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	<title>Jim Westergren &#187; Philosophy</title>
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		<title>Intention is Cause!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 05:35:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Westergren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever in your life felt that you had a so strong intention that you just know that nothing can stop you from achieving or reaching a certain thing? In the elite organization I worked in during 1999-2004 we received mental training how to achieve this mental state. For me after leaving this organization [...]]]></description>
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		<title>24 Qualities That Geniuses Have in Common</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Westergren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am reposting here an excellent article that I first read about 5 years ago. It was first printed by the National Enquirer in 1980 and later reprinted and re-distributed by L. Ron Hubbard (source). I have read it many times since then and I feel I just need to share it, it has worked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life As a Game of Chess</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might have seen in my earlier essays that I like to see life as though it was a game. Now I want to compare life as if it would be a game of chess. I think of it as I am representing the white and black is what I have to overcome in order [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Philosophical Beliefs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Westergren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I met some trouble recently trying to explain my philosophical standpoint as there are no term in the field of metaphysics nor philosophy that would properly describe it. The closest I get is &#8220;supernatural libertarianism&#8221; but who understands that? And it is still not a good term to use for my view of the world. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do I Believe in the Human Spirit?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Westergren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How come a rational guy like me believe in spirits (souls)? Actually I believe more in the fact that the human spirit exist than the sun rises tomorrow. I believe that you are your own spirit and you control your body like a tool and that you reincarnate when you need a new body. Why? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-employment the way to go</title>
		<link>http://www.jimwestergren.com/self-employment-the-way-to-go/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2006 23:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Westergren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just read one of the recent articles by Steve Pavlina: 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job I really recommend it but I want to say that it is not as simple as it might look like. Steve is talking about making a living out of blogging and I can tell you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You are able to earn 10K in one hour work</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Apr 2006 22:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Westergren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You don&#8217;t need anyone&#8217;s permission to believe you can come up with an idea that you can implement in less than an hour that will earn you an extra $10,000. Such ideas are naturally plentiful, but you won&#8217;t notice them until you adopt the right mindset. That&#8217;s right. Adopt the right mindset. Quoted from: How [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interesting article on the value of time</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2006 23:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Westergren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article is not written by me but I like it and post it here. Article source: MoralStories.net article 120 Title: Have you been to the bank Imagine there is a bank that credits your account each morning with 86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening deletes whatever part of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cause or Effect: The Choice is Yours</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2006 08:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Westergren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article by TipsForSuccess.org Every aspect of your life comes under two categories: things you are at cause over and things you are the effect of. You can be at cause over your job, relationships, habits, money and future . . . or you can be effect of those things. When you are at the effect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Is Your Best Friend?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2006 08:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Westergren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Article by TipsForSuccess.org Who is potentially your greatest enemy? Terrorists? Bad bosses or bad employees? Unfriendly drivers on the freeway? Actually, none of them. Your greatest potential enemy is you. No one can ruin your life like you can. No one can pull the plug on your career as effectively as you. No one can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What one Dianetics book did in Siberia</title>
		<link>http://www.jimwestergren.com/what-one-dianetics-book-did-in-siberia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2005 22:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Westergren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an incredible true story of what one single book could do in Siberia. It is some interesting reading. *Book One is what we call &#8220;Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.&#8221; The Hubbard College is a training facility where people learn to use (in their businesses) the administrative technology developed by L. Ron [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>What is freedom?</title>
		<link>http://www.jimwestergren.com/what-is-freedom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 15:16:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Westergren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you know what real freedom is? Does anybody know what it is? Is it possible to know it? Well, let&#8217;s discuss From my own philosophical studies on this subject on works written in 1954 by Mr Hubbard (golden essay Trapped) I came to understand this subject much better and I would like to brief [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>288</slash:comments>
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		<title>Double intelligence, how would it be?</title>
		<link>http://www.jimwestergren.com/double-intelligence-how-would-it-be/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jimwestergren.com/double-intelligence-how-would-it-be/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Westergren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some years ago I remember that I had to get some inspiration for my sci-fi writing. I was kind of surveying some friends of mine who also studied philosophy about how a being with the double intelligence of man would operate. How would a being with let say 350 IQ operate? I was mentioning means [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poem: Something Special</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2005 19:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Westergren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a very special matter and some special supreme forces. Something happened and the matter exploded. The supreme forces then evolved the exploded matter into systems of an infinite amount of shining balls. Some of these shining balls were more special than others and there were especially one that came to have a very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Viewpoint on Trust</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2005 19:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Westergren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My Philosophical Essays]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;On the day we can fully trust each other, there will be peace on Earth.&#8221; &#8211; L. Ron Hubbard, Writer and Philosopher What is trust? What is the definition for this very often sensitive, unspoken subject? The Longman dictionary defines it the following way: Trust Verb To believe that someone is honest and will not [...]]]></description>
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