<?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>Sun, 17 May 2026 11:24:05 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="http://direct.ecency.com/created/pontification/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Sittin' Up with the Dead Blog - Post 010 - Do It Yourself Demolition Derby]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.       -- TS Eliot - The Hollow Men In my last post we looked at how Enemies of Civilization might use a small]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@stan/sittin-up-with-the-dead-blog-post-010-do-it-yourself-demolition-derby</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@stan/sittin-up-with-the-dead-blog-post-010-do-it-yourself-demolition-derby</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2016 16:08:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/MG5aEqKFcQi7YtVq1mF5BRNMDwwZoXzY8uzvKDUd2k4QMspW5dE5dAoEtxuJT9mFHS6Ew54F2c6vdKnLv3WVakAMK3YdwAqRp?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sittin' Up with the Dead Blog - Post 009 - A Few Well-Placed Pricks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Pinpricks.  I'm talking about pinpricks. In my last post I speculated that it might not take as much as we would like to think to utterly destroy the Civilization As we Know It (CAWKI).]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@stan/sittin-up-with-the-dead-blog-post-009-a-few-well-placed-pricks</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@stan/sittin-up-with-the-dead-blog-post-009-a-few-well-placed-pricks</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2016 00:23:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/EfcLDDAkyqgt7b32NykaJopBe4Dhy8KVVdmSSkEyFxJHfBgAvEajN75c4Vy35qYtW3tvjLcHopdQDTUw2DBhsxPJm81JN?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sittin' Up with the Dead Blog - Post 008 - Where's the Kaboom?]]></title><description><![CDATA[When a building is being demolished, demolition experts are called in to apply the minimum amount of shaped charges in just the right places to make the building collapse in upon itself from its own weight]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@stan/sittin-up-with-the-dead-blog-post-008-where-s-the-kaboom</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@stan/sittin-up-with-the-dead-blog-post-008-where-s-the-kaboom</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2016 16:00:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/V9N4wevejZUbGuMQ25qca15SvhxbXsfPiXjACxDbzZfRK3fC6oXM8bDejoP1kh9KLDZTvGNUoNpj1dNhguxmqpRM3oUT9GdZNnEwpeztpC8Nx72W6Ke7tY7gNmAdFnchDxS91nw95XfuLBh9MjwDPxFbuNimja7h2H3NT7txmy5B9FTo82dzbo8sod4bgVBcsopEHnubPiURyGLmWTJVC?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sittin' Up with the Dead Blog - Post 007 - The Half Carafe Test]]></title><description><![CDATA["Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine, a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy."]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@stan/sittin-up-with-the-dead-blog-post-007-the-half-carafe-test</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@stan/sittin-up-with-the-dead-blog-post-007-the-half-carafe-test</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2016 04:43:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/3q52Dkr5nBe3xY4zygt1mK63YM5n94asUpVxA6MUdXyNHdJxBco8GptDE6vkrTqcfvTYT6kMk5QK8?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sittin' Up with the Dead Blog - Post 006 - Bad Reasons to Store Food]]></title><description><![CDATA[My grandmother had a basement that would flood two feet deep when it rained. She kept two wooden chairs that she would use like movable stepping-stones to leap frog her way across the basement pond to]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@stan/sittin-up-with-the-dead-blog--post-006--bad-reasons-to-store-food</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@stan/sittin-up-with-the-dead-blog--post-006--bad-reasons-to-store-food</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2016 03:10:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/3q52Dkr5nBe3xY4zygt1mK63YM5nU5TFWBFKQGBW465UA8LSZxAbXdzTKdnTa8FGNcpVeSVQbTqtA?