February 2012
88 posts
satans-advocate:
Don’t bitch about unemployment on the grounds that people should be employed simply for the sake of being employed. That’s just nonsense.
The market should be opened wide for people to be able to have the opportunity to use whatever skills they have in order to earn what they need. Not have the market fucked with so that “everyone has a job.”
Opportunity is the way of liberty...
True faith is really an unspeakable virtue which is beyond the scope of...
– From the book “Complete Works of Ram Chandra” by Babuji Maharaj (via zjta)
Why Public Schools Must Be Abolished
satans-advocate:
By Cevin Soling
In 1852, Aunt Phillis’s Cabin was published. The novel depicts a romantic vision of joyful slaves cared for by patriarchal masters. This idealized conception of slavery was pitted against the harsh reality of free blacks in the North facing deprivations. The prevailing myth was that slavery not only enabled the cultural superiority of the South, but also...
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper...
– Robert Frost
Human beings live in their myths. They only endure their realities.
– Robert Anton Wilson, myth, human, wise (via gravity-rainbow)
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
– Charles Bukowski (via philphys)
Any Questions? →
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
– Socrates (via lucifelle)
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Whether you take the doughnut hole as a blank space or as an entity unto itself...
– Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase (via millionsmillions)
You are not your name. Like the rest of the cosmos, you are life itself. This is...
– (via anti-teachings)
Eternal Copyright: a modest proposal →
The best kept secret in the universe is who you...
It’s this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s...
– The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (via or-nothing)
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Why do I always see problems before I see...
If you’re trapped in the dream of the other, you’re fucked.
– Gilles Deleuze (via colettesaintyves)
There is only one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide....
– Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus. (via nekroterrorist)
(This passage, and book, changed everything for me.)
People are trying to kill me!
It’s going to far now I can actually taste the poison in my mouth.
Any civilization is merely a series of suggestions.
– (via anti-teachings)
Church and State.
terrorofexistence:
Both tell you right and wrong. Who stands in the way of the gays? Both rely on faith for legitimacy. What is the greatest myth? Christ or the social contract? Both rely on your money, like leeches. Why does God need money if he has his own Mint? Both are rank with corruption. Where is the vow of poverty for public service? Both seek to appeal to your emotions in order to build...
If people can accept morality without a god, why...