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		<title>By: Legendary Super Saiyan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Legendary Super Saiyan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>this is a letter i wrote my father. its not the full theory, but its the basic thoughts for it. hope you enjoy!!!!

hey.....dad.....i think i have a new way to present the

story of jesus to you.


i might have to use small points/ideas from the

bible/christianity, sayings/thoughts from the past to help

support my claim, but i promise im gonna be logical. i

figured if i wrote it instead of saying it, you can read and

read again this until you understand it. not to say you

will nessicarily agree, and thats fine, but to understand

it, thats what needs to be worked with first......

remember what i told you about the idea about a soul?

remember i said that the seemingly true difference

between humans and everything else in our enviroment

is the FACT that we have the ability to have thoughts

and more importantly, convey those thoughts to others

and build upon our knowledge with both internal and

external ways. meaning, sometimes its our inviroment

that is the influence that teaches us things, but also

sometimes is by taking the moment to observe life that

teaches us things. see....LOGIC! so far so good i hope!

*love you, and even though you have your reasons for

not believing this, please keep reading, cause after

all....i am your son....YOUR PERSONAL

REPRESENTATIVE AND FIRST DIRECT

CONTRIBUTION TO THIS REALITY/UNIVERSE/WORLD.

*&lt;----THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO THINK ABOUT IN

THAT WAY! DONT JUST THINK OF ME AS YOUR SON,

BUT AS YOUR FIRST DIRECT CREATION AND

PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE!! I PROMISE YOU, IF

YOU TRY TO THINK OF JESUS IN THAT WAY, THIS

MIGHT JUST WORK! I LOVE YOU!!!!!*

ok, to continue. here is a bit, just a bit of christianity in

this, so bear with me sir! lol ok.....it says in the bible or at

least is said in christianity that jesus was on the right

hand of God *think of this certain god as &quot;light God&quot; /

and it also is suggested that Lucifer was on the LEFT

hand of this Light God....


ok think about that, something thats been said for

thousands of years now, and lets continue!

ok.....imagine that lucifer isnt an angel at all. imagine

that this piece of shit is the Dark God.....that means, he

and the light God are like BROTHERS!

want evidence you say? OK!!!!!!! it all starts with looking

around at nature to begin.......BALENCE!!!! TO

DESTROY A CREATION IS THE SAME AS CREATING

DESTRUCTION!!!!! LOOK AT IT WITH NOT JUST YOUR

HEART/EMOTIONS, BUT LOGICALLY!!!!!!!! YOU KNOW

THAT SMALL POINT IS TRUE! LOVE YOU!

ok, we have wondered the question &quot;if god exist, then

why do bad things happen to good people?&quot; GREAT

AND FAIR QUESTION....I THINK I FOUND THE ANSWER

SIR! AND AGAIN, AS YOUR SON AND PERSONAL

REPRESENTATIVE, PLEASE LISTEN.


and i hope you like what im saying! im trying my

damndest to satisfy your mind dad.

anyway...imagine this thought jack......ok. so now we

have an established IDEA and thats what i want you to

see it as and see if it makes sense to you and please, if

it does, let down your pride and admit it to yourself...i

promise you it will make you feel better soon after. love

you. maybe....just maybe this is why i was born as your

son.....to be there for you in a way in which no other

normal person has ever been.

now, lets continue with the IMAGINATIVE

THOUGHTS....for me, they are inspired by emotions, but

i know this much is true...if there is logic and an

acceptable truth in it...ILL FUCKIN FIND IT JACK!

so, lets return just a bit to the bible....it says that man,

THIS BEING THAT CONTAINS A SOUL/IS A SENTIENT

BEING/ A CREATURE THAT IS ALONE IN THIS WORLD

ABOUT ITS UNDERSTANDING THAT IT IS ALIVE

BEYOND THE MERE INSTINCTS AND FUNCTIONS OF

OTHER LIFEFORMS, it says that man was created on

the 6th day. ok....well one idea is for sure, and you see

this suggested in both the bible and evolution.....our

enviroment evolved/changed/developed way before we

got here. ok! so, lets say that, again, in the interests of

balance, they often wonder about if God created man

and angels, then who created God......what if! what if

God, the complete essence, and in this idea, meaning

both the light God and dark God, and the

complete/perfect entities that people see here on this

planet...what if God was a product of It&#039;s enviroment!

