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OUR CLAN ANIMAL     our song

INSPIRATIONS

A human being is a part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space.  He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.  This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.  Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.  Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)  Mathematical Circles

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Pay attention, then you will know there are other options. It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but  sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.

 

David Foster Wallace, Commencement Speech

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Love alone can unite living beings so as to complete and fulfill them... for it alone joins them by what is deepest in themselves. All we need is to imagine our ability to love developing until it embraces the totality of men and the earth." 
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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"LOVE AND DO WHAT YOU WILL"  St. Augustine

 

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Dass Guided Imagery

 blogs for the week due by 11:59 PM the previous Sunday.

ETHICS GOALS

[2A2] The second goal of the required leadership/ethics flag courses -- learn to make real-life ethical choices -- is closely related to the core purpose of the University of Texas, to transform lives for the benefit of society. It is also one of the basic education requirements of U.T.: “have experience in thinking about moral and ethical problems.”

our primary approach is the oldest: ethics guided by lovingkindness; more specifically, by three nonbinary emotions: biophilia, inner peace, joie de vivre

honi soit mottohoni soit motto[2A2f] To practice replacing fear and greed with love, compassion, tolerance, and the sympathetic imagination.

OTHER GOALS

honi soit motto[3C1] To unify the self: our goal is to maximize our potential by cultivating both sides of our brains, developing all our multiple intelligences.

honi soit motto[ To practice listening.

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  Hogarth, "Four Stages of Cruelty"

2-16 Obstacles to Compassion: the Need for Domination

Sadism 1st half b&w; QUIZ;  LEADER: WOLF

239‐245     Hogarth, "Four Stages of Cruelty"

246‐250     The Animal Cruelty Syndrome

251              Crush Videos Protected

252-254     "The New Sadism"

255-­259     Sadism in Yale and Stanford Experiments

260‐294     Zimbardo, "Stanford Prison Experiment"

 

 

 

 

Stanford Prison Experiment 2015 movie, trailer:   https://youtu.be/7LviGTHud5w

Stanford Prison Experiment 2010 movie, trailer :

http://youtu.be/4Q7oH4WH8wU

Stanford Prison Experiment documentary:

http://youtu.be/fKT-LcFrA78

 

Yale Experiment 2015 movie, trailer:

https://youtu.be/O1VOZhwRvWo

 

 

https://youtu.be/SNrL7hq7WVg

Crush Videos

 

 

 

https://youtu.be/GelOzUYb6Wc

Starving a Dog to Death as "Art"

  Guardian article

 

 

Schadenfreude

 

http://youtu.be/4XmZIcmRKkc

 

 

 

 

LOOKING AHEAD: 

Be on the Right Side of History. Have you ever wondered how much water or land is used to make your meals? (hint: ~2,500 gallons of water is needed to produce 1 pound of beef!!) Well, peta2 is coming to campus and will have an exhibit showing the environmental effects of all our diets! Come by and find out about how you can make a big impact on saving our planet by reducing your meat intake!

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Thursday (2/18/16): 10am - 3pm at Gregory Gym

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Obstacles to Compassion: Domination and "Family" Dynamics

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2-23 Fowler 1 pairs B and W; QUIZ; LEADER: BLACK BEAR; must bring book to class or -10

338-341     Kingsolver, Fowler review

2-25 Fowler 2 2nd half b&w; QUIZ; LEADER: DEER

3-1 Fowler 3 1st half b&w;QUIZ; LEADER?

3-1 P3 critiques due by midnight

 

 

 


honi soit motto

Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk, once wrote, "to allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to the violence of our times.

More than that, it is cooperation with violence. The frenzy of the activist neutralizes his work for peace. It destroys her own inner capacity for peace. It destroys the fruitfulness of his own work because it kills the root of inner wisdom which makes work fruitful."

One interpretation: The fear of failure and the need to get things done create this downward spiral of the spirit. To break this "circle of violence" we must step back, reflect, meditate. While at rest we may be able to see things anew, which will increase our "fruitfulness at work" and at home.

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"Stress Recess" Stressed by papers? Tests? Relationship issues? For these and other stressors, take a few minutes to check out a new interactive website called "Stress Recess" at http://www.cmhc.utexas.edu/stressrecess, a component of the UT Counseling and Mental Health Center. This site is loaded with videos, animation, video games, body scans, quizzes, clickable charts and graphics and practical information tailored to YOU. Learn what causes stress, signs of stress and—most importantly---what you can do to manage stress in healthy ways!

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