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	<title>Comments on: Never Knew I&#8217;d Been Sitting in Pews (A Strange Story From the Front Lines of Coffeeshop Science Journalism)</title>
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		<title>By: DJ Busby</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/12/21/never-knew-id-been-sitting-in-pews/#comment-86643</link>
		<dc:creator>DJ Busby</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 02:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I do almost all my blogging in this one seat at a local starbucks.  I totally understand where you&#039;re coming from, haha</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I do almost all my blogging in this one seat at a local starbucks.  I totally understand where you&#8217;re coming from, haha</p>
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		<title>By: Anna</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/12/21/never-knew-id-been-sitting-in-pews/#comment-86617</link>
		<dc:creator>Anna</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 19:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You can often buy pews at flea market, antique and &#039;junktique&#039; shops.  They are inexpensive when bought second-hand, and they are great pieces of furniture -- pews are built to last, and they are built to take a lot of weight.  

I suspect there are pews in Tryst because the owners are good business people and knew inexpensive, sturdy seating when they saw it.  I know a family who has one in their front hall and another family that has one on their porch.   The family with the pew in their front hall uses it for storing school backpacks and the kids use it when they sit down to pull on their boots.  It&#039;s the perfect size and seating height for that.  (It&#039;s especially funny to me because the mom is an ordained minister, so they know exactly what their boot bench is.)

Now that you know what pews look like, I&#039;ll bet you&#039;ll spot a lot more.  

And don&#039;t worry, your atheist heinie is safe . . . unless you&#039;re at a pew with a kneeler.  ;-)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You can often buy pews at flea market, antique and &#8216;junktique&#8217; shops.  They are inexpensive when bought second-hand, and they are great pieces of furniture &#8212; pews are built to last, and they are built to take a lot of weight.  </p>
<p>I suspect there are pews in Tryst because the owners are good business people and knew inexpensive, sturdy seating when they saw it.  I know a family who has one in their front hall and another family that has one on their porch.   The family with the pew in their front hall uses it for storing school backpacks and the kids use it when they sit down to pull on their boots.  It&#8217;s the perfect size and seating height for that.  (It&#8217;s especially funny to me because the mom is an ordained minister, so they know exactly what their boot bench is.)</p>
<p>Now that you know what pews look like, I&#8217;ll bet you&#8217;ll spot a lot more.  </p>
<p>And don&#8217;t worry, your atheist heinie is safe . . . unless you&#8217;re at a pew with a kneeler.  <img src='http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Archie</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/12/21/never-knew-id-been-sitting-in-pews/#comment-86616</link>
		<dc:creator>Archie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 19:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Prior to my final deconversion I spent many years sitting in pews.  How I would have done anything for an 8-shot espresso during most of those &quot;services.&quot;  Internet connection would have been welcome as well although I got a lot of suspect looks since the bible I used was on my PDA.  Toward the end I was reading other things on my PDA and only looking up when expected to as dictated by vocal intonation.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Prior to my final deconversion I spent many years sitting in pews.  How I would have done anything for an 8-shot espresso during most of those &#8220;services.&#8221;  Internet connection would have been welcome as well although I got a lot of suspect looks since the bible I used was on my PDA.  Toward the end I was reading other things on my PDA and only looking up when expected to as dictated by vocal intonation.</p>
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		<title>By: Chris Mooney</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/12/21/never-knew-id-been-sitting-in-pews/#comment-86610</link>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mooney</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@8 dude you are a genius. clearly conservapedia could use your expertise.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@8 dude you are a genius. clearly conservapedia could use your expertise.</p>
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		<title>By: plutosdad</title>
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		<dc:creator>plutosdad</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sorry but apparently you were only successful because you were sitting on pews. The excess &quot;productivity ions&quot; from churchgoers were being stored in a state of potential energy inside the wood. This was probably unknown to the cafe owner who purchased the old pews from some thrift store.

