Friday, 13 July 2012

Re: {PBJFlorida} Digest for pbjflorida@googlegroups.com - 5 Messages in 2 Topics

Jim, I, too, love the quote. This is exactly what I fight constantly, as people are taught not to think any longer. They are not even taught the skills necessary to logically know how to deduce and make sense of things. I am having to take another intro class to Philosophy for my degree (lost the appeal, and since I was a Philos major, that in itself is very humorous and questionable), but it is totally scary how many totally closed minds there are among the students, so many brainwashed by right wingism that they have no idea what they really believe in, and when you get them discussing on the board, they really are not that but they argue til they are blue that they are that, like it is a badge of social acceptance to be labeled unthinking for yourself.

I told my students years ago the next civil war in this country would not be based on race or class, but between those who had been taught to think and those who had been taught not to think.  I do believe I am right, and that the almighty dollar will have a lot to do with it.

Amira
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    Katie Gillett <gillett.katie@gmail.com> Jul 12 09:39AM -0400  

    Hi all,
     
    I have a friend here who was considering going to a conference about Women's Empowerment hosted by the Omega Institute, but she wanted to know more about them and I remembered that somebody had mentioned them during one of our original PBJ brainstorming sessions. Can't remember who knew about them!
     
    Miguel, Penny, Yassine, Louise...anybody have first hand info on the Omega Institute, their politics and worldview, etc.?
     
    Thanks!
    Katie

     

    Penny Villegas <pennyvillegas31@gmail.com> Jul 12 10:18AM -0400  

    I have been at Omega and it's wonderful. I should say it was wonderful;
    it's 8-10 years since I was there, but I don't think it could have changed
    much.
    I was a member of the Sufi Order of the West, and our teacher Pir Vilayat
    Khan was one of the founders of Omega. They have a high spiritual purpose!
    Peace~
    Penny
     
     
     
     
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    Katie Gillett <gillett.katie@gmail.com> Jul 12 08:55PM -0400  

    Awesome, thanks Penny! I can always count on you. I will pass this
    information on to her.
     
    On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Penny Villegas

     

    Michael Rodriguez <fireryphoenix@hotmail.com> Jul 12 01:23PM -0400  

    So true Jim. So true.

     
     
     
    Subject: Re: {PBJFlorida} How to Think and create
    From: jimbelcher350@me.com
    Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:48:51 -0400
    To: pbjflorida@googlegroups.com
     
     
    Excellent quote. Very telling about our crisis in education. This is so critical to our community spiritual development and it could start with an education revolution. UNTIL STUDENTS stand up to THEIR universities (and parents stand up to schools before that) and demand to be taught and to be able to discuss with each other their imaginings, their dreams, their possibilities, their values, their purpose in life and their visions for the future, we will continue sleepwalking to a very bleak destiny.
     
     
     
    On Jul 11, 2012, at 2:05 PM, Michael Rodriguez <fireryphoenix@hotmail.com> wrote:
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
    ..And how to see in a nation of the blind. Excellent article!

    "Human imagination, the capacity to have vision, to build a life of meaning rather than utilitarianism, is as delicate as a flower. And if it is crushed, if a Shakespeare or a Sophocles is no longer deemed useful in the empirical world of business, careerism and corporate power, if universities think a Milton Friedman or a Friedrich Hayek is more important to their students than a Virginia Woolf or an Anton Chekhov, then we become barbarians. We assure our own extinction. Students who are denied the wisdom of the great oracles of human civilization—visionaries who urge us not to worship ourselves, not to kneel before the base human emotion of greed—cannot be educated. They cannot think." - Chris Hedges

    For full article, please click on the link below:

    http://www.truthdig.com/report/page2/how_to_think_20120709/
     
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    Penny Villegas <pennyvillegas31@gmail.com> Jul 12 01:47PM -0400  

    I have been working on this as a side bar of my classes for 30 years. I too
    think it is vital to humanity and I know it is what makes students engage.
    They know the importance and the rush of creativity, but they/we are all
    stuck in a capitalistic world where we all have to earn money to survive.
    You could start a community (remember Nagler's community?) of like minded
    people. Or you could start something like the School of Holistic Living
    which functions here in Orlando and which touches some of the bases. I have
    been invited to present a session for August 2.
    "We must be the change we wish to see in the world."
    Penny
     
     
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