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sulinars: Alabama city destroying ancient Indian mound for...

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:30:19 -0400

Alabama city destroying ancient Indian mound for Sam’s Club

This is complete bullshit on SO many levels.

1) It belongs to someone else

2) It’s sacred to that someone

3) It’s against the fucking LAW

4) Wrong, just fucking wrong…I have no more words

Please boost

Oh hey, this is just a fifteen minute drive from my university. Actually I think I remember my anthropology professor talking about this and he is one of the archaeologists fighting it.

"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods."

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:53:07 -0400

“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.”

- H.L. Mencken

"What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:25:18 -0400

“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.”

- Kurt Vonnegut

"The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:24:35 -0400

“The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again.
There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling, I had to believe whatever clocks said.”

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:20:55 -0400

“Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.”

- Kurt Vonnegut, Cats Cradle, 1963

"‘Americans,’ he said, quoting his wife’s letter to the Times, ‘are forever searching for love in..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:20:45 -0400

“‘Americans,’ he said, quoting his wife’s letter to the Times, ‘are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier.’”

- Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

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Fri, 17 May 2013 22:51:40 -0400

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Thu, 16 May 2013 11:54:40 -0400

"If what Billy Pilgrim learned from the Tralfamadorians is true, that we will all live forever, no..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:12:42 -0400

“If what Billy Pilgrim learned from the Tralfamadorians is true, that we will all live forever, no matter how dead we may sometimes seem to be, I am not overjoyed.

Still—if I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.”

- Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

"A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:11:59 -0400

“A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competitions with nothing but world’s champions.”

- Bluebeard, Kurt Vonnegut

"I don’t think there would be many jokes, if there weren’t constant frustration and fear and so..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:11:26 -0400

“I don’t think there would be many jokes, if there weren’t constant frustration and fear and so forth. It’s a response to bad troubles like crime.”

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Our children may come to resemble apathetic fish. Except that fish can’t play guitars."

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:10:36 -0400

“Our children may come to resemble apathetic fish. Except that fish can’t play guitars.”

- Vonnegut

"For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled."

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:04:22 -0400

“For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.”

- Hunter S. Thompson

"Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:04:00 -0400

““Myths and legends die hard in America. We love them for the extra dimension they provide, the illusion of near-infinite possibility to erase the narrow confines of most men’s reality. Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of ‘the rat race’ is not yet final.””

- The Great Shark Hunt, 1979: Hunter S. Thompson \

"Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 00:02:01 -0400

“Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them.”

- Lev Vygotsky

This is pretty much behaviorism from a social perspective.

1raddad: George W. Bush and his father chase Barbara Bush on...

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:58:26 -0400

1raddad:

George W. Bush and his father chase Barbara Bush on segways.

this is my new favorite picture of all time.

That last quote i reblogged, Louis C.K.’s quote, my psychology professor challenged us to do...

Sat, 11 May 2013 02:04:47 -0400

That last quote i reblogged, Louis C.K.’s quote, my psychology professor challenged us to do things like that, but in a more comical way. Like, when a person asks you “how are you doing?” out of social protocol and being polite, actually tell them how you’re doing “well finals are this week… my dog just died… etc etc etc” and see their reaction, they are expecting a typical “i’m good” but watch them, see how receptive they are to you, regardless it would be fun and it might be some good venting. Always when I ask people how they are that day I mean it as an open invitation for them to tell me everything, you don’t have to be polite and go with social protocol, I like rants and deep conversation.

"I always wanna start conversations that way, just get right to the talking-let’s talk about some..."

Sat, 11 May 2013 02:01:15 -0400

““I always wanna start conversations that way, just get right to the talking-let’s talk about some shit. It’s always disappointing to me when people talk about the weather, cause that means you really didn’t wanna talk about anything. And ya’ know I was in my elevator today, I got in my elevator and one of my neighbors got on, I don’t know his name, I’ll die not knowing his name, but uh we’re on the elevator so we look at each other and there’s that moment, there’s always that moment where like maybe something could happen; there’s a little potential in that moment. And you wait and you go ehhhh, it’s cold. Aw fuck, nothing happened. Like you just, ya’ just cop out and you just say meaningless shit. You have a competition of how stupid you can be, “Aw, I can’t believe 8 months ago it was 50 degrees out.” But what if you didn’t do that, what if you didn’t cop out, what if you just let the moment linger, don’t go to the weather and just maybe you could have a real moment…you just stand there and look at each other, “I haven’t talked to my dad in 8 years.””

- -Louis CK

Live at Carnegie Hall

"The only way to learn stuff is by failing; all this I have learned by having bad times. You have to..."

Sat, 11 May 2013 01:59:35 -0400

“The only way to learn stuff is by failing; all this I have learned by having bad times. You have to be willing to have a bad time. People that need to feel like a star and like they’re succeeding every time will never get better.”

- Louis C.K. Rolling Stone April 2013

"I don’t mind feeling sad. Sadness is a lucky thing to feel. I have the same amount of happy and sad..."

Sat, 11 May 2013 01:59:12 -0400

“I don’t mind feeling sad. Sadness is a lucky thing to feel. I have the same amount of happy and sad as anybody else. I just don’t mind the sad part as much; it’s amazing to have those feelings. I’ve always felt that way. I think that looking at how random and punishing life can be, it’s a privilege.”

- Louis C.K.