February 2011
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January 2011
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URGENT MESSAGE FROM ACTIVIST IN EGYPT. PLEASE...
thunderheist:
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“To all the people of world” Alicia Ali Marsden To all the people of world The people in Egypt are under governmental siege. Mubarak regime is banning Facebook, Twitter, and all other popular internet sites Now, the internet are completely blocked in Egypt. Tomorrow the government will block the 3 mobile phone network will be completely blocked. And there is...
Confucianism goodness is “to dislike no one, consider others feelings, be...
What People Need is Important - Not Want.
zeitgeistmovement:
People need clean water and sanitation, not hedge funds. People need well made clothing not fifty versions of the same cheap shirt with different logos. People need food, not ‘food products’. People need education, not career training. People need health care, not expensive pills that mask symptoms and create more problems. People want truth not lies.
We live in a backwards...
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As Above, So Below: Mindfulness Meditation... →
metaconscious:
Participating in an 8-week mindfulness meditation program appears to make measurable changes in brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy and stress. In a study that will appear in the January 30 issue of Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, a team led by Massachusetts General…
Early Adaptor: Study Claims 100% Renewable Energy... →
earlyadaptor:
New research has shown that it is possible and affordable for the world to achieve 100 percent renewable energy by 2030, if there is the political will to strive for this goal. Achieving 100 percent renewable energy would mean the building of about four million 5 MW wind turbines, 1.7 billion 3 kW…
Dear followers who use facebook.
theuniverseworks:
As of today, the new Facebook Privacy setting called “Instant Personalization” goes into effect. The new setting shares your data with non-Facebook websites & it is BY DEFAULT set to “Enabled”! Go to Account>Privacy Settings>Apps & Websites (edit settings)>Instant Personalization> & uncheck “Enable”. Not only is your personal information shared, but...
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Google and explore: Network-centric Warfare →
Evidence: Comcast/Verizon/AT&T mergers among all the condensation of activity and agitation and concentration of privatizations…
It is when we are in transition
that we are most fully alive.
William Bridges
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Be good to yourself
and the world will be good.
Hindu Proverb
Let your...
Some [state] cuts out there are obvious, look at Arizona. They just had a tragic...
– Stephen Colbert (via kateoplis)
Stream of Consciousness
Needed to spew for a second, cause I’ve got to get down to writing that column…
all we can do is show the truth of the environment that we are surrounded by. the truth for you is yours and always. each objective analysis completes a cycle of the whole. there is no time like the present because as humans we have only that. though the future is ours to create there is nothing...
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We Are Lost In Thought by Sam Harris (The World... →
Anonymous asked: Are you happy right now? I hope you are.
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Horoscope, January 18 2011
Before the Sun waves goodbye to you Capricorn, as it does in two days time, you have a great chance to use its power to your advantage. This could see you turn over a new leaf in some kind of way, or make a fresh start. Your ideas can be ingenious, and belie your reputation for convention, and putting safety first. Now you can lead the way.
Erica’s Daily Forecast - Events of the day...
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If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope....
– Noam Chomsky (via ifoundareason)
Thank you for the evidence. I keep sharing my vision with people and the most common resistance I hear is along the lines of “But that’s the way it works/it’s always worked.” PAST is not FUTURE. Future is thought, created by you and me...
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Men lose their high aspirations as they lose their intellectual tastes, because...
– John Stuart Mills
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My First Published Opinions Column →
In my university’s paper, The Eastern Echo. Not going to lie, I procrastinated then socialized the night before my first deadline so this is more of an edited rant I had in my saved writings. Look for more specific and evidenced “radical” views in the future. Those of you who follow this tumblr should know what I’m getting at here…
Thank you!
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automaticwritings asked: Your description of faith hints at the psychological conflict between our emotional attachments to the way we choose to see the world and the fact that this worldview is open to doubting. It may from time to time happen that one of our unarticulated assumptions about our own existence is thrown into doubt by an event in life; for instance, a person may have assumed that their existence was...
Anonymous asked: why haven't you posted any pictures of yourself? start out with topless tuesday ;)
The Real Stuff White People Like (and other... →
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Ann Arbor Documentary Fest →
If you live in the area, come to Ambrosia on Monday nights. If not, use this as a list of movies to see this month.
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The World As I See It - Albert Einstein
“How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people — first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own...
War perverts and destroys you. It pushes you closer and closer to your own...
– Chris Hedges
(via azspot)
The continued existence of warring and murder in our societies is evidence of the continued denial of the GOD in all of us. Without accepting and embracing the essence of love in each being, there will be bloodshed.