December 2011
360 posts
Lunar New Year's Eve
laughingsquid:
Lunar New Year’s Eve
Cognitive Dissonance: BREAKING: Obama signs NDAA... →
cognitivedissonance:
From ABC News:
In his last official act of business in 2011, President Barack Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act from his vacation rental in Kailua, Hawaii. In a statement, the president said he did so with reservations about key provisions in the law — including a…
An Atheist Professor of Philosophy was speaking to...
delamona:
Professor: You are a Christian, aren’t you, son?
Student: Yes, sir.
Professor: So, you believe in God?
Student: Absolutely, sir.
Professor: Is God good?
Student: Sure.
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“If you think that by killing men you can avoid the accuser censoring your lives,...”
– Socrates (via philphys)
“The saint is awake when the worlds sleeps and he ignores that for which the...”
– The Bhagavad Gita (via lazyyogi)
“In our time it is broadly true that political writing is bad writing. Where it...”
– George Orwell, Politics and English Language (1946)
Stop wasting your time being offended.
“Nearly one-half of the more than 2 million people in prisons are black. That is...”
– James Cone (via azspot)
actually apparently newspaper articles are more racist but that’s besides the point (via logicallypositive)
majidrazvi:
Here’s why I can’t pursue analytic philosophy any further: I am utterly convinced that 99% of philosophical questions are resolved not by finding the answer, but by showing why it’s a stupid question.
Begin at the beginning. The first step into the...
English lacks a second-person plural pronoun
logicallypositive:
English is a communist language.
Libertarians should speak Spanish because Spanish is a revolutionary language for its use of the second-person plural pronoun
“One of the most horrible feature of war is that all the war-propaganda, all the...”
– George Orwell, Homage to Catalina (via philphys)
~*~* Evil Moustache-Twirling Capitalist *~*~:... →
jeffmiller:
theweekmagazine:
The average American spends $700 a year on holiday gifts. If each American spent $64 of that on products made in America this year, it could create 200,000 domestic jobs.
Let’s assume this dubious assertion is factual. The corresponding fact is that it…
