<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[a hard and a rock place]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[https://muirnin.wordpress.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[David]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://muirnin.wordpress.com/author/muirnin/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[Shortlist]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>If you&#8217;re new, here are a few highlights to get you started. The Shortlist, if you will&#8230;</p>
<p>#1. <a href="https://muirnin.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/out/">out</a> | My very first blog post on WordPress. This was written very shortly after I came out.</p>
<p>#12. <a href="https://muirnin.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/012-my-wicked-life/">my wicked life</a> | The beginning of the whole Aaron saga, my first boyfriend.</p>
<p>#29. <a href="https://muirnin.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/jakokulma/">long division</a> | The end of the Aaron saga.</p>
<p id="post-244">#34. <a href="https://muirnin.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/onnen_kulissit/">eucatastrophe</a> | I get outed to my family (as it turns out, by Aaron, my ex).</p>
<p>#39. <a href="https://muirnin.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/murskattuja/">freeze ray</a> | The beginning of the Seth saga. These things go in chapters.</p>
<p>#46. <a href="https://muirnin.wordpress.com/2010/03/24/company/">company</a> | My last long-distance relationship that got serious too fast and then ended really abruptly.</p>
<p>#57. <a href="https://muirnin.wordpress.com/2011/02/14/valittaa/">invidiousness part i</a> | Written a few days after Seth cruelly rebuffed me on the night of my 28th birthday.</p>
<p>#58. <a href="https://muirnin.wordpress.com/2011/02/20/truth/">truth</a> | Thoughts on having just come out as an atheist.</p>
<p>#68. <a href="https://muirnin.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/sokaiseva/">blinding</a> | A post about the truthiness of stories, and whether that can be the basis for belief.</p>
<p>#78. <a href="https://muirnin.wordpress.com/2011/09/25/ei_enaa_koskaan/">nevermore</a> | I decide that it only makes sense to date other atheists, agnostics and freethinkers.</p>
<p>#83. <a href="https://muirnin.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/rakkaus/">love</a> | My thoughts about Original Sin. They&#8217;re not very nice.</p>
<p>#101. <a href="https://muirnin.wordpress.com/2011/12/23/jol/">yule</a> | In response to the question, &#8220;Do atheists hate Christmas?&#8221;</p>
<p>#103. <a href="https://muirnin.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/sucre/">sucre</a> | My personal 1,500 word manifesto on my morality as an atheist, with the help of Leonard Bernstein and Voltaire.</p>
<p>#104. <a href="https://muirnin.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/kauhu/">respect</a> | The price that fundamentalism exacts from its followers.</p>
<p>#100. <a href="https://muirnin.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/erikoisuus/">singularity</a> | Basically, my life story.</p>
<p>#109. <a href="https://muirnin.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/miten/">how</a> | The comforting white lies that religion tells us.</p>
<p>#116. <a href="https://muirnin.wordpress.com/2012/02/02/jaaritteleva/">peroration</a> | On saying what I really mean.</p>
<p>#122. <a href="https://muirnin.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/eksoteerisissa/">exoteric</a> | About the religious indoctrination of children.</p>
<p>#123. <a href="https://muirnin.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/sydamenmuotoinen/">cordate</a> | Valentine&#8217;s Day reflections for 2012.</p>
<p>#124. <a href="https://muirnin.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/tyylikas/">weltschmerz</a> | &#8220;Our life is not a movie. No ‘maybe’ about it.&#8221;</p>
<p>#126. <a href="https://muirnin.wordpress.com/2012/02/26/jaapallo/">bandy</a> | In response to a series of homophobic tweets from Minneapolis&#8217; homophobic pastor, John Piper.</p>
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