meaning, what if the consciousness of God was a

product of evolution...meaning, in turn that the

enviroment/ this spiritual realm has always existed but

God was an entity that as the slow, natrual process of

developing God&#039;s consiousness...this was a product of

evolution! and to back this up, ill use nature...you know

that in your heart of hearts that the idea of things

changing over time in accordance to their enviroment is

very rational! PLEASE READ OVER AND OVER IF YOU

HAVE TO, TO COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND THAT

THOUGHT. LOVE YOU.

ok, so to go one more step further...imagine this....we

wouldnt be able to understand, much less describe the

nature of light without the NATURAL BALENCE of the

nature of darkness. this is a concept that is truly

universal.....look at the nature of the world......imagine

that the reason it says in the bible that &quot;God&quot; created

both day and night. now....if you imagine that this dark

god was that force that subjected the world into

temporary dark states known as night, and that this light

god was the force that subjected the world to temporary

states of light known as day. now, with the way our

galaxy is, you have to admit that its an idea that does

make sense. and more importantly, its evidence that you

can see! you know that im right at the very least about

night and day......

read that as much as you like daddy.

i hope you are seeing this in a new way so far....there is

so much more to share! *as early cobler says.....DAMN

IM GOOD!* lol

ok, so, back to the bible and that point i made

earlier.....they say that lucifer was on God&#039;s left and that

jesus, his son, was on his right....

and, on another point......the light god seems to have a

representative....this would be jesus *bear with me sir*

ok.....in the interest of fairness, imagine this...if

lucifer/dark god was on the light god&#039;s left.....lets

imagine that this &quot;beast&quot; this antichrist was on the left

of lucifer/dark god! and again, its a view of

balance.....now imagine that the dark god and the light

god are like king pieces on a chess board, they are

equal in power.....and lets say that jesus is the light

god&#039;s piece to his RIGHT! MEANING ITS LIKE SAYING

THAT JESUS IS THE QUEEN PIECE OF THE

BOARD....AND IMAGINE THAT THIS DARK

GOD/LUCIFER, IMAGINE IT IN PRACTICAL TERMS

RELATED TO A CHESS GAME....IF YOU HAVE THE

DARK GOD ON THE LEFT OF THE LIGHT GOD....AND

IF YOU HAVE OBAMA AS HIS

SON/REPRESENTATIVE/VERY FIRST CREATION

......THEN YOU KNOW THAT IF THIS DARK GOD

CALMLY WALKS TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BOARD

WITH HIS PERSONAL SON/FIRST

CREATION/REPRESENTATIVE AT HIS LEFT SIDE,

THEN WHEN THIS DARK GOD TURNS AROUND WITH

HIS SON/OBAMA CONSTANTLY TO THE LEFT OF HIM,

THATS WHERE THE KING AND QUEEN PIECE ARE AT

ON THE BOARD WITH THEIR SOON TO BE DARK

ARMY.

MAKE ANY SENSE YET!!!!???? DOES TO ME. AND

BEST PART IS, IM NOT USING THE BIBLE IN THIS. IM

USING THE POWER OF THE IMAGINATION, BUT MAKE

NO MISTAKE, IM NOT UNDERMINING THE BIBLE, IM

JUST TRYING TO RELATE THIS INFO IN THE SENSE

OF THE 21rst century...before we have a 21rst century

breakdown!


ok...there is a LOT more....if your interests are peaked,

then ask me more...if not, i understand. but dad, i beg

you to do your very best to understand this in the way

that ive presented it. I LOVE YOU. maybe....just maybe....

i find it funny that both the current jeruselum, the said

to be holy land, the one that i now believe in to a great

extent....it was reborn in modern times on MAY 14,

1948.....and my birthday....MAY 14TH.....interesting.

