Cynicism (Greek: κυνισμός), in its original form, refers to the beliefs of an ancient school of Greek philosophers known as the Cynics (Greek: Κυνικοί, Latin: Cynici). Their philosophy was that the purpose of life was to live a life of Virtue in agreement with Nature. This meant rejecting all conventional desires for wealth, power, sex, and fame, and by living a simple life free from all possessions. As reasoning creatures, people could gain happiness by rigorous training and by living in a way which was natural for humans. They believed that the world belonged equally to everyone, and that suffering was caused by false judgments of what was valuable and by the worthless customs and conventions which surrounded society. Many of these thoughts were later absorbed into Stoicism.
The first philosopher to outline these themes was Antisthenes, who had been a pupil of Socrates in the late 5th century BCE. He was followed by Diogenes of Sinope, who lived in a tub on the streets of Athens. Diogenes took Cynicism to its logical extremes, and came to be seen as the archetypal Cynic philosopher. He was followed by Crates of Thebes who gave away a large fortune so he could live a life of Cynic poverty in Athens. Cynicism spread with the rise of Imperial Rome in the 1st century, and Cynics could be found begging and preaching throughout the cities of the Empire. It finally disappeared in the late 5th century, although some have claimed that early Christianity adopted many of its ascetic and rhetorical ideas.
Sean Malone is an American musician who plays primarily fretless bass guitar and Chapman stick. However, Malone also plays piano, keyboards, and guitar. Malone did a number of session jobs for various bands and musicians. He is most famous for his work in American band Cynic.
In his early career, Malone has played as a session member for groups ranging from Brazilian jazz to English pop. His first high-level experience in metal music was with the progressive metal band Cynic from Florida. He became Cynic's bassist quite unexpectedly; as Cynic had a scheduled recording of their debut album, Focus in a studio in which Sean Malone was working as an engineer as well as a producer and a session musician. Cynic's bassist at the time left the band short time before the recording would take place, so they invited Malone to do a recording session with them as a bassist. However, Sean proved to have quite a good musical chemistry with the rest of the band, and toured the Focus Tour with the band. The release received very high critical acclaim and in these days is considered as one of the landmark progressive metal records. After the band's first split-up, Malone has continued to work as a session bassist, performing on over fifty records to date. He has also authored four books, "Music Theory for Bassists", "Dictionary Of Bass Grooves", "Rock Bass", and "A Portrait of Jaco: The Solos Collection" (a book of transcriptions of Jaco Pastorius' bass solos) for the Hal Leonard Corporation. In the academic field, Malone has had papers on theory and music cognition published and given presentations at conferences such as the Society for Music Theory, The International Conference of Music and Gesture, and The Glenn Gould Conference, and has taught at the University of Central Missouri as assistant professor of music theory, and at Carnegie Mellon University.
Sean Reinert (born May 27, 1971) is the drummer of Cynic and Æon Spoke. He is known for his technical, original and creative drumming technique.
He credits such drummers as Dave Miranda, John Bonham, Dave Weckl, Gary Husband and Vinnie Colaiuta as being huge influences in his formative years.
In 1991, Reinert and Paul Masvidal (also of Cynic) joined the band Death to record the Human album. This album is seen by many as the start of the technical death metal genre. After touring with Death, he returned to Cynic.
1993 saw the release of Focus (regarded as a landmark release in the field of technical/progressive metal) on the Roadrunner Records label. Roadrunner re-released it in 2005 as a special collector's edition due to high demand. After Cynic's disbandment Reinert had been a member of the Cynic spin-off band Portal which released a demo but eventually disbanded. Having relocated to Los Angelos, Reinert continued working with music by writing and performing for television shows and motion pictures.
Yeah, I made a promise to love myself
But somehow I don't think that I'm gonna make it
Yeah, is that me behind the screen?
I see some shapes but I can't see any faces
An ego might not be so bad
It could be something I should have
I can't make my mind up
Help me with this while I grip this
I made a promise to myself but I think I need some help
If you see something that is good in me won't you tell me?
And maybe I'd be something you could stand
Yeah, I made a promise to love myself
I think this could be good for you as well as me
Yeah, I know I'm not that much fun
The joke I have become doesn't make you laugh
Cursewords sinking better than the metaphors
Soap opera is throwing out the radio
Spit over your shoulder when I'm crossing the road
This amulet brings bad luck for us all
I was once a believer
But now my heart turns in to a stone
Coldheart cynic
That's what's become of me
Coldheart cynic
That's what you've maid of me
No longer the soothing rays of light
Now I'm a resident of night
What a sparkplug, what a shiny talent
What a good sport you are
This year's award goes to you
Tell me all your fucking problems
And i'll listen with and open ear
Then I'll tell you where to take them
Cause I don't fuckin care
You make me sick
With all your standards
Sick with all your rules.
