March 2013
14 posts
Ok, one little thing has been bothering me recently, I see a lot of people touting around about their freedom of speech and whatnot (pagan tag, I’m looking at you) but I honestly don’t think a lot of you really get what that actually is. Having freedom of speech does not mean you can say anything to anyone, it does not mean that no one can stop you from saying things all it means is that the government can not stop you from expressing yourself. It is protection from the government. Only. Just them. It does not mean that Rhonda can’t tell Sally to keep her opinions to herself. It is completely irrelevant to bring up in an argument with another person who is telling you to stop saying something. In all likelihood, they are not speaking from a position of power within the government at that moment.
I can tell you to stop talking.
I can ban you from contacting me via various means.
I can kick you out of my house for saying something I don’t like.
I can encroach on your “free speech” all over the place because I am not the government.
I’m not saying that I will, or that I have the desire to but the point is that I can and that your little “freedom of speech” defense makes me want to vomit. It’s irrelevant and you sound like an idiot. Please stop.
Ok, one little thing has been bothering me recently, I see a lot of people touting around about their freedom of speech and whatnot (pagan tag, I’m looking at you) but I honestly don’t think a lot of you really get what that actually is. Having freedom of speech does not mean you can say anything to anyone, it does not mean that no one can stop you from saying things all it means is that the government can not stop you from expressing yourself. It is protection from the government. Only. Just them. It does not mean that Rhonda can’t tell Sally to keep her opinions to herself. It is completely irrelevant to bring up in an argument with another person who is telling you to stop saying something. In all likelihood, they are not speaking from a position of power within the government at that moment.
I can tell you to stop talking.
I can ban you from contacting me via various means.
I can kick you out of my house for saying something I don’t like.
I can encroach on your “free speech” all over the place because I am not the government.
I’m not saying that I will, or that I have the desire to but the point is that I can and that your little “freedom of speech” defense makes me want to vomit. It’s irrelevant and you sound like an idiot. Please stop.
“Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality. When we recognize our place in an immensity of light-years and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual. So are our emotions in the presence of great art or music or literature, or acts of exemplary selfless courage such as those of Mohandas Gandhi or Martin Luther King, Jr. The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both.”
—Carl Sagan (via ikenbot)
finding out someone you know is getting interested in something you’re interested in
She wants the (ph)D
Not with that technique: no gloves, safety glasses, fume hood; the volume in the erlenmeyer flask is not suitable for what the flask allows; and the fumes from the left vessel are dangerously close to her nasal orifice. The only D she is asking for is Disaster.
You have earned my respect.
CATCHING FIRE WAS MY FAVORITE BOOK
IM SO EXCITED
GALE GETTING PREGNANT
KATNISS DYING
PEETA BECOMING THE PRESIDENT
SNOW GIVING BIRTH
PRIM DATING WITH 2 BOYS AT THE SAME TIME
RUE IS A ZOMBIE
CINNA GOES TO FASHION WEEK
EFFIE WORKS AT A CIRCUS
OMG! DISTRIC 14!!
Please tag your posts as spoilers so nobody’s experience reading the novel or watching the film will be ruined. Thank you.
IM LAUGHING SO HARD
Just because a depressed person is happy doesn’t mean they’re not depressed.
Just because a depressed person experiences happiness doesn’t make them a ‘bad’ depressed person.
Just because a depressed person has a good day doesn’t mean they’re not depressed.
Just because a depressed person is doing well one day doesn’t mean they’ll be doing well the next day.
Keep these in mind.
Thanks.
February 2013
30 posts
Just A Quick Note
Since Christian-bashing seems to be a concern, and I’ve been seeing a bit on my dash lately, I feel the need to comment on my own stance.
Christians are fine. For the most part, they’re good people. Lots of them are awesome and tolerant and open-minded and caring. Granted, there are bad ones in the bunch, but that’s not the fault of every Christian I meet.
I’m not going to bash their beliefs, because they have the right to believe whatever they want, the same as I do. I may joke around and make some irreverent comments now and then, but I will not bash someone simply for being a Christian.
HOWEVER.
If anyone uses Christian beliefs or rhetoric to excuse racism, sexism, bigotry, or any other sort of douchebag behavior, they are FAIR FUCKING GAME.
Actually, that pretty much goes for anyone who uses any religion as an excuse to be an asshole.
Bottom Line: Christians are okay. Assholes are not. Assholes who try to justify their shit with religion will receive a piece of my mind big enough to choke on.
NEWSFLASH: You can be poor and own a computer.
- You can be poor and have internet access.
- You can be poor and have a cell phone.
- You can be poor and have a car.
- You can be poor and have an air conditioner.
- You can be poor and have a refrigerator.
- You can be poor and have cable.
- You can be poor and have credit cards.
- You can be poor and have makeup and jewelery.
- You can be poor and have a gaming console.
- You can be poor and have a dvd player.
- You can be poor and have a tv.
None of these things are mutually exclusive. If you think they are, you’re most likely an asshole.
- You can have a decent job and make a reasonable amount of money and still be poor due to medical debts, divorce, or any number of events that put you in to debt.
The fact that this needs to be said just proves to me that most people aren’t even worth the effort to spit on for thinking otherwise. SMH
“Feminine faces, as well as bodies, are trained to the expression of deference. Under male scrutiny, women will avert their eyes or cast them downward; the female gaze is trained to abandon its claim to the sovereign status of seer. The “nice” girl learns to avoid the bold and unfettered staring of the “loose” woman, who looks at whatever and whomever she pleases. Women are trained to smile more than men, too. In the economy of smiles, as elsewhere, there is evidence that women are exploited, for they give more than they receive in return; in a smile-elicitation study, one researcher found that the rate of smile return by women was 93 percent, by men only 67 percent. In many typical women’s jobs, graciousness, deference, and the readiness to serve are part of the work; this requires the worker to fix a smile on her face for a good part of the working day, whatever her inner state. The economy of touching is out of balance, too: men touch women more often and on more parts of the body than women touch men: female secretaries, factory workers, and waitresses report that such liberties are taken routinely with their bodies.”
—Sandra Lee Bartky, Foucault, Femininity and the Modernization of Patriarchal Power (via spittingonhegel)