i hope you have enjoyed readin this. i promise you there

is more but i respect if you dont want to hear more of

these ideas.

love you. more than you know.

will.I.AM</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>this is a letter i wrote my father. its not the full theory, but its the basic thoughts for it. hope you enjoy!!!!</p>
<p>hey&#8230;..dad&#8230;..i think i have a new way to present the</p>
<p>story of jesus to you.</p>
<p>i might have to use small points/ideas from the</p>
<p>bible/christianity, sayings/thoughts from the past to help</p>
<p>support my claim, but i promise im gonna be logical. i</p>
<p>figured if i wrote it instead of saying it, you can read and</p>
<p>read again this until you understand it. not to say you</p>
<p>will nessicarily agree, and thats fine, but to understand</p>
<p>it, thats what needs to be worked with first&#8230;&#8230;</p>
<p>remember what i told you about the idea about a soul?</p>
<p>remember i said that the seemingly true difference</p>
<p>between humans and everything else in our enviroment</p>
<p>is the FACT that we have the ability to have thoughts</p>
<p>and more importantly, convey those thoughts to others</p>
<p>and build upon our knowledge with both internal and</p>
<p>external ways. meaning, sometimes its our inviroment</p>
<p>that is the influence that teaches us things, but also</p>
<p>sometimes is by taking the moment to observe life that</p>
<p>teaches us things. see&#8230;.LOGIC! so far so good i hope!</p>
<p>*love you, and even though you have your reasons for</p>
<p>not believing this, please keep reading, cause after</p>
<p>all&#8230;.i am your son&#8230;.YOUR PERSONAL</p>
<p>REPRESENTATIVE AND FIRST DIRECT</p>
<p>CONTRIBUTION TO THIS REALITY/UNIVERSE/WORLD.</p>
<p>*&lt;&#8212;-THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO THINK ABOUT IN</p>
<p>THAT WAY! DONT JUST THINK OF ME AS YOUR SON,</p>
<p>BUT AS YOUR FIRST DIRECT CREATION AND</p>
<p>PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE!! I PROMISE YOU, IF</p>
<p>YOU TRY TO THINK OF JESUS IN THAT WAY, THIS</p>
<p>MIGHT JUST WORK! I LOVE YOU!!!!!*</p>
<p>ok, to continue. here is a bit, just a bit of christianity in</p>
<p>this, so bear with me sir! lol ok&#8230;..it says in the bible or at</p>
<p>least is said in christianity that jesus was on the right</p>
<p>hand of God *think of this certain god as &#8220;light God&#8221; /</p>
<p>and it also is suggested that Lucifer was on the LEFT</p>
<p>hand of this Light God&#8230;.</p>
<p>ok think about that, something thats been said for</p>
<p>thousands of years now, and lets continue!</p>
<p>ok&#8230;..imagine that lucifer isnt an angel at all. imagine</p>
<p>that this piece of shit is the Dark God&#8230;..that means, he</p>
<p>and the light God are like BROTHERS!</p>
<p>want evidence you say? OK!!!!!!! it all starts with looking</p>
<p>around at nature to begin&#8230;&#8230;.BALENCE!!!! TO</p>
<p>DESTROY A CREATION IS THE SAME AS CREATING</p>
<p>DESTRUCTION!!!!! LOOK AT IT WITH NOT JUST YOUR</p>
<p>HEART/EMOTIONS, BUT LOGICALLY!!!!!!!! YOU KNOW</p>
<p>THAT SMALL POINT IS TRUE! LOVE YOU!</p>
<p>ok, we have wondered the question &#8220;if god exist, then</p>
<p>why do bad things happen to good people?&#8221; GREAT</p>
<p>AND FAIR QUESTION&#8230;.I THINK I FOUND THE ANSWER</p>
<p>SIR! AND AGAIN, AS YOUR SON AND PERSONAL</p>
<p>REPRESENTATIVE, PLEASE LISTEN.</p>
<p>and i hope you like what im saying! im trying my</p>
<p>damndest to satisfy your mind dad.</p>
<p>anyway&#8230;imagine this thought jack&#8230;&#8230;ok. so now we</p>
<p>have an established IDEA and thats what i want you to</p>
