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		<title>POST FIFTY-TWO &#8211; TOP 5 of 2009 &#8211; 23/12/09</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:26:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are some of my favourite things from 2009, some of them (such as music albums) weren&#8217;t released this year, but I only heard/saw them this year. So it might be better to call it &#8216;this year&#8217;s inspirations&#8217;. Released this year: The Appleseed Cast &#8211; Sagarmartha- Mew &#8211; No More Stories Are Told Today, I&#8217;m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musicfordeafears.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5691161&amp;post=141&amp;subd=musicfordeafears&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>POST FIFTY ONE &#8211; CEMETERY &#8211; 11/12/09</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Really liking the song &#8216;Cemetery&#8217; by Say Anything. Some of the lyrics towards the end of the song: When I face the one who made My disgusting heart from a lump of clay Should he ask what got me through If he asks me, it was you.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musicfordeafears.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5691161&amp;post=139&amp;subd=musicfordeafears&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>POST FIFTY &#8211; TIRED &#8211; 15/11/09</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[50 posts. yay. not the happiest one today. realised i have a massive insecurity that stems out of a whole bunch of issues and at particular times it flares up and basically shuts me down. anyway.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musicfordeafears.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5691161&amp;post=136&amp;subd=musicfordeafears&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>POST FOURTY NINE &#8211; BACK TO BASICS? &#8211; 10/11/09</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The events of the last few weeks has taught me the following: I only care about ideas like Hell or abstract, high concept ideas when everything is going peachy. The rest of the time I&#8217;m trying to make things peachy again. Life is never 100% peachy, we just like to gloss over the other stuff. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musicfordeafears.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5691161&amp;post=133&amp;subd=musicfordeafears&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>POST FOURTY EIGHT &#8211; HELL &#8211; 13/10/09</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 01:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apart from the fact that there&#8217;s a pizza franchise called Hell, I&#8217;ve been thinking about the idea of Hell &#8211; the spiritual &#8216;place&#8217;. Does it exist? Who goes there? I hope it doesn&#8217;t exist but I have a terrible feeling it does. If we assume that Hitler is going to Hell, then what is stopping [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musicfordeafears.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5691161&amp;post=131&amp;subd=musicfordeafears&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>POST FOURTY SEVEN &#8211; FOLLOW UP &#8211; 29/09/09</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Am currently reading Sex God by Rob Bell, and there are a lot of points he makes that I&#8217;ve made in a previous post. Weird. I think it&#8217;s an exciting time to be a &#8220;Christian&#8221; right now. whatever that means.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musicfordeafears.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5691161&amp;post=129&amp;subd=musicfordeafears&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>POST FOURTY SIX &#8211; NZ + POMO &#8211; 21/9/09</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:26:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First things first: So I have heard a few people make disparaging remarks about postmodernism as a world-view. Only Christians though, I should say. I know that Christians don&#8217;t like the idea of there not being absolute truth. I think they don&#8217;t like the idea of not being able to claim to have the absolute [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musicfordeafears.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5691161&amp;post=127&amp;subd=musicfordeafears&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>POST FOURTY-FIVE &#8211; NEW ZEALAND 2 &#8211; 13/3/09</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 05:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So now my website is completed I can really start applying for jobs and stuff here which is cool. There&#8217;s not a whole lot on offer but I&#8217;ll do my best to get something!! Went to a church meeting this morning at Gateway Christian Centre in Hamilton. It was our second time there and we&#8217;re [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musicfordeafears.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5691161&amp;post=125&amp;subd=musicfordeafears&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>POST FORTY-FOUR &#8211; NEW ZEALAND 1 &#8211; 8/9/09</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This will be brief as my left hand is out of action (kitchen accident: knife into hand = blood and me being a sook) We&#8217;ve arrived in our new home for 4 years &#8211; Hamilton, NZ. Also, my new site is up! (you may have noticed the change in banner &#8211; that&#8217;s the website!) It&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musicfordeafears.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5691161&amp;post=122&amp;subd=musicfordeafears&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>POST FORTY THREE &#8211; THOUGHTS ON LEAVING &#8211; 1/8/09</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 13:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have trouble getting sentimental about friendships. Even though I would do anything (most of the time) to keep a friendship, in the face of such a big life change I have trouble holding on. Normally anyway. Because right now I&#8217;m feeling pretty scared. Because I don&#8217;t know how many of you I&#8217;ll ever see [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=musicfordeafears.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5691161&amp;post=117&amp;subd=musicfordeafears&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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