<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></title><description><![CDATA[RSS Feed]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link><image><url>http://direct.ecency.com/logo512.png</url><title>RSS Feed</title><link>http://direct.ecency.com</link></image><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 06:59:41 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@oldnorm/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Are you afraid of the Devil?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Turns out that rather than being evil incarnate, he's not such a bad dude. A friend of mine who teaches religion at a local university let me in on the true story of the fallen angel who became Satan.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/religion/@oldnorm/are-you-afraid-of-the-devil</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/religion/@oldnorm/are-you-afraid-of-the-devil</guid><category><![CDATA[religion]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[oldnorm]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2017 20:14:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no god!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Consider this, at any given time there are probably hundreds of ongoing religions. If any one of them is correct, then the remainder must be false. It also means that the millions of bygone religions were]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/religion/@oldnorm/there-is-no-god</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/religion/@oldnorm/there-is-no-god</guid><category><![CDATA[religion]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[oldnorm]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2017 20:58:03 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emotions]]></title><description><![CDATA[At 88 I'm an old man but it took most of my life to learn one simple truth. It's not an easy task but if you can take command of your emotions your life will improve. Most of the damaging decisions I have]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/self/@oldnorm/emotions</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/self/@oldnorm/emotions</guid><category><![CDATA[self]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[oldnorm]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2017 20:44:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some things are too big for the mind]]></title><description><![CDATA[Imagine an end to space........Good luck.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/blog/@oldnorm/some-things-are-too-big-for-the-mind</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/blog/@oldnorm/some-things-are-too-big-for-the-mind</guid><category><![CDATA[blog]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[oldnorm]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2017 20:07:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[An exercise in logic]]></title><description><![CDATA[If I were to tell you that at any given time, most of the world can be wrong about something, you might doubt me. But let me use religion to prove my claim, and this is not an attack on religion I assure]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@oldnorm/an-exercise-in-logic</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@oldnorm/an-exercise-in-logic</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[oldnorm]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 26 Aug 2017 19:10:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why are we fighting in the Middle East?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The truth is, we will never know the real reason we are over there. The terrorists that we kill over there are not the ones that are committing acts of terrorism in the U.S. We spend trillions in foreign]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/political/@oldnorm/why-are-we-fighting-in-the-middle-east</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/political/@oldnorm/why-are-we-fighting-in-the-middle-east</guid><category><![CDATA[political]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[oldnorm]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2017 21:05:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soul search]]></title><description><![CDATA[I hear the term soul used quite frequently and I ask myself what is it. We are told by the clergy that it is the soul that goes to heaven if we indeed qualify but what does it look like? How do soles interact]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/curious/@oldnorm/soul-search</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/curious/@oldnorm/soul-search</guid><category><![CDATA[curious]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[oldnorm]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 16 May 2017 05:48:06 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>