Bibliophile, audiophile, travel addict, inconsistent Crossfitter, affectionate pet owner, developing cook, asker of difficult questions. A colonizer of life.
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I don’t want to start using Pinterest. Stop trying to make me use it, Internet!
There is a national narrative which attempts to classify everyone as part of a middle class, with vague subdivisions into categories like “upper middle” or “lower middle.” What would it take for you (Americans, I mean) to consider yourself to have dropped below “middle class” status?
I think I’ll be revising my bucket list soon…
Also, expect some selected quotes from All the King’s Men by Robert Penn Warren coming up in the near future as well.
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“You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light.”
Vicomte de Chateaubriand (1768 - 1848)
Cia Guo Qiang - Clear Sky Black Cloud
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NEWT GINGRICH WANTS ENGLISH TO BE THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF THE UNITED STATES.
WHATTAFOOL.
THAT WOULD BE IDIOTIC.
(ROMNEY APPARENTLY THINKS IT ALREADY IS. IT ISN’T. THE NATION DOESN’T HAVE ONE. SOME MISGUIDED STATES DO.)
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I agree concerning tradition, but I don’t like the last three items.
Authority:
Some things addressed in holy books or the documents of thousands of years ago have nothing to do with the progress of science and the facts of physicality, so to speak. Sure, we know that the sun is a ball of gas and not a god in a chariot. On the other hand, people thousands of years ago had just as much opportunity to observe human nature as we do, and the wisdom that arises from that sort of activity doesn’t fade with time.
Faith:
Excuse me? There is no escape from faith; we all have faith in something. It needs to be noted that in the Bible at least (I can’t speak for other holy texts), the Greek word for “faith” denotes something very near “trust” or “confidence,” and that it has since then acquired the word associations that lend it aspects of the vague and the ethereal. And we must also recognize that by referring to “faith” we may have in mind something related to any one of the main organized religions - or not. There are different kinds of faith both religious and secular, and they vary in their degree of provability and reliance on the empirical. In a sense, isn’t the acknowledgement of this depth of variety one of the main thrusts of post-modernism?
Revelation:
The two lines under this heading don’t really address what is most likely the traditional idea of revelation, which has connotations of visions and prophecies - so I won’t either. It does however deal with the experience of sudden realization, which everyone has felt at one point or another. One might argue such a feeling is the end result of an integration of formerly aggregated facts and empirical experiences, but many times it doesn’t seem that way. The feeling of instantaneous knowledge is overwhelming and real. It is a poem that arrives in the night, fully formed and perfect. It is the tears that flow at the height of a musical masterpiece, when the heart of a composer - who probably lived hundreds of years ago - enters your own. In those moments, revelation is in itself a kind of fact.
Finally, the rhetorical tone of the entire post is rather trashy. Just saying.
Oh, and while bad spelling is no reason to disbelieve a statement, it certain doesn’t help. Cough. ”Naval” is for boats. “Navel” is for bellies.
(Source: atheistsatlarge)
Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental, symphonic orchestra. I believe that in its primordial form all of creation is sound and that it’s not just random sound, it’s music. You’ve heard the expression ‘music of the spheres.’ Well, that’s a very literal phrase. In the [Bible] we read, ‘And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living soul.’ That breath of life to me is the music of life, and it permeates every fiber of creation.
In one of the pieces of the Dangerous album, I say: ‘Life songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood.’ This is a very literal statement, because the same new miracle intervals and biological rhythms that sound out the architecture of my DNA also govern the movement of the stars. The same music governs the rhythm of the seasons, the pulse of our heartbeats, the migration of birds, the ebb and flow of ocean tides, the cycles of growth, evolution, and dissolution. It’s music, it’s rhythm. And my goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance. It’s my purpose, it’s what I’m here for.
"Michael Jackson
Earlier today I checked up on what Google Ads has figured out about me. A long-held suspicion of mine was confirmed: I have a female brain in a male body.
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andrewbaggott: WHEN YOU DIDN’T HAVE TO BE A RICH, INBRED MONARCH TO GET YOUR PICTURE ON THE WALL.
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