lost and stumbling

We’ve got to regain knowledge again, and we’ve got to regain an understanding again, of who we are. Not just those chosen to fuel systems, but individuals who have the power to criticize and analyze, and attack injustice when it becomes prevalent and apparent in front of our faces like it is in ours right now. We’ve been all put to sleep. Put to sleep to a system. A system that continues to perpetrate ignorance amongst our spirits and amongst our minds. One that wants you not to act. A system that would rather see all of you at that bar drinking beer filling your minds being put to sleep with beer or with drugs, rather than acting against it and fighting a system which has been perpetrating imperialist lies and other fucking bullshit for five hundred years. So fucking drink up or fucking wake up. You’re part of the solution or you’re part of the fucking problem. I am sick and tired of my own complacence in my life and I know I’m fucking sick of yours. So wake up and stop fucking sleeping. Wake Up!

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From birth we’re taught that we’re owed a beautiful girl. We all think of ourselves as the hero of our own story, and we all (whether we admit it or not) think we’re heroes for just getting through our day.

So it’s very frustrating, and I mean frustrating to the point of violence, when we don’t get what we’re owed. A contract has been broken. These women, by exercising their own choices, are denying it to us. It’s why every Nice Guy is shocked to find that buying gifts for a girl and doing her favors won’t win him sex. It’s why we go to “slut” and “whore” as our default insults — we’re not mad that women enjoy sex. We’re mad that women are distributing to other people the sex that they owed us.

Yes, the women in these stories are being portrayed as wonderful and beautiful and perfect. But remember, there are two ways to dehumanize someone: by dismissing them, and by idolizing them.

David Wong, 5 Ways Modern Men Are Trained to Hate Women (via chirart)

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i have made it my personal mission to avoid this at all costs.

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"Stop trying to “get it together.” The biggest lie we’re told when we’re growing up is that soon as we’re adults, as soon as we’re in college, finish college, get that job, have that steady income, find that someone special, “find ourselves,” find that perfect house, get that retirement fund, have those children, everything will fall into place. Here’s a secret: it won’t. Every new development in your life, good or bad, big or small, will come with its own very special set of challenges. The sooner you accept that, the better off you’ll be. But the myth is perpetuated throughout life, perhaps now more than ever with happy status updates on Facebook and blushing bride/happy multi-tasking mommy blog posts. What these success stories don’t tell you is what is going on behind closed doors. They don’t tell you that your friend who is so over the moon with her new baby had to apply for food stamps. They don’t tell you that your fantastic, involved professor struggles with depression. They don’t tell you that your happily married friend still has nightmares about her abusive ex. They don’t tell you the cousin who just got that jealousy-inducing job opportunity is thinking of breaking up with his boyfriend of 10 years. What closely interacting with people from all backgrounds on the Internet for over a decade has taught me is that no one “has it together” in the way we think they do. So stop trying to have that as your goal, because you are just setting yourself up for massive failure."

I wrote a blog post on how to be happy (oh, the irony. It burns). I do think this is my favorite paragraph. Well, this and the cat pictures, I guess. (via ghouldilocks)

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"We began this work a long time ago. We’ve all spent a great deal of earth time putting each brick in place to build the structure. […] All have various roles to perform. Some will make it, some won’t; but the choice is yours. To cite another cliche, they say the path of righteousness is narrow. ‘Tis true, because it’s harder to climb uphill than it is to slide downhill. ‘Tis easy to fall, many of us have. But we have the choice of getting up again, carrying on. […] Take heart. We have entered into a phase that’s been long in the making, and it’s new — very new. Even we here, have to grapple for new ways to accomplish the purposes, as time ticks away…

Carry on, continue, strive to evolve in a move upwards. It’s by far the shorter path in the long run."

An Inspirational Message From Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - ”The Path Of Spiritual Growth”

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if you are religious:

robcayman:

I am not saying that you are WRONG. I’m saying it’s WRONG that you BELIEVE you are RIGHT. Yours is just 1 OPINION among nearly 8 BILLION.

Don’t be be so self-centered that you cant respect another’s right to believe WHATEVER the hell they want. Every religious book I’ve read speaks about acceptance, tolerance and peace. Your universe is what YOU make of it. If you have included a God in it to explain things for you, and it makes sense to you, and you live a good life, practicing the peace, acceptance and tolerance of your religion, then you will find that atheists and other religions dont have a problem with you.

