One day a student moved to SF. He went to his Master and asked, "Teacher, I am new here and understand that SF is a city of many freedoms. What musnt I do?" The teacher replied simply: "everything is permitted" Hearing this, the student went into the city. Growing weary from

The only reason most of you care about child labor in the Congo is because the Congo is one of the few places in Africa where child labor impacts Western supply chains and thus is picked up by Western media. In reality, Child Labor is EVERYWHERE in Africa. Especially in places

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Love, that is flesh upon the spirit of man And spirit within the flesh whence breath began; Love, that keeps all the choir of lives in chime; Love, that is blood within the veins of time... Algernon Swinburne

Something Happening means the Event which signals the end of this world. Wars, pandemics, famines, genocides, even global cataclysms mean nothing if they do not tear this age of gloom apart.

Avelum How anything that signifies the death of this age feels:

Does grief or gloom your heart ever bind, Trembling at what fate you soon may find? Yet a knowing soothes your anxious tread: Your path will guide where you are led. Christian Morgenstern

Disaffected He's the stuff of Jekyll n Hyde nightmares... His smile lingers in the air between us. Around the corner, he stops abruptly. A metamorphosis takes place. Eyes grow knife-edged, cold and lifeless. Cruelty etches out the smiling curves of moments ago. Fingernails thrust grotesque

friendly gecko But Europeans too have their own non-material, semi-supernatural beliefs. Do you have a soul? Explain the mechanics of that. Do you have human rights? Where do they come from?

It is mainly because of inner vacuity of soul that people go in quest of society, diversion, amusement, luxury of every sort, which lead many to extravagance and misery. Nothing is so good a protection against such misery as inward wealth, the wealth of the mind.

I have grown seriously tired of this debate. Like two weeks ago, the discourse on cultural appropriation resurfaced again and a certain demographic asserted that African Americans possess no culture. Being uninformed does not cut it, I found that claim patently delusional.

sebastian castillo That's not at all what he said. For those interested in what he actually did say - either because they value the truth or because the essay itself was in fact funny - you can find it here: archive.vanityfair.com/article/2007/1…

There are no universal rights, but that does not mean rights don't exist. Rights are particular, concretized recognitions of power relations, privileges or claims, by two parties, as such. Universal rights could only be recognized by an ultimate, absolute, and unbound authority.

JayMan Right, it’s evolutionarily person-oriented but not subjectively/individually person-oriented. Just like the prime personal motive for sex is usually not producing children.

On October 12th 1492, Christopher Columbus and his men arrived in the New World. It was the start of the European conquest of the Americas. Feliz día de la Hispanidad! 🇪🇸

tantum Well, we could be breeding von Neumanns...

Sade - The Safest Place (2010)