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LYREBIRD SINGING 

https://youtu.be/Q3Sga4MWeVw 

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. The striving to free oneself from this delusion is the one issue of true religion. Not to nourish it but to try to overcome it is the way to reach the attainable measure of peace of mind.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)  Mathematical Circles

"...compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.-"

Albert Schweitzer (German medical Missionary, Theologian, Musician and Philosopher. 1952 Nobel Peace Prize, 1875-1965)

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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

 

 

LOVE IS LETTING GO OF FEAR 

 

Peaceable Kingdom, Patti Smith

https://youtu.be/KiAKcGPzJU4

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Dass Guided Imagery

ALL GUIDED IMAGERY



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.


LOOKING AHEAD:

 

3-2 EARTHLINGS 2 BLOG DUE by midnight

(YOU MUST DO AT LEAST ONE OF THESE BLOGS OR -10)

3-7Carnism ;

3-9  P1B DUE  REINDEER'S BIRTHDAY (2-22) BOBCAT's birthday (3/5) TIGER's birthday 3/13 JAGUAR'S BIRTHDAY

Documentaries Mask and Peaceable Kingdom and blog opportunities for more points

3-9  P1B DUE LATE PENALTIES -10 PER CLASS DAY

 


LOOKING AHEAD further:

3-21 Carnism and Sustainability  3-23, 3-28, 3-30 Carroll, Alice books 4-4 P2a due 4-6 Racism Alice Walker 4-11, 4-13, 4-18 Fowler, Beside Ourselves  4-20 Research Universities and Animals  Carroll, Adams 4-25 Boulle, Kafka  4-27 Paradise Regained Isaiah, Virgil  5-2 Paradise Regained Hicks, Davis 5-4 P2b due

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3-2  THE CHALLENGE: LOVE VS FEAR, AGAPE VS THANATOS, COMPASSION VS SADISM

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1190-1196  Hogarth, "Four Stages of Cruelty"

 

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1181-1189           Lord of the Flies

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1197-1201           The Animal Cruelty Syndrome

1203-1205           "The New Sadism"

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ORIGINS OF DOMINION IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION

1211-1224           "Genesis"

1225-1226           Milton

1227-1238           Paradise Lost bks.7,9

1239-1242           "Old Testament Attitudes Toward Nature"

1249-1248           Luke, Brutal: Manhood and the Exploitation of Animals,

1249-1250           Derrida on Genesis, from Bump, Ethics and the Environment]

1251-1257           Lynn White, " Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis

 

 

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

1206-1210           Sadism in Yale and Stanford Experiments

Yale Experiment 2015 movie, trailer:

https://youtu.be/O1VOZhwRvWo

 


 

https://youtu.be/SNrL7hq7WVg

1202                        Crush Videos Protected


 

 

https://youtu.be/GelOzUYb6Wc

Starving a Dog to Death as "Art"

  Guardian article

 

 

Schadenfreude

 

http://youtu.be/4XmZIcmRKkc

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