May 2012
11 posts
less humans, more robots: 10 Questions You Should... →
krisnair:
What strengths do you feel like I tap into right now?
What strengths do you feel I’m not using, and how would you like me to tap into those?
What is one thing I should keep doing and one thing I should stop doing?
Do you feel that you need (or would like) more/less supervision?
Do you…
The Burden of Skepticism by Carl Sagan via...
“It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas. Obviously those two modes of thought are in some tension. But if you are able to exercise only one of these modes, whichever one it is, you’re in deep trouble.
If you are only skeptical,...
“Girls with their legs crossed, girls with their legs not crossed, girls with...”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via pampille)
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How many rapes you got? →
But the reason i wrote this is, it’s amusing that the ease and frequency with which rape is used as a metaphor for say, abuse of power, doesn’t enlighten and habituate representatives and media to locate ACTUAL rape in the context of power, control, aggression and hegemony!!! Clearly you understand the concept to joke about it and use it in everyday parlance and then go ahead and inject it into...
“There’s something completely degrading about seeing someone happier than you....”
– Scarlet Anne Michaelson (via cite-belle) A depressingly real feeling that anyone who’s been in a relationship will know. Fortunately they are not always permanent. Sometimes the joy is shared and multiplied.
“There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small...”
– Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls (via cite-belle)
“I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That’s the two...”
– Woody Allen (via suavium) 