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inothernews: Things that may or may not be Onion articles.

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:56:27 -0400

Things that may or may not be Onion articles.

"Then you shall judge yourself,” the king answered. “that is the most difficult thing of all. It is..."

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 16:40:11 -0400

“Then you shall judge yourself,” the king answered. “that is the most difficult thing of all. It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.”

- Antoine de Saint Exupéry, The Little Prince (via philphys)

"No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide."

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:52:41 -0400

“No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide.”

- Cesare Pavese (via philphys)

Coroner rules that a dingo killed an infant in widely followed 1980 case in Australia

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:32:18 -0400

breakingnews:

Coroner Elizabeth Morris told a packed courtroom on Tuesday that a dingo was to blame for the attack at Uluru, which originally saw Azaria’s mother Lindy Chamberlain-Creighton jailed for murder and her husband Michael given a suspended sentence for being an accessory after the fact.

Both were later exonerated after a royal commission in 1987.

The case was the subject of the 1988 movie, ‘A Cry in the Dark’ starring Meryl Streep as Lindy Chamberlain.

“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate...

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:54:40 -0400

“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.” —Ayn Rand (a favorite philosopher)

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Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:37:23 -0400

"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s..."

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:34:19 -0400

“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.”

- George Orwell, Lion and The Unicorn (via philphys)

"Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep..."

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:30:21 -0400

“Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.”

- Charles Bukowski, Factotum (via philphys)

This is why Russell is one of my favorite: “Philosophy, like...

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:27:20 -0400

This is why Russell is one of my favorite:

“Philosophy, like all other studies, aims primarily at knowledge. The knowledge it aims at is the kind of knowledge which gives unity and system to the body of the sciences, and the kind which results from a critical examination of the grounds of our convictions, prejudices, and beliefs. But it cannot be maintained that philosophy has had any very great measure of success in its attempts to provide definite answers to its questions. If you ask a mathematician, a mineralogist, a historian, or any other man of learning, what definite body of truths has been ascertained by his science, his answer will last as long as you are willing to listen. But if you put the same question to a philosopher, he will, if he is candid, have to confess that his study has not achieved positive results such as have been achieved by other sciences. It is true that this is partly accounted for by the fact that, as soon as definite knowledge concerning any subject becomes possible, this subject ceases to be called philosophy, and becomes a separate science.”

-Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

"‘Sometimes,’ she said, ‘they threaten you with something something you can’t stand up to, can’t even..."

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:23:51 -0400

“‘Sometimes,’ she said, ‘they threaten you with something something you can’t stand up to, can’t even think about. And then you say, “Don’t do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to So-and-so.” And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn’t really mean it. But that isn’t true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there’s no other way of saving yourself, and you’re quite ready to save yourself that way. You want it to happen to the other person. You don’t give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself.”

- George Orwell, 1984 (via philphys)

philphys: “When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none...

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:21:50 -0400

philphys:

“When suicide is out of fashion we conclude that none but madmen destroy themselves; and all the efforts of courage appear chimerical to dastardly minds … Nevertheless, how many instances are there, well attested, of men, in every other respect perfectly discreet, who, without remorse, rage, or despair, have quitted life for no other reason than because it was a burden to them, and have died with more composure than they lived?”

-David Hume, Essays on Suicide

workaholics: YA LIKE THAT KIDDIES?!?!

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 18:20:40 -0400

workaholics:

YA LIKE THAT KIDDIES?!?!

"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, ‘Where have I gone wrong?’ Then a voice says to me, ‘This..."

Thu, 31 May 2012 15:57:05 -0400

“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, ‘Where have I gone wrong?’ Then a voice says to me, ‘This is going to take more than one night.’”

- Charles M. Shulz (via philphys)

Wittgenstein

Thu, 31 May 2012 15:54:57 -0400

Wittgenstein

"As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel..."

Thu, 31 May 2012 15:54:15 -0400

“As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.
They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are “only doing their duty”, as the saying goes. Most of them, I have no doubt, are kind-hearted law-abiding men who would never dream of committing murder in private life. On the other hand, if one of them succeeds in blowing me to pieces with a well-placed bomb, he will never sleep any the worse for it. He is serving his country, which has the power to absolve him from evil.”

- George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn : Socialism and the English Genius (via philphys)

"Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater weight to the interests of members of..."

Thu, 31 May 2012 15:53:14 -0400

“Racists violate the principle of equality by giving greater weight to the interests of members of their own race when there is a clash between their interests and the interests of those of another race. Sexists violate the principle of equality by favoring the interests of their own sex. Similarly, speciesists allow the interests of their own species to override the greater interests of members of other species. The pattern is identical in each case.”

- Peter Singer, Animal Liberation (via philphys)

inothernews: nedhepburn: Ed Norton, Woody Harrelson, Will...

Mon, 28 May 2012 13:39:26 -0400

inothernews:

nedhepburn:

Ed Norton, Woody Harrelson, Will Ferrell, Martin Sheen (and others) lost 3-1 against England in the Soccer Aid 2012 match yesterday. That would have been such a rad game to watch!

There’s a neat goal in there by “the lead guitarist for Kasabian.”

"I have no doubt we’ll do our best to maintain the integrity of the characters and tell the story the..."

Fri, 25 May 2012 20:59:00 -0400

“I have no doubt we’ll do our best to maintain the integrity of the characters and tell the story the way it was meant to be told. The thing I’ll miss is that-and maybe this is highbrow- if you’re a good sax player, and you’re making a good living in the New York clubs in the 1950’s and you start jamming with Charlie Parker you’re like “oh…I cannot do that. I almost don’t wanna play sax anymore.” There are similarities because Dan Harmon is similarly tortured and similarly self destructive. But the things that came out of his head were just things that you don’t do on a TV show. That was the amazing thing about it. That era ended. Fans of Dan Harmon and that insanely amazing brain…you’ll get more of that. He’s not going away. There will be plenty of content for you. The magical Dan Harmon era of Community-that ended, but there’s a new version of Community and it may be very good. It’s not gonna be seen by many people and the people that want it to be Dan’s Community may be disappointed but it may be great. It may be as good as parks and rec but the fans won’t care. They’ll say “this sucks.””

- Andy Bobrow (via levelfivelaserlotus)… This makes me sad

"I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland,..."

Fri, 25 May 2012 20:49:29 -0400

“I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use — silence, exile and cunning.”

- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce (via philphys)

scottlava: “I don’t see how that’s a party.” WATCH the making...

Fri, 25 May 2012 14:02:22 -0400

scottlava:

“I don’t see how that’s a party.”

WATCH the making of for this showdown right HERE!