February 2011
31 posts
January 2011
48 posts
When the politically fueled murder of a 9-year-old... →
jonathan-cunningham:
idonteverwanna:
Wow.
“As her mother tells it, 9-year-old Brisenia Flores had begged the border vigilantes who had just broken into her house, “Please don’t shoot me.”
But they did — in the face at point-blank range, prosecutors allege, as Brisenia’s father sat dead on the couch and her mother lay on the floor, pretending that she too had been killed in the gunfire.”
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On Valentine's Day:
What My Friends Will Be Doing:
What I’ll Be Doing:
You can be too rich and too thin, but you can never be too well read or too...
– Tim Gunn (via elizabethanne)
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Leonard Cohen, "Beneath my hands..." (1961)
Beneath my hands your small breasts are the upturned bellies of breathing fallen sparrows.
Wherever you move I hear the sounds of closing wings of falling wings.
I am speechless because you have fallen beside me because your eyelashes are the spines of tiny fragile animals.
I dread the time when your mouth begins to call me hunter.
When you call me close to tell me your...
Why is there a fucking lady bug in my room?
poetryinlibrarybooks:
it’s the middle of winter.
Because your room is warm! And winter is cold and unpleasant. Especially when you have an open circulatory system.
When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a...
– Ann Druyan, talking about her dead husband Carl Sagan (via fuckyeahexistentialism, savagemike)
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity...
– Mark Twain (via thechocolatebrigade)
(via aristocraticelegance)
A person of good intelligence and of sensitivity cannot exist in this society...
– George Carlin (via sarahgraham7)
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
– Oscar Wilde (via stormy-nights)
Fuck Yeah Existentialism: Tillich on Religion →
fuckyeahexistentialism:
Tillich argues that the God of theological theism is at the root of much revolt against theism and religious faith in the modern period. Tillich states, sympathetically, that the God of theological theism
deprives me of my subjectivity because he is all-powerful and all-knowing. I revolt and…