March 2012
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“Hubb” is love, “ishq” is love that entwines two people together, “shaghaf” is...”
– Ahdaf Soueif. (via mehreenkasana)
you're just as hot as radiation
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Ahab to the Sun
mythologyofblue:
“Thou seamark! thou high and mighty Pilot! thou tellest me truly where I am — but can’st thou cast the least hint where I shall be? Or can’st thou tell where some other thing besides me is this moment living?
-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 118
[ongoing: a study of light]
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I USED TO BE A BAD GUY BUT NOW I'M GOOD
sonofapritch:
I don’t walk dogs and I don’t like papayas but I think I’m very friendly
you should pay lots of attention to me and maybe buy me things
because I am a prodigal son who turned into Kierkegaard or something
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If I have informed someone that I am often aloof, unresponsive, and inclined to abruptly disengage from things without explanation, am I then absolved of having to respond to anything that person says ever?
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sigh-onara asked: I don't even know what to read, heart or reblog first - your blog is amazing :3
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words that are different, no. 11
Extraneous and extemporaneous
“I don’t care what you think about me, I don’t think about you at all.”
– Coco Chanel (via feraldolce)
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Sign that one has not weight trained in way too long: being unable to adjust the settings on weight machines.
My little brother: Eman, you could comb your hair
I need new workout music.
Teen with Toledo ties snatched in Syria →
My friend’s brother-in-law is still missing, and no one has heard from him in over two days. It’s hard not to expect the worst, but I hope he is safe.
February 2012
365 posts
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“The four words that will define this century: The Earth is full.”
– @paulgilding at TED (via kateoplis)
I’m going to assume that his speech is a derivative of this piece for AdBusters. In other words, he’s applying the same level of critical thought as George Carlin. Mind blowing analysis, TED does it again.
(via thenoobyorker)
“كن صديقي
ليس فالأمر إنتقاص للرجولة
غير أن الشرقي لا يرضى بدور غير أدوار...”
– (via harunwasagoon)
aporianonymous:
‘…the fundamental problem of political philosophy is still precisely the one that Spinoza saw so clearly, and that Wilhelm Reich rediscovered: “Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?” How can they possibly reach the point of shouting: “More taxes! Less bread!”? As Reich remarks, the astonishing thing is not that some people steal or...
interruptions:
I think a lot of really stupid tumblr conversations could be entirely avoided if people had a solid grip on the distinction between existential and universal quantifiers
“Being and Time has argued perhaps but one sole thesis: Being is inseparable from...”
– Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity (via hollovv)
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“In the thickets of language every creature is wild.”
– Ivan Vladislavić’s “Dictionary Birds”, The Loss Library and Other Unfinished Stories.
(towirr)
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“As Islamists gain ground in Egypt, Tunisia, and Syria concerns over their...”
– Maya Mikdashi, The Uprisings Will be Gendered via Jadaliyya
I’ve read this 4 time already and it’s only been posted a few hours ago. I sometimes feel like crawling in a corner knowing some of writings appear on the same publication as Maya Mikdashi’s.
(via sharquaouia)
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The sixteen-year-old brother of a guy I know was abducted by Syrian Intelligence yesterday. He is a US citizen who was studying in Damascus. No one knows where he is. I have a knot in my stomach.
I keep calling the Fukushima disaster the Fukuyama disaster
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roxygen:
matryoshhka:
roxygen answered your question: Arab Student Union hosts Doctors for Dr. Ron Paul
What particular stances contrary to Arab American interests and Arab Americans alone?
I never claimed they were Arab-American issues alone. Arab-Americans do not comprise a discrete group that is disconnected from the rest and towards whom Ron Paul is particularly antagonistic. Rather,...
It is really interesting to observe the order of emotional expressions on the faces of these Ron Paul supporters. First, almost unconsciously, they clap. Then their incipient smiles erupt in sheer delight. Their eyebrows slowly settle back down onto their faces, their clapping subsides almost as unconsciously as it began but perhaps slightly less so, and their solemn expressions return as they...
“It’s an absolute fact that the freer the country, the wealthier the...”
– Ron Paul to a room full of applause
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roxygen answered your question: Arab Student Union hosts Doctors for Dr. Ron Paul
What particular stances contrary to Arab American interests and Arab Americans alone?
I never claimed they were Arab-American issues alone. Arab-Americans do not comprise a discrete group that is disconnected from the rest and towards whom Ron Paul is particularly antagonistic. Rather, Arab-Americans live lives that...
hazeofcapitalism:
For the function of violence in lawmaking is twofold, in the sense that lawmaking pursues as its end, with violence as the means, what is to be established as law, but at the moment of instatement does not dismiss violence; rather, at this very moment of lawmaking, it specifically establishes as law not an end unalloyed by violence, but one necessarily and intimately bound to...
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Arab Student Union hosts Doctors for Dr. Ron Paul
I cannot decide if I want to go to the Ron Paul event my university Arab Student Union is hosting. It is spring recess, and I am disinclined to commute to campus for this event. However, I take issue with many of his positions and find them contrary to many Arab-American interests. It just bothers me that a cultural organization at my university feels that it can endorse a candidate without having...
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anhypnic asked: It's lovely seeing the Rilke quotations, and—as you earlier asked for questions—I wonder: which of his works would you consider your favorite?
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“How pitiful it would be if greatness needed the slightest indulgence.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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Anonymous asked: why do you exist
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So this week is my spring recess. It is currently 28°F outside. Fuck you, umich. I am not sure what to do with myself without an impending sense of doom looming over me at all times.
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My little brother is currently combing my little sister’s [his twin’s] hair. Dying of cute.
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sijemesouviensbien asked: luv me
[udi tere aankhoin se by sunidhi chauhan &...
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I was telling my doctor that my eyes were always dry and irritated with my contacts. She gave me a different prescription. I told her that they were only slightly better. She recommended I wear glasses more frequently. Still, the problem did not subside. She recommended that I blink incrementally and occasionally close my eyes.
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“We do not lack communcation. On the contrary, we have too much of it. We lack...”
– Deleuze and Guattari, What is Philosophy? (via rhizombie)
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azaadi replied to your post: I need to get back into my artwork. I need to get…
Your library fine must be ridiculous.
I have paid over $1300 in library fines in my lifetime.
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I need to get back into my artwork. I need to get back into physics. I need to get back into mathematics. I need to return 57 library books. I need to change my calendar to a month other than November. I am thinking September.