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    The Atman or Atma (IAST: Ātmā, sanskrit: आत्म‍ ) is a philosophical term used within Hinduism and Vedanta to identify the soul. It is one's true self (hence generally translated into English as 'Self') beyond identification with the phenomenal reality of worldly existence.
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    98 was a good year

    Friday, May 23rd, 2008

    Thank God for Vicki, who has provided me with an excuse for a post.  Because it’s not that I haven’t wanted to post this week, its just that I refuse to post “I have writer’s block so this post will suck” posts, because I hate reading those from other people.  But truly everything I’ve written [...]

    my post meme

    Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

    Miss tagged me for a meme where I will to link to my five favorite posts.  This is great because it will force me to finish mostly finish migrating the old blog, or at least my favorite entries from the old blog.  In our family we like to start things, but they don’t often get finished, unless by finished [...]

    home overrun by giant spiders

    Monday, November 5th, 2007

    A local family is homeless today after a gang of giant spiders overran their house, ate their cat, and set up camp in front of their brand new widescreen television. Investigators suspect the spider invasion was retribution for a cleaning spree last month, that resulted in the evisceration of nearly 50 smaller spiders that had [...]

    a crisis in the making

    Monday, October 29th, 2007

    I had a great entry for today about this past weekend, but it requires the pictures I took this weekend. Maybe tomorrow, because I was too lazy to upload them yesterday. That’s the great thing about a blog, rather than a newsy site – it’s news when I say it is. So this past weekend [...]