January 2012
4 posts
“Microaggressions is a word coined by psychiatrist Chester M. Pierce, meaning...”
– http://www.clutchmagonline.com/2012/01/not-everyones-laughing-at-shit-white-girls-say-to-black-girls/
Twins: Nature, nurture, and epigenetics →
the study of epigenics, and how experiences in the womb and during the first year of life can profoundly affect a person’s capacity and personality….
November 2011
2 posts
AgeAnalyzer thought my blog is written by someone 65-100 years old. ha. hmm.
As a Four, you tend to cope with problems by being emotionally intense and expressing your feelings. Your message to others is: “I feel really hurt and I need to express myself.” Expand your coping skills by being competent, taking practical action, and adopting a positive outlook. (The Wisdom of the Enneagram, 68)
HA!!HA!
October 2011
1 post
The Tyranny of Stuctureless →
(courtesy p. menon)
September 2011
3 posts
“In a fundamental sense, capital consists of any produced thing that can enhance...”
– Capital (economics) - Wikipedia
(Doing research while working on creating the concept for a class on creative integrity & economics.)
thought I'd be brainwashed... →
great article written by UK journalist Amelia Hill in 2003 after she participated in the Landmark Forum. She went in as a journalist to get an insider’s view on what people called a brainwashing cult, and came out with a totally different view.
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New Wikileaks cable suggests UN peacekeepers dealt... →
I’m wondering how to spread information like this without it being just a complaint about corruption. I think that when I post things like this, it’s in an effort to deconstruct faith in one’s government. And to point out for myself that it’s never, ever surprising to see power being abused, and it’s never warranted to feel pride and security in a large-scale global...
August 2011
33 posts
I’m transforming this blog into a temporary platform for inquiring into and testifying to the parts I have played in creating & maintaining a culture of ignorance, racism, sexism, transphobia, classism, homophobia, nationalism, ageism, ableism, suspicion, and hatred. In seeking to understand my complicity in the harm that has been done to others and myself, and in showing up as fully...
Seniors with Spray Cans: Germany's Older... →
hot air
Cruelty free
Cage free
Environmentally friendly
Nature’s friend
No chemicals
Vegetarian fed
Any company can print these words on their product without independent verification. Without quality control, those words are a bunch of hoo ha (source)
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“Being born a woman is an awful tragedy… Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with...”
– Sylvia Plath (via palmlicker)
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Great American streetcar scandal →
and here is a video about this issue entitled “Taken for a Ride” : http://youtu.be/ehoVnykvMKY
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The death cry of a carrot →
however, I would be pretty excited if folks pulled...
(OpFacebook)
The collective Anonymous is not threatening to...
To clarify the misinformation that’s been bouncing around the internet read excerpt below (via slashgear):
It appears very likely now that the original call to action for what was (and still possibly is) called “Operation Facebook” is now being disowned by a large number of members of the famous hacker group. If you’ll take a look at the monstrously popular Anonymous Vows Facebook...
whipporwill-deactivated20111220 asked: by "mob" I think Pratchett means it in the pejorative sense, and IQ in a metaphorical sense. that is, a group of people coming together for a legitimate common purpose is not a mob, but a group of people looting and pillaging for their own imagined self-interest is one. anyway that's my take, yours is a legitimate criticism as well.
see below for more examples of obnoxious reductive feux-liberal horsecrap. clever. always telling when someone makes statements that use IQ as a validating measure of a person’s intelligence or worth.
whiporwill:
“The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its dumbest member divided by the number of mobsters.” — Terry Pratchett
on violence towards the ego, the superego, or any... →
i think a lot of people are unnecessarily vicious towards internal and external authority. somehow, i think people ghettoize it in the same way that they have felt oppressed and marginalized. and it’s a logical fallacy…or…how do i put it. it’s the same thing. to pretend that “authority” and the seeds of hatred are all evil and bad things that are outside of you...
in response to a conversation that popped up...
on people using animals as tools for use. My gut sense is that it’s wrong at a fundamental level. This came up the other day when my family started talking about dogs being trained to sense when their owners were about to have a heart attack, and something about that felt sick to me. Hiring a “heart attack detector” in the form of a living dog, that can’t have a life...
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sad truth behind London riot →
As political and social protests grip the Middle East, are growing in Europe and a riot exploded in north London this weekend, here’s a sad truth, expressed by a Londoner when asked by a television reporter: Is rioting the correct way to express your discontent? “Yes,” said the young man. “You wouldn’t be talking to me now if we didn’t riot, would you?”
The TV reporter from Britain’s ITV had...
Bold Native →
first fictional film about animal liberation… saw this a few months ago at a sedition books screening in houston. worth watching, despite the melodramatic acting.
6 Creepy New Weapons the Police and Military Use... →
The US is at the forefront of an international arms development effort that includes a remarkable assortment of technologies, which look and sound like they belong in a Hollywood science fiction thriller. From microwave energy blasters and blinding laser beams, to chemical agents and deafening sonic blasters, these weapons are at the cutting edge of crowd control.
The Pentagon’s approved term...
yesterday I got someone's blog shut down
because of content that reeked of pedophilia. awful images. one child with a backside covered with bruises. a little blurry polaroid of a small asian girl, gagged with a cloth, looking frightened at the camera above a sign on her neck reading “For Sale.” other pictures, some grotesque, some picturesque, little boys wearing red lipstick… don’t know if it was a good idea just...
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just watched The Edukators →
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babies with no diapers →
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I’m reading the fortune cookie and it says to me on Monday/Tuesday: Emotional volatility and hyper-sensitivity will block your ability to feel and express love. Being aware of this when your buttons are pushed will help you to let go of this behavior./enneagram fortune cookies for type fours, and so the writer lives in my house, or did today.
Ad Hominem Fallacy →
below I pasted a segment of a posting by anarchistreview. good to reference:
Ad homenim (meaning “to the man”), I believe is accurately defined by Wiki is: “an attempt to link the truth of a claim to a negative characteristic or belief of the person advocating it.” A simple example is to look at electoral campaigns. A person may be discredited based on something they did in the past or...
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8 Reasons Young Americans Don't Fight Back: How... →
This is a pertinent topic to me- as globally more people disparage the American populace in its passivity towards war crimes of its government, it’s important to keep in mind what is behind the infectious cloud of ignorance that so effectively broke a people’s spirit. This article touches upon a few aspects of the way in which people get brainwashed. Definitely worth reading over...
just finished watching American: The Bill Hicks...
a few minutes ago. what a fucking genius.
July 2011
30 posts
“Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without...”
– (pulled off Anonymous video called What Are We Capable Of?)
I like that. I’m both elated and worried. Hoping nothing powerful bad is going to come down on these folks.
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thoughts:::money and human worth
thoughts while sitting:::
how to effectively disengage from capitalist thinking.
and I have no clue!?
seriously. point one, and I’ve thought about this more than once, but the awareness of the issue doesn’t seem to make it budge:
has to do with currency, and trading in time/energy for currency, and how that process is equivocal to earning “worth” within the mindset of...
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