 ”There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.” - Kurt Vonnegut

And THAT’s it….. simple… be kind, and everything else works, because from being kind comes everything good in life….. the whole point of the story of Jesus was NOT the miracles or the death or ressurection…. the point was he was KIND, as were all the prophets in all the scriptures of all the religions, none of them asked for you to convert those around you or condemn them for not believing what you believe. they told one and all to BE KIND.

Please try to remember: you were a person before you decided what to label yourself as…. just like everyone else.

Simple Beauty

kissmeanubis:

There is a lot of beauty in the people that surround us, it’s our job to notice this. Whether it be the freckles, their laugh lines, the way they wrinkle their nose when they laugh or become frustrated, the way their eyes deepen in colors when they are overcome with sadness, the way their hushed sighs tell you all their worries are floating out of them, the way a touch can make someone feel. All feelings, actions, raw need to be appreciate, the do’s and the don’t’s. 

The small things are the big picture. And there is something beautiful in every broken down piece of something, just as their is in the things that are not broken. The darkest of places even has a little light in it somewhere.

"Life invites participation in more than could ever be accomplished. Every invitation comes with the promise that this event could change your life. The changes may include both pitfalls and rewards, in your career or path in life and in relationships with others."

grrrlvirus:

yes i am a slut by clementine cannibal (by ClementineCannibal)

“yes i am a slut. because i have big tits that pour out of pretty much every shirt. because i like to show them off. because i used to charge 200 an hour and sometimes i would come and my client wouldn’t cuz that’s how much i was into fucking. because i’ve had trains run on me. because i liked it. because in grade eight a boy pulled down my shirt and bra in front of the whole class and my teacher and everyone saw my nipples. because he got a slap on the wrist and i was told by the principal that it was partially my fault because of the shirt i was wearing. because after that i started showing my tits to guys cuz i figured i was used goods. because when i was nineteen and being assaulted by a bunch of guys for not shaving my armpits they felt the need to pull my tits out of my shirt. because when i was twelve my grandfather forcibly made out with me. yes i am a slut. because i love sucking dick and i’ll take his load all over my face and tits and in my mouth. because i used to get drunk and fuck random guys all the time even on weeknights. because i’m bisexual and everyone assumes bisexuals are slutty even when we’re in monogamous relationships. because i’m a femme queer grrrl and everyone thinks femme queer grrrls are just ‘doing it for attention’ and are accessible to men. because the first time i was kissed in a way i actually like my girlfriend and i were told we were disgusting and going to burn in hell. yes i am a slut. because i fucked my boyfriend in the ass with my strap on. because i used to work in a sex shop. because i love the night. because i wear miniskirts. because i smoke weed. because i flirt. because i’ve gone to bars by myself. because i’ve pissed in alleyways. because sometimes i like sex. because sometimes i don’t like sex. because i’ve been raped. because i’m a feminist. because i’m a survivor. because i’m a cum guzzling nympho. because i own sex toys. lots of them. because the only person who can make me come is myself and i’m fine with that. because i rub my clit when i’m being fucked. because i’ve done webcam work. because i’ve posed naked for pictures. because i like to masturbate. because i’ve always loved to masturbate. because i used to jerk off to naked pictures of women when i was like ten years old and i thought there was something seriously wrong with me. because there is nothing wrong with me. yes i am a slut. because my boyfriend called me one. because he got on top of me and screamed it in my face. because he called me it on my birthday. because random men have yelled slut at me more times than i could possibly count if i tried to sit down and write a list. because i have been called an ugly bitch, sweetheart, honey and other degrading names more times than i could count too. because i’ve been called a dyke and told to shave my armpits and my pussy and told to lose weight and told to shut up and told to say yes to my pedophile grandfather. because i am sick of being told and this time i am telling you. yes i am a slut. because my pussy is beautiful and insatiable. because i love my body. because the clothes i’m most comfortable in apparently make me a target for rape. because when i was raped i was in my bed at home. because my body belongs to me no matter how many times i’ve been violated and none of it was my fault ever. yes i am a slut. because yes, i do fucking know what the word means and yes i am a feminist and yes i am intelligent and yes i do choose to say yes i am a slut. because the police officer who said women should stop dressing like sluts to avoid being victimized was talking about me and he was talking about you and he was talking about all of us. and because if we say it’s okay to rape any of us then it’s okay to rape all of us. because the slut card can be pulled out at any time and you never know when it will be used against you. because it can always be used against you, even if you’ve tried hard to make the ‘right’ choices. because all of us are sluts because in a rape culture women are considered inherently rapable. because none of us can be free of the word until those of us who choose to are free to embrace the word. because the word will never lose it’s power to hurt as long as we allow them to control it. because i respect a woman’s right to self identify and expect the same respect in return. because i am taking a cue from my queer sisters who helped in the reclamation of words like queer and dyke, words that mean so much to our history, struggle and resistance. yes i am a slut. yes it is a complicated identity full of disempowerment, empowerment, struggle and resistance. yes it was forced on me and used against me and yes i and many of us were able to find different, new and empowering ways of relating to the word. yes we are sluts. so please hear us out. hear what we have to say. don’t condescendingly tell us whether or not we are sluts or whether or not we can find empowerment this way. yes we can, yes we do, yes we are.”

