December 2011
114 posts
Can't wait to see this joke of a year finally end....
Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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“It was not only that I could not become spiteful, I did not know how to become...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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“Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds’ eggs and human hearts...”
– Fragile Things
Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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“You ask me why I dwell amidst these jade-green hills? I smile. No words can...”
– Li Po
Dec 27th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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“Christmas is an awfulness that compares favorably with the great London plague...”
– “No Offense Intended, But Fuck Xmas!” (1972) The Harlan Ellison Hornbook
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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“This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.”
– T. S. Eliot
Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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“The birds have vanished into the sky and now the last cloud drains away. We sit...”
– Li Po
Dec 22nd
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Dec 22nd
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Dec 21st
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“If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free...”
– Martin Heidegger
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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agoraphobia →
So I, uh, got a blog for the photos I take. They are all b&w and square. Just throwing it out there.  agoraphobia
Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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“I will take it all: tongs, molten lead, prongs, garrotes, all that burns, all...”
– No Exit
Dec 19th
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Dec 19th
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“Man cannot will unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but...”
– Characterizations of Existentialism
Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
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Personal Sunday.
Let me tell you a little something about the joys of retail, especially around the magical Christmas time. You get paid below minimal living wage. You have to work both Christmas Eve AND Boxing Day. And the company dares to send a memo informing you of that, adding, “We still hope our employees will enjoy Christmas time with their families”. Why, thank you, Head Office. Go fuck...
Dec 18th
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“Everything passes away - suffering, pain, blood, hunger, pestilence. The sword...”
– The White Guard
Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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“What would your good be doing if there were no evil, and what would the earth...”
– The Master and Margarita
Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 17th
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(…) The problem I have with the ‘pornification’ of our ‘culture’ is that it takes the eroticism away. I don’t find the objectification of a man or a woman sexy. I feel more affinity with Fellini’s eroticism. He was all but a feminist, but knew a thing or two about sexual desire. The Cambridge student who poses half-naked for the student magazine allegedly to marry ‘beauty’ and ‘brains’,...
Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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Dec 16th
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“Everybody, everybody everywhere, has his own movie going, his own scenario, and...”
– Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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“Even the present little suffering finishes past negative karma, And one will...”
– Kadampa Geshe Kara Gomchen
Dec 15th
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Dec 14th
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Dealing with Loneliness
lucaspurvis: A monk commented to Rinpoche that people tended to avoid him, and didn’t want to be with him. Rinpoche gave the following advice. That is no problem at all. It is good, because you waste so much of your time if people are interested in meeting you. Then, no meditation, no study, nothing, just blah, blah, blah, blah. That is why Milarepa achieved enlightenment in a brief...
Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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