April 2012
March 2012
“In the United States, the political system is a very marginal affair. There are...”
– Noam Chomsky (via socialuprooting)
“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the...”
– Gandhi (via pro-revolution)
“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”
– Mark Twain (via thefameofhealthandfitness)
A new category of people I have a HUGE distaste...
I follow (or followed, anyway) a couple blogs of individuals who are just as bad about representing the Democrats as though their shit don’t stink as any Republican I have met.
Re-blogging the same ridiculously biased (and incomplete) banner about how great Obama is over the course of three days now. Really?! Come on now. Even after I took the time to re-blog it myself and list all the...
Homophobia: The fear that another man will treat... →
ohtodayisawindingroad:
We were discussing homosexuality because of an allusion to it in the book we were reading, and several boys made comments such as, “That’s disgusting.” We got into the debate and eventually a boy admitted that he was terrified/disgusted when he was once sharing a taxi and the other male passenger made a pass at him.
The lightbulb went off. “Oh,” I said. “I get it. See,...
“That’s what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most...”
– Jim Morrison (via soul-surfer)
TeachThemHowToThink: theilluminatedatheist replied... →
teachthemhowtothink:
theilluminatedatheist replied to your post: Which God?
Thanks, Ben. I have to admit that this was a person I had very little respect for to begin with and if I cared about his opinion at all I probably would have broken it to him a little more gently.
I find talk of “hell” rather amusing now, but I was afraid of it for such a long time… and that fear kept me from saying...
“Hunger not to have, but to be”
– John Dewey (via jerzee55)
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via pieceinthepuzzlehumanity)
Social Uprooting: r-i-o-t: i cant believe people... →
r-i-o-t:
i cant believe people exist who think we will be free if we just get rid of the state but keep capitalist oppression and legitimately believe that companies wont just form a tyrannical new state and use privatised armies and police forces to enforce that state
and that a society with a huge divide between rich and poor without any sort of fucking welfare wont lead to mass starvation,...
“In my view, those who disclose illegal conduct by government agents, should not...”
– Rocky Anderson (via rockyanderson2012)
“The competition between capitalists forces them to behave as capitalists. This...”
– Joseph Choonara (via pieceinthepuzzlehumanity)
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Absolutely true. Today I ran into a guy who used to own a cart here in the mall. Listening to him talk about all the shitty products he is still selling to people and his totally disregard for the consumer was disgusting. Add to that, he is close...
Compete! →
greentent:
“I’m a competitor and I love to have fun.”
“When we look at life as a competition, we endeavor to make ourselves more efficient and more effective. We endeavor to become a more powerful person.”
“Figure out what you’re good at and create a vision of what you could become, then work really hard toward that until it comes to life.”
Pete Carroll
This fits…well! :)
“Everything that Richard Nixon did to me, for which he faced impeachment and...”
– Daniel Ellsberg (via wespeakfortheearth)
Found a great article worth reading!
I was directed to this article from this guy’s blog. Definitely worth the follow if you have any interest in keeping up with current events.
The article is about Capitalism and how it no longer functions as it was designed to.
“If I could have convinced more slaves they were slaves, I could have freed thousands more.”
- Harriet Tubman
nonplussedbyreligion: It Is Me →
nonplussedbyreligion:
“I have concluded through careful empirical analysis and much thought that somebody is looking out for me, keeping track of what I think about things, forgiving me when I do less than I ought. Giving me strength to shoot for more than I think I’m capable of. I believe they know everything…