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heyrrrabbit: Doing some “research” for my wedding

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:30:05 -0500

heyrrrabbit:

Doing some “research” for my wedding

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Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:32:41 -0500

The Secret Side of Aquarius

Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:31:04 -0500

bearingwater:

Inside anyone who has strong Aquarian influences is a person who is extremely uncertain of their true identity. The Aquarius ego is the most precarious in the zodiac because it is the sign of nonconformity. Intellectual genius, practical eccentricity, and mental oddity are all linked with Aquarius. The Aquarius personality has a powerful intellect. Putting this brainpower to good, practical use is the best way for an Aquarius to build their ego.

"When prehistoric fossils were first discovered in rocks, 18th century scientists insisted that they..."

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:00:05 -0500

“When prehistoric fossils were first discovered in rocks, 18th century scientists insisted that they were natural formations, accidental conformations of rock, rather than undertake a massive revision of all their ideas about nature and the age of the earth.”

- Colin Wilson (via magnificentruin)

"No."

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:54:09 -0500

“No.”

- Actress Julianne Moore, when asked if she gained a newfound respect for Sarah Palin after delving deeper into Palin’s life to portray her in the upcoming film “Game Change.” (via mamaatheist)

fuckyeahexistentialism: “…I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…I give it to you not that...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:31:06 -0500

fuckyeahexistentialism:

“…I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”

― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

I surrender. Though it means nothing changes. I feel worn down...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:00:05 -0500

I surrender. Though it means nothing changes. I feel worn down at the edges from my own desires and anger. I’d rather listen to your voice than to the tense way in which I hide my needs. My love for you is greater than my hunger for drama. This too shall pass, which promises nothing but a return to this same space through cycle. Please, forgive me, as I haven’t the strength to forgive myself.

lessthanawake: Civilisation faces ‘perfect storm of ecological...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:32:05 -0500

lessthanawake:

Civilisation faces ‘perfect storm of ecological and social problems’

“In the face of an “absolutely unprecedented emergency”, say the 18 past winners of the Blue Planet prize – the unofficial Nobel for the environment – society has “no choice but to take dramatic action to avert a collapse of civilization. Either we will change our ways and build an entirely new kind of global society, or they will be changed for us”.

“The rapidly deteriorating biophysical situation is more than bad enough, but it is barely recognised by a global society infected by the irrational belief that physical economies can grow forever and disregarding the facts that the rich in developed and developing countries get richer and the poor are left behind.

“The perpetual growth myth … promotes the impossible idea that indiscriminate economic growth is the cure for all the world’s problems, while it is actually the disease that is at the root cause of our unsustainable global practices”, they say.

“If we act strongly and science is wrong, then we will still have new technologies, greater efficiency and more forests. If fail to act and the science is right, then humanity is in deep trouble and it will be very difficult to extricate ourselves.””

vexxxx: amythia’s new set on godsgirls is just spectacular, she...

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:00:06 -0500

vexxxx:

amythia’s new set on godsgirls is just spectacular, she is sensational.

"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:30:06 -0500

“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”

- Carl Jung (via neuewave)

lessthanawake: “Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there...

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:30:06 -0500

lessthanawake:

“Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything. They make you feel so alive that you’d follow them straight into hell, just to keep getting your fix.”

-Karen Marie Moning

You are so god damn gorgeous. sanguinesiren: Shibari @ Crimson...

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:00:06 -0500

You are so god damn gorgeous.

sanguinesiren:

Shibari @ Crimson Events Presents Aetheric. Ties by Arathi.

I had way too much fun last night.

"I love comic sans"

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:31:06 -0500

“I love comic sans”

- Noam Chomsky (via incorrectnoamchomskyquotes)
LOLWUT

etorphine: discuss semantics with another person and become aware of the vast ocean that lies...

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 18:00:05 -0500

etorphine:

discuss semantics with another person and become aware of the vast ocean that lies between the two of you. how can you ever truly connect over such an enormous distance? navigate or die alone. you have to be willing to weather storms. risk sinking, or go nowhere at all. nothing can mean anything unless you trust yourself. knowledge is nothing more than mere interpretation.

"In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral..."

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 16:32:06 -0500

““In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, everything collapses.””

- Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion (via amor-omnibus)

"I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain..."

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:00:05 -0500

““I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers in their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage. They may spend their whole lives aliens among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever known. Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent, to which they may attach themselves. Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to wchich he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest.””

- W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence (via heartmindspirit)

"Before human beings possessed fire or tools or language, the moon had been their ally. It would calm..."

Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:30:05 -0500

“Before human beings possessed fire or tools or language, the moon had been their ally. It would calm people’s fears now and then by illuminating the dark world like a heavenly lantern. Its waxing and waning gave people an understanding of the concept of time. Even now, when darkness had been banished from most parts of the world, there remained a sense of human gratitude toward the moon and its unconditional compassion. It was imprinted upon human genes like a warm collective memory.”

- ~ Haruki Murakami (1Q84)

"I don’t want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value."

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:30:06 -0500

“I don’t want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value.”

- Robert Walser, The Tanners, trans. Susan Bernofsky (via proustitute)

"Walter Lippmann … described what he called “the manufacture of consent” as “a revolution” in “the..."

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:01:05 -0500

“Walter Lippmann … described what he called “the manufacture of consent” as “a revolution” in “the practice of democracy”… And he said this was useful and necessary because “the common interests” - the general concerns of all people - “elude” the public. The public just isn’t up to dealing with them. And they have to be the domain of what he called a “specialized class” … [Reinhold Niebuhr]’s view was that rationality belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith. And this naive faith requires necessary illusion, and emotionally potent oversimplifications, which are provided by the myth-maker to keep the ordinary person on course. It’s not the case, as the naive might think, that indoctrination is inconsistent with democracy. Rather, as this whole line of thinkers observes, it is the essence of democracy. The point is that in a military state or a feudal state or what we would now call a totalitarian state, it doesn’t much matter because you’ve got a bludgeon over their heads and you can control what they do. But when the state loses the bludgeon, when you can’t control people by force, and when the voice of the people can be heard you have this problem — it may make people so curious and so arrogant that they don’t have the humility to submit to a civil rule [Clement Walker, 1661], and therefore you have to control what people think. And the standard way to do this is to resort to what in more honest days used to be called propaganda, manufacture of consent, creation of necessary illusion. Various ways of either marginalizing the public or reducing them to apathy in some fashion.”

- In Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, 1992
It’s a movie

MOVIE!

I am going to spend the break good!

(via fyeahnoamchomsky)

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Mon, 20 Feb 2012 19:30:05 -0500