Sick with all your propaganda
You fucking fools...
You make me sick! (x4)
One shot and fuck the rest
If that's how it's gotta be
Fuck your hierchy
What makes you think your better than me?
Who are you to judge me?
Who died and made you god?
Fuck you.
I'll see you in hell
Now i see through your facade
You make me sick
Mothafucker!
You don't know the pain i've felt
You don't know the strain i've delt
So fuck you
Fuck you (x3)
You don't know what the fuck i've been through
Self is the universe, not separate
The state before the fall into self consciousness
Nothing is himeself, everything is world
CHORUS
Primordial egg returns
Consciousness unborn
Pre-personal perfection
Bliss's scree yet untorn
Uroboric forms
Find itself as a separate entity
An ego germ is just beginning to be
Wherever there is other, there is fear
Birth, primal paradise
No gap distance or separation
Between self and environment
Unconditional omnipotence
Nothing is himself, everything is world
CHORUS
Consciousness unborn
Uroboric forms
Learning, discerning, how to arrange
Thinking the haze will just not clear
Viewing, computing, our minds will stage
A vehicle inside we feel the eagle nature
Everchanging river flows high and low
Panoramic vision is undefined
For unfocused consciousness, the eagle nature
Precaution for a stream of risk, the eagle nature
It sees changes clear
A crystal goblet so fragile and dear
Needs fill one step at a time
Noting the fall of a sparrow
Attending the slightest scratch of flesh
Earthly ambitions weigh their share
The vastness of life, it doesn't care
A crystal goblet so fragile and dear
Needs fill one step at a time
Earthly ambitions wigh their share
The vastness of life does not care
Cosmic mother awaken us in
Thine impartial love for all
Bless us that we be free from
The sway of greed and delusion
Inspire us to build a new world
One in which famine, disease and ignorance
Will be only memories of a dismal past
CHORUS
Creative mother arouse us to know
That we be not lost in the sands
Open our eyes
Creative mother arouse us to know
Inspire us to build a new world
Since forever we've yearned to
Quench what's never fulfilling
Lost endeavors found in a stilled
Mind if we be willing
CHORUS
As one I'll meet the mortal memories
Reliving seeking silence
And know that I as just a shell outside
Have sacred joys inside me
No fear, nor fight, comforting silent side
So free, through flight, comforting silence
CHORUS
So I call on
Sri cosmic sea, all is within you
As in a dream, I'm but a wave to...
Infinity within thy consciousness
An ever expanding sphere
Immortal spark ignites
Spreads by the air of bliss
Embracing warmth that heals
No fear, nor fight, comforting silence
So free, through flight, comforting silent side
CHORUS
Here's my hand you painted on
A circle fades inside a heart
Are you expected here
You whisper in my ear
So I wash my hands
'Till the water burns
A circle sits outside a door
Are you expected here
I whisper in your ear
I'm whole
I'm open
I'm starved
I'm broken
I'm lost and found
I'm an evolutionary sleeper
If letting go
means letting be
And the truth beyond the mind
is what I need
If letting go
means letting be
And the truth beyond the mind
is what I see
led up stairs not made of man
form of a pineal gland
third eye becomes open
and elves beam out
seed-shaped sounds
elves beam out
danger a thought impetus
a bodiless myth to disperse
i met this dream before
where elves beam out
seed-shaped sounds
elves beam out
i touch down to kindly meet earth
and unroll my feathers headfirst
just breathing's enough
when elves speak out
know thyself
elves beam out
elves stream out
know thyself
elves beam out
surrender
homo sapiens
and your carbon-based anatomy
the child you're looking for
is starved and lost, a memory
drop the knife
leave your arms behind
just for a moment
calm the mind
the longing never ends
not while you're human
what if you could hold
your mother's heart
inside your hands
would you seek blood again
would you find the karmic thread
drop the knife
leave your arms behind
just for a moment
calm the mind
the longing never ends
not while you're human
stop the clock
drop the storyline
just for a moment
stop the clock t
he longing never ends
i could be eternity
a star inside my head
touching space an inch beyond my skin
my body as an edgeless, open wind
the clouds part and the sun comes out
and when i feel scared
i declare
i have everything i need
box up my bones
i'm free
haste to cure the old despair
no antidote, still i repair
someone said that bird has no wings
but i've seen it fly in dreams
the clouds part and the sun comes out
and if i feel scared
i declare
i have everything i need
box up my bones
