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	<title>The Horizon of Reason &#187; Peter Prevos</title>
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	<description>Exploring the boundaries of logic and perception</description>
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		<title>The Psychic Octopus is a Fraud</title>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2010/07/10/octopus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Prevos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous Debris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chaos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[divination]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mysticism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Reflections on the football match predicting octupus.]]></description>
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		<title>Deception in the Arts</title>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2010/06/13/deception/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 07:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Prevos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Magic]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[deception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exposure]]></category>

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Jay Sankey recently asked himself why there is such an obsession with the method of magic tricks. This obsession comes from both sides of the stage curtain. Magicians spend most of their time perfecting new methods to achieve the same old effects. Spectators are obsessed with the method because they are presented with a mystery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pagan University</title>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2010/05/08/ritual/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 06:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Prevos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Magic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[academic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[esoterica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mysticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[occult]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[shaman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I took part in a pagan ritual. I did not dance naked around a camp fire nor did I undertake an invocation of ancient gods. The heathen ritual I took part in was a university graduation.
The pomp and circumstance of the academic dress and procession seem to be innocent reminders of ancient traditions to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven Deadly Sins</title>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2010/05/02/sins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 05:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Prevos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sociology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ancient Greece]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heraclitus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sex]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How the seven deadly sins influence culture, based on the book Sex, Bombs and Burgers by Peter Nowak.]]></description>
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		<title>Wave of Mutilation</title>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2010/03/27/mutilation/</link>
		<comments>http://prevos.net/wp/2010/03/27/mutilation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 04:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Prevos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous Debris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non sum qualis eram]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Review of the March 2010 Pixies concert in Melbourne.]]></description>
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		<title>Are you sure &#8230; ?</title>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2010/03/07/sure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Prevos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Magic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Response to one of Alvo Stockman's ideas on the psychology of magic.]]></description>
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		<title>Proud to be a Neanderthal</title>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2010/03/04/neanderthal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Prevos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous Debris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[evolution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non sum qualis eram]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It has been suggested that I look like a Neanderthal. Some people might see this as an insult. Recent research has, however, shown that Neanderthal was not the brutish ape, but a sophisticated human species. I am thus proud to be Neanderthal!]]></description>
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		<title>God exists!</title>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2010/02/28/god/</link>
		<comments>http://prevos.net/wp/2010/02/28/god/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Prevos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kurt Gödel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[logic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kurt Gödel's mathematical proof of God]]></description>
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		<title>The Praise of Folly</title>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2010/02/17/carnival/</link>
		<comments>http://prevos.net/wp/2010/02/17/carnival/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 09:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Prevos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anthropology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non sum qualis eram]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some deliberations about the place of carnival in contemporary society.]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing more practical than a good theory</title>
		<link>http://hypotheticorp.org/wp/management/theory/</link>
		<comments>http://hypotheticorp.org/wp/management/theory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Prevos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous Debris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[science]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why is there so much humbug in management literature?]]></description>
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		<title>Magic Blueprinting: Using MML for scripting routines</title>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2010/01/04/blueprinting/</link>
		<comments>http://prevos.net/wp/2010/01/04/blueprinting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:55:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Prevos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Magic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exposure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.prevos.net/?p=397</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Using Alvo Stockman's Magic Modelling Language to analyse the dynamics of magic routines.]]></description>
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		<title>The Magic of Special Effects</title>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2010/01/03/special-effects/</link>
