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The comments following his entry are only mildly interesting, but, plainly, not everybody agrees with him. \u00a0Not everybody wants<\/em> to surrender the evidently delicious sense of having been abused and wronged.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Things sure are nice here<\/em>, though. \u00a0Life can be very, very good.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ka\u2019anapali, Maui, Hawai\u2019i<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 It seems that the extremely outspoken atheist Richard Dawkins recently suffered a stroke. \u00a0 This isn\u2019t altogether surprising. \u00a0He\u2019s 74 years old, after all, and, as it eventually does for all of us, mortality has come knocking at his door. \u00a0 What is, however, slightly surprising \u2014 but, based on my years of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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