<p>see it as and see if it makes sense to you and please, if</p>
<p>it does, let down your pride and admit it to yourself&#8230;i</p>
<p>promise you it will make you feel better soon after. love</p>
<p>you. maybe&#8230;.just maybe this is why i was born as your</p>
<p>son&#8230;..to be there for you in a way in which no other</p>
<p>normal person has ever been.</p>
<p>now, lets continue with the IMAGINATIVE</p>
<p>THOUGHTS&#8230;.for me, they are inspired by emotions, but</p>
<p>i know this much is true&#8230;if there is logic and an</p>
<p>acceptable truth in it&#8230;ILL FUCKIN FIND IT JACK!</p>
<p>so, lets return just a bit to the bible&#8230;.it says that man,</p>
<p>THIS BEING THAT CONTAINS A SOUL/IS A SENTIENT</p>
<p>BEING/ A CREATURE THAT IS ALONE IN THIS WORLD</p>
<p>ABOUT ITS UNDERSTANDING THAT IT IS ALIVE</p>
<p>BEYOND THE MERE INSTINCTS AND FUNCTIONS OF</p>
<p>OTHER LIFEFORMS, it says that man was created on</p>
<p>the 6th day. ok&#8230;.well one idea is for sure, and you see</p>
<p>this suggested in both the bible and evolution&#8230;..our</p>
<p>enviroment evolved/changed/developed way before we</p>
<p>got here. ok! so, lets say that, again, in the interests of</p>
<p>balance, they often wonder about if God created man</p>
<p>and angels, then who created God&#8230;&#8230;what if! what if</p>
<p>God, the complete essence, and in this idea, meaning</p>
<p>both the light God and dark God, and the</p>
<p>complete/perfect entities that people see here on this</p>
<p>planet&#8230;what if God was a product of It&#8217;s enviroment!</p>
<p>meaning, what if the consciousness of God was a</p>
<p>product of evolution&#8230;meaning, in turn that the</p>
<p>enviroment/ this spiritual realm has always existed but</p>
<p>God was an entity that as the slow, natrual process of</p>
<p>developing God&#8217;s consiousness&#8230;this was a product of</p>
<p>evolution! and to back this up, ill use nature&#8230;you know</p>
<p>that in your heart of hearts that the idea of things</p>
<p>changing over time in accordance to their enviroment is</p>
<p>very rational! PLEASE READ OVER AND OVER IF YOU</p>
<p>HAVE TO, TO COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND THAT</p>
<p>THOUGHT. LOVE YOU.</p>
<p>ok, so to go one more step further&#8230;imagine this&#8230;.we</p>
<p>wouldnt be able to understand, much less describe the</p>
<p>nature of light without the NATURAL BALENCE of the</p>
<p>nature of darkness. this is a concept that is truly</p>
<p>universal&#8230;..look at the nature of the world&#8230;&#8230;imagine</p>
<p>that the reason it says in the bible that &#8220;God&#8221; created</p>
<p>both day and night. now&#8230;.if you imagine that this dark</p>
<p>god was that force that subjected the world into</p>
<p>temporary dark states known as night, and that this light</p>
<p>god was the force that subjected the world to temporary</p>
<p>states of light known as day. now, with the way our</p>
<p>galaxy is, you have to admit that its an idea that does</p>
<p>make sense. and more importantly, its evidence that you</p>
<p>can see! you know that im right at the very least about</p>
<p>night and day&#8230;&#8230;</p>
<p>read that as much as you like daddy.</p>
<p>i hope you are seeing this in a new way so far&#8230;.there is</p>
<p>so much more to share! *as early cobler says&#8230;..DAMN</p>
<p>IM GOOD!* lol</p>
<p>ok, so, back to the bible and that point i made</p>
<p>earlier&#8230;..they say that lucifer was on God&#8217;s left and that</p>
<p>jesus, his son, was on his right&#8230;.</p>
<p>and, on another point&#8230;&#8230;the light god seems to have a</p>
