Jul
3
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.”
Mark Twain (via jnunemaker)
SquishTastic
Jun
17
“Announcing your plans to others satisfies your self-identity just enough that you’re less motivated to do the hard work needed.”
This really hits home with me. Everytime I share about something cool I’m working on, I never finish it. Time for me to shut up. Shut up! Announcing your plans makes you less motivated to accomplish them. (via jnunemaker)
Oh man.. So true.
Jun
4
Witch bottle is uncorked to discover spellbinding content
Pretty amazing. It must have been pretty incredible to be alive during a time when people believe the world responded to intent and will as much as physical means.
Wait.. you mean we’re not?
Jun
2
Try to figure out the pattern.
Or just give up and read about it: This is amazing. How did I miss this when it happened last year?
May
27
mandalay:katharinec:sexismandthecity:thisisgay
In a country founded upon a crazy idea of equality - even if not put into practice at the beginning - fake morals will eventually have to bow to the law. -M
Hilarious and depressingly true.
Just want to punch these people in the throat.
May
15
“Science was my most favorite subject, especially the Old Testament.”
Kenneth Parcell (via happycap) (via asprettyasasong) (via atheistramblings)
May
3
Penn Jillette, This I Believe
I believe that there is no God. I’m beyond atheism. Atheism is not believing in God. Not believing in God is easy — you can’t prove a negative, so there’s no work to do. You can’t prove that there isn’t an elephant inside the trunk of my car. You sure? How about now? Maybe he was just hiding before. Check again. Did I mention that my personal heartfelt definition of the word “elephant” includes mystery, order, goodness, love and a spare tire?
So, anyone with a love for truth outside of herself has to start with no belief in God and then look for evidence of God. She needs to search for some objective evidence of a supernatural power. All the people I write e-mails to often are still stuck at this searching stage. The atheism part is easy.
But, this “This I Believe” thing seems to demand something more personal, some leap of faith that helps one see life’s big picture, some rules to live by. So, I’m saying, “This I believe: I believe there is no God.”
Having taken that step, it informs every moment of my life. I’m not greedy. I have love, blue skies, rainbows and Hallmark cards, and that has to be enough. It has to be enough, but it’s everything in the world and everything in the world is plenty for me. It seems just rude to beg the invisible for more. Just the love of my family that raised me and the family I’m raising now is enough that I don’t need heaven. I won the huge genetic lottery and I get joy every day.
Believing there’s no God means I can’t really be forgiven except by kindness and faulty memories. That’s good; it makes me want to be more thoughtful. I have to try to treat people right the first time around.
Believing there’s no God stops me from being solipsistic. I can read ideas from all different people from all different cultures. Without God, we can agree on reality, and I can keep learning where I’m wrong. We can all keep adjusting, so we can really communicate. I don’t travel in circles where people say, “I have faith, I believe this in my heart and nothing you can say or do can shake my faith.” That’s just a long-winded religious way to say, “shut up,” or another two words that the FCC likes less. But all obscenity is less insulting than, “How I was brought up and my imaginary friend means more to me than anything you can ever say or do.” So, believing there is no God lets me be proven wrong and that’s always fun. It means I’m learning something.
Believing there is no God means the suffering I’ve seen in my family, and indeed all the suffering in the world, isn’t caused by an omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent force that isn’t bothered to help or is just testing us, but rather something we all may be able to help others with in the future. No God means the possibility of less suffering in the future.
Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-O and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have.Penn Jillette and Teller are two of my heroes.
May
1
90 people get the swine flu and everybody wants to wear a mask. A million people have AIDS and no one wants to wear a condom.
via:laydownyourburdens:anniehinton:micek:misssilk:mercurypdx:iwasframed: jessicachu
O Shit!
Apr
18
Janeane Garofalo cuts threw the bull:
“Lets be very honest about what this is about. It’s not about bashing democrats. It’s not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston Tea Party was about. They don’t know their history. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up. That is nothing but a bunch of tea bagging rednecks and there is no way around that.”
The proof is in the hate and in the fact these same tea baggers were silent when their civil liberties were being taken away from them, and the government grew dramatically under Bush.
Being away (didn’t read newspapers, watch TV or browse the internet) so I missed this story but why are rednecks sticking their scrotums on peoples heads? Or does teabagging mean something else in the US?
It means the same here. Here’s a quick (and funny) overview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLsKt4O4Yw8
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