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WTF: Gov. Rick Scott cuts funding for rape crisis centers during Sexual Assault Awareness Month

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 13:33:37 -0400

WTF: Gov. Rick Scott cuts funding for rape crisis centers during Sexual Assault Awareness Month

whyit-scaresme: Philosopher’s Minimalism by Genís...

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:00:28 -0400

Philosopher’s Minimalism by Genís Carreras

Prints available at society6. Entitled “Philographics”, these minimalist geometric shapes represent various philosophical doctrines like existentialism, empiricism, nihilism, and solipsism. Several more can be seen on Carreras’ website, but spoiler alert: there appears to be no mention of Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, which is just as much a code of ethics as it is a religious experience.

(via: io9)

Will the Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 20:11:12 -0400

Will the Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up

anticapitalist: The Dallas Fed Is Calling For The Immediate...

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:35:31 -0400

anticapitalist:

The Dallas Fed Is Calling For The Immediate Breakup Of Large Banks

vegangovegan: Humans are biologically herbivores.

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:34:51 -0400

vegangovegan:

Humans are biologically herbivores.

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Meet the man who quit money

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:33:49 -0400

Meet the man who quit money:

In the first year of the 21st century, a man standing by a highway in the middle of America pulled from his pocket his life savings – $30 – laid it inside a phone booth, and walked away. He was 39 years old, came from a good family, and had been to college. He was not mentally ill, nor an addict. His decision appears to have been an act of free will by a competent adult.

In the 12 years since, as the Dow Jones skyrocketed to its all-time high, Daniel Suelo has not earned, received, or spent a single dollar. In an era when anyone who could sign his name qualified for a mortgage, Suelo did not apply for loans or write IOUs. He didn’t even barter. As the public debt soared, he did not pay taxes, or accept any form of government handout.

Instead he set up house in caves in the Utah canyonlands, where he forages mulberries and wild onions, scavenges road-kill raccoons and squirrels, pulls expired groceries from dumpsters, and is often fed by friends and strangers. “My philosophy is to use only what is freely given or discarded & what is already present & already running,” he writes. While the rest of us grapple with tax deductions and mortgages, Suelo no longer holds so much as an ID card.

Yet the man who sleeps under bridges and prospects in trash cans is not a typical hobo. He does not panhandle, and he often works – declining payment for his efforts. While he is driven by spiritual beliefs and longings, he is not associated with any church. And although he lives in a cave, he is not a hermit: He is relentlessly social, remains close with friends and family, and engages in discussions with strangers via the website he maintains from the public library. He has crisscrossed the West by bicycle, hopped freight trains, hitched through nearly every state in the union, hauled nets on a Bering Sea trawler and spear-fished salmon in Alaska streams.

“I know it is possible to live with zero money,” Suelo declares.

“Abundantly.”

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Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:32:29 -0400

"With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism...."

Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:31:13 -0400

“With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbols for things. One will live. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

- Oscar Wilde “The Soul of Man Under Socialism” (via joemccarthyblues)

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"Philosophy being nothing else but the study of wisdom and truth, it may with reason be expected,..."

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:09:17 -0500

“Philosophy being nothing else but the study of wisdom and truth, it may with reason be expected, that those who have spent most time and pains in it should enjoy a greater calm and serenity of mind, a greater clearness and evidence of knowledge, and be less disturbed with doubt and difficulties than other men. Yet so it is we see the illiterate bulk of mankind that walk the high-road of plain, common sense and are governed by the dictates of nature, for the most part easy and undisturbed. To them nothing that is familiar appears unaccountable or difficult to comprehend. They complain not of any want of evidence in their senses, and are out of all danger of becoming sceptics. But no sooner do we depart from sense and instinct to follow the light of a superior principle, to reason, meditate and reflect on the nature of things, but a thousand scruples spring up in our minds, concerning those things which before we seemed fully to comprehend. Prejudices and errors of sense do from all parts discover themselves to our view; and endeavouring to correct these by reason we are insensibly drawn into uncouth paradoxes, difficulties, and inconsistencies, which multiply and grow upon us as we advance in speculation; till at length, having wandered through many intricate mazes, we find ourselves just where we were, or, which is worse, sit down in a forlorn scepticism.”

- George Berkeley (via wastedmystic)

"Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them."

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:06:46 -0500

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.”

- Margaret Atwood (via justaturnofthedial)

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