<?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>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:08:25 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@therealpaul/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[From the Family of Our Beloved Friend and Sister, Dreemit]]></title><description><![CDATA[This morning, the Dreemit family has asked me to let everyone here know, that Linnet has passed from this realm. For now, I would just like to say that she will be missed dearly. Linnet was always so generous]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/dreemit/@therealpaul/from-the-family-of-our-beloved-friend-and-sister-dreemit</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/dreemit/@therealpaul/from-the-family-of-our-beloved-friend-and-sister-dreemit</guid><category><![CDATA[dreemit]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[therealpaul]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2023 18:47:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/8DAuGnTQCLptZgjHUrRAJGcW4y1D4A5QVJJ7zjzqqKdfVHSS6NapSCCBxkF9SVjS9pz9U1e17hZUr8B6amZtQG3oqtBFDte1UnVn6uBW8JvST3uVu5EtWPQ5bZhxVyTNptpaxetZXVuAVEwh8fhME5mG2VnVZNmYdqnedEAtGmk?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adding 'More Evil' By Killing Everyone Doesn't Necessarily Make a Story Good, Writer Discovers]]></title><description><![CDATA[This whole town is my creation, I'll destroy it any way I please. I simply wasn't evil enough, that was my whole problem. I had tried to write a story based on real life; a tale about Hill Valley; an average]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@therealpaul/adding-more-evil-by-killing-everyone-doesnt-necessarily-make-a-story-good-writer-discovers</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@therealpaul/adding-more-evil-by-killing-everyone-doesnt-necessarily-make-a-story-good-writer-discovers</guid><category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[therealpaul]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2021 00:54:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/8DAuGnTQCLptZgjHUrRAJGcW4y1D4A5QVJJ7zjzqqKdfVHSS6NapSCCBxkF9SVjS9pz9U1e17hZTfhGsTqgFsepd9wGF472sUnYQnBSZfj3K18EX6rVFQqkqh74uLQdXz3dbcGZbHmSwo2VAXJd8Hbq3tqJHrcr9HweTyCvCjMG?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[First, They Ignore You- Voluntary Society Wakes to a New Day Amid Turmoil]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today, a group of Anarchists-- apparently believing that no human should be ruled by anyone else, and that no individual being should be a slave-- deliberately and willfully did NO harm to anyone throughout]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/anarchism/@therealpaul/first-they-ignore-you-voluntary-society-wakes-to-a-new-day-amid-turmoil</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/anarchism/@therealpaul/first-they-ignore-you-voluntary-society-wakes-to-a-new-day-amid-turmoil</guid><category><![CDATA[anarchism]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[therealpaul]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2020 19:44:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4GDMGPrU6KTuuW27Tq6en5JYHcVeXL6fAJ1RujUw3NULjf8Ndi8nRka5ukvSj48XCmPpRTrteef78b1Y211jtaVCaYeyow4J?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[What We Call Democracy is Really Just Institutionalized Sorcery]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just because Mickey used a little bit of sorcery to try to get a bunch of brooms to do his work for him, this doesn't automatically mean that Mickey was an evil mouse-- he was just lazy. He was just the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@therealpaul/what-we-call-democracy-is-really-just-institutionalized-sorcery</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@therealpaul/what-we-call-democracy-is-really-just-institutionalized-sorcery</guid><category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[therealpaul]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2020 00:29:06 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4GDMGPrU6KTuuW27Tq6en5JYHcVeXL6fAJ1RujUw3NULjf8Ndi8nRka5ukvSj48XCmPoFCTM6sEzTg6ddK6erAgw6hUXZLsg?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sorting Out the Social Rules of Engagement in a Pre-scribed Bio-War, and Forming Alliances with Mushrooms ]]></title><description><![CDATA[What about those masks? "People don't need to be going around wearing masks!" Dr. Fauci laughed, and he explained to the 60 Minutes host exactly why that was so. Indeed, the individuals within]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/life/@therealpaul/sorting-out-the-social-rules-of-engagement-in-a-pre-scribed-bio-war-and-forming-alliances-with-mushrooms</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/life/@therealpaul/sorting-out-the-social-rules-of-engagement-in-a-pre-scribed-bio-war-and-forming-alliances-with-mushrooms</guid><category><![CDATA[life]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[therealpaul]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2020 04:09:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4GDMGPrU6KTuuW27Tq6en5JYHcVeXL6fAJ1RujUw3NULjf8Ndi8nRka5ukvSj48XCmPq5sWi7iPe5wPwPh5Vq25stp47jL8N?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Machiavellian Gardener: Managing Neighborhood Noise Pollution, and First Garden Pest of the Year]]></title><description><![CDATA[Monday: It started about lunchtime, the hammering and the sawing. 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While he's been doing a really terrific job with it-- really great job-- this whole 'show everyone that the government is useless' spectacle was originally my idea. In order]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@therealpaul/i-won-t-be-running-for-president-this-year-trump-stole-my-idea</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@therealpaul/i-won-t-be-running-for-president-this-year-trump-stole-my-idea</guid><category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[therealpaul]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2020 03:32:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4GDMGPrU6KTuuW27Tq6en5JYHcVeXL6fAJ1RujUw3NULjf8Ndi8nRka5ukvSj48XCmPmtXPURnD9buGQkxeDgwSZ1GFvAbsL?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never Mind Politics: Heroes Needed to Plant the Seeds of a Fractal Garden- Start Immediately- Inquire Within]]></title><description><![CDATA[1 -FOOD Forget the 2020 National election show. I'm trying to be as nice as I can be, but people really need to shut the hell up about their presidents and their beloved circus of clowns in politics right]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@therealpaul/never-mind-politics-heroes-needed-to-plant-the-seeds-of-a-fractal-garden-start-immediately-inquire-within</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/writing/@therealpaul/never-mind-politics-heroes-needed-to-plant-the-seeds-of-a-fractal-garden-start-immediately-inquire-within</guid><category><![CDATA[writing]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[therealpaul]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2020 06:29:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/7ohP4GDMGPrU6KTuuW27Tq6en5JYHcVeXL6fAJ1RujUw3NULjf8Ndi8nRka5ukvSj48XCmPpE45GRDqmzd4H25rV9PxoTmodaKti?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Machiavellian Gardener: New Addition to the Garden, A Big Shiny 5G Tower For Better Growth]]></title><description><![CDATA[I told all of the Garden vegetables that the new 5G tower that I'd so quickly installed would make their work easier, and they blindly accepted it. 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When seeking knowledge about ourselves, we will invariably discover that both Science and Religion]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@therealpaul/if-only-there-was-an-owner-s-manual-for-this-mind-body-device-that-we-are-operating-here</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@therealpaul/if-only-there-was-an-owner-s-manual-for-this-mind-body-device-that-we-are-operating-here</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[therealpaul]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2019 00:16:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/k75bsZMwYNtze9xHvT6xWCdz7q3QGD35ZKdaPpVrFksWkHh1bekCtKcZubgiQvFzK9GX8fP1q6rnMML1AXeAQbpKNehGUeoBXEmhnRsgM365uBTN8YgfLKVjR2ZRqiY9E2rNYA1ZqUvcZzBkHZP8pxGmhdWERUtcv?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learning Good Health From the Animal Kingdom- How to Sleep]]></title><description><![CDATA[Below is a photo of Sooie the cat. 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