Best. Tip. Ever.
The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it’s real because that’s how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it’s very brightly colored, and it’s very loud, and it’s fun for a while. Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, “Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?” And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, “Hey, don’t worry; don’t be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride.” And we … kill those people. “Shut him up! I’ve got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real.” It’s just a ride. But we always kill the good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok … But it doesn’t matter, because it’s just a ride. And we can change it any time we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here’s what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace. - Bill Hicks
living in fear is not living.
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Yeah, this man is pretty obviously terrible.
People are uncomfortable with sexuality that’s not for male consumption.
I don’t like this expression ‘First World problems.’ It is false and it is condescending. Yes, Nigerians struggle with floods or infant mortality. But these same Nigerians also deal with mundane and seemingly luxurious hassles. Connectivity issues on your BlackBerry, cost of car repair, how to sync your iPad, what brand of noodles to buy: Third World problems. All the silly stuff of life doesn’t …disappear just because you’re black and live in a poorer country. People in the richer nations need a more robust sense of the lives being lived in the darker nations. Here’s a First World problem: the inability to see that others are as fully complex and as keen on technology and pleasure as you are.
Nigerian author and artist Teju Cole (via xkimberlyx)
This combined with reading Open City last year has cemented by fierce, unapologetic love for Teju Cole.
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YES i have been struggling with how to articulate this
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This woman kicked ass
That’s my friend Tiara. She’s pretty rad.
I have to say, as someone who is not Christian, it’s hard for me to believe Christians are a persecuted people in America. God-willing, maybe one of you one day will even rise up and get to be president of this country - or maybe forty-four in a row. But, that’s my point, is they’ve taken this idea of no establishment as persecution, because they feel entitled, not to equal status, but to greater status.
Jon Stewart to Mike Huckabee on The Daily Show (via numchuckbitch)
You tell ‘em, Jon Stewart.
(via somekindofboywonder) Please allow me to seethe that everyone and their grandaunt can turn every fucking conversation about freedom of belief into a tale of anti-Christian persecution at the drop of an “under God”. (via killerkaleidoscope)
I’ve heard this so many times. About how because the entire country is not constantly prostrating themselves to this religion and kissing their feet, that they’re persecuted. You want to know what it’s like to be persecuted for you religion in America, Christians? Try being Muslim or Pagan or anything else that isn’t Judeo-Christian. Then consider how you are treated by this society. You have no right to complain about being “persecuted” when you’re the ones doing the persecuting.
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I love Jon Stewart.
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“Josh doesn’t leave people. You have to get Josh. His sister died in a fire while she was babysitting him. She tried to put it out, he ran outside. He went off campaigning, his father died. He wakes up in a hospital and discovers the President’s been shot. He goes through every day worrying that somebody he likes is gonna die and it’s gonna be his fault. What do you think makes him walk so fast?”
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Image - a photo of a young Elizabeth Taylor with short dark hair and a gold dress, standing with her head cocked to the side. Text on the photo says “The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues. - Elizabeth Taylor”
Testify.
How have I never known of this quote before? I shall adopt it forthwith.
