February 2012
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Albert Goldbarth, "The Sciences Sing a Lullabye"
sharingpoetry:
Physics says: go to sleep. Of course you’re tired. Every atom in you has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes nonstop from mitosis to now. Quit tapping your feet. They’ll dance inside themselves without you. Go to sleep. Geology says: it will be all right. Slow inch by inch America is giving itself to the ocean. Go to sleep. Let darkness lap at your sides. Give darkness an...
“I believe in the Christian ‘just war’ theory”
– Ron Paul
#PAGINGTHECRUSADES
(via afternoonsnoozebutton)
oh lord…
(via obentomusubi)
why are you speaking
(via juthikaforpresident)
Good lord. Augustine stopped being relevant about a million years ago.
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just-wastin-time:
indigachristy:
A dramatic...
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...oc mu lebrán, léir ingnu.: from Religion and... →
ayiman: <snip>
Thanks for catching the typo, bro.
Amarnath Amarasingam.
I’m thoroughly embarrassed.
No sweat. I know that I’d feel stupid, were the position reversed.
from Religion and the New Atheism: A Critical...
ayiman:
There is, as has often been noted, something peculiarly evangelistic about what has been termed the new atheist movement.
OH NO WE LIKE TALKING TO PEOPLE GASP
The new atheists have their own special interest groups and ad campaigns.
Uh. Yes. This is… bad?
They even have their own holiday (International Blasphemy Day ).
It is not so much a holiday as a ‘thing...
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I love it when people say that atheism is the acceptance of a dogma. It is seriously my favourite thing ever! And I have never ever heard it before not ever not even once.
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University of Sydney [fucking sucks] →
I am so angry right now.
fatespectrum liked your post: Only gonna say this once
So I guess people are still reading this, huh? Awesome!
The Kingdom of Ghana
historical-nonfiction:
This is in answer to a request that I talk on the Three Kingdoms Of West Africa. This is the first.
Ghana was the earliest West African state to develop. It was first mentioned in 833 AD by the Arab historian Kwarizmi, and described in great detail about two hundred years later when the Almoravids of North Africa captured Aoudaghast, a minor city. Ghana was known for its...
“Eighty percent of a woman’s fertilized eggs are rinsed and flushed out of her...”
– George Carlin (via fuckyeahpsychedelics)
Oh, no, they are perfectly consistent. A woman who remains constantly pregnant does not get a period. That is what they want for all women.
historical-nonfiction:
The US has invaded Canada twice, once during the Revolutionary War and once during the War of 1812.
Canada had a plan in the 1930s for the invasion of the US.
Wait, really? Tell us more about this invasion plan.
“If you think hot women have it easy because everyone wants to have sex at them,...”
– Luke McKinney, The 8 Stupidest Defenses Against Accusations of Sexism (on Cracked.com)
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“A nation that kills its children is a nation without hope.”
– Pope John Paul II, on abortion
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Hey, Pope, you know what is worse? A nation so focused on ~saving~ potential lives that it forgets all about the children that have already been born. You don’t give a shit after the cord is cut and the fetus turns into a former fetus. Value the lives that are...