February 2012
58 posts
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“”I know someday the smoke will all burn off
All these voices I’ll...”
– Fleet Foxes ( Grown Ocean )
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HIS MATERIAL HIGHNESS by Christopher Hitchens
FAR FROM HIS HOLIER-THAN-ALL IMAGE, THE DALAI LAMA SUPPORTS SUCH QUESTIONABLE CAUSES AS INDIA’S NUCLEAR TESTING, SEX WITH PROSTITUTES AND ACCEPTING DONATIONS FROM A JAPANESE TERRORIST CULT.
The Dalai Lama has come out in support of the thermonuclear tests recently conducted by the Indian state, and has done so in the very language of the chauvinist parties who now control that state’s...
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“Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much
as your own unguarded thoughts.”
– Buddha
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“Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatsoever that it...”
– Bertrand Russell
“It is not so much that there are ironies in history, it is that history itself...”
– Christopher Hitchens
Hitch 22, p.420
“What God would damn a heart?
And what God drove us apart?
What God could make...”
– Rise Against - Make it stop (September’s Children)
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“Another element of my memoir - the stupendous importance of love, friendship,...”
– Christopher Hitchens - Hitch 22
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“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s...”
– Jodi Picoult (My Sister’s Keeper)
Happiness
A man said to the Buddha, “I want happiness.”
Buddha replied,
“First remove ‘I’, that’s ego.
Then remove ‘want’, that’s desire.
Now you are left with only happiness.”
Horoscopes by Adam Sandler
Aquarius (Jan 23 - Feb 22) - You have an inventive mind and are inclined to be progressive. You lie a great deal. You make the same mistakes repeatedly because you are stupid. Everyone thinks you are a fucking jerk. Pisces (Feb 23 - Mar 22) - You are a pioneer type and think most people are dickheads. You are quick to reprimand, impatient, and full of advice. You do nothing but piss-off everyone...
Excess Stupidity
Check out this new Tumblr, I find it rather humorous. It depicts various facebook images / status’ and the simply brilliant replies of some of those commenting!
My personal favourite is, “A powerful statement of salivation.”
excess-stupidity.tumblr.com
“Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity...”
– Bertrand Russell in “The Science to Save Us from Science,” The New York Times Magazine (1950)
Hajj: journey to the heart of Islam →
I really want to go! :D
