eclaircissement

"Not to know what happened before we were born keeps us forever a child."

Fri, 24 May 2013 10:30:16 +0100

“Not to know what happened before we were born keeps us forever a child.”

- Cicero (106-43 BC)

"There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 09:00:18 +0100

“There is no such thing as philosophy-free science, just science that has been conducted without any consideration of its underlying philosophical assumptions. The smartest or luckiest of the scientists sometimes manage to avoid the pitfalls quite adroitly (perhaps they are “natural born philosophers”—or are as smart as they think they are), but they are the rare exceptions.”

- Daniel Dennett, Intuition Pumps And Other Tools for Thinking (via crematedadolescent)

"If we really saw war, what war does to young minds and bodies, it would be impossible to embrace the..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:30:15 +0100

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If we really saw war, what war does to young minds and bodies, it would be impossible to embrace the myth of war. If we had to stand over the mangled corpses of schoolchildren killed in Afghanistan and listen to the wails of their parents, we would not be able to repeat clichés we use to justify war. This is why war is carefully sanitized. This is why we are given war’s perverse and dark thrill but are spared from seeing war’s consequences. The mythic visions of war keep it heroic and entertaining…

The wounded, the crippled, and the dead are, in this great charade, swiftly carted offstage. They are war’s refuse. We do not see them. We do not hear them. They are doomed, like wandering spirits, to float around the edges of our consciousness, ignored, even reviled. The message they tell is too painful for us to hear. We prefer to celebrate ourselves and our nation by imbibing the myths of glory, honor, patriotism, and heroism, words that in combat become empty and meaningless.

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- Chris Hedges (via liberatingreality)

neon-casket: of course

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:30:15 +0100

neon-casket:

of course

"Human life is guided by many ideas. Truth is one of them. Freedom and mental independence are..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:30:09 +0100

“Human life is guided by many ideas. Truth is one of them. Freedom and mental independence are others. If Truth, as conceived by some ideologists, conflicts with freedom, then we have a choice. We may abandon freedom. But we may also abandon Truth.”

- Paul Feyerabend (via thesummerofmark)

"The worst thing you can do is rest all your hopes on a wish. A granted wish doesn’t equal a..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:00:14 +0100

““The worst thing you can do is rest all your hopes on a wish. A granted wish doesn’t equal a perfect life.””

- ― Dia Reeves, Slice of Cherry

"It is often assumed that science starts from facts and eschews counter-factual theories. Nothing..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:30:07 +0100

“It is often assumed that science starts from facts and eschews counter-factual theories. Nothing could be further from the truth. What is one of the basic assumptions of the scientific world-view? That the variety of events that surrounds us is held together by a deeper unity.”

- Paul Feyerabend, “The Disunity of Science”. (via goebel)

What Is Up With "Thou," "Thee," "Thy," and "Thine"?

Wed, 22 May 2013 09:00:31 +0100

theyuniversity:

bluestalking-fox: #mutants are a metaphor

Wed, 22 May 2013 07:30:29 +0100

bluestalking-fox:

#mutants are a metaphor

"Courage can’t see around corners, but goes around them anyway."

Wed, 22 May 2013 04:30:29 +0100

“Courage can’t see around corners, but goes around them anyway.”

- Mignon McLaughlin

(via dunsanian)

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Wed, 22 May 2013 03:00:32 +0100

ked-jen-ney: adventure time just got real

Wed, 22 May 2013 01:30:29 +0100

ked-jen-ney:

adventure time just got real

"One of the most overused words in the political lexicon is ‘equality’. A word that has historically..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:00:21 +0100

“One of the most overused words in the political lexicon is ‘equality’. A word that has historically been used to fight for progress is now being used to promote a tyranny of sameness.”

- Jon Holbrook

"Because feminism is essentially an expression of female victimhood working to end female victimhood,..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:30:16 +0100

“Because feminism is essentially an expression of female victimhood working to end female victimhood, most feminists are stuck in the destructive convulsions of an individual fighting against a victim identity she has chosen for herself.”

- Gordon Wadsworth.

one-hamburger: Yeah the sun is hot, but have you ever stopped to think about its personality

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:00:18 +0100

one-hamburger:

Yeah the sun is hot, but have you ever stopped to think about its personality

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Tue, 21 May 2013 13:30:14 +0100

Low character limits will be the death of me. If I could go in a time machine and smack the...

Tue, 21 May 2013 10:30:16 +0100

Low character limits will be the death of me. If I could go in a time machine and smack the inventors of twitter in the head with a shove the moment after they decided make their character limit so low then I’d really struggle not to kill ‘em.

Google glass + facial recognition + facebook linked to your real name + your real name and address...

Mon, 20 May 2013 06:00:26 +0100

Google glass + facial recognition + facebook linked to your real name + your real name and address on so many government and corporate databases + google maps = Creepy stalker taking a sly pic as you walk past them on the street and them waiting outside your door next tuesday.

Am I just being paranoid? or is anyone else scared?

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Sun, 19 May 2013 06:00:31 +0100

"Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 18:00:14 +0100

““Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.””

- Robert Anton Wilson (via f1ndyourcenter)