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Showing posts with label graduation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label graduation. Show all posts
Monday, June 1, 2026
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Say NO to Genocide Joe! Morehouse College
Pres. Biden greeted by protesters at Morehouse College commencement
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Friday, May 17, 2024
The wisdom of Jerry Seinfeld at Duke U?
(@trtworld) Pro-Palestine students at Duke boo Jerry Seinfeld, walk out
Seinfeld's stunning message for woke students
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| Judaism beyond Zionism (jvp.org) |
Some students had to walk out on their own graduation if this is who Duke thinks should be invited to speak. Should Israel be allowed to compete in Eurovision 2024? What, just because of their war crimes, or that Israel is not in Europe? Is it the genocide or the fact that Israelis behave like an Ashkenazi monoculture?
Seinfeld stands with the genocide or, at least, not against it. He's almost a billionaire, and he has many Jewish friends he does not want to upset.
Moreover, much of his identity is wrapped up in such a way that he can't start questioning Zionism or his secular Judaism now. It's not as if he's going to give Ultra-Orthodox Jews the time of day.]
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| Ceasefire NOW (ifnotnowmovement.org) |
Palestinian comedian explains all the watermelons
NOTE: Yes, JP has gone conservative and maybe that makes him less funny, but he is still a considerate voice along the lines of Russell Brand, and he's funnier than most other commentators. We may not be big Seinfeld fans (and not just because he made a horrible movie called PopTarts but because he was the least funny thing about Seinfeld when he should have been the funniest. He wasn't even writing the best parts of it for the others; that was genius Larry "Curb Your Enthusiasm" David.
- شرش | Shoresh | שר”ש (@shoresh_us) • Anti-Zionist Jews
- NOT IN OUR NAME! (ifnotnowmovement.org)
- Jewish IDF veterans: breakingthesilence.org.il
- American Veterans for Peace
- Code Pink: Women for Peace
- American Civil Liberties Union
- Amnesty International
- Jerry Seinfeld; Awakening with JP; Shauna Schwartz, Sheldon S., Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Wednesday, June 7, 2023
Vegans: Animal Chaplaincy Training (6/25)
Wm. Melton (Compassion Consortium), Ananda (DBM), Dhr. Seven (ed.), Wisdom Quarterly
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| I can help animals and humans? Yes! |
The service will include practices, prayers, and messages created by the emerging chaplains, celebrating their certification, graduation, and ordination who have completed the initial-year of the Compassion Consortium's 9-month Animal Training Chaplaincy program.
It will include immersive spiritual practices — such as a musical reflection, meditation, prayer, and loving-kindness (metta).
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| This muscle is built from 100% vegan foods |
The training program helps them fulfill their heart’s call to honor and celebrate the lives of all species, including how to companion them through joys and challenges.
The program is non-denominational and does not require students to have any specific spiritual outlook. It does, however, work with a diverse set of belief systems, so that students can support people regardless of their own personal outlook.
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| Beauty's in a bottle or on a table? |
Training includes live classes (available worldwide via Zoom) with CC faculty and guest speakers. The program also features curated readings and reflections, film discussions, peer-supported practice groups, 1-on-1 mentoring, and community-based experiential sessions.
An optional year-end, in-person retreat is offered.
The curriculum combines chaplaincy fundamentals and bereavement basics with best practices from the innovative fields of inter-spirituality, humane education, animal theology, nature spirituality, and human-animal studies.
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| Pat and animal companion |
Monday, May 25, 2020
Daily Show: week in review (comedy)
Trevor Noah, The Daily Show, May 23, 2020; CC Liu, Seth Auberon (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
What the Hull Happened This Week?
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| T. Noah |
- twitter.com/TheDailyShow
How's that DT working out?
Saturday, May 16, 2020
Obama Gate and Commencement Speech
Barry Soetoro Obama (NBC News, 5/16/20); Max Blumenthal, Jimmy Dore; Wisdom Quarterly
B.S. Obama: Pandemic has "finally torn back the curtain" on Trump admin
Ex-Pres. Obama criticized the Trump administration for its mishandled response to the pandemic, lockdown, and search for treatment during his first commencement speech of the day, which was for the students graduating from 78 historically black colleges and universities. For his second speech he got much more mellow and loveable, letting the B.S. (Barry Soetoro) rhetoric fly like a skilled orator who sold out his country and supporters to the right wing.
