April 2012
“Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via bohemianspirit)
“Laugh at the night,
at the day, at the moon,
laugh at the twisted
streets of...”
– Pablo Neruda (via philphys)
The Net vs. The Power of Narratives →
guerrillanetwork:
The net changes the world’s power structures in a much more fundamental way than changing the way a few groups of entrepreneurs are able to make money. The net is the greatest equalizer that humankind has ever invented. It is either the greatest invention since the printing press, or the greatest invention since written language. The battles we see are not a result of loss of...
“Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur in illis.
Times change and we change with them.”
– Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William S. Walsh, 1892. (via ingridrichter)
“Sometimes when you meet someone, there’s a click. I don’t believe in love at...”
– Ann Aguirre, Blue Diablo (via anditslove)
fuckyeahreading!: George Orwell was right.....60... →
danielb8701:
In 1949 George Orwell Published a novel that was ridiculed as being “far fetched and drastically unrealistic” Who was to know how right the literary genius would be.
I loved this book and as soon as i read it I was blown away. His idea’s of how we would be followed around…
“ “Culture does leave its signature in the circuitry of the individual brain. If...”
– David Eagleman, neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine, where he directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action, bestselling author, ☞ David Eagleman on how we constructs reality, time perception, and The Secret Lives of the Brain, Lapidarium notes, The Observer, 29 April 2012. (via...
Alternating gender incongruity: A new... →
wildcat2030:
Between the two extreme ends of human sexuality – male and female – lie a poorly understood and poorly studied spectrum of ambiguously defined sexual identities that are very much a part of the human condition but defy rigid classification. “Bigender” is a recently formed sub-category of transgenderism, describing individuals who experience a blending or alternation of gender...
“To the men I’ve loved
To the men I’ve kissed
My heartfelt apologies
To the...”
– Toasts by Paul Dickson, 1991. (via ingridrichter)
