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Category: AnarchoCynicism

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  Dissent and Punishment in the Book of Life: Introduction to Henry Giroux’s “Youth in Revolt”

  Young people are demonstrating all over the world against a variety of issues ranging from economic injustice and massive inequality to drastic cuts in education and public services.1 In the fall of 2011, on the tenth anniversary of September 11, as the United States revisited the tragic loss and celebrated…

  January 31, 2013
• AnarchoCynicism

  From Marx to Ratzinger. The Turning Point Manifesto

  See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions It’s not just the Courtyard of the Gentiles. In the borderland between faith and lack of faith, the season of conversions has returned. And of Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: “…In the Catholic Church, famous converts played a role of the greatest importance between the…

  January 30, 2013
• AnarchoCynicism Method or META HODOS Philosophy as a Way of Life

  Don’t Look Down!

  The next time you go rock climbing or scrambling up a peak, someone may give you some clichéd but good advice: “Don’t look down.” This is not just a recommendation that works with struggling up a physical height. Often, you will need to remember these words when communicating with someone…

  January 29, 2013
• AnarchoCynicism Dao de Jing Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy Philosophy as a Way of Life

  

  Letting-go Hateful Circumstance by the Naming of the World

  The oppressed, the put-upon, the dejected–all sink into an existence where the oppressor counts on never being challenged because the ones who are afflicted would do anything to be something other than the down-trodden. Those who grow in such power cannot conceive that very many would ever break the chains…

  January 28, 2013
• AnarchoCynicism Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy Philosophy as a Way of Life

  Jeopardized and Jeopardizing

  “As we attempt to analyze dialogue as a human phenomenon, we discover something which is the essence of dialogue itself: the word. But the word is more than just an instrument which makes dialogue possible; accordingly, we must seek its constitutive elements. Within the word we find two dimensions, reflection…

  January 28, 2013
• AnarchoCynicism Art/Skill/Techne Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy

  Without a Teacher

  Having awakened to Encompassing Mindfulness, what master can make of you a mere disciple? Let-go seeking after authority: liberate this being, this self! Source: Uploaded by user via Keith Wayne on Pinterest  

  January 28, 2013
• AnarchoCynicism Control Method or META HODOS

  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                                    …

  January 28, 2013
• AnarchoCynicism Method or META HODOS

  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  

  January 28, 2013
• AnarchoCynicism Method or META HODOS Philosophy as a Way of Life

  

  Breaking Free of Disappointment

  January 23, 2013
• AnarchoCynicism Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy

  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

  January 23, 2013
• AnarchoCynicism Control Method or META HODOS Philosophy as a Way of Life

  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 the rest of your day, friend, this article is not…

  January 22, 2013
• AnarchoCynicism Control Philosophy as a Way of Life

  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 go: clean, suburban-feeling, with a soapy smell that lingers on…

  January 21, 2013
• AnarchoCynicism Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy Philosophy as a Way of Life

  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 circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.…

  January 21, 2013
• AnarchoCynicism Art/Skill/Techne Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy Philosophy as a Way of Life

  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 you the dynamics of faith and to those much older…

  January 21, 2013
• AnarchoCynicism Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy

  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, there is no reason to the rhyme, and that realization…

  January 21, 2013
• AnarchoCynicism Art/Skill/Techne Method or META HODOS Perennial Philosophy Philosophy as a Way of Life

  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 for us to follow. Source: google.com via Katharina on Pinterest Thanks to the Commonzense of St.…

  January 20, 2013
• AnarchoCynicism Perennial Philosophy Philosophy as a Way of Life

  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

  January 20, 2013
• AnarchoCynicism Perennial Philosophy Philosophy as a Way of Life

  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

  January 17, 2013