(Barry Obama) The second and longer commencement speech of the day
Comedy: Spacey and Syria hoax (video)
Jimmy Dore, Mike MacRae; Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S., Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly
We live in a world where presidents are buffoons and/or village idiots and stand-up comedians are whistleblowers and reliable news sources. What a world to live in. Jimmy Dore is just about the only voice out there telling it like it is without bias for either party. The Democrats are as much to blame as the Republicans, because they are two wings of the same one-party system we suffer under, the Money Party.
The ideals of the left may be loftier and nicer and after our own hearts, but there is no left now. The right wing has to rely on an entertainer -- Elect a Clown, Expect a Circus -- and anyone who gets disgruntled (like Mittens Romney fans) gets drubbed into silence because the GOP is currently winning according to the scoreboard. Where is a voice of reason amidst the nonsense, in the throat of a professional court jester. Still a Hillary "War Criminal" Clinton supporter? Help sexual predator Joey Biden on Zoom.
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| Pizza Gate sex predators unite behind Joe. |
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| I don't like Donny John. I like Joey and Co. |
Thursday, April 20, 2017
Conan O'Brien: college commencement speech
Conan O'Brien (Team Coco/TBS); Melissa Dev, CC Liu, Seth Aubeorn, Wisdom Quarterly
(Team Coco Conan share some timeless and encouraging words for the prestigious Dartmouth College senior class on the day of their graduation. More: teamcoco.com.
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Grad Night and Intolerance (video)
Pat Macpherson, Crystal Quintero, Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly; Matt Bai (news.yahoo)
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| "Die-in" San Francisco protest (IM) |
America's college students are back and resting at home this week, which is a good thing, because during the long months away they seem to have gone completely out of their minds.
Last weekend, The New York Times' Jennifer Medina reported on the latest bizarre demand on campus: "trigger warnings" to let students know if the text [book] they're about to study will expose them to some version of misogyny or homophobia, so they aren't unexpectedly [re-]traumatized by visions of things that can never be unseen -- like, say, every novel written by a white man before 1960 [Hey, by the way, I'm a privileged white male, but never mind that].
The Harvard Commencement Speech
PC on overdrive: Ali G. (Sacha Baron Cohen aka Borat) gives commencement speech at America's most prestigious university in 2004.
That followed the public [sham]ings of several commencement speakers whose invitations had to be rescinded, including such evildoers as [Bush Era war criminal] former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the International Monetary Fund's [bankster] Christine Lagarde, and [insider] Robert Birgeneau, the former chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley.
All of this has provoked a torrent of eloquent condemnation from pundits and academics, who worry that our elite universities, in the words of an editorial published in Monday’s Washington Post, are being "impoverished by intolerance."
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| One of Obama's alleged alma maters, Oxy |
[This] is a reasonable concern, except that it misses the point. It's not the students' fault that they expect to laze around in a world of ideological comfort. It's totally ours.
There's nothing new about the basic tension between speech and sensitivity on campus. When I was at Tufts in the late '80s, at the height of what we called political correctness [PC], we argued fiercely about whether the military belonged on campus [ROTC] or whether certain faculty members were denied tenure because of their politics. But, by and large, we were primed to have the debate, not chill it. More
How we rule the world: Confessions of an Economic Hitman (John Perkins, Y Audiobooks)
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Why are Jataka Tales told?
Wisdom Quarterly ANALYSIS
Some may wonder why Jataka Tales -- predecessors of many Aesop's Fables -- are told since nearly every one of them follows the same predictable pattern:
- The Buddha hears of someone behaving in a peculiar way.
- He points out that not only in this birth, but tragically in a previous birth as well, the person behaved in the same way.
- Talking animals ensue.
- And this connection is made: that very person was the protagonist, I was such and such, and some prominent disciple was the other.