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sittin' Up with the Dead Blog - Post 005 - Quintuple Entendre]]></title><description><![CDATA[The kind of stuff folks just don't want to know about... It's the appointed time to solve the mystery about the four intended meanings behind the name of this blog. As a special bonus for our long-time]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@stan/sittin-up-with-the-dead-blog--post-005--quintuple-entendre</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@stan/sittin-up-with-the-dead-blog--post-005--quintuple-entendre</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2016 17:53:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/8th8uVU7vHtqTq5H5X1LZjH8PguWZx9VjUJPxqSCrpgUXEdRRJAavSYWoHaHLsz3M7Lsgz4RXK8aMqH3Q7RCdX5Kdb1gkUBytKtNUccR3HZS7enxc4RbriftppEY31cm7DJSCouSnvbnBwKUSLZyWuG7d8bP9YNBJ2ijvBPLeWiX55LE95RE2Zj18r?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sittin' Up with the Dead Blog - Post 004 - The Halls of Waiting]]></title><description><![CDATA[The kind of stuff folks just don't want to know about... Clue #4 “I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and silver, and go where]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@stan/sittin-up-with-the-dead-blog--post-004--the-halls-of-waiting</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@stan/sittin-up-with-the-dead-blog--post-004--the-halls-of-waiting</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2016 01:56:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/99pyU5Ga1kwkT6eHRsay6rSCpWButYgVNxCc64ma2GWPmD5U8FfERC7x28QzzWTbojDdV43GyRMuWwNVEN4hKdgaxvY7V2RHkrWZUuN5C6oJSdEdLNPEya7xg64kSoxv3g?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sittin' Up with the Dead Blog - Post 003 - I'm Not Dead Yet!]]></title><description><![CDATA[The kind of stuff folks just don't want to know about... In Monty Python and the Holy Grail there is a classic scene set during the height of the Black Plague. Dejected government workers are pulling a]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@stan/sittin-up-with-the-dead-blog--post-003--im-not-dead-yet</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@stan/sittin-up-with-the-dead-blog--post-003--im-not-dead-yet</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2016 15:09:45 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/8hHVpaGADCWxFpDNHgzVzqEYhcDheJLT5u94nYSw7kq93iJQ9H3YMRLxUFg?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sittin' Up with the Dead Blog - Post 002 - On the Edge of Forever]]></title><description><![CDATA[The kind of stuff folks just don't want to know about... Clue #2. There is an old episode of Star Trek (City on the Edge of Forever, 1967) where Dr. McCoy travels back into time to the Great Depression]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@stan/sittin-up-with-the-dead-blog--post-002--on-the-edge-of-forever</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@stan/sittin-up-with-the-dead-blog--post-002--on-the-edge-of-forever</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2016 19:06:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/21PRtjEYui9Jwixds9K8iYK5oH8ADuwFEwcjFAi5KKDqj93yXcL63KCXVqMBF4Hy7gmRccpf1kARZ8Wyw9jh7ND3QibCWTXZW9bFGzKAkyAZo8JyFwWjD8SrVMwQCwt2HMR3zAbHb1HEphzyPYKqvBp?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sittin' Up with the Dead Blog - Post 001 - Stuff You Don't Want To Know]]></title><description><![CDATA["The kind of stuff folks just don't want to know about." This blog has been goaded into being by the mere existence of Steemit ...and the gallingly successful efforts of two of my more prolific]]></description><link>http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@stan/sittin-up-with-the-dead-blog--post-001--stuff-you-dont-want-to</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://direct.ecency.com/philosophy/@stan/sittin-up-with-the-dead-blog--post-001--stuff-you-dont-want-to</guid><category><![CDATA[philosophy]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[stan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2016 02:52:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://i.ecency.com/p/2r8F9rJF8BjA5Gh2AVPBJdb67NQ5ST4JeCuToiXPqo2TxqYYZnkbrwYW8HqWzKZ75aiKmUobhujgSA67oJbXsKUgrDdBDuQnmrvXMQMHb4TrhKGVk5Nee5eaDKSmppWFY?format=match&amp;mode=fit" length="0" type="false"/></item></channel></rss>