<p>representative&#8230;.this would be jesus *bear with me sir*</p>
<p>ok&#8230;..in the interest of fairness, imagine this&#8230;if</p>
<p>lucifer/dark god was on the light god&#8217;s left&#8230;..lets</p>
<p>imagine that this &#8220;beast&#8221; this antichrist was on the left</p>
<p>of lucifer/dark god! and again, its a view of</p>
<p>balance&#8230;..now imagine that the dark god and the light</p>
<p>god are like king pieces on a chess board, they are</p>
<p>equal in power&#8230;..and lets say that jesus is the light</p>
<p>god&#8217;s piece to his RIGHT! MEANING ITS LIKE SAYING</p>
<p>THAT JESUS IS THE QUEEN PIECE OF THE</p>
<p>BOARD&#8230;.AND IMAGINE THAT THIS DARK</p>
<p>GOD/LUCIFER, IMAGINE IT IN PRACTICAL TERMS</p>
<p>RELATED TO A CHESS GAME&#8230;.IF YOU HAVE THE</p>
<p>DARK GOD ON THE LEFT OF THE LIGHT GOD&#8230;.AND</p>
<p>IF YOU HAVE OBAMA AS HIS</p>
<p>SON/REPRESENTATIVE/VERY FIRST CREATION</p>
<p>&#8230;&#8230;THEN YOU KNOW THAT IF THIS DARK GOD</p>
<p>CALMLY WALKS TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE BOARD</p>
<p>WITH HIS PERSONAL SON/FIRST</p>
<p>CREATION/REPRESENTATIVE AT HIS LEFT SIDE,</p>
<p>THEN WHEN THIS DARK GOD TURNS AROUND WITH</p>
<p>HIS SON/OBAMA CONSTANTLY TO THE LEFT OF HIM,</p>
<p>THATS WHERE THE KING AND QUEEN PIECE ARE AT</p>
<p>ON THE BOARD WITH THEIR SOON TO BE DARK</p>
<p>ARMY.</p>
<p>MAKE ANY SENSE YET!!!!???? DOES TO ME. AND</p>
<p>BEST PART IS, IM NOT USING THE BIBLE IN THIS. IM</p>
<p>USING THE POWER OF THE IMAGINATION, BUT MAKE</p>
<p>NO MISTAKE, IM NOT UNDERMINING THE BIBLE, IM</p>
<p>JUST TRYING TO RELATE THIS INFO IN THE SENSE</p>
<p>OF THE 21rst century&#8230;before we have a 21rst century</p>
<p>breakdown!</p>
<p>ok&#8230;there is a LOT more&#8230;.if your interests are peaked,</p>
<p>then ask me more&#8230;if not, i understand. but dad, i beg</p>
<p>you to do your very best to understand this in the way</p>
<p>that ive presented it. I LOVE YOU. maybe&#8230;.just maybe&#8230;.</p>
<p>i find it funny that both the current jeruselum, the said</p>
<p>to be holy land, the one that i now believe in to a great</p>
<p>extent&#8230;.it was reborn in modern times on MAY 14,</p>
<p>1948&#8230;..and my birthday&#8230;.MAY 14TH&#8230;..interesting.</p>
<p>i hope you have enjoyed readin this. i promise you there</p>
<p>is more but i respect if you dont want to hear more of</p>
<p>these ideas.</p>
<p>love you. more than you know.</p>
<p>will.I.AM</p>
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		<title>By: jimbino</title>
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		<dc:creator>jimbino</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2006 22:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It sure seems from the posts that a bad day fishing or playing chess is a whole hell of a lot better than a good day lawyering.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It sure seems from the posts that a bad day fishing or playing chess is a whole hell of a lot better than a good day lawyering.</p>
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		<title>By: Stokie</title>
		<link>http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2005/12/finding_god_in.html/comment-page-1#comment-61157</link>
		<dc:creator>Stokie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2006 19:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Crescat Sententia</title>
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		<dc:creator>Crescat Sententia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2006 19:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Handfuls of Dust&lt;/strong&gt;

