December 2010
30 posts
f-e-r-a-l asked: No never, it looks amazing.. o__o I've never been to tennessee either. Looks worthy of a road trip though!
learningtosavetheworld asked: YER BLOWIN UP MY TUMBLRFEED!! READ A BOOK OR SOME SHIT!
f-e-r-a-l asked: Where are you that's an hour away from that sweet tree house??
Photos: Christmas in the Middle East →
fuckyeahmiddleeast:
fuckyeahchristianradicalism:
Our deepest solidarity today with our brothers and sisters in areas of comfort, as well as in areas of conflict and occupation.
Fantastic pictures.
“Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the...”
– Philippians 2:5-7 (via zurik)
Forget Shorter Showers: Why Personal Change Does... →
svingen:
“Would any sane person think dumpster diving would have stopped Hitler, or that composting would have ended slavery or brought about the eight-hour workday, or that chopping wood and carrying water would have gotten people out of Tsarist prisons, or that dancing naked around a fire would have helped put in place the Voting Rights Act of 1957 or the Civil Rights Act of 1964? Then why...
“That’s one of the great things about everything being so fucked up, that no...”
– Derrick Jensen
f-e-r-a-l asked: You're my new favorite person. Thanks for having fyeahDJ!
my second blog - fuck yeah derrick jensen! →
it’s been a stressful week.
and i don’t know what i can talk about on here; who knows who reads this.
it was rough watching the person who sexually assaulted me make a big speech this past week, and everyone giving a standing applause and i was just sitting there, feeling small and alienated. i didn’t want to stand and clap but oh i did - slowly, relucantly, tight-lipped and...
“For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via fuckyeahchristianradicalism)
Mom (responding in typical tea-party fashion to a news story about an emergency spending bill passed to keep the government operating): NO ONE GIVES ME MONEY WHEN I RUN OUT!!
Me: Mom, you don’t run a nation.
“A few weeks ago, I called Steve Stone, pastor of Heartsong Church in Tennessee...”
– Sojourners
this is my hometown! i’m so proud.
absurdreasoning asked: That paper sounds SOOO fascinating. I think the sermon of the mount would be quite useful in that...
“When an alien resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the alien....”
– Leviticus 19:33-34 (NRSV)
Grandmother: Do you want to read any of these magazines?
Me: No thanks, I’ve got some books.
Grandmother (trying to convince me, reading from the cover): “How to lose two inches in two weeks!”
Me: Do I need to lose two inches?
Grandmother: (pause) I don’t know, do you?
“Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the...”
– Vladimir Lenin (via cocoapelican)
“December 15, 2010 | Advertisement Yet another study has been released proving...”
– Study Confirms That Fox News Makes You Stupid | | AlterNet
Filed in the category of things we already knew, but are good to read about anyway.
(via thefeministhub)
the needs of the natural world
are more important than the needs of any economic system.
The Imperial Paul by Tatha Wiley
What was Paul’s attitude to the empire? Depending on the Paul we are talking about, he is both pro- and anti-empire. To determine the stance of the historical Paul, we have to clear away two other voices attributed to him. The first is the Paul created by deutero-Pauline authors, that is, authors of letters written in his name after his death. The second is the Paul of the adversus...
on the pronunciation of 'ethos'
i have said this word a different way everytime i’ve said it in the past week (which is a lot… it’s in the title of the huge paper i’m writing)
apparently it can be pronounced four ways:
ee-thahs
ee-thohs
eth-ahs
eth-ohs
for those keeping count, the word has two syllables. each syllable can be prounced two different ways. basically… any way you can pronounce...
“So long as we eat our bread together we shall have sufficient even with the...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together.
No, the US government is not gonna back up.
a-n-a-r-c-h-a:
Wikileaks is like that one kid on the playground who pushed back. And now the US, being the bully, is going to beat Wikileaks and all of its friends to a bloody pulp to teach all the other playground kids a lesson.
reblogged for accuracy.