p>What that in mind I am making an effort to:</p>
<ol>
<li>Post atleast one post a day.</li>
<li>Add atleast a 50 word comment if I am posting a video.</li>
<li>Add a section called Cool Tech</li>
<li>Post move evenly to all topics </li>
</ol>
<p>Intially it may be difficult since I take around 30 minutes to write a 250 word post but I feel that in time it will get easier</p>
<p>Like I mentioned earlier.  My blog is a reminder to myself on what id felt and did at a perticular point in time.  I will try to improve my writing skills and sound more positive.  To improve my skills I would be reading articles and doing excersises given below.</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://fictionwriting.about.com/od/writingexercises/a/exercises_ideas.htm">Creative Writing Excersises</a></li>
</ul>
<p>I shall post back regarding my progress.  So for those of you who read this post.  Thanks for reading.</p>
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		<title>Atheism in you words</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 03:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Becoming an atheist is a profound, personal experience. Thanks to those who&#8217;ve chosen to share their stories. Sepcial thanks to TheThinkingAtheist for compiling it.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Becoming an atheist is a profound, personal experience. Thanks to those who&#8217;ve chosen to share their stories.  Sepcial thanks to <a href="http://http://www.thethinkingatheist.com/" class="broken_link">TheThinkingAtheist</a> for compiling it.<br />
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		<title>Reverse Engineering the Universe</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thomas</dc:creator>
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		<title>Religious Bigotry and Racism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thomas</dc:creator>
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		<title>Synthetic Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 05:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A historic milestone for humanity was reached when Craig Venture announced last week of his teams creation of Synthetic Life. This is the first cell in the world whose parent is a computer Although I applaud his effort in this groundbreaking advance in science. I am concerned of patenting as mentioned in a BBC Article: [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A historic milestone for humanity was reached when Craig Venture announced last week of his teams creation of Synthetic Life.  This is the first cell in the world whose parent is a computer<br />
Although I applaud his effort in this groundbreaking advance in science.  I am concerned of patenting as mentioned in a BBC Article: <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science_and_environment/10150685.stm">Synthetic life patents &#8216;damaging&#8217;</a><br />
The video of the announcement is embedded below</p>
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		<title>Animals feel emotion too</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 00:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A touching video on Damian Aspinall&#8217;s Extraordinary Gorilla Encounter It can be seen that Animals feel emotion too&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A touching video on   Damian Aspinall&#8217;s Extraordinary Gorilla Encounter<br />
It can be seen that Animals feel emotion too&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Sharia Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 00:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[View the post to read the poem she&#8217;s buried chest high her arms can&#8217;t stop the stones that fly or wipe the tears that have already dried for a crime she so persistently denied she&#8217;s buried chest deep the moderates asleep no matter how hard she weeps worth half of a man, her testimony&#8217;s cheap [...]]]></description>
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<p>View the post to read the poem<br />
<span id="more-70"></span></p>
<p>she&#8217;s buried chest high<br />
her arms can&#8217;t stop the stones that fly<br />
or wipe the tears that have already dried<br />
for a crime she so persistently denied<br />
she&#8217;s buried chest deep<br />
the moderates asleep<br />
no matter how hard she weeps<br />
worth half of a man, her testimony&#8217;s cheap<br />
Allah subhana wa ta3ala has come up with such a fair rule<br />
dictators of history couldn&#8217;t be so cruel<br />
told by mohammed sallahu 3alhe wa salam<br />
teaching us allah&#8217;s divine referendum<br />
what becomes of those who have a sip of rum<br />
drinks to forget or wants to be numb<br />
or those who play the game of chance<br />
poker buddies escaping the religious trance<br />
allah&#8217;s prescribed in his merciful script<br />
their flesh be ripped their blood be dripped<br />
at the tip of a muslims whip<br />
she&#8217;s buried chest high<br />
her arms can&#8217;t stop the stones that fly<br />
or wipe the tears that have already dried<br />
for a crime she so persistently denied<br />
and this is allah&#8217;s eternal reply<br />
1400 years of backwards law<br />
a tragic flaw of the primitive claw<br />
the tribe of homosexuals<br />
koum lot as they say<br />
sharia is clear on how they should pay<br />
the price for their gay display<br />
life doesn&#8217;t matter which way<br />
abu baker got them with a tumbling wall<br />
ali muhammad&#8217;s cousin and son in law<br />
had people burned for their sexual call<br />
an entire village children and all<br />
she&#8217;s buried chest deep<br />
the moderates asleep<br />
no matter how hard she weeps<br />
worth half of a manher testimony&#8217;s cheap<br />
apostates remember those who have bled<br />
to speak the word Muslims leave unsaid<br />
killed for the sake of those mislead<br />
submit now or be left dead<br />
allah subhana wa ta3ala has come up with such a fair rule<br />
the devil himself couldn&#8217;t be so cruel<br />
she&#8217;s buried chest high half way deep<br />
while the moderates are still fast asleep<br />
while the world stands silent<br />
her testimony&#8217;s cheap.<br />
stones thrown by religious sheep.<br />
witches were burned long ago<br />
til the flame of freedom began to glow<br />
and we learned to say the word &#8216;no&#8217;<br />
no know that your laws are unjust<br />
not worthy of respect only disgust<br />
beheading those with a knifes thrust<br />
oh but in Allah we blindly trust<br />
she&#8217;s buried head high<br />
in a heap of stones.<br />
no more crying no more moans<br />
all that&#8217;s left is skin and bones<br />
Allah has come up with such a fair call<br />
the true justice of sharia law<br />
by<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Nessrriinn"> nessrriinn.</a></p>
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		<title>Credibility of Faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thomas</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just saw this thought provoking video on faith. I think everybody should watch it.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Just saw this thought provoking video on faith.  I think everybody should watch it.<br />
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