December 2011
notesinink asked: Tag, you’re it! Here are the rules: Each tagged person must post ten things about themselves. You have to choose and tag ten people. Go to their blogs and tell them you tagged them. No tag backs.
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As the year closes I feel like recapping all the books I’ve read in 2011. I hope I can remember all of them but here it goes:
The Great Gatsby
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Atlas Shrugged
Jane Eyre
The Jungle
The Count of Monte Cristo
The House of Spirits
Dracula
1984
Brave New World
The Fountainhead
Candide
The Five Dialogues: Plato
Hannibal
Frankenstein
For Whom the Bell...
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Poets, writers, and philosophers have all fantasized about what occurs once one dies. Theories of a Heaven, Hades, Nirvana, and Oblivion have given human beings a variety of options as to what they want to believe will happen after death. The idea of an afterlife of any kind seems comforting to some, absolute truth to others and a fallacy to the rest. I would love to know what happens after death....
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“Who do you suppose has it easier? Ones with religion or just taking it straight?...”
– Ernest Hemingway
“The paradox of civilization is that the more one is anxious to survive, the less...”
– Alan Watts (via ninefoldpath)
ninefoldpath asked: What is your take on the idea of free will?
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Hello new followers!
Thank you for your contribution to my legion. I would love to talk to thee at any point for virtually any topic.
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Follow for Follow :D
I don’t understand this concept at all. Why would you want to base who you follow/ who follows you solely on a follow-obsessed bases? Wouldn’t you mainly want to follow people due to their “outstanding” blogs? I tried to follow as many people as I could and just see what it was like once; never again shall I do that. Having a follow for follow based blog just clutters up a...
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I feel odd. Here by lamp light, reading For Whom the Bell Tolls in the almost quite of my room. All alone I feel like I’m lost in the darkness of the night. I feel silence gripping my adrenals, squeezing them until my body is excited to the point of surrender. Here, my imagination becomes reality.
Two missions down, now to read twenty pages of Hemingway.
“You were given life; it is your duty to find something beautiful within life, no...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert (via laceofpearls)
“Your birth is a mistake you’ll spend your whole life trying to correct.”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via existentialfunk)
“You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.”
– John Mason (submitted by my-candy-jar)
“I laugh, I love, I hope, I try, I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do...”
– Colin Raye (via existentialfunk)
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I have decided that I will read roughly ten pages of For Whom the Bell Tolls every time I complete a mission in skyrim. With this I should finish reading no later than 3 AM.
Anonymous asked: (2) How do we determine the absoluteness of colors? What if what is determined to be the color blue by society is actually perceived very differently between you and I yet we both call it blue because we were taught to associate that color with the word blue? To further explain, lets say we both call a certain color blue but in all actuality I perceive it as your color orange and you perceive it...
Anonymous asked: Two questions: (1) What determines a drug from something that is considered not a drug. For example who is to say that THC found in marijuana is a drug and Oxygen found in the air isn't? What if THC and Oxygen changed roles in our world so a "normal" person would in fact constantly be breathing in THC to live and a person who wanted to get high would smoke Oxygen in order to get...
echomignonnette asked: Here's some thought.... What qualities does a crazy person posses? Why are they consider crazy? Is it a mental illness? If so then is it being in a state of psychosis?
cecaayyy asked: Did you know that crazy people don't know they're crazy? I thought about it came up with something. What if everyone is actually insane & no one can tell. That would mean that all the "crazies" would actually be the only sane ones. If so, wouldn't it be more effective if the world were run by "crazy" people, seeing that they were the only sane ones?
Anonymous asked: Just curious; which colleges did you apply to? Any "dream schools" that you're willing to share?
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I was hoping that I would have time to read. Maybe, even play a little Skyrim before I went to sleep. Those plans have been ruined, half due to college applications, half due to poetry, completely due to my brother getting a new game and playing it none-stop up until now. In face, he’s still playing the game. I’m tired, but I don’t really want to sleep. Does anyone out there wish...
elige asked: Tag, you're it! Here are the rules: Each tagged person most post ten things about themselves. You have to choose and tag ten people. Go to their blogs and tell them that you tagged them. No tag backs.
“Happiness depends on ourselves.”
– Aristotle (via quotesthatstickwithme)
I'd rather drown out the pain with stupidity and...
shedoesntknowlove:
And when you find that place, ignore the negative, because only you can know where you belong. So fuck the world, they can’t hurt you when you’re happy.
Go do all the crazy stupid things they said you could never do because doing what they said you couldnt is the best “fuck you” there is.
Show them you accomplished something they never could.
You found happiness.
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Variation On the Word Sleep- Margaret Artwood
I would like to watch you sleeping, which may not happen. I would like to watch you, sleeping. I would like to sleep with you, to enter your sleep as its smooth dark wave slides over my head and walk with you through that lucent wavering forest of bluegreen leaves with its watery sun & three moons towards the cave where you must descend, towards your worst fear I would like to give you the...
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“The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or...”
– Oscar Wilde
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What are your thoughts on sex? →
Overrated, wonderful, underrated?
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“Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover...”
– Mark Twain
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“‘Classic.’ A book which people praise and don’t read.”
– Mark Twain
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Last Picnic- Charles Simic
Before the fall rains come, Let’s have one more picnic, Now that the leaves are turning color And the grass is still green in places.
Bread, cheese and some black grapes Ought to be enough, And a bottle of red wine to toast the crows Puzzled to find us sitting here.
If it gets cold—and it will—I’ll hold you close. Night will come early. We’ll watch the sky, hoping for a full moon To light our...
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Before the World Interlude- Michele Rosenthal
Return me to those infant years, before I woke from sleep,
when ideas were oceans crashing, my dreams blank shores of sand.
Transport me fast to who I was when breath was fresh as sight,
my new parts — unfragmented — shielded faith from unkind light.
Draw for me a figure whole, so different from who I am. Show me now
this picture: who I was when I began.
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Tuesday 9:00 AM- Denver Butson
A man standing at the bus stop reading the newspaper is on fire Flames are peeking out from beneath his collar and cuffs His shoes have begun to melt
The woman next to him wants to mention it to him that he is burning but she is drowning Water is everywhere in her mouth and ears in her eyes A stream of water runs steadily from her blouse
Another woman stands at the bus stop freezing to death...
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“Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of...”
– Ernest Hemingway (For Whom the Bell Tolls)
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“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.”
– Walt Whitman
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“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those...”
– John Milton
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“Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.”
– William Butler Yeats
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Done with those bothersome applications. Now my e-mail will be left in peace!
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“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”
– Walt Whitman