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	<title>Comments on: Something You Should Know</title>
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	<description>I FORGET WHAT EIGHT WAS FOR</description>
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		<title>By: Ernesto</title>
		<link>http://whatever.scalzi.com/2007/11/16/something-you-should-know/#comment-4069</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ernesto]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John: funny - for me it&#039;s always the other way around: I see an amazing sunset, take a picture and the inanimate camera refuses to be poetic about what it spits back. Maybe I&#039;m just a poor photographer.

Kelsey, the esoteric answer to your question is that since we are all everywhere at once, and are moreover fundamentally psychically entwined, we all share the sunset when you see it. time and space being ways to describe the interaction of a wholistic system, our daily delusion of being alone is revealed for what it truly is: bunk. (thats also why you are experiencing coincidences a lot more sharply lately - re seeing the same sunset as John S.)

The practical western realist answer to your question probably depends on the terrain in question, since you can see a pretty significantly different sunset from one side of a mountain and another... but then theres the whole can of worms you mention about whether you and I see the same theing when we think of &quot;red&quot;. Like maybe my red is your green. That train of thought leads to serious slopes of nihilism unless you keep the other, &quot;we are one&quot; paradigm. That usually tends to sort through most problems in western philisophy like a bottle of Cocacola clearing through a rusty drain. If you try to sort it out by thinking in terms of dualities, you&#039;re in for a headache allright.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>John: funny &#8211; for me it&#8217;s always the other way around: I see an amazing sunset, take a picture and the inanimate camera refuses to be poetic about what it spits back. Maybe I&#8217;m just a poor photographer.</p>
<p>Kelsey, the esoteric answer to your question is that since we are all everywhere at once, and are moreover fundamentally psychically entwined, we all share the sunset when you see it. time and space being ways to describe the interaction of a wholistic system, our daily delusion of being alone is revealed for what it truly is: bunk. (thats also why you are experiencing coincidences a lot more sharply lately &#8211; re seeing the same sunset as John S.)</p>
<p>The practical western realist answer to your question probably depends on the terrain in question, since you can see a pretty significantly different sunset from one side of a mountain and another&#8230; but then theres the whole can of worms you mention about whether you and I see the same theing when we think of &#8220;red&#8221;. Like maybe my red is your green. That train of thought leads to serious slopes of nihilism unless you keep the other, &#8220;we are one&#8221; paradigm. That usually tends to sort through most problems in western philisophy like a bottle of Cocacola clearing through a rusty drain. If you try to sort it out by thinking in terms of dualities, you&#8217;re in for a headache allright.</p>
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		<title>By: Kelsey</title>
		<link>http://whatever.scalzi.com/2007/11/16/something-you-should-know/#comment-4068</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kelsey]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patrick M - At what distance apart do two people not share a sunset?  Or for that matter (I&#039;m about to get all zen), can two people standing next to each other really see the same sunset at all?

eee...my head hurts.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Patrick M &#8211; At what distance apart do two people not share a sunset?  Or for that matter (I&#8217;m about to get all zen), can two people standing next to each other really see the same sunset at all?</p>
<p>eee&#8230;my head hurts.</p>
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		<title>By: AEM</title>
		<link>http://whatever.scalzi.com/2007/11/16/something-you-should-know/#comment-4067</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[AEM]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Uh-oh. Looks like God isn&#039;t happy with your take on the Creationism Museum...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Uh-oh. Looks like God isn&#8217;t happy with your take on the Creationism Museum&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Patrick M.</title>
		<link>http://whatever.scalzi.com/2007/11/16/something-you-should-know/#comment-4066</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Patrick M.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 00:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[@Kelsey - Doesn&#039;t your town have its own sun to set?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Kelsey &#8211; Doesn&#8217;t your town have its own sun to set?</p>
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		<title>By: drieux...</title>
		<link>http://whatever.scalzi.com/2007/11/16/something-you-should-know/#comment-4065</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[drieux...]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looks rather too much as the sunsets/rises did during the most recent fires here in SoCal.  Sorry, but not enough time&#039;s passed to employ my usual level of pithy humor.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Looks rather too much as the sunsets/rises did during the most recent fires here in SoCal.  Sorry, but not enough time&#8217;s passed to employ my usual level of pithy humor.</p>
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		<title>By: John Scalzi</title>
		<link>http://whatever.scalzi.com/2007/11/16/something-you-should-know/#comment-4064</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[John Scalzi]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe it&#039;s Illinois, and it carries.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Maybe it&#8217;s Illinois, and it carries.</p>
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		<title>By: Mark Evans</title>
		<link>http://whatever.scalzi.com/2007/11/16/something-you-should-know/#comment-4063</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark Evans]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 13:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Us folks in Ohio really need to ask the one in Indiana why the keep setting their state on fire.  Nice sunsets for us but to keep doing it indicates a problem.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Us folks in Ohio really need to ask the one in Indiana why the keep setting their state on fire.  Nice sunsets for us but to keep doing it indicates a problem.</p>
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		<title>By: hnu</title>
		<link>http://whatever.scalzi.com/2007/11/16/something-you-should-know/#comment-4062</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 10:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[really love it. and i think it&#039;s not creepy, it is rather romantic. but maybe i&#039;ve seen too much zombie movies lately.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>really love it. and i think it&#8217;s not creepy, it is rather romantic. but maybe i&#8217;ve seen too much zombie movies lately.</p>
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		<title>By: Bruce A.</title>
		<link>http://whatever.scalzi.com/2007/11/16/something-you-should-know/#comment-4061</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce A.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 04:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, John, you live down the road from Hell?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So, John, you live down the road from Hell?</p>
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		<title>By: JustAnotherJohn</title>
		<link>http://whatever.scalzi.com/2007/11/16/something-you-should-know/#comment-4054</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[JustAnotherJohn]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dude, why were you taking pictures in Mordor!?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dude, why were you taking pictures in Mordor!?</p>
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