<?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>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:51:46 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/@thisbrent/rss" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts on Death and Dying from a Relatively Young Healthy Atheist]]></title><description><![CDATA[We are going to die and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/death/@thisbrent/thoughts-on-death-and-dying-from-a-relatively-young-healthy-atheist</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/death/@thisbrent/thoughts-on-death-and-dying-from-a-relatively-young-healthy-atheist</guid><category><![CDATA[death]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thisbrent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 02 Feb 2018 17:32:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Walk Through the Bible with Magog]]></title><description><![CDATA[Just as a pig can be possessed by a demon a human body can be possessed by something else. Call it a ghost, an gin, a demon, an angel, a son of god, these bodies are clearly just shells. And as with the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/atheism/@thisbrent/a-walk-through-the-bible-with-magog</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/atheism/@thisbrent/a-walk-through-the-bible-with-magog</guid><category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thisbrent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jan 2018 02:40:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/cyxkEVqiiLyAJMrzqHfWLT7YbdgoprDQGwdeDRwrKf7toE83p7c6qmLASwL1LCf8tEpx5xBFAEvXsWfLdUjyYGxmfSw53uuysZETND4eKNV5Yow9X7WppCnfNV8fjeUR7C2?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Experiments in Photography as Art (Collection 1)]]></title><link>http://direct.ecency.com/art/@thisbrent/experiments-in-photography-as-art-collection-1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/art/@thisbrent/experiments-in-photography-as-art-collection-1</guid><category><![CDATA[art]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thisbrent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2018 19:04:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3W72119s5BjWPGGUiZ9pqnZoj8JHYxCCp9dtn2QVf45yU59V9RkK28iznAJFHGtZb2GYUMA6oztyojtiT8TXpyFyWmtQgpeu9XWM2fA1NyxYhU3ndVWx7g?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[First Snow in Zion National Park 12/21/2017 (Collection 2)]]></title><description><![CDATA[And finally, a photograph of the first casualty on this year's "War on Christmas". A moment of silence, please.]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/zion/@thisbrent/first-snow-in-zion-national-park-12-21-2017-collection-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/zion/@thisbrent/first-snow-in-zion-national-park-12-21-2017-collection-2</guid><category><![CDATA[zion]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thisbrent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2018 18:56:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3W72119s5BjWPGGUiZ9pqnZoj8JHYxCCp9dtn2QVdiq24b81VYEmHeqFyuZZXzofpBnXxDAyGk5pvPXdXd4Jug7bhwAmhZV8umnQQhJN6cY5gGBovp4ATQ?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[First Snow in Zion National Park 12/21/2017 (Collection 1)]]></title><link>http://direct.ecency.com/zion/@thisbrent/first-snow-in-zion-national-park-12-21-2017</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/zion/@thisbrent/first-snow-in-zion-national-park-12-21-2017</guid><category><![CDATA[zion]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thisbrent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2018 18:44:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/3W72119s5BjWPGGUiZ9pqnZoj8JHYxCCp9dtn2QVeKYaRcynHMBQJ8AnK6goicBSpNFQitiXmY5cCB2Ci3aXWkYhRfMtkojecQiwGNfut7QBiMhY2RDB1Y?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just Me and My Dad: Rage Against a Father]]></title><description><![CDATA[When I was younger I remember a Bernstein Bears book called "Just Me and My Dad". There is a picture I could not find anywhere in my computer of my brother and I intently listening to my dad]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/atheism/@thisbrent/just-me-and-my-dad-rage-against-a-father</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/atheism/@thisbrent/just-me-and-my-dad-rage-against-a-father</guid><category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thisbrent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2018 19:45:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/4vvCdfUkb2VQc7GQAGFFLRehYkNGmCahx9ZLRM7PjVdNLx4xDR8YXL8YrCyteUbqXvP4xUEsDYsMfGtLUn5qbgQkoRyaxrVgpaNogHPbQqnGfjLnTPoUkEPTiddSjcro5pqnofyM1mJXCtxmgQErY5ovXiUXsWASrz6UMxpEme8D455Q4yqUDwmFFSdVAueRL?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The One and Only Species That Matters: Animal Abuse in the Bible]]></title><description><![CDATA[If a PETA activist hitched a ride in a time machine sometime in the future and was placed back into Biblical times they wouldn't know where to start protesting with all the carnage. Any scientist or even]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/animal/@thisbrent/the-one-and-only-species-that-matters-animal-abuse-in-the-bible</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/animal/@thisbrent/the-one-and-only-species-that-matters-animal-abuse-in-the-bible</guid><category><![CDATA[animal]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thisbrent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2018 18:53:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/RGgukq5E6HBS5wvERDA3ZF4P2WKQy2VoZZet1QV2KDahyVWHhs1d5Eyk3bzsMpsx8nDYuM4R9BWwxDyaM2NeGAFUYUi6XcjKjX82BnUxosNfG18YqEuMD88MMaqn8DC?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Don't Believe in Hell and You Don't Either, My Christian Friends!]]