i'm free
with an open heart
let go of your name
let go of your body
let go of your mind
let your self die
i'm on my way to love someone
on my way to love the one
and I don't feel scared
i declare
i have everything i need
there's just me being hard on me
box up my bones
i'm coming home
he's been blown to all corners of the universe
his eyes go back into eternity
his mouth an endless black hole
everything rushing into freedom
no walls no specific personality
Space, raise my arms
Space, wake my eyes
Space, grace my heart
Can I be the space for this
Soft omens
Traced in air
Phantom warnings
Disassembling the captain's chair
Can I be the space for this
Will I be the space for this
Breathe out breathe in
Out of ruins
We've haunted like owls
The future druids
Drop the crystal goblet forming spells
Can I be the space for this
Will I be the space for this
Breathe in breathe out
Must I bend the sky to realize
A bundle of thoughts
On a dirty cloth perfumed
To tell you who you are
A bundle of thoughts
On a lonely ghost pursuit
Lost inside the space for this
Raise my arms
Space, wake my eyes
Space, grace my heart
Can I be the space for this
Will I be the space for this
Breathe in breathe out
Must I bend the sky to realize
Can I be the space for this (I will)
Will I be the space for this
Must I bend the sky to recognize
I can be the space for this
I will be the space for this
I am now the space for this
I am now the space for this
As I peered into my mortal cup of mind
A moleten liquid of penance splashed my eyes
Unseen truth, a divine surgery
Reveals view, windows of faith
The breeze to a raft of happiness
Guiding cue, calmness in a mental lake
A celestial voyage
To reach the shores and bathe
In pools of divine nectar
My raft filled with delusive waste water
Shall be drained by holes of wisdom
A celestial voyage
To reach the shores and bathe
In pools of divine nectar
A celestial voyage
To feel the bliss of liquid
Healing nectar inside
[Instrumental]
I touch the string though the harp may not sing
Still I dare the sky for sun sparks to guide
Down below there's a land
With an ominous hole
Deep in the sand of belief
A million doves
orbit round the Earth with tears of blood
Kill the virgin, take Integral Birth
Rebirth
Rebirth
Rebirth
From the void, I am born into wave and particle
In the uncreative eye, emerging oracle
A million doves
orbit round the Earth with tears of blood
Slay the dragon, take Integral Birth
Weep no more
Noble silence
Usher my way home
A million doves
orbit round the Earth with tears of blood
Lie yourself, enraged we are the truth
Cast me down, the key and we are the truth
Time has come to take Integral Birth
Reborn
Reborn
Memory, thunder cloud
Sadi Sati killing down
Starved at the root again
We don't taste the air
Mother tongue
Om Shrim Maha
Lakshmiyei Swaha Om
Vibrate (inner) universe
Primale state (counsels)
To the unknown guest
Penniless, in reverse
A pathless land
Where we touch Earth
Dark at the bloom again
We don't see the dawn
Mother tongue
Om Shrim Maha
Lakshmiyei Swaha Om
Vibrate (inner) universe
Primal state (counsels)
To the unknown guest
Pulsate
Starved at the root again
We don't taste the air
Dark at the bloom again
WE hold our despair
Mama Tongue
Om Shrim Maha
Lakshmiyei Swaha Om
Vibrate (inner) universe
Timeless state (counsels)
To the unknown guest
Pulsate (silent) universe
Mantras grace
In Maya's grip illusion transforms verity
Perceiving thus a delusive world of duality
Veil of Maya
Balance every joy with a grief
Dual scales of Maya
Earth's unending law of polarity
Ahamkara...veil of Maya
Illusion works impenetrable
Weaving webs innumerable
Her gay pictures never fail
Crowd each other veil on veil
Charmer who will be believed
By man who thirsts to be deceived
Maya subjects you
Veil of Maya
Chops and divides God's dream thoughts
The great divider
As we be subject to likes and disgust
Ahamkara...veil of Maya
Maya subjects you
Charmer who will be believed
By man who thirsts to be deceived
Veil of Maya
Balance every joy with a grief
Dual states of Maya
Earth's unending law of polarity
Veil of Maya
Chops and divides God's dream thoughts
The great divider
As we be subject to likes and disgust
Ahamkara...veil of Maya
How could I forget such a revelation
To love without fear and learn without question
How could I regret the meant occasions
I must begin this day again
Freedom and reason shine through
Paddle upon the clouds one's own canoe
How could I
Humility take charge of me
Drown me in truth's modest waters
Loosen your grip identity
Free me from an ego's falter
Love too often is only a dream
If I am harsh and unkind to myself
So I share these attitudes with you
Must I try? How could I?
