Chasing Sunsets

finding-peace-within-me: hippist: Wow ☮peace and love♥

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:36:06 -0400

finding-peace-within-me:

hippist:

Wow

☮peace and love♥

Wealth Inequality in America (by politizane) And clearly we need...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:10:23 -0400

Wealth Inequality in America (by politizane)

And clearly we need to fix our economy.

Nihilism is nonsensical. Descartes proved a good point with his famous quotation, “I think...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:02:05 -0400

Nihilism is nonsensical. Descartes proved a good point with his famous quotation, “I think therefore I am.” While nihilism denies existence, Descartes pointed out the simple fact that we are thinking; therefore, it is impossible to deny that exist. I think that this is one of the most interesting parts of philosophy, though. While we can say that we exist, it is more difficult to explain how we have come to think. How do we know what we know? While one can argue for empiricism, language, perception, etc., it is it is still difficult to say how those ways of knowing have come to fruition. Knowledge is gained through experience, so knowledge is different for each person. The way that each person thinks must, then, also be personal. Descartes’ point can be inverted and still be logical: “I am therefore I think.”

"Le raison c’est la folie du plus fort. La raison du moins fort c’est la folie."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:35:54 -0400

““Le raison c’est la folie du plus fort. La raison du moins fort c’est la folie.””

- Eugène Ionesco

All my friends are excited to be going off to college, but I’m not at all. Not because I...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:29:53 -0400

All my friends are excited to be going off to college, but I’m not at all. Not because I don’t want to go to college- I really do- but this is not at all my dream school.

Times Square By me

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:28:19 -0400

Times Square By me

The Ruminative Rabbi: The Oldest Scroll

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:16:46 -0400

The Ruminative Rabbi: The Oldest Scroll:

ruminativerabbi:

I found myself a bit unexpectedly moved by the announcement the other day that a researcher at the University of Bologna feels certain that he has discovered the world’s oldest complete Torah scroll, one carbon dating confirms was written sometime between 1155 and 1225. (The carbon dating was…

spoookyscary: After succumbing to a fever of some sort in 1705,...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:47:03 -0400

spoookyscary:

After succumbing to a fever of some sort in 1705, Irish woman Margorie McCall was hastily buried to prevent the spread of whatever had done her in. Margorie was buried with a valuable ring, which her husband had been unable to remove due to swelling. This made her an even better target for body snatchers, who could cash in on both the corpse and the ring.

The evening after Margorie was buried, before the soil had even settled, the grave-robbers showed up and started digging. Unable to pry the ring off the finger, they decided to cut the finger off. As soon as blood was drawn, Margorie awoke from her coma, sat straight up and screamed.

The fate of the grave-robbers remains unknown. One story says the men dropped dead on the spot, while another claims they fled and never returned to their chosen profession.

Margorie climbed out of the hole and made her way back to her home.

Her husband John, a doctor, was at home with the children when he heard a knock at the door. He told the children, “If your mother were still alive, I’d swear that was her knock.”

When he opened the door to find his wife standing there, dressed in her burial clothes, blood dripping from her finger but very much alive, he dropped dead to the floor. He was buried in the plot Margorie had vacated.

Margorie went on to re-marry and have several children. When she did finally die, she was returned to Shankill Cemetery in Lurgan, Ireland, where her gravestone still stands. It bears the inscription “Lived Once, Buried Twice.”

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"I think I made you up inside my head."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:44:25 -0400

““I think I made you up inside my head.””

- Sylvia Plath (via qbrix)

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davethebarbarian: if you use my colored pencils you better put them back in rainbow order

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:43:24 -0400

davethebarbarian:

if you use my colored pencils you better put them back in rainbow order

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burgrs: youve been stopped by the cutie police please step out of the car [kisses u on the cheek]...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:01:38 -0400

burgrs:

youve been stopped by the cutie police please step out of the car [kisses u on the cheek] have a good night

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