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Sat, 02 Jun 2012 15:06:00 -0400

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Sat, 02 Jun 2012 14:55:33 -0400

fuckyeahexistentialism: “About once or twice every month I...

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 14:47:52 -0400

“About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the approval of supernatural beings. Very often, when I give my view that there is no supernatural dimension, and certainly not one that is only or especially available to the faithful, and that the natural world is wonderful enough—and even miraculous enough if you insist—I attract pitying looks and anxious questions. How, in that case, I am asked, do I find meaning and purpose in life? How does a mere and gross materialist, with no expectation of a life to come, decide what, if anything, is worth caring about?

Depending on my mood, I sometimes but not always refrain from pointing out what a breathtakingly insulting and patronizing question this is. (It is on a par with the equally subtle inquiry: Since you don’t believe in our god, what stops you from stealing and lying and raping and killing to your heart’s content?) Just as the answer to the latter question is: self-respect and the desire for the respect of others—while in the meantime it is precisely those who think they have divine permission who are truly capable of any atrocity—so the answer to the first question falls into two parts. A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called ‘meaningless’ except if the person living it is also an existentialist and elects to call it so. It could be that all existence is a pointless joke, but it is not in fact possible to live one’s everyday life as if this were so. Whereas if one sought to define meaninglessness and futility, the idea that a human life should be expended in the guilty, fearful, self-obsessed propitiation of supernatural nonentities… but there, there. Enough.”

- Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22

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Sat, 02 Jun 2012 14:46:29 -0400

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Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:46:09 -0400

aymyoonik: we live in the future bananiano: everything...

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 12:32:39 -0400

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aymyoonik:

we live in the future

bananiano: everything I’ve ever wanted out of life

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Thu, 31 May 2012 20:44:27 -0400

"People of color, women, and gays — who now have greater access to the centers of influence than ever..."

Mon, 28 May 2012 01:21:22 -0400

“People of color, women, and gays — who now have greater access to the centers of influence than ever before — are under pressure to be well-behaved when talking about their struggles. There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner: newspapers love to describe words or deeds as “racially charged” even in those cases when it would be more honest to say “racist”; we agree that there is rampant misogyny, but misogynists are nowhere to be found; homophobia is a problem but no one is homophobic. One cumulative effect of this policed language is that when someone dares to point out something as obvious as white privilege, it is seen as unduly provocative. Marginalized voices in America have fewer and fewer avenues to speak plainly about what they suffer; the effect of this enforced civility is that those voices are falsified or blocked entirely from the discourse.”

- Excerpt from Teju Cole’s essay “The White Savior Industrial Complex”.
(via jalwhite)

saturday-night-hemorrhagic-fever: I’ve decided that most of what we think is senility in old people...

Sat, 26 May 2012 21:19:27 -0400

saturday-night-hemorrhagic-fever:

I’ve decided that most of what we think is senility in old people is actually them reciting inside jokes from their youth.

Sixty years from now, I’ll be sitting in my wheelchair, watching my great grandchildren open Christmas presents. At one point I’ll yell “four for you, glenn coco! You go, glenn coco!” In the other room, my children will begin discussing nursing home options.

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Sat, 26 May 2012 21:13:10 -0400

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Wed, 23 May 2012 05:31:11 -0400

"Women stick their necks out to say that something is fucked-up, hurtful, oppressive, scary:..."

Wed, 23 May 2012 05:29:00 -0400

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Women stick their necks out to say that something is fucked-up, hurtful, oppressive, scary: Misogynist. They do this knowing full well that there will be social consequences. Remarkably, we’re all familiar with the idea that the women who do this are bitches/ugly/humorless/scolds/delusional (“you see sexism everywhere”)/hysterical/oversensitive/insensitive/etc. We know that we take on most of the risk, in this conversation. We know that we have to be very careful in terms of what we say, and to whom; that we will be expected to choose our targets and our words very carefully, seem “understanding,” seem “empathetic,” make all the right allowances, be oh so very polite. We labor over our words, swallow our anger, push through our fear (and most women who bring themselves to make these kinds of statements are very afraid of reprisal; we know it happens, in overt and subtle ways, pretty much every time), construct these carefully tortured and worked-out sentences; we work at this shit.

And then, after all that work, some dude makes a joke about how we need some dick — not even a joke he’s had to work on, really; that line’s been around forever — and everybody laughs, and it’s over. We get no apology. We get no consideration. We get no hearing. We get nothing. What this exchange ultimately proves to women, every time it’s played out, is that no matter how hard we work, we will never matter. We will never be heard. It’s just the same fucking thing, every day, like a punch to the gut: You think you can change shit? You think I care how you feel? You think I care what you think? No. Never. You think it fucking matters that you don’t like what I do to you? It doesn’t. I’m gonna fucking do what I want to you. Sit the fuck down, shut the fuck up, and take it. Or else I’m gonna tell everyone what a bitch you are, that you won’t play my game. My very special game, that I designed. And here are the rules for the game: You Lose.

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- backleftlitz: “If Tegan and Sara Need Some Hard Dick, Hit Me Up!” - Sady Doyle

“Totally worth it.” -Trees

Sun, 20 May 2012 23:23:15 -0400

“Totally worth it.” -Trees

"ugh i wish i lived in the 50s and 60s"

Sun, 20 May 2012 23:03:38 -0400

“ugh i wish i lived in the 50s and 60s”

- white people and white people only (via yufeelme)

Tyler Oakley - How to stalk One Direction Everything about this...

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:37:00 -0400

Tyler Oakley - How to stalk One Direction

Everything about this video is perfection.

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Sat, 19 May 2012 03:47:44 -0400

geeksquadgangbang: FUCK YOU, FUTURE GENERATIONS

Sat, 19 May 2012 03:17:02 -0400

geeksquadgangbang:

FUCK YOU, FUTURE GENERATIONS

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Thu, 10 May 2012 08:37:21 -0400

Seriously stopped breathing for a bit when I saw this

Thu, 03 May 2012 23:35:12 -0400

Seriously stopped breathing for a bit when I saw this

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Sun, 29 Apr 2012 02:39:06 -0400