February 2011
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January 2011
46 posts
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“The word planet comes from the greek πλανήτης (planítis) meaning “wanderer” or...”
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“Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They...”
– James J. Kilpatrick (via 500daysofkissingmypillow)
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“The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by...”
– George Eliot
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“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by...”
– Goethe
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“Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons...”
– Anonymous
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“If I had one gift that I could give you, my friend, it would be the ability to...”
– B.A. Billingsly (via 500daysofkissingmypillow)
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In the Beginning, God made the Heaven and Earth....
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An Atheist Professor of Philosophy was speaking to...
Professor: You are a Christian, aren’t you, son?
Student: Yes, sir.
Professor: So, you believe in God?
Student: Absolutely, sir.
Professor: Is God good?
Student: Sure.
Professor: My brother died of cancer, even though he prayed to God to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn’t. How is God good, then? Hmm?
(Student was silent)
Professor: You can’t answer, can you? Let’s start again, young fella. Is God good?
Student: Yes.
Professor: Is Satan good?
Student: No.
Professor: Where does Satan come from?
Student: From.. God.
Professor: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?
Student: Yes.
Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it? And God did make everything. Correct?
Student: Yes.
Professor: So who created evil?
(Student didn’t answer)
Professor: Is there sickness? Immortality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?
Student: Yes, sir.
Professor: So, who created them?
(Student had no answer)
Professor: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son.. have you ever seen God?
Student: No, sir.
Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your God.
Student: No, sir.
Professor: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God, for that matter?
Student: No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.
Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?
Student: Yes.
Professor: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, Science says your God doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student: Nothing. I only have my Faith.
Professor: Yes, Faith. And that is the problem Science has.
Student: Professor, is there such a thing as Heat?
Professor: Yes.
Student: And is there such a thing as Cold?
Professor: Yes.
Student: No, sir, there isn’t.
(The Lecture Theatre became very quiet with this turn of events)
Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit 458 Degrees below Zero which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of Heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.
(There was a pon-drop silence in the Lecture Theatre)
Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?
Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?
Student: You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have Low Light, Normal Light, Bright Light, Flashing Light… But if you have No Light constantly, you have nothing and it’s called Darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it is, You would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?
Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man?
Student: Sir, my point is, your Philosophical Premise is flawed.
Professor: Flawed? Can you explain how?
Student: Sir, you are working on the Premise of Duality. You argue there is Life and then there is Death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life, just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?
Professor: If you are referring to the Natural Evolutionary Process, yes of course, I do.
Student: Have you ever observed Evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going)
Student: Since no one has ever observed the Process of Evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a Scientist but a Preacher?
(The class was in uproar)
Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?
(The class broke out into laughter)
Student: Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? .. No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable and Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures?
(The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable)
Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on Faith, son.
Student: That is it, sir.. exactly! The link between man and God is Faith. That is all that keeps things alive and moving!
That student was Albert Einstein.
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“The best part about music, to me, is the romanticism involved. How we can take...”
– Craig Owens (via heyitsparker)
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“I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small...”
– (via beautyliesinsimplicity)
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"You couldn't possibly get any weirder."
i-aint-bovvered:
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I think Tumblrians should create a...
halfwayoutofthedark:
Imagine just casually reading in public and you hear the cry of a fellow Tumblr user…
You’d look up in hopefully, attempting to locate the cry of your brothers…
Think you know who initiated the call…
Stare at eachother and nod in socially awkward acknowledgement…
Then you’d be all…
Everyone would be looking at you like…
Things would turn beautifully...
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“I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe...”
– Audrey Hepburn. (via divinelytragic)
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bluespanisheyes-deactivated2011 asked: LOOKY, LOOKY!!
you have one message in your inbox.
from MEEEE!!!!
<3 hello, love. how are you, tonight?
you have one message in your inbox.
from MEEEE!!!!
<3 hello, love. how are you, tonight?
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The moment you're alone in the elevator.
dreamalittlelarger:
Then you realize that there’s a camera in there:
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“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves....”
– Gilbert Highet (via yeahwriters)
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Ah, the sweet satisfaction of making a good...
Well, obviously, she does understand. The rest of you writers should too. Or you’re not writers. You’re wannabe writers. I’m sorry if it’s harsh, but it’s the truth.
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My grandma: “It is the unfortunate mistake of young women, that they’re looking for a prince, but all they’re gonna find is a frog. Or a poisonous lizard.”
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Parents gone.
Normal teenagers:
Me:
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“Do what you fear and fear disappears.”
– David Joseph Schwartz
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savehersanity asked: I agree with you, and I think that's what my friend was trying to say. The lack of being fearful to stand your ground and do the things you want to do, without the insecurities holding you back.
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savehersanity asked: Right now I'm thinking that Rihanna's part 2 of Love the Way You Lie is making me cry. For realz. It's so sad.
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“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed,...”
– Margaret Mead
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“Oh, the cleverness of me!”
– Peter Pan
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savehersanity asked: I've heard of Sarah Dessen, but never managed to pick up one of her books before. Perhaps I should do that soon!
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“Nearly everyone underestimates how powerful the touch of another person’s hand...”
– Jim Butcher (Dead Beat)
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“You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas...”
– Neil Gaiman (via cinderellainrubbershoes)
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“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved...”
– Maurice Sendak (via hannahletourneau)
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