Nate Oman has a pair of posts about &quot;Finding God&quot; in the structural beauty of chess and appellate briefing here and here. Now, as a lover of structural beauty, I sympathize. I am also wowed by the structural beauty of...

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Handfuls of Dust</strong></p>
<p>Nate Oman has a pair of posts about &#8220;Finding God&#8221; in the structural beauty of chess and appellate briefing here and here. Now, as a lover of structural beauty, I sympathize. I am also wowed by the structural beauty of&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Nate Oman</title>
		<link>http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2005/12/finding_god_in.html/comment-page-1#comment-61156</link>
		<dc:creator>Nate Oman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2006 17:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bruce: Prv review consists of reading through thousands and thousands of pages of documents provided by a corporate client to determine which documents are covered by the attorney-client privilege and thus don&#039;t have to be produced in response to a discovery request, and which documents are not covered by the attorney-client privilege and thus must be produced.

Essentially it is a gargantuan exercise in extremely high-stakes monotony.  It is monotonous because the documents tend to not be especially exciting and there is a creat deal of time spent determingin if joe smoe is or is not an attorney.  It is extremely high-stakes because if you inadvertantly produced even trivial privileged documents, then you can be deemed to have waived the privilege, which can have huge consequences.

Hence, it is the practice of law at its worse: boring stress.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bruce: Prv review consists of reading through thousands and thousands of pages of documents provided by a corporate client to determine which documents are covered by the attorney-client privilege and thus don&#8217;t have to be produced in response to a discovery request, and which documents are not covered by the attorney-client privilege and thus must be produced.</p>
<p>Essentially it is a gargantuan exercise in extremely high-stakes monotony.  It is monotonous because the documents tend to not be especially exciting and there is a creat deal of time spent determingin if joe smoe is or is not an attorney.  It is extremely high-stakes because if you inadvertantly produced even trivial privileged documents, then you can be deemed to have waived the privilege, which can have huge consequences.</p>
<p>Hence, it is the practice of law at its worse: boring stress.</p>
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		<title>By: Kierkegaard</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kierkegaard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2006 17:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great piece.  Clearly this is something even the best of lawyers can improve upon (writing in general, appellate briefing in specific).

I have posted a &lt;a href=&quot;http://imkierkegaard.blogspot.com/2006/01/quick-hits-tuesday-january-3-2006.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; to your piece, and also to a &lt;a href=&quot;http://haveopinionwiiltravel.blogspot.com/2005/12/when-is-appellate-brief-like-game-of.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;related&lt;/a&gt; post from another blog.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great piece.  Clearly this is something even the best of lawyers can improve upon (writing in general, appellate briefing in specific).</p>
<p>I have posted a <a href="http://imkierkegaard.blogspot.com/2006/01/quick-hits-tuesday-january-3-2006.html" rel="nofollow">link</a> to your piece, and also to a <a href="http://haveopinionwiiltravel.blogspot.com/2005/12/when-is-appellate-brief-like-game-of.html" rel="nofollow">related</a> post from another blog.</p>
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		<title>By: Bruce</title>
		<link>http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2005/12/finding_god_in.html/comment-page-1#comment-61154</link>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2006 05:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What the heck is priv review?

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		<title>By: Appellate Law</title>
		<link>http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2005/12/finding_god_in.html/comment-page-1#comment-61159</link>
		<dc:creator>Appellate Law</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2006 03:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;Miscellaneous posts&lt;/strong&gt;

A number of important miscellaneous things came around over the holiday period in the blogosphere. All of them are appellate-related – at least to some extent. They go below the fold, because I like to make people work.