The only logical conclusion to be drawn from reading hundreds of these fables (often parables) is the predictable fact that "as the person did before, he or she has done again." This would in no way justify these tall tales, which seem more child's entertainment than Dharma. What would justify them? Editor Prof. E.B. Cowell, and translator Prof. Robert Chalmers of Oxford University, point out the reason that is left from almost every translation of these tales:
Thus the Buddha ended his lesson -- the parable, fable, birth-story -- to show that as now so too in bygone days, and this done, he unfolded the Four Noble Truths. (This unfolding of the Four Noble Truths forms part of ALL the Jatakas).* But the Pali Text Society, unlike most other translators who neglect to mention the Four Noble Truths, only mentions them where it is expressly stated that doing so led to someone's enlightenment by way of stream-winning, the first stage of enlightenment.
Interestingly, "entering the stream" (becoming a sotapanna) -- a metaphor for a profound and irreversible psychological transformation -- may be taken to mean "entering (enlightenment) by way of the ear." Almost every occasion in the sutras when someone is said to become enlightened, it is by listening to the Dharma rather than silent meditation.
One's mind becomes pliable and tractable through meditation or through listening to a progressive discourse (on giving, virtue, the heavens, the Dharma, and the Abhidharma) leading to the arousal of spiritual/religious feeling, confidence (faith), yearning to attain liberation, and finally insight. The German scholar-monk, Ven. Nyanatiloka, explains:
PROGRESS OF A DISCIPLE: Gradual development of the Noble Eightfold Path. In many sutras an identical passage occurs that outlines the gradual course of development in the progress of the disciple. There it is shown how this development takes place gradually and in conformity with laws, from the very first hearing of the doctrine [Dharma], and from germinating faith and dim comprehension, up to the final realization of deliverance [nirvana].
"After hearing the [Dharma], one is filled with confidence, and one thinks: 'Full of hindrances is household life, a refuse heap. But the wandering life (of a recluse) is like the open air....'"
What are the Four Noble Truths, and why are they so important that they would be mentioned again and again at the end of every Jataka Tale? These pithy ennobling truths are an encapsulation of the Buddha's Teaching. Simply hearing an explanation often led to the arising of the "stainless eye of the Dharma," that is, the initial moment of enlightenment for those ripe in virtue, calm, and wisdom.
- There is dukkha (unhappiness of all kinds).
- Dukkha has a cause; it is not without a cause.
- There is perfect happiness (nirvana).
- There is a way to perfect happiness.
*This is noted in The Jataka: Stories of the Buddha's Former Births, Vol. I, Book I, p. 70, as a note connected to Jataka 27, Abhinha-Jataka, a story of an elephant and a dog who are best friends.
Friday, June 19, 2009
Work as Therapy: Cubicle as Couch
The author of "Listening to Prozac" on how we work it out at work
WSJ.com
In his role as therapist, a psy-chiatrist sometimes offers an astringent form of reassur-ance. It goes, “No, you’re not crazy; things are as bad as you imagine.” Addressing anyone entering the job market today, I would acknowledge the obvi-ous: conditions are bleak.... We rely on good jobs for our sense of well-being. Today, young people are routed into employment that has scant relationship to their aspirations. The losses of pay and opportunity are serious, but my concern goes beyond work as a source of income or even of achievement to work as it shapes our identity. Who we are in our solitary moments and in our close relationships is a product of who we are on the job. Increasingly, it’s the workplace, as much as the home, that provides lessons about how to face personal challenges. More>>
WSJ.com
In his role as therapist, a psy-chiatrist sometimes offers an astringent form of reassur-ance. It goes, “No, you’re not crazy; things are as bad as you imagine.” Addressing anyone entering the job market today, I would acknowledge the obvi-ous: conditions are bleak.... We rely on good jobs for our sense of well-being. Today, young people are routed into employment that has scant relationship to their aspirations. The losses of pay and opportunity are serious, but my concern goes beyond work as a source of income or even of achievement to work as it shapes our identity. Who we are in our solitary moments and in our close relationships is a product of who we are on the job. Increasingly, it’s the workplace, as much as the home, that provides lessons about how to face personal challenges. More>>
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