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Knowledge Reform » Society http://www.knowledgereform.com Inspirational Words of Wisdom, Knowledge & Philosophy Resource Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:09:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Educational Talks: Success is the Accomplishment of the Necessary by Manly P. Hall http://www.knowledgereform.com/2012/02/07/educational-talks-success-is-the-accomplishment-of-the-necessary-by-manly-p-hall/ http://www.knowledgereform.com/2012/02/07/educational-talks-success-is-the-accomplishment-of-the-necessary-by-manly-p-hall/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:09:11 +0000 Jason Cooper http://www.knowledgereform.com/?p=13223 This is an important lecture for those who are puzzling over why we are here and the reasons for our suffering. Manly P. Hall explains it all. He offers solutions to get us out of troubles, teaches us how we should live to move toward a more promising 21st century for humanity. This seminar reveals [...]

]]> http://www.knowledgereform.com/2012/02/07/educational-talks-success-is-the-accomplishment-of-the-necessary-by-manly-p-hall/feed/ 0 Wisdom Books: The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/12/29/wisdom-books-the-nicomachean-ethics-by-aristotle/ http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/12/29/wisdom-books-the-nicomachean-ethics-by-aristotle/#comments Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:14:56 +0000 Jason Cooper http://www.knowledgereform.com/?p=12877 In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness. He argues that happiness consists in ‘activity of the soul in accordance with virtue’, for example with moral virtues, such as courage, generosity and justice, and intellectual virtues, such as knowledge, wisdom and insight. The Ethics also discusses the nature of practical [...]

]]> http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/12/29/wisdom-books-the-nicomachean-ethics-by-aristotle/feed/ 0 Are You Just A Monkey Imprisoned Within Your Own Mind? http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/12/09/are-you-just-a-monkey-imprisoned-within-your-own-mind/ http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/12/09/are-you-just-a-monkey-imprisoned-within-your-own-mind/#comments Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:39:57 +0000 Jason Cooper http://www.knowledgereform.com/?p=12553 The following metaphorical experiment involving monkeys reminds me much of a quote on Truth by Arthur Schopenhauer, especially the “violently opposed” part. The quote is: All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. As for the experiment (true or not), it [...]

]]> http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/12/09/are-you-just-a-monkey-imprisoned-within-your-own-mind/feed/ 0 Thought-Provoking Documentaries: What A Way To Go: Life at the end of Empire http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/12/08/thought-provoking-documentaries-what-a-way-to-go-life-at-the-end-of-empire/ http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/12/08/thought-provoking-documentaries-what-a-way-to-go-life-at-the-end-of-empire/#comments Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:09:28 +0000 Jason Cooper http://www.knowledgereform.com/?p=12527 A middle class white guy comes to grips with Peak Oil, Climate Change, Mass Extinction, Population Overshoot and the demise of the American Lifestyle. From the author; “Hundreds of my readers have told me that my novel Ishmael should be read in every high school classroom in the world. Naturally I’d be delighted to see [...]

]]> http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/12/08/thought-provoking-documentaries-what-a-way-to-go-life-at-the-end-of-empire/feed/ 0 More Words of Truth and Wisdom From George Carlin http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/11/03/more-words-of-truth-and-wisdom-from-george-carlin/ http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/11/03/more-words-of-truth-and-wisdom-from-george-carlin/#comments Thu, 03 Nov 2011 11:05:56 +0000 Jason Cooper http://www.knowledgereform.com/?p=12203 George Carlin sums up in only 3 minutes and 19 seconds what we all should be aware of in this society of illusion. Are we really free individuals, both in mind and body? Well, I will let George explain the rest, which should both liberate and educate one towards seeing the world for what it [...]

]]> http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/11/03/more-words-of-truth-and-wisdom-from-george-carlin/feed/ 0 Wisdom Books: Listen, Little Man! by Wilhelm Reich http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/08/31/wisdom-books-listen-little-man-by-wilhelm-reich/ http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/08/31/wisdom-books-listen-little-man-by-wilhelm-reich/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:16:50 +0000 Jason Cooper http://www.knowledgereform.com/?p=11351 Listen, Little Man! is a great physician’s quiet talk to each one of us, the average human being, the Little Man. Written in 1946 in answer to the gossip and defamation that plagued his remarkable career, it tells how Reich watched, at first naively, then with amazement, and finally with horror, at what the Little [...]

]]> http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/08/31/wisdom-books-listen-little-man-by-wilhelm-reich/feed/ 0 Quote of Wisdom: Anaïs Nin http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/07/11/quote-of-wisdom-anais-nin/ http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/07/11/quote-of-wisdom-anais-nin/#comments Mon, 11 Jul 2011 10:24:03 +0000 Jason Cooper http://www.knowledgereform.com/?p=10718 A sobering but much needed wake-up call for the majority of walking dead that belong to the human race… “You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book(Lady Chatterley, for instance), or you take a trip, or you talk with Richard, and you discover [...]

]]> http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/07/11/quote-of-wisdom-anais-nin/feed/ 1 Quote of Wisdom: David Watson http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/06/23/quote-of-wisdom-david-watson/ http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/06/23/quote-of-wisdom-david-watson/#comments Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:57:45 +0000 Jason Cooper http://www.knowledgereform.com/?p=10397 What then must we do? “We reproduce catastrophe because we ourselves are traumatized –both as a species and individually, beginning at birth. Because we are wounded, we have put up psychic defenses against reality and have become so cut off from direct participation in the multidimensional wilderness in which we are embedded that all we [...]

]]> http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/06/23/quote-of-wisdom-david-watson/feed/ 0 Quote of Wisdom: Michael Ellner http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/06/20/quote-of-wisdom-michael-ellner/ http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/06/20/quote-of-wisdom-michael-ellner/#comments Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:38:40 +0000 Jason Cooper http://www.knowledgereform.com/?p=10390 The following quote perfectly epitomises the apparent ignorance, corruption and decadence happening in the world today. “Just look at us. Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information and religions destroy spirituality.” ~ Michael Ellner Related posts: Quote of [...]

]]> http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/06/20/quote-of-wisdom-michael-ellner/feed/ 0 How The Philosophy Of Socrates Can Overcome Propaganda http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/03/23/how-the-philosophy-of-socrates-can-overcome-propaganda/ http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/03/23/how-the-philosophy-of-socrates-can-overcome-propaganda/#comments Wed, 23 Mar 2011 10:53:05 +0000 Jason Cooper http://www.knowledgereform.com/?p=9871 With the recent political unrest in the Middle East and with the media’s attempts to demonise supposed tyrannical leaders in the shape of Hosni Mubarak (Egypt), Muammar Gaddafi (Libya) and Bashar al-Assad (Syria), one cannot fail to notice that the general populace seems to be constantly bombarded with propaganda, as American, British, French and Israeli air [...]

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