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universalequalityisinevitable:

neecholeus:

universalequalityisinevitable:

That’s not even the worst part about global currency.

Murika

This is actually true of most currencies—not just the U.S. dollar.

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"“It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that..."

Sat, 25 May 2013 14:14:20 -0400

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“It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.”

—Hugh Laurie (via slychedelic)

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fearfullittleloverr: A psychologist walked around a room while...

Sat, 25 May 2013 14:13:01 -0400

fearfullittleloverr:

A psychologist walked around a room while teaching stress management to an audience. As she raised a glass of water, everyone expected they’d be asked the “half empty or half full” question. Instead, with a smile on her face, she inquired: “How heavy is this glass of water?”

Answers called out ranged from 8 oz. to 20 oz.

She replied, “The absolute weight doesn’t matter. It depends on how long I hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it’s not a problem. If I hold it for an hour, I’ll have an ache in my arm. If I hold it for a day, my arm will feel numb and paralyzed. In each case, the weight of the glass doesn’t change, but the longer I hold it, the heavier it becomes.” She continued, “The stresses and worries in life are like that glass of water. Think about them for a while and nothing happens. Think about them a bit longer and they begin to hurt. And if you think about them all day long, you will feel paralyzed – incapable of doing anything.”

It’s important to remember to let go of your stresses. As early in the evening as you can, put all your burdens down. Don’t carry them through the evening and into the night. Remember to put the glass down!

Brilliant but I would just say one thing: Why wait until the evening?

galaxyshmalaxy: Wide Field IC 443 and IC 444 in Gemini 2013 JMJ...

Sat, 25 May 2013 13:20:44 -0400

galaxyshmalaxy:

Wide Field IC 443 and IC 444 in Gemini 2013 JMJ (by martin_campbell)

intheflowersss: This is today you guys. Get the fuck up and...

Sat, 25 May 2013 12:36:50 -0400

intheflowersss:

This is today you guys. Get the fuck up and defend your right to be safe and healthy. Get poison out of our food!! NOW! I truly hate these motherfuckers. And will do everything in my power to destroy them. Let’s march. We need more people, we need everyone.

Superstorm Sandy Relief Volunteer Initiative

Sat, 25 May 2013 12:35:27 -0400

Superstorm Sandy Relief Volunteer Initiative:

lazyyogi:

This was brought to my attention:

A trip is being planned to go to NYC sometime in September. This is a response initiative to provide relief and rebuild houses that were effected/destroyed by Superstorm Sandy over 6 months ago.

Feel free to take a look :)

Namaste

amappola: The following companies ( P&G - Johnson &...

Sat, 25 May 2013 12:33:22 -0400

amappola:

The following companies ( P&G - Johnson & Johnson - Unilever) manufacture products that are tested on animals at some stage of development.

beyond-the-political-spectrum: Almost a week ago, I found...

Sat, 25 May 2013 12:32:32 -0400

beyond-the-political-spectrum:

Almost a week ago, I found myself watching an episode of PBS’s (Public Broadcasting System’s) Frontline documentary (“The Untouchables”) focusing on how so many Wall Street and banking industry executives managed to escape prosecution from questionable lending and investment practices that almost tanked the American and global market economies. It got me to thinking about the misplaced priorities we place on certain crimes here in America (See: “Bankers & The Economic Crisis…Throw The Bums in Jail!”).

brainsbrawnbeauty: Seriously, guys. Stay away from these...

Sat, 25 May 2013 12:32:17 -0400

brainsbrawnbeauty:

Seriously, guys. Stay away from these things.

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Sat, 25 May 2013 12:31:41 -0400

As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed...

Sat, 25 May 2013 12:30:43 -0400

As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter. —Max Planck

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Sat, 25 May 2013 12:17:52 -0400

"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop. —Rumi (via..."

Sat, 25 May 2013 12:14:27 -0400

“You are not a drop in the ocean.
You are the entire ocean in a drop. —Rumi (via wethinkwedream)”

weareallstarstuff: Elephant’s Trunk Nebula

Sat, 25 May 2013 12:06:14 -0400

weareallstarstuff:

Elephant’s Trunk Nebula

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cruello: Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc sets himself ablaze in...

Sat, 25 May 2013 11:54:57 -0400

cruello:

Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc sets himself ablaze in protest against the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government, 1963.

Malcolm W. Browne/AP

“Because of what I knew of the Buddhist tradition in Vietnam, I realized that it had to be taken seriously. So while other correspondents got tired of the endless Buddhist street demonstrations that were going on all that summer, I stuck with them, because I had the sense that sooner or later something would happen. I became a familiar presence at the main pagoda in Saigon. The monks knew that I appreciated their cuisine. We were friendly. One of them was a Yale graduate, as a matter of fact. And I was sincerely interested in what they were doing, quite aside from the news value of it.

One monk in particular would telephone me in advance the night before something was planned. One night he advised me to come to the pagoda at seven the next morning because something very special and important was going to happen. He sent the same message to half a dozen other American correspondents, but they all ignored it. I did not. That was all.

That morning a Buddhist monk went out and sat down in a main intersection in downtown Saigon. Two of his fellow monks poured gasoline over him, and he set himself on fire and died. I was there, the only western correspondent present and taking pictures. I suppose I took six or eight rolls of 35-millimeter film.

It was clearly theater staged by the Buddhists to achieve a certain political end. At the same time, there was a human element to it that was just horrifying, because the sequence of pictures showed the initial shock of the flames touching his face, and so forth. He never cried out or screamed, but you could see from his expression that he was exposed to intense agony, and that he was dying on the spot — and then, in the end, when the body was rigidly burned, they couldn’t stuff him into a casket because he was splayed out in all directions. As shock photography goes, it was hard to beat. It’s not something that I’m particularly proud of. If one wants to be gruesome about it, it was a very easy sequence of pictures to take. Work is a great panacea for the horrors of that sort of situation, or of a battle, for that matter. I think combat photographers are very conscious of the idea that the real fear comes later, after they get home and develop their film and have a look at what they were through. Then they are aware that they nearly died.

It was a picture that meant many things to many different people and interests. The Chinese and the North Vietnamese regarded it as a wonderful propaganda picture, and of course they labeled it “A Buddhist priest dies to oppose U.S. imperialism and its influence in Vietnam.” In the United States, it was regarded as a picture of a martyr who had died for a worthy cause, and therefore other Americans should support the overthrow of an autocratic Catholic government that had been supported by President Kennedy.

I’ve been asked a couple times whether I could have prevented the suicide. I could not. There was a phalanx of perhaps two hundred monks and nuns who were ready to block me if I tried to move. A couple of them chucked themselves under the wheels of a fire truck that arrived. But in the years since, I’ve had this searing feeling of perhaps having in some way contributed to the death of a kind old man who probably would not have done what he did — nor would the monks in general have done what they did — if they had not been assured of the presence of a newsman who could convey the images and experience to the outer world. Because that was the whole point — to produce theater of the horrible so striking that the reasons for the demonstrations would become apparent to everyone. And, of course, they did. The following day, President Kennedy had the photograph on his desk, and he called in Henry Cabot Lodge, who was about to leave for Saigon as U.S. ambassador, and told him, in effect, “This sort of thing has got to stop.” And that was the beginning of the end of American support for the Ngo Dinh Diem regime.”

From Reporting America at War: An Oral History, PBS.

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