AnarchoCynicism – Page 16

January 28, 2013

The Banking Conception of Education

“In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing.” Paulo Freire, The Pedagogy of the Oppressed … Continue reading

January 28, 2013

Freedom & the Loving Struggle

“Liberation is thus a childbirth, and a painful one.” Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed Source: etsy.com via Joni on Pinterest Continue reading

January 23, 2013

Breaking Free of Disappointment

January 23, 2013

Thinking Beyond Yourself

“The time [being 36 yrs old] is a critical one, for it marks the beginning of the second half of life, when a metanoia, a mental transformation, not infrequently occurs. ― C.G. Jung, Symbols of Transformation Continue reading

January 22, 2013

6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person | Cracked.com

LET’S DO THIS. “Do what?” you ask. I DON’T KNOW. LET’S FIGURE THAT OUT TOGETHER, MOTHERFUCKERS. Feel free to stop reading this if your career is going great, you’re thrilled with your life and you’re happy with your relationships. Enjoy… Continue reading

January 21, 2013

Reading Plato on Death Row – New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science

A really powerful & timely philosophical practice. Every Wednesday, I go to Riverbend Maximum Security Prison in Nashville to facilitate a discussion group with prisoners on death row and philosophy graduate students. It’s a nice prison, as far as prisons… Continue reading

January 21, 2013

Part or Particle of God

Standing on the bare ground, — my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, — all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being… Continue reading

January 21, 2013

The Socratic Sign

There comes a time when you notice that a good swathe of your contemporaries are only worth engaging in order to sharpen your rhetorical weapons. To improve your mindful practice, you must turn to those much younger who recover within… Continue reading

January 21, 2013

How Brewing Coffee Can Up Cognitive Dexterity « SolsticeSon’s Celebrational Servings

A really nice meditation on the need to change the routine using an everyday example to drive home the notion. Kudos! Start seeing your actions from an outside perspective and questioning why you do what you do. In many cases,… Continue reading

January 20, 2013

A Wide World of Compassion

I contemplate a great deal how the Great Sages & Ancestors all say so many of the same things. Comparative philosophy leads to an open embrace of all peoples. Compassion is a wide road, even if not the easiest one… Continue reading

January 20, 2013

Healing Injury

“It is not violence that best overcomes hate — nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre Source: socialphy.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest Continue reading

January 17, 2013

Jumping to Judgment, Shipwrecked by Laughter

“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.” -Albert Einstein Source: flickr.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest Continue reading

January 14, 2013

A Slow, Graceful Pace

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: flickr.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest Continue reading

January 12, 2013

The NRA & the Black Panthers “in dialog”: The Secret History of Guns

Whether we are Christians or Muslims or nationalists or agnostics or atheists, we must first learn to forget our differences. If we have differences, let us differ in the closet; when we come out in front, let us not have… Continue reading

January 10, 2013

Mindfulness or Fearfulness

“Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.” -William Shakespeare There is a great deal of viciousness & dis-ease in the United States of America: poverty; mental disorders; drug addiction; bigotry; compulsive obsessive consumption of sex, violence, food, celebrity, television, etc… Continue reading

January 10, 2013

More than One Direction in which Millennials Can Thrive

Yestereve, I contemplated so much how today’s youth can survive the world wrought by their parents and grandparents, that I dreamed about it. I especially want to thank my friend Matthew for asking for further clarification. Below you will see… Continue reading

January 9, 2013

Young people are screwed… Here’s how to survive

Wow. This is a really good piece that is totally worth a read. And then a reread. And then maybe a further read. If you are someone who entered adulthood in the last few years, you are a Generation Y… Continue reading

January 8, 2013

Mixing Quotes Like DJ Anarchocynic: Einstein, Gandhi, MLK & Thoreau

Philosophizing can be stupidly long winded. I know from personal experience: I can blather with the best of them (just watch some of my earliest podcasts). Here, I begin collecting some of my favorite short but sweet quotes so you,… Continue reading