></title><description><![CDATA[One of the more obvious observations to make about the New Christians is their cognitive dissonance with this idea of hell. Of course the Bible is such a pieced-together, contradictory, non-unifying book]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/hell/@thisbrent/i-don-t-believe-in-hell-and-you-don-t-either-my-christian-friends</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/hell/@thisbrent/i-don-t-believe-in-hell-and-you-don-t-either-my-christian-friends</guid><category><![CDATA[hell]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thisbrent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2018 18:47:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/9vWp6aU4y8kyJM9JABQLS7EhjmU3VVqJQJsLWXdiFrkKRN7qzSqBmKDGdHBBf3ShCkFCbpmBQqhsvksGARHoEQdqAzCSCtYo3fLevNRGK2uDYRx1McHyzZ94dCe7wBEKQAEsnZn1iX53uDidU?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Cosmology Can Fill That "God"-Shaped Hole In Your Heart]]></title><description><![CDATA[I was driving to the university I attend today when a particular song came on through my CD player. It's called "Let It Carry You" by Jose Gonzalez off of his newest album called "Vestiges]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/atheism/@thisbrent/how-cosmology-can-fill-that-god-shaped-hole-in-your-heart</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/atheism/@thisbrent/how-cosmology-can-fill-that-god-shaped-hole-in-your-heart</guid><category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thisbrent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2018 18:40:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/2gsjgna1uruvUuS7ndh9YqVwYGPLVszbFLwwpAYXZtokEfdR74scgBtQwWbLB7Pu9jZJ3Yz7SgAkPZWHRRbZkWWbM5guEaU8zKuFe3ZGZRJZKGW8KY?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salvation Quantified]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dear human, Did you know that before you were saved by grace by the Son of God himself people once had to sacrifice other species of animals to atone for their sins? Did you know these animals had to be]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/atheism/@thisbrent/salvation-quantified</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/atheism/@thisbrent/salvation-quantified</guid><category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thisbrent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2018 18:33:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[A.I.: The New Lost Souls & the Future of Our God and Our Humanity]]></title><description><![CDATA[PART I: In the year 2050 the human-apes created Artificial Intelligence. These "beings" became almost indistinguishable from humankind - down to their brain functions, anatomy, and biology on]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/atheism/@thisbrent/a-i-the-new-lost-souls-and-the-future-of-our-god-and-our-humanity</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/atheism/@thisbrent/a-i-the-new-lost-souls-and-the-future-of-our-god-and-our-humanity</guid><category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thisbrent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2018 04:22:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dream Lives Matter]]></title><description><![CDATA[The really unusual day would be one where nothing unusual happens. - Persi Diaconis Late last Friday evening I woke up in the middle of the night terrified by a dream. I explained to my girlfriend the]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/atheism/@thisbrent/dream-lives-matter</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/atheism/@thisbrent/dream-lives-matter</guid><category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thisbrent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2018 03:53:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Good Riddance 2017]]></title><description><![CDATA[Today is the last day of 2017. I have only written two blog posts in 2017. "How to Build a Cult" and "How to Build a Cult - Part 2". When I started this blog five years ago I cared]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/atheism/@thisbrent/good-riddance-2017</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/atheism/@thisbrent/good-riddance-2017</guid><category><![CDATA[atheism]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thisbrent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2018 03:17:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[How To Build a Cult: Part Two]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trump’s most ardent supporters are . . . remolding their own views to keep pace with their leader. . . This shows the extent to which Trump’s rise was not based on any particular positions or views. It]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@thisbrent/how-to-build-a-cult-part-two</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@thisbrent/how-to-build-a-cult-part-two</guid><category><![CDATA[politics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thisbrent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2018 03:02:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45e8ji3qNjviEHnpQgNnn6E5AyDEAcpwzSv7Y?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[How To Build a Cult]]></title><description><![CDATA["And were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter." - Thomas Jefferson]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@thisbrent/how-to-build-a-cult</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/politics/@thisbrent/how-to-build-a-cult</guid><category><![CDATA[politics]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[thisbrent]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jan 2018 02:55:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://images.ecency.com/p/S5Eokt4BcQdk7EHeT1aYjzebg2hC7hkthT45eQpQwPQdnSvnD4RJoEvP1tMShPzbRCyWaXG?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>