When you sat on them and thought, the ions transferred over to you, releasing their energy, resulting in a burst of productivity. This effect has been documented in numerous clinical studies and therefore cannot be refuted! It also scrubs your dna!

Now that you have published this, all the competing thinkers are writers are going to flock to that cafe and sit in your spot, and drain the pew of all its productivity ions. So you better get back there and soak up some productivity before it&#039;s too late!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry but apparently you were only successful because you were sitting on pews. The excess &#8220;productivity ions&#8221; from churchgoers were being stored in a state of potential energy inside the wood. This was probably unknown to the cafe owner who purchased the old pews from some thrift store.</p>
<p>When you sat on them and thought, the ions transferred over to you, releasing their energy, resulting in a burst of productivity. This effect has been documented in numerous clinical studies and therefore cannot be refuted! It also scrubs your dna!</p>
<p>Now that you have published this, all the competing thinkers are writers are going to flock to that cafe and sit in your spot, and drain the pew of all its productivity ions. So you better get back there and soak up some productivity before it&#8217;s too late!</p>
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		<title>By: Jean Kazez</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/12/21/never-knew-id-been-sitting-in-pews/#comment-86602</link>
		<dc:creator>Jean Kazez</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Aha...it&#039;s the pews. That explains  EVERYTHING.  

As for being a second generation atheist, my parents may have set a record.  They took me to worship exactly zero times.  Nevertheless (gasp) I&#039;ve managed to be pretty productive!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Aha&#8230;it&#8217;s the pews. That explains  EVERYTHING.  </p>
<p>As for being a second generation atheist, my parents may have set a record.  They took me to worship exactly zero times.  Nevertheless (gasp) I&#8217;ve managed to be pretty productive!</p>
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		<title>By: Georg</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/12/21/never-knew-id-been-sitting-in-pews/#comment-86601</link>
		<dc:creator>Georg</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 15:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;It’s too bad Conservapedia isn’t very good at sourcing info.&lt;/i&gt;

That is the only positive thing to be said on this s..t .
The problem is, the adherers of that nonsense do not 
realize that. 
Georg</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>It’s too bad Conservapedia isn’t very good at sourcing info.</i></p>
<p>That is the only positive thing to be said on this s..t .<br />
The problem is, the adherers of that nonsense do not<br />
realize that.<br />
Georg</p>
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		<title>By: Chris Mooney</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/12/21/never-knew-id-been-sitting-in-pews/#comment-86599</link>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mooney</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@4 i doubt there is any source whatsoever for such an obviously subjective and biased claim</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@4 i doubt there is any source whatsoever for such an obviously subjective and biased claim</p>
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		<title>By: Zerodash</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/12/21/never-knew-id-been-sitting-in-pews/#comment-86596</link>
		<dc:creator>Zerodash</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:42:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s too bad Conservapedia isn&#039;t very good at sourcing info.  I would love to know exactly what is meant by &quot;productive&quot;.  The term is very vague and the tone of the &quot;article&quot; smacks of an opinion rather than a supposedly trustworthy fact.  Perhaps if they defined &quot;productive&quot; and sourced some actual metrics based on this definition.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s too bad Conservapedia isn&#8217;t very good at sourcing info.  I would love to know exactly what is meant by &#8220;productive&#8221;.  The term is very vague and the tone of the &#8220;article&#8221; smacks of an opinion rather than a supposedly trustworthy fact.  Perhaps if they defined &#8220;productive&#8221; and sourced some actual metrics based on this definition.</p>
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		<title>By: Chris Mooney</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2010/12/21/never-knew-id-been-sitting-in-pews/#comment-86594</link>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mooney</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 14:24:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t know where they came from. I doubt it&#039;s an intentional attempt to evoke religious culture. It&#039;s probably more out of a sense of irreverent style, honestly. We&#039;ll see if this post draws any answers.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t know where they came from. I doubt it&#8217;s an intentional attempt to evoke religious culture. It&#8217;s probably more out of a sense of irreverent style, honestly. We&#8217;ll see if this post draws any answers.</p>
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