A free-thinker with an analytical bent.
A seminary grad turned agnostic.
An over-educated under-achiever.
A geek/nerd/dork; I have no interest in debating which one applies.
And a misfit of epic proportions.
My favorite topics include culture, literature, religion and sexuality.
My favorite activities include writing, reading, boozing and . . . sexuality (can I put that twice?)
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
It’s hard not to hate – people, things, institutions. When they break your spirit and take pleasure in watching you bleed, hate is the only thing that makes sense. But I know what hate does to a man: tears him apart, turns him into something he’s not — something he promised himself he’d never become.
That’s what I need to tell you, to let you know how hard I’m trying not to cave under the weight of all the awful things I feel in my heart. Sometimes my life feels like a deadly balancing act, what I feel slamming up against what I should do. Impulsive reactions, racing to solutions, miles ahead of my brain.
When I look at my day, I realize that most of it was spent cleaning up the damage of the day before. In that life, I have no future. All I have is distraction and remorse.
I buried my best friend three days ago, and as cliché as this sounds, I left a part of me in that box – a part I barely knew, a part I’ll never see again. Every day is a new box, boys. You open it, you take a look at what’s inside. You’re the one who determines if it’s a gift or a coffin.”
Jax Teller, “Orca Shrugged”, Sons of Anarchy (Se05.Ep05)
At a certain point, A man’s dog comes to symbolize the good parts of his childhood. When it comes time to put her down, its like losing a portion of his history that he’s desperately trying to remember.
You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple the unemployment isn’t interested in purchasing the assets of the generation who just blew an enormous housing bubble and kept it from popping through quantitative easing and out-and-out federal support? Curious.
When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials arent’ buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)
Every time someone says we’re a lazy and entitled generation I’m going to show them this
They should be happy most of us haven’t moved to the moon yet
That actually sounds like a good idea at this point
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Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
Vol 5, Book 9
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Sleeping is nice because youre not actually dead and youre not awake so its a win-win situation
It’s like being dead without the commitment.
an open relationship with death
Agreed. Sadly, though, it’s all fun and games till Death gets jealous.
After the Games: Photographs of Decaying Olympic Sites
The Olympic Games are always proceded by a furious amount of building as host cities construct arenas, pools, ski jumps, Olympic villages, and anything else the games demand. While some of the buildings are repurposed after the athletes depart, others are left to rot.
Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.
Gautama Buddha (via aufwaerts)
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Something to think about:
The Humanist Post
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