Nothingman's Blog About Nothing
If I Hate You More Than Myself We’ve Got A Problem
I like to think I’m an acquired taste, like old whiskey or arsenic in your tea
So this is usually the part where pretension comes out in full and beautiful force but this is going to be the first time in a long time I'm going to be honest. My name is Clarence (Hello), born in 1988, i got my undergrad degree in Sociology (with a concentration in Women's Studies) and I'm utterly terrified. I'm scared of everything, people, my own feelings and sometimes even being but really there's nothing much to be done about that despite what I say. And I will say a lot about how my life has no meaning and i want to die (which is the majority of the time) but sometimes it seems like life is worth living for and everything in it is a spectacular explosion of awe inspiring wonder (which is usually a three week span some time in March). If it seems odd to read think what it might be like living it. So to get off the topic of terror I prefer stories. I like to read them, I love to live in them and there is nothing better to me than a story so I guess this blog is a story mostly about me. Don't bother trying to find themes, connection or messages in what I post cause there really aren't any (unless they are completely accidental).
This blog is a story about what I find, what I feel and what I think so to that end I collect things to post or reblog. Its not meant to be anything truly meaningful or interconnected, just fun (mostly fun for me if you don't like it you can fuck right off) This is collection of all the the weird and interesting links from around the net that I find, comics, technology, comedy, current events, sociology, general geek/nerd interest, a little pornography and more weird stuff (seriously its become about 65% clusterfuck of the strange stuff which is also why I don't feel bad about continuing to name it Strange World). I think it makes for the closest representation to who I am that I've ever done and it just keeps growing bigger which is most of the fun. And don't be disturbed if i in several post warn about my soon to happen suicide (I have yet to actually do it so we're all probably safe for a few more years). Please feel free to talk to me and don't mind the depressive tone i will probably be using. I like to think I'm somewhat fun if also a complete idiot.
Please feel free to talk to me by letter in my ask or by following me on other social networks but please just throw me a message about who you are so I accept the request I have no patients for spamming (send me an ask here if you want to be a friend on Steam.
By the By it goes without saying you should make sure children don't read most of this (I like swearing and naked women of all shapes, colors and sizes).
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You can Also check me on Steam, I game a LOT (But its mostly solo RPGs)
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Lying next to her
She’s been this way for days
That bullet in her head
It’s better off this way
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Tumblr days of the week.
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Dumb white guy poses [via | girl version]
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G.G
same
Blister Sisters motto, duh
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I guess, since it’s World Goth Day~
(via sociolab)
Noam Chomsky
I think one thing our generation has lost is the drive to enact change ourselves. We often begin great discussions and raise exceptionally valid points, but I think sometimes we fail to push things far enough.
Our generation has done some great things: pushed for wider acceptance of gay marriage and gay rights, demanded an increase in women’s equality, elected a black president, supported the democratic uprising in the Arab Spring with the unprecedented use of technology, and we began pushing for wealth equality with the Occupy movement.
But I think we need to begin pushing back more. We need to have our voices heard and have a much larger impact on those in charge, to have some of our own demands met. Some older generations call us the “entitlement generation”, but there are certain things we should be entitled to that are unfortunately far out of reach for many of us. Things such as education, health care, well paying jobs, and affordable food and shelter are just some of the things we are entitled to as human beings, but that are being withheld from us while being told we have not worked hard enough, we are not old enough, or we are not rich enough.
I think if the playing field isn’t levelled out soon, our generation will have serious uprisings and causes to protest about. We aren’t saying we deserve to be handed certain things, we are saying we deserve the right to earn it ourselves, fairly. Pretty soon the older generations are going to begin relying on us as we become the primary income earners and providers. You would think that fact would make those in power ensure we are in a good position to take care of them when that time comes. And it is coming soon.
(via backpackersguidetoearth)
at some point talk shows got a little bit ridiculous
(via sociolab)
(via socio-logic)
(via salientverses)
What we do on social media platforms is often analyzed as a performance or construction of the self. On this view, what we are doing is giving shape to our identity. What we “Like” is the projected identity, or better yet, the perception and affirmation of that identity by others. This, of course, does not exhaust what is done with social media, but it is an important and pervasive element.
When we think about social media as a field for the construction and enactment of identities, we tend to think of it as the projection, authentic or inauthentic, of a fixed reality. But perhaps we would do well to consider the possibility that identity on social networks is not so much being performed as it is being sought, that behind the identity-work on social media platforms there is an inchoate and fluid reality seeking to take shape by expending itself.
(via socio-logic)
“We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practise, and another which we practise but seldom preach.”
-Bertrand Russell, Skeptical Essays
(via sociolab)
Do we have autonomy, or are our choices preordained? Is that a false choice? And what, if anything, does physics have to say about that?
Do quantum effects make our choices our own?
A debate that has gone on for millennia has flared up again in recent years
Is the fact you are reading this story a decision you arrived at it by your own free choice, or was your interest programmed into the universe from the moment of the big bang? What makes free will such a fun topic is not only that it dives deep into physics, neuroscience, and philosophy, but also that we all feel we have a direct stake in the answers.
Part of my own interest is that I’ve never been able to see why people get worked up about a supposed conflict between free will and determinism. To my mind, there is no conflict. Human consciousness and therefore the concept of free will are emergent properties, so whether microscopic physics is deterministic or not is irrelevant.
And graver still, we are sometimes only minimally aware of just which new beliefs we have adopted.