December 2009
“Political rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece...”
– Rudolf Rocker
2009
Just a month or so ago when I was in the thick of it in terms of college business I was so ready for 2009 to be over and done with. But looking back on it I can’t help but think on what a great year it was. In all honestly It was the best year of my life. Let’s look at this point by point.
I…
- Graduated High School
- Started College
- Did better grade wise in my last half of...
“Have you ever seen the far side of a mountain,
swallow the sky,
as you travel...”
– Tallest Man on Earth
There are so many books I want to read.
dontthinkorjudgejustlisten:
I need to just live in Borders.
I feel like this way.
In Katrina’s Aftermath, Still a Struggle to Help ... →
fuckyeahgreendale:
“The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien (via quote-book) (via allshallfade)
“If I stay, there can be no party. I must be out there in the night, staying...”
– Abed as Batman, duh. (via fyeahcommunity)
They will look for his coming from the white...
But he will not return…
CHRISTmas with the Christ in it emphasized is...
It is the most annoying way of phrasing this holiday ever. No, there really is a Christmas without Christ. Do you know that in Japan, a country where less then 1 percent of the population is Christian, Christmas is still celebrated? Millions of people around the world enjoy a secular Christmas, centered around ones own family and not the Christian Religion. Don’t say I’m practically...
“The limits of my language are the limits of my world.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (via fuckyeahphilosophy)
“The cheapest sort of pride is national pride; for if a man is proud of his own...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer: Wisdom Of Life (translated by T. Bailey Saunders)
Disclaimer: I ended the quote here because what follows is but a stupid retreat into … national chauvinism.
(via fuckyeahphilosophy)
“What constitutes the alienation of labour?
Firstly, the fact that labour is...”
– Karl Marx: Economic & Philosophical Manuscripts (via fuckyeahphilosophy)
I once read
That if you can say to yourself ‘I can live without writing’ then you should not right at all. I look at my life now and say I can easily live without writing. A simple fact complicated by the knowledge that I’m not really living.
Nothing really troubles me anymore.
I say to myself ‘I’m a Frenchman’ and there is nothing that can’t be accomplished.
““The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a...”
– Alan Bennett (The History Boys: The Film) (via kari-shma) (via dontthinkorjudgejustlisten)
“Why don’t Catholics eat meat on fridays? I’ll tell you why....”
– Tracy Morgan
It's time to sleep.
Got’s some shoveling to do tomorrow. Let’s hope I make some cash.
