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Top Pun's mission is to maximize prophets. Top Pun creates serious, funny, and seriously funny peace and justice designs which are available on your choice of products such as buttons, T-shirts, and bumper stickers. Top Pun blogs to highlight additional facets of his word artistry such as pun-filled poetry and funny political satire, free posters, as well as political actions of local and global importance -- and don't forget the noncommercial, public health radio show available online, Just for the Health of It . Top Pun's serious playfulness ever reminds us that justice is no yoke, and the pun is mightier than the sword!
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Tag Archives: Hubris
POEM: Unemployable
I am unemployable Partly because no one can afford what I’m worth Partly because I prefer to give it away This short poem harkens to a more organic way of relating to one another than contractual relationships. What if people … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Atheist, Attitude, Blessed, Change, Conservative, Control, Debt, Economic, Economy, Entitlement, Existential, Fear, Forgiveness, Freedom, Gandhi, Generosity, Gift, God, government, Grace, Gratitude, Hate, Hope, Hubris, Human Rights, Humanity, Humility, Inequality, Jesus, John Lennon, Kindness, Liberal, Life, Love, Market, Modern, Monetize, Money, Mystery, Paradoxes, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Power, Reality, Relationships, Religion, Religious, Rhetoric, Sacred, Sartre, Scientific Reductionism, Short Poems, Temptation, Time, Truth, Wealth, Work, Worldview
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POEM: Paying Attention
Are you too broke to pay attention? This one-line poem most directly seeks to de-link material wealth from perhaps the greatest tool available to humans: consciousness, or mindfulness. Being able to access mindfulness, regardless of wealth, status, or “worldly” power, … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Arrogance, Compassion, Consciousness, Empathy, Enlightenment, Equality, God, Grace, Hubris, Humanity, Humility, Justice, Life, Mindfulness, One-line Poems, Poetry, Power, Reality, Short Poems, Status, Subjectivity, Suffering, Wealth
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POEM: Escaping Hubris
Indigency is the quickest road Out of hubris Few of us can afford Its high price Hubris, or arrogance, is powerfully seductive in the human mind. This excessive self-confidence seems to be an inescapable part of egocentricity. Nonetheless, as humans … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Arrogance, Attitude, Choices, Compassion, Control, Cruelty, Empathy, Grace, Hubris, Humanity, Intimacy, Life, Mind, Modern, Nature, Poems, Poetry, Power, Psychology, Reality, Risk, Short Poems, Spiritual, State, Trust, Universe, Vulnerability, Wealth
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