		<comments>http://prevos.net/wp/2010/01/03/special-effects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 09:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Prevos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Magic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prevos.net/blog/?p=268</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just got back from watching Avatar and was blown away by the special effects. Watching it in 3D really transports you into another world; unfortunately the storyline was only one dimensional. Some aspects of the movie are truly magical in the sense that disbelief is totally suspended. Cinematographic technology has developed rapidly the past decades [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adelaide Magic Convention</title>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2009/10/19/adelaide-magic-convention/</link>
		<comments>http://prevos.net/wp/2009/10/19/adelaide-magic-convention/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:42:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Prevos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Magic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anthropology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I got home from Adelaide after attending a magic convention. Here are some impressions of this weekend of thaumaturgy.
The two and a half day gathering of magicians and magic enthusiasts started with a Close-Up show. It quickly became clear that this would be a weekend of card tricks, more card tricks and even some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zombie Strippers</title>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2009/09/27/zombie-strippers/</link>
		<comments>http://prevos.net/wp/2009/09/27/zombie-strippers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 23:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Prevos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friedrich Nietzsche]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meaning of Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sex]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prevos.net/blog/?p=45</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
“Great tits huh? Yes, but what does it mean?”
Last year I watched Zombie Strippers with a few friends and was amused by its extravagant combination of nudity, gore and philosophy. Some might consider this a pretentious B-movie, but that assumes that the philosophical content of this flick are mere sound bites and not a coherent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strategic Management and Serendipity</title>
		<link>http://hypotheticorp.org/wp/essays/serendipity/</link>
		<comments>http://hypotheticorp.org/wp/essays/serendipity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 05:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Prevos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous Debris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Hume]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rationality]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.prevos.net/?p=357</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Life is unpredictable and much of human culture is in essence a means to deal with the unpredictable. We can not know whether the next harvest will fail, whether we still have a job next year or when we will die. Ancient systems, such as astrology and other forms of divination were developed to reduce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Environmental Responsibility for Managers</title>
		<link>http://hypotheticorp.org/wp/essays/responsibility/</link>
		<comments>http://hypotheticorp.org/wp/essays/responsibility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Prevos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous Debris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Immanuel Kant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.prevos.net/?p=364</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ethical analysis of the environmental responsibility of managers based on a case study.]]></description>
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		<title>The rat race</title>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2009/06/16/the-rat-race/</link>
		<comments>http://prevos.net/wp/2009/06/16/the-rat-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Prevos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friedrich Nietzsche]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meaning of Life]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prevos.net/blog/?p=278</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After several months of essay writing I finally have some time to reflect. I do enjoy studying the MBA, but sometimes it does makes me wonder why I do this. When I studied philosophy I decided to put my career on hold. Now that I am finishing this MBA I feel like I need to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes mystery is more important than knowledge</title>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2009/05/21/mystery/</link>
		<comments>http://prevos.net/wp/2009/05/21/mystery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 12:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Prevos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Magic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[epistemology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mysticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prevos.net/blog/?p=274</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have recently been introduced to ted.com, a great website that features &#8220;riveting talks by remarkable people&#8221;. One of the talks that I found very interesting is by J.J. Abrams, one of the creators of the TV series Lost. One of the most thought provoking things he says is:

Sometimes mystery is more important than knowledge.


A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting the employees you deserve</title>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2009/04/30/deserve/</link>
		<comments>http://prevos.net/wp/2009/04/30/deserve/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Prevos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous Debris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.prevos.net/?p=370</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“Management gets the employees it deserves”, Carl snarlingly uttered as he returned to his desk. Natasha, with whom he had shared a cubicle for longer than they cared to remember, turned around. “What makes you say that? What happened?” Carl was obviously still upset as he threw his hands in the air. “This new guy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnamese selfishness</title>
		<link>http://prevos.net/wp/2009/04/21/vietnamese-selfishness/</link>
		<comments>http://prevos.net/wp/2009/04/21/vietnamese-selfishness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 09:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Prevos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Miscellaneous Debris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hanoi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://prevos.net/blog/?p=216</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Asian cultures are usually characterised as being collective in nature. This basically means that people prioritise the objectives of a group over their own individual objectives Sitting on a fifth floor café in Hanoi, sipping a Bia Ha Noi and watching the traffic, I would almost contradict that age old wisdom about collective cultures. As [...]]]></description>
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