January 2012
179 posts
chubbypikachu asked: How long have you and your boyfriend been together?
One year ago today,
gaymerlibertarian:
existenceandidentity:
My boyfriend and I were not yet together, but we talked on the phone the entire night, posting videos and getting silly drunk on our own. We met in person two days later and have formed the most wonderful (read: functional and supportive) relationship of my life. We’ll be celebrating our anniversary in a few days. The year I’ve spent with him has been...
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One year ago today,
My boyfriend and I were not yet together, but we talked on the phone the entire night, posting videos and getting silly drunk on our own. We met in person two days later and have formed the most wonderful (read: functional and supportive) relationship of my life. We’ll be celebrating our anniversary in a few days. The year I’ve spent with him has been one of the best in my life, and I...
December 2011
205 posts
“The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the...”
– Martin Buber (via daisysnotebook)
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“I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to...”
– Voltairine de Cleyre
(via gaymerlibertarian)
M.I.T. Game-Changer: Free Online Education For All →
evilteabagger:
self-ownership:
For Wall Street Occupiers or other decriers of the “social injustice” of college tuition, here’s a curveball bound to scramble your worldview: a totally free college education regardless of your academic performance or background. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) will announce on Monday that they intend to launch an online learning...
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Christmastide and the liturgical year →
I bet most Christians in this country don’t know anything about Christmastide or even the liturgical year. It’s sad how little most of these non-liturgical church members know about it because the symbolism is really quite beautiful and makes much more sense than saying that Jesus was literally born on this day, literally died and resurrected on this date, yada yada yada. The Gregorian...
“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
– Andre Gide (via atheistbiblestudy)
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via haereticum)
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“All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but that once the fraud is exposed...”
– George Orwell (via iambinarymind)
“A book, too, can be a star, ‘explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh...”
– Madeleine L’Engle (via -daydream-believer-)
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Christmas horror story
Mom: I just started using a site called Tumblr. Do you have one?
Me: *le failing poker face* Nope.
starfissure:
“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
-Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
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“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And...”
– Epicurus (via cadburycrazed)
Paganism and Christianity →
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In third grade: Learn cursive you will use it for the rest of your life
Middle School: Write in cursive if you want, but make sure it's readable
High School: Please don't write in cursive
College: If you write in cursive I will not grade your paper
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Baruch atah Adonai eloheinu melech ha'olam, asher...
Stop sucking me in, Tumblr. I have to make challah...
There will be flour everywhere.
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Propounding Intellectual Dalliances: If TAG holds,... →
ponderanew:
Someone I’ve been discussing the transcendental argument for the existence of God with on Facebook suggested this as a topic:
If there was an airtight, logical argument for the truth of Christianity (which I don’t think you’ve at all come close to), what then is the role of faith?
I’d…
Christianity is not internally consistent. I’m going to quote one of the earliest...