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June 2013
3 posts
I got through that party last night by pretending to be as awkward like all the characters in “Please Like Me” and enjoying it.
May 2013
7 posts
Actual serious lyrics I wrote this weekend:
itselfyou replied to your photo: My German name.
so you make up a german name every time they ask you for it at starbucks? or do you stick to “patrick” all the time?
To be honest, that was the first time that I said Patrick to the barista. It was spontaneous. I was with my sister there and when I said ‘Patrick’, she just looked confused at me, but we both acted ‘normal’ and didn’t say anything. After we got our coffee and went out, we laughed. She said, she didn’t expect this :D
I was amazed that the Starbucks girl last week somehow managed to write down something on that cup which actually resembled my Asian name. But probably this could be my new thing: inventing German names for myself every time I visit Starbucks.
Instead of saying motherfucker you can just say Oedipus
Half of our generation wouldn’t even understand that
yes you are right the thousands of notes on this post prove how ignorant our generation is. only you are intelligent. you are the chosen one.
only real Ancient Greek kids would understand
reblog if ur a tru 650BC kid
Searching the internet for the South African Gospel song “Modimo” led me to this website: http://www.godchecker.com/. Don’t miss “Today’s Top Ten Gods and Goddesses”: http://www.godchecker.com/gotw/index.php
what would atheists do? idk somehow i think of non-religious people as pragmatic getting things done personalities because they can’t rely on an omnipotent being being at their service and making everything alright every time they fuck up
Nothing Lasts forever
We talked about a past I once knew
I said nothing lasts forever
She smiled and told me some things doI said, no you misunderstood
For me, Nothing lasts forever
She asked, what about love?I said no you misunderstood
For me, nothing is the only thing that lasts forever
April 2013
7 posts
“It is necessary to fall in love, if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.”
— Albert Camus (via faulknerandfieldnotes)
“What depths of suffering can arise from witnessing someone we love enjoying their lives without any need of, or desire for, our love”
—Peter Rollins (via thestoryinsidethestory)
March 2013
5 posts
if you actually were "nothing special" then you would not exist in the first place
Simon b.c
but, but, but … dear friends, existence is just not enough
red blood sells out: Dark light Blue →
wheretonguemeetssoul.tumblr.com
When I say im only human
And you look at me
like you have your doubts
When I accomplish something
By accident
Or what I like to call
Done in zero try’s
When I have something
To add
And take
From the same conversation
I don’t want to be apart ofAnd That time that the lights went out
…
love ex machina
So I’ve been reading Peter Rollins a lot recently (his new book “The Idolatry of God”, his story book “The Orthodox Heretic” and his losing God book “Insurrection”). I could relate a lot to the not so comfortable invitation to step into that experience of losing everything including God etc. etc. But then suddenly the answer to all of that (maybe it wasn’t presented as an answer, I just don’t remember any more) is love or rather the act of loving itself. Maybe I wasn’t paying attention when on earth the act of loving suddenly entered the stage. How is love not a Deus ex machina sneaking in?
I can see that while we struggle with the sense of seperation love seems to promise the end of seperation. But don’t we just also experience this ever so often how lonely and seperated we can feel in a family or even in a relationship? Sorry, Pete, I’ll re-read more carefully what you’re saying about love!
do re me fa so done with you
February 2013
9 posts
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“I do call myself an atheist, but I do treat religion, how should I say, respectfully, because I find it an extraordinarily interesting phenomenon. I find it very interesting how human beings can come to believe things like this. It is one way in which I differ from Richard Dawkins for example: his argument with religion is that it isn’t true, and that therefore it’s wrong. That’s not my argument with it at all. My argument with religion is that it gets hold of power and uses power for the wrong purpose and becomes corrupted.”
—Philip Pullman, during an interview with Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy, in which he explains his own personal take on atheism, as contrasted with the stand taken by such folks as Dawkins and Hitchens
Listen to the podcast episode here:
http://geeksguideshow.com/2012/12/17/ggg76-philip-pullman/ (via kammartinez)
Listen to the podcast episode here:
http://geeksguideshow.com/2012/12/17/ggg76-philip-pullman/ (via kammartinez)
“shit happens and non-shit happens. things happen. ah.”
—
January 2013
14 posts
We were talking with a mathematician the other day and he tried to explain how language breaks down in some fields. Of course I can’t summarise what he said. Whatever, in my words I would say that Western “Ideengeschichte” is somewhat obsessed with the idea of “essence”. And since we obviously will never get to the smallest particles of which we think that they should constitute “what is” maybe the Heart Sutra more helpful when it says that the things are empty, or have just this space “inside”. I said that to the mathematician friend because I know that he meditates with some Zen people every week. He couldn’t relate to that though - they only recite in Japanese.
Haha! “If you want disobedient children” - I wish I were as brave as Lyra! - And if I should ever have kids of my own I would wish them to master their fears like Lyra and Will did.
Hey, I don’t need happiness - that’s just an idea. As is the opposite of it.
i’m that friend that has to walk behind the others when the sidewalk doesn’t fit a group of three
do atheists say oh my god
yep. we say it any time we hear something that’s unbelievable.
I know I need to do something. I know it’s good to be in charge of what I do, what I want, what people I meet etc. But sometimes I am fine (I must) with life happening by itself.
I want this so bad why the hell is it so expensive http://www.amazon.com/Unholy-Sonnets-Mark-Jarman/dp/1885266871/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1347687345&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=unholy+sunnets
I swear these poems where MADE FOR ME they are right up my alley
Exactly my thoughts when I was searching for a copy - here in Germany. Will Jarman’s sonnets still speak to me, for me, when they arrive in some weeks?
Unholy Sonnet 4
BY MARK JARMAN
Amazing to believe that nothingness
Surrounds us with delight and lets us be,
And that the meekness of nonentity,
Despite the friction of the world of sense,
Despite the leveling of violence,
Is all that matters. All the energy
We force into the matchhead and the city
Explodes inside a loving emptiness.
Not Dante’s rings, not the Zen zero’s mouth,
Out of which comes and into which light goes,
This God recedes from every metaphor,
Turns the hardest data into untruth,
And fills all blanks with blankness. This love shows
Itself in absence, which the stars adore.
Maybe there is a God. He has given me too many reasons to be miserable but he also has given me The Smiths as a soundtrack for that.
[T]here are certain feelings which claim their own rights. Tears fall, no matter how hard we try to check them, and by being shed they ease the soul.
Seneca, Epistulae, XCIX
Yeah, maybe I need to practice crying a bit again. Yes, I really do believe that at some stage you have to practice it again because you have forgotten how to do that.
December 2012
20 posts
“‘I wish …’ [Lyra] said, and stopped. There was nothing that could be gained by wishing for it.”
—Philip Pullman, Northern Lights, Last Chapter
“We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.”
—Philip Pullman, Northern Lights, Chapter 18
“Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.”
— Dalai Lama XIV (via wethinkwedream)
That would be jolly nice if you’d knew in that moment that it’s “a wonderful stroke of luck”. Because what you feel when you don’t get what you want, that’s more like “Aargh! It’s the end of world! I can’t be happy in my life without that thing / that person! I’ll have to kill myself!”
Why does the mood change just because it’s snowing?
I survived my teenage years. So I have the chance to deal with stuff in a much better way than before. Being unhappily in love? Teenagers can deal with it, so I can do too.