Freedom and reason shine through
Paddle upon the clouds one's own canoe
Love's too often only a dream
If I am harsh and unkind to myself
So I share these attitudes with you
For in this spewing cavern of pride
How could I!
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Eric Wincentsen
267@ef.gc.maricopa.edu
Glendale Community College
Glendale, Arizona
From the mountain top
He looks upon the crowds
Mindful among the mindless
Unbound
King of those who know
I'm sheltering the fears
The loneliness exposed
An ocean born of tears
For the world
The churchyard bells
Ring mine for just today
Save me from hope
That I'll be saved
King of those who know
My thirsts unquenchable
The rain could become gold
And share my box of bones
In the ground
We raise the vibratory level so high
That all untruth will fall
Of it's own dead weight
King of those who know
I've taken off my clothes
The diamond crushed the stone
And gave the world a heart
Our karma's all been burned
The molecules emerge
In a world beyond this world
We dare, speak the word
King of those who know
Led up stairs not made of man
Form of a pineal gland
Third eye becomes open
And elves beam out
Seed-shaped sounds
Elves beam out
Danger a thought impetus
A bodiless myth to disperse
I met this dream before
Where elves beam out
Seed-shaped sounds
Elves beam out
I touch down to kindly meet earth
And unroll my feathers headfirst
Just breathing's enough
When elves speak out
Know thyself
Elves beam out
Elves stream out
Know thyself
Elves beam out
Surrender
Hey comrade,
what will it be like,
on the day we face our mortal lives?
We're all given,
the misfortune of loss,
But that's a gift we call impermanence,
We don't own our work,
we don't own the earth,
at all
We're eternal Nunc Stans soldiers,
the eternal warriors.
We're accountants,
in the firm of life,
entrusted with a body, heart and mind.
Hey comrade,
did I love well?
Have I learned to live moment to moment?
We don't own our work,
we don't own the earth,
we don't own our minds,
we don't own anything,
at all.
We're eternal Nunc Stans soldiers,
the eternal warriors.
We're eternal Nunc Stans soldiers,
the eternal warriors.
It was not death,
it was not life,
Feet to hip
Nave to breast
Throat to brain
and skin arrange
Now we're one soul
Through my great arteries
to every blade of grass, a universal path
a primal energy
where creation is borne, on sympathetic chords
Hearing Adam's murmur
a Sanskrit alphabet
unholy apple tree
seven flowers
Feet to hip
Nave to breast
Throat to brain
and skin arrange
I fall inside my trance
I tap my heart to test
harmony within
a merciful connection
Hearing Adam's murmur
a Sanskrit alphabet
unholy apple tree
Seven flowers
Feet to hip
Nave to breast
Throat to brain
and skin arrange
Feet to hip
Nave to breast
Throat to brain
and skin arrange
Throw me back in tears that you have only shared
I thought this was all your fault but we just stay here in despair
Pledged, once more, forever, then you went and f*cked around
I gave you everything I have and then you let me down
Said you'd love me for all time but that wasn't long ago
Forever's still the time we need, the end's not good enough
Forgiveness is a curse (Oi, Oi, Oi)
Forgiveness is a curse (Oi, Oi, Oi)
Forgiveness is a curse...Cynics don't get hurt
I promised you my heart, you will laugh until I die
My love goes beyond all words coz they both fall from the sky
I had to turn my back on you, but you stabbed me in it first
And I'll never take you back, coz forgivness is a curse
Somethings never fix...and a broken word is one
I'm a cynic though I hate to admit it you forgive it and forget it it's done
But it blinds me and it binds me it confines me you remind me that it might be done
'Cause all these cold shoulders and all these hollow stares are enough to break the soul who cares
All these walls between us that we build for protection are blocking out the sun and dividing everyone
And I say
Hey now tear 'em down, down to the ground I said
Hey now tear 'em down
For the good of everyone
I for one don't like what we've become
So fathers tell you sons there's much work to be done
Let's stand as one you daughters and you moms
Decide that we are done with this wicked indifference
Hey now tear 'em down, down to the ground I said
Hey now tear 'em down
For the good of everyone
It's so simple to look away
It's another world and they don't think the same
But we should know better pain is pain