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<p>A number of important miscellaneous things came around over the holiday period in the blogosphere. All of them are appellate-related – at least to some extent. They go below the fold, because I like to make people work.</p>
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		<title>By: Kaimi</title>
		<link>http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2005/12/finding_god_in.html/comment-page-1#comment-61153</link>
		<dc:creator>Kaimi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2006 01:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nate,

You don&#039;t see the hand of God in priv review?  Let&#039;s see:

-Asked to sacrifice son (and rest of family);

-Liable to be zapped for a rule you didn&#039;t know about, like steadying the Ark;

-Don&#039;t look back or you&#039;ll be turned into a pillar of salt;

-Priv guidelines that are as easily understood as the book of Isaiah;

The parallels seem to be there . . .

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nate,</p>
<p>You don&#8217;t see the hand of God in priv review?  Let&#8217;s see:</p>
<p>-Asked to sacrifice son (and rest of family);</p>
<p>-Liable to be zapped for a rule you didn&#8217;t know about, like steadying the Ark;</p>
<p>-Don&#8217;t look back or you&#8217;ll be turned into a pillar of salt;</p>
<p>-Priv guidelines that are as easily understood as the book of Isaiah;</p>
<p>The parallels seem to be there . . .</p>
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		<title>By: Nate Oman</title>
		<link>http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2005/12/finding_god_in.html/comment-page-1#comment-61152</link>
		<dc:creator>Nate Oman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2006 18:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>2. resign

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		<title>By: Nate Oman</title>
		<link>http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2005/12/finding_god_in.html/comment-page-1#comment-61151</link>
		<dc:creator>Nate Oman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2006 18:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Stokie: I get the accusation about covert bragging.  (Alas, I don&#039;t write great appellate briefs, as much as I would like to.  Mainly, I do priv review, an area of the law where I have been unable to see the hand of God.)  I am mystified, however, about the accusation of self-flaggelation and p*rn sites.  Where are the whips and chains?!?

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Stokie: I get the accusation about covert bragging.  (Alas, I don&#8217;t write great appellate briefs, as much as I would like to.  Mainly, I do priv review, an area of the law where I have been unable to see the hand of God.)  I am mystified, however, about the accusation of self-flaggelation and p*rn sites.  Where are the whips and chains?!?</p>
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		<title>By: Bruce</title>
		<link>http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2005/12/finding_god_in.html/comment-page-1#comment-61150</link>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2006 00:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Stokie</title>
		<link>http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2005/12/finding_god_in.html/comment-page-1#comment-61149</link>
		<dc:creator>Stokie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2006 00:30:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Having to slog through this post is really too much to bear. It a backhanded, transparent pronouncement that &quot;I write great appellate briefs,  indeed,  I see the hand of God in them. Lesser pagans must improve to meet my godly standard.&quot; Such self-flagellation seems more appropriate on a porn site. If you have a brief you&#039;re proud of, post it here, ala SCOTUS, and we&#039;ll tell you if it&#039;s any good. Given the pedantic, long-winded, goofy nature of your posts, I&#039;d be surprised to agree with your assesment.

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Having to slog through this post is really too much to bear. It a backhanded, transparent pronouncement that &#8220;I write great appellate briefs,  indeed,  I see the hand of God in them. Lesser pagans must improve to meet my godly standard.&#8221; Such self-flagellation seems more appropriate on a porn site. If you have a brief you&#8217;re proud of, post it here, ala SCOTUS, and we&#8217;ll tell you if it&#8217;s any good. Given the pedantic, long-winded, goofy nature of your posts, I&#8217;d be surprised to agree with your assesment.</p>
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		<title>By: Simon</title>
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		<dc:creator>Simon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2005 00:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have &lt;i&gt;nothing&lt;/i&gt; substantive to offer in reply, but I would like to say that I really liked that piece. The only thing I find disagreeable is that I really don&#039;t think that Chess is, in any way, shape or conception posessed of a &quot;drab and plodding exterior&quot; - but then again, I like reading appellate briefs, too. ;)

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have <i>nothing</i> substantive to offer in reply, but I would like to say that I really liked that piece. The only thing I find disagreeable is that I really don&#8217;t think that Chess is, in any way, shape or conception posessed of a &#8220;drab and plodding exterior&#8221; &#8211; but then again, I like reading appellate briefs, too. <img src='http://www.concurringopinions.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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