January 2011
22 posts
I love technology.
tom-riddles-diary:
But I think it’s creating lazy, stupid people.
My brother’s school is getting iPads for every student. Their reason? They won’t have to use books, plus if a kid doesn’t know a word, he can tap to look it up. These kids are never going to use a real book, let alone a dictionary/thesaurus. That’s just sad to me.
Some things shouldn’t be replaced. We’ve already started the...
“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the...”
– C.S. Lewis (via mandabythesea)
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I could read Cormac McCarthy's works for the rest...
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“Starting this year, no American will be forbidden from serving the country they...”
– President Obama, SOTU. (via thedailywhat)
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“God is not good. Oh, in the beginning when he repented that he had made...”
– God On Trial
April 22nd, 1923.
journalsofanexistentialatheist:
What terrible judge sits at the very edge of consciousness? What hidden thief leers with greedy eyes from the blackness of the mind? What finely-clothed seductress whispers to the worried soul in the dead of night? What wretched force has been named which refers to the inevitable confrontation with mortality?
Death.
I dwell on him every so often. I roll the word...
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that...”
– Albert Camus (via derrickmercer)
“We cannot live only for ourselves.
A thousand fibers connect us
with our...”
– Herman Melville (1819 - 1891). From the Tao of Photography. (via crashinglybeautiful)
“To a magician, there is very little difference between a mirror and a door.”
– Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke (via spectralradiance)
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“If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so...”
– The Judge, Blood Meridian
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“He can neither read nor write and in him broods already a taste for mindless...”
– Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian
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“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be...”
– Edmond Dantés, The Count of Monte Cristo
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“…when he saw the kid standing there looking down at him he held out to him...”
– Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian
“And then beautiful things grow rich with the emotion that they have aroused in...”
– Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham (via thechocolatebrigade)
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“I do respect people’s faith, but I don’t respect their manipulation of that...”
– Javier Bardem (via fashionchief)
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New Edition of "Huckleberry Finn" To Have the... →
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New Years Resolutions.
Of course, the more cynical bunch of folks will deny that these things will ever institute any sort of drastic change, but I figure that there is no better time to change my habits than the turn of a year. So, for your viewing pleasure, I issue some goals and resolutions I would like to have accomplished by the end of this year:
I want to finish a book a week, not including school. That amounts...
Strange Phenomena of the Mind
thechocolatebrigade:
Déjà Vu - the experience of being certain that you have experienced or seen a new situation previously – you feel as though the event has already happened or is repeating itself. The experience is usually accompanied by a strong sense of familiarity and a sense of eeriness, strangeness, or weirdness. The “previous” experience is usually attributed to a dream, but...