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	<description>Apocalyptic Optimism for the End of History</description>
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		<title>Two Roses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	This may not be considered dark by most but read it, then you can understand why this is my hell on earth
	Each and every year, the worst day of the year, makes itself known to me
Mother&#8217;s Day, should be a happy time for me, but no it just adds to a broken heart
The hurt within [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abrupt.org/abruptlog/discussion/2008/05/10/two-roses/</link>
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		<title>Abrupt on thisisby.us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Hi all, if anyone is looking for a good place to share writing, I recommend thisisby.us It&#8217;s a user-driven site with a focus on writing. There&#8217;s plenty of crap &#8212; it&#8217;s the Internet after all &#8212; but there are also a number of serious writers who who are willing to give and receive constructive feedback.
	My [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abrupt.org/abruptlog/discussion/2008/05/06/abrupt-on-thisisbyus/</link>
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		<title>yo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	you&#8217;re right, whoever reads this, you&#8217;re right. and stay right. 
	holy roller

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		<link>http://www.abrupt.org/abruptlog/discussion/2008/01/04/yo/</link>
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		<title>Orange Dot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Mass mailings to Resident / Occupant / Boxholder destroys woodland habitat to provide paper, generates chemical pollution with the pulping and inking processes, and promotes ill considered consumption. These actions compromise the quality of the world we live in and endanger the health of future generations. 
	If you are concerned about these issues – or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abrupt.org/abruptlog/energy-climate/2007/10/27/orange-dot/</link>
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		<title>Pale Blue Dot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Carl Sagan is generally remembered as someone who popularized Science, translating its findings into everyday terms and making it compelling. Less appreciated, I think, is that he was an ardent Humanist. He understood the perils that our technology and historical foolishness posed, yet still held out hope that humanity could reach its potential and expand [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abrupt.org/abruptlog/library/2007/08/14/pale-blue-dot/</link>
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		<title>given props</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	I just came across this website and i gotta say I can fully relate to the message abrupt.org has to spread. it seems as if Mr. Abrupt, you have lost the the youthful aggression to the opposing forces what you are trying accomplish. This is reasonable, as most everyone does in an age where one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abrupt.org/abruptlog/discussion/2007/07/11/given-props/</link>
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		<title>Shearing time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;Waters recede
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;The gasping fish
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;The ionized star
	In Mexico a baby&#8217;s crying, crying
In Calcutta the cattle step and groan
And north far off the point of Ellesmere Island
A distant thud &#8212; a distant thud, alone.
	You: tick-tock when the algae starts to blooming
Shave a minute off the sentence handed down
Put a staple in the ear of your beloved
So you&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abrupt.org/abruptlog/the-mind-of-abrupt/2007/02/22/shearing-time/</link>
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		<title>Animation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	What was rich and alive will become flat.
What was only jelly shall stand and walk.
Be ready to ride that wave when it comes.
But how can you be ready?
You are that wave.
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		<link>http://www.abrupt.org/abruptlog/the-mind-of-abrupt/2007/01/19/animation/</link>
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		<title>Greetings Abrupt and Friends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Seven years ago I enjoyed and was greatly influenced by your writings Mr Abrupt. Evolution as the soft pink tip of a march larger process, the mushroom provided carnival and chaos trust love advice&#8230; this and more still rustle my atoms. At the time I send you a link to my website, ubis, which you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.abrupt.org/abruptlog/discussion/2007/01/03/greetings-abrupt-and-friends/</link>
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		<title>Membrane</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	I do battle with the ego
It parries every thrust
Absorbing all my anger
In orange plumes of rust
	The ego is a monster
It lashes out in fear
I relax; it plunges through me
And we simply disappear
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		<link>http://www.abrupt.org/abruptlog/the-mind-of-abrupt/2006/12/16/membrane/</link>
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