(via littlegirl-lost)

Property

robcayman:

all property can be defined under two separate classes

1 Physical Resources

2 Intellectual Resources

The second one can be infinite (since there is no known limit to human thought besides humans), but only if you sustain the first.

This means that if you manage your finite resources, you can create infinite resources and this, in my opinion, is the ideal of economics (though i’m sure no textbook has ever put it that way)

An infinite resource cannot have a price though, since this would render it finite and the surplus would go waste. This is exactly what is happening under the current fiscal paradigm.

Since no economist can accurately quantify our potential intellectual property the way we do an oil field, we are stuck with an apparent potential for infinite planetary growth, since our physical resources are valued using the same system as our intellectual resources, money.

The result is a need to inflate an economy, in order to attempt to fill the gap between the finite and the infinite, but since that is clearly an unfillable gap, we have a problem. The system HAS to fail, because eventually, the Physical resources will no longer be able to back the inflated economy.

I suggest a seperation and re-classification of resources, with a stable, non-inflationary tracking system for the physical resources, and an dynamic expandable tracking system for the intellectual property.

With a new system, we could easily establish exactly how much we have of everything, how much of everything we need, what options are truly available to us to solve each of our problems, and most importantly, what the impact of our usage is. This knowledge could then assist the growth of our intellectual resources.  

Such a paradigm would allow each individual to expand their own potential for intellectual resource creation. While under the current system, the majority of the people’s potential is actually directly limited, while this limitation causes the misuse of our physical resources.

something’s gotta give, and before it all comes crumbling down on our heads, we should start thinking about making some changes. I’m one person with a few ideas, some of which, i’m proud to say, are not too bad. What could we achieve in a world where all our ideas are nurtured, and our planet itself cared for?

"Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable. You are you, I am I. I have to contribute my potential to life; you have to contribute your potential to life. I have to discover my own being; you have to discover your own being."

Osho (via nirvikalpa)

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i will always be me.

what that means is that wherever you go, you’ll always be leaving me behind in some way.

but if you ever come back to me, i’ll be here. and if you want, i’ll come with you on your next big adventure.

love is not about who you are with someone else. it’s about making someone else happy because of who you are, and being happy because they’re happy. someone else’s happiness is the intended result of love. your own happiness is just a by-product.

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i think there were cops outside our house

i don’t know, i curled up in the fetal position in the middle of my room amidst the piles of stuff with all my lights off.

fuck this this is why i don’t leave the house.

"A creature can never be a perfect being, but may be a perfect creature — e.g. a good angel or a good apple-tree. Gaiety at it highest may be an (intellectual) creature’s delighted recognition that its imperfection as a being may constitute part of its perfection as an element in the whole hierarchical order of creation. I mean, while it is a pity there should be bad men or bad dogs, part of the excellence of a good man is that he is not an angel, and of a good dog that it is not a man. This is the extension of what St. Paul says about the body & the members. A good toe-nail is not an unsuccessful attempt at a hair; and if it were conscious it would delight in being simply a good toe-nail."

C.S. Lewis in response to a letter asking the definition of ‘gaiety’

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