“Videri quam esse” (“To seem to be, rather than to be”)
I'm strange but i like to be a good strange, My name is Clarence, born in 1988, Pisces and I'm a student of Sociology and the child of the internet. I usually feel like my life has no meaning and i want to die but sometimes it seems like life is worth living for and i love everything in it. If it seems odd to read think what it might be like living it. I like reading philosophy, fiction and tech news.
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By the By it goes without saying you should make sure children don't read most of this.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
And then, the day before I graduated from college, the news flooded my inbox: in Kansas, Dr. George Tiller had been shot. Point blank. In the head. In his church.
Welcome to America. You don’t know shit.
One of the things that was most different, and most complicated, about this country was the vehemence and violence of its anti-abortion politics. In Australia, where I grew up, there are people who are deeply anti-abortion. There are anti-choice organizations, and there are protesters with signs outside clinics. But clinics don’t get bombed. Australia doesn’t have to pass laws mandating where protestors can stand outside clinics to ensure they don’t prevent patients from getting in to see a doctor. Australia’s abortion laws aren’t ideal, but we don’t have mandatory penetrative ultrasounds and we don’t require doctors to lie to patients about what abortion does and we don’t have politicians going around saying that the state should force a rape victim to carry her rapist’s baby. And where I come from, people don’t get shot over abortion.
Today is the 3-year anniversary of Dr. Tiller’s murder by an anti-choice zealot.
(via keepyourbsoutofmyuterus)
Anyone else think that if not for the connection to religious beliefs (specifically Christian religious belief) that anti-choicers would be labeled a terrorist organization in the U.S.?
(via abaldwin360)
Is it alright to have prayer in schools? What if it was used as a tool to teach children about other religions?
Christianity is Platonism for the people.
Friedrich Nietzsche (via kafka-cockroach)
Marx called religion an opiate, and all too often it is. But philosophy is an anesthetic, a shot to keep the wonder away.
N.D. Wilson, Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl (via robotsatemygoldfish)
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich Nietzsche (via ageofreason)
Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites.
Thomas Jefferson (via ageofreason)
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