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	<description>Adventures with Ideas: Truth, Beauty, and the Paradoxes of Life.</description>
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		<title>Narrative as Ethics</title>
		<link>http://www.julietbennett.com/2012/05/14/narrative-as-ethics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 03:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Bennett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After yesterday&#8217;s encounter with Mr Moron, I mean, Mr Maroon, a religious fanatic arguing that Atheist&#8217;s have no code for morality, I want to take a deeper look at ethics and morality from both a religious and secular perspective. Given my research into the role of narratives in peace studies, I ask: What is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debating the Ethics of Atheists at Sydney&#8217;s Speakers&#8217; Corner</title>
		<link>http://www.julietbennett.com/2012/05/13/debating-the-ethics-of-atheists-at-sydneys-speakers-corner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 07:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Bennett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Atheists have no reason not to kill other people,&#8221; said the man in a maroon sweater who had been quacking too loud for the dude on the podium at the &#8220;Speakers&#8217; Corner&#8221; at Sydney&#8217;s Hyde Park to be heard. &#8220;Excuse me!&#8221; I butted in, having excused myself from our mother&#8217;s day picnic to see what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The War Prayer &#8211; Mark Twain</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 12:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Bennett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on&#8230;&#8221; The War Prayer, is a short story by Mark Twain about blind patriotic war and the God who is on both sides. Written around 1904, published after his death in 1923. Part 1   Part 2 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expansion and Contraction</title>
		<link>http://www.julietbennett.com/2012/04/30/expansion-and-contraction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Bennett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There are only two movements of energy,&#8221; my yoga teacher noted as we arranged ourselves in Shavasana – the corpse pose – ready for relaxation, &#8220;expansion and contraction.&#8221; I adjusted my legs, relaxed my neck, and closed my eyes. I observed my lungs: expand, and then contract. For the next five minutes or so I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MY BRAZILIAN (&#8230; and a kombi named Betty)</title>
		<link>http://www.julietbennett.com/2012/04/26/my-brazilian-and-a-kombi-named-betty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Bennett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Meaning of life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[South America]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[102 days, 6 countries, 3 girls, x boys &#38; 1 kombi named Betty. So I&#8217;ve mentioned &#8220;my book&#8221; a million and one times, the travel memoir I&#8217;ve been working on every since my trip to South America some three years ago now. Think Eat Pray Love with a twist. As described in one of my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diseases of a world run by MBAs</title>
		<link>http://www.julietbennett.com/2012/04/25/diseases-of-a-world-run-by-mbas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 06:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Bennett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;A serious disease has re-appeared at Sydney University. Like tuberculosis, as soon as a cure is found and staff have been inoculated, a more virulent strain emerges. It has been labeled “hyper managerialism” and its symptoms are “efficiency in the name of inexplicable time wasting”, “infinite make-work-form-filling” and “gobbledegook language to organise thinking”. So far [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Polymathy and promiscuity</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 06:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Bennett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember the times when one person was a philosopher, a scientist, an inventor, a musician and an artist? No? Well that&#8217;s because people now specialise too much, and generalise too little. That&#8217;s the way our education system and our job opportunities work. That&#8217;s why we are told to choose one thing and become a master [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All it takes is 10,000 hours</title>
		<link>http://www.julietbennett.com/2012/04/13/all-it-takes-is-10000-hours/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2012 23:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Bennett</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say it takes 10,000 hours to be a master at something. Who are the They? Not sure, but They know&#8230; ok? After my last post about a human life equating to up to one million hours on earth, and pondering how many hours of that we waste in traffic, it seems somewhat appropriate to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A human life, one million hours</title>
		<link>http://www.julietbennett.com/2012/04/09/a-human-life-one-million-hours/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 10:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Bennett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[South America]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the scheme of things when you spend two hours in traffic each work day, or half an hour waiting in line for a coffee, or forty hours a year gathering together your receipts and filling out your tax return, what % of your life are you spending doing things you don&#8217;t want to be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contents of Discontent</title>
		<link>http://www.julietbennett.com/2012/03/29/contents-of-discontent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 05:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Juliet Bennett</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In a world where everything is a trade-off is there any wonder why so many are discontent? Feeling rather discontent myself I thought I&#8217;d spare a moment to consider the contents of discontentment&#8230; both in culture, and in me. Should I do this job or that? Live here or there? Be social or study? Spend [...]]]></description>
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