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With fall comes the beginning of change. And what great way to celebrate this change with a site re-design! This one is much more pleasant on the eyes and actually functional. I am going to be re organizing some things in order to bring you the best content available for your daily life. So stay tuned! Or, well, don’t stay tuned. That’s the importance of being free, which I hope you are all practicing! Have a great day.

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Ah! Mere minutes after my last post I happened across this article on a BBC news website about a man who is walking from the UK to India and is not bringing any money with him whatsoever. He is also a believer in the Freeconomy movement, and I would also say the Freedom Movement in general. Take a gander.

Link here

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I just stumbled across a neat heart inspiring idea. It’s the Freeconomy Movement. Its basic premise is to move from a “money-based communityless society to a community-based moneyless society.” That lines right up with the whole “free movement” thing I’ve been talking about lately. It aims to pool human knowledge, tools, and space into local communities where people are wanting to share it all without exchanging money. It may sound crazy and out there, but so what? Sometimes the best change seems far away, we should all aspire towards something great.

Visit it here: www.justfortheloveofit.org

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I think many in the gaming community have played the award winning “Portal.” I managed to get my hands on it, and enjoyed its dark comedy and ending credits song on so many levels that I can’t describe it all. For me, Portal is a very philosophical game that raises many questions about A.I., life, and post apocalyptic scenarios about the earth getting taken over by aliens (Half-Life).

One of my favorite instances in the game is when I meet up with the Weighted Companion Cube. This wonderful and existential buddy of mine accompanied me for all of one level of the game, but that was enough to leave an impact and life lessons were forever imparted to me. Or maybe I’m looking for something that’s not there? Nonsense! There is wisdom in everything, even the Weighted Companion Cube.

This article is about those life lessons. Even a supposedly non-sentient futuristic crate can show us things- if we are looking for them.

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Wow, thanks everybody. There’s been a huge surge in site traffic thanks to social networking site StumbleUpon. If you’re new here, feel free to check all the possibly life-changing articles out. Or systematically debunk them. Either way, exercise your right to do whatever you want on the internet. Be free! If you have any comments or suggestions feel free to leave them in a comment or an e-mail, just look in the “contact” section.

I am here to help just about anyone and everyone. Thanks for helping me fulfill that part of my human existence each and every day.

I’ve got some exciting articles- some practical & not so practical- that I think you will enjoy. Keep checking back.

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Free as in free, period.

A man can be beaten, broken, imprisoned, tortured, mentally anguished, and any other number of things that man can do to his fellow man to cause him pain. But if they cannot pull his head out from the clouds, if they cannot cull his dreams and bring them back down to earth- then they cannot keep him from being free.

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Woohoo! I would just like to comment on a milestone of mine. Religious Zen now has over 40 free articles to read and use for self improvement and simplifying your spiritual and mental life. I hope all that read this blog have been helped in some way.

Some stats on this blog:

42 published posts

35,000+ words

89 pages of text, were it printed.

My personal goal is to reach 100 relevant, helpful written articles by June.

Thank you all so much for giving this blog the small success that is has already achieved!

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