Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Give him a religion, and he’ll starve to death while praying for a fish.
I can’t screw things up with her
she’s just so awesome :/
The color scheme makes me feel like a little girl, but I love this quote
“Until recently, this area of southern Mongolia was one of the world’s last great wildernesses – a cold desert that is home to gazelle, wild ass and herders living a traditional nomadic existence.
Today, however, it is the centre of the planet’s greatest resource boom. Some are calling it “the last frontier”, others “Minegolia”. Whatever the name, this impoverished but remarkable nation in east Asia is on the brink of one of the most dramatic transformations in human history.
Other mega-mines will follow. The extraction is expected to triple the national economy by 2020 and propel the living standards of the small, impoverished 2.6 million population into the global middle class, but locals fear it will also devastate an arid environment as the mines suck up scarce water resources, damage the grasslands and necessitate roads and electricity grids that disrupt the migration patterns of local species.
The damage is already evident in the cross-Gobi traffic, where drivers churn up so much dust that some use their headlights in the middle of the day to pierce the gloom.”
Via The Guardian
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(Reblogged from fuckyestonybourdain)
On date night if you don’t go home and have the nastiest, dirtiest sex of your life after this, there’s really no hope.
Anthony Bourdain (via fuckyestonybourdain)
Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful.
-Albert Camus, “Three Interviews” in Lyrical and Critical Essays
The whole visible world is perhaps nothing more than than the rationalization of a man who wants to find peace for a moment. An attempt to falsify the actuality of knowledge, to regard knowledge as a goal still to be reached.
- Franz Kafka, Parables and Paradoxes
Nothing, nothing mattered, and I knew why. So did he. Throughout the whole absurd life I’d lived, a dark wind had been rising toward me from somewhere deep in my future, across years that were still to come, and as it passed, this wind leveled whatever was offered to me at the time, in years no more real than the ones I was living. What did other people’s deaths or a mother’s love matter to me; what did his God or the lives people choose or the fate they think they elect matter to me when we’re all elected by the same fate, me and billions of privileged people like him who also called themselves my brothers? Couldn’t he see, couldn’t he see that? Everybody was privileged. There were only privileged people. The others would all be condemned one day. And he would be condemned, too.- Albert Camus, The Stranger
You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
- Franz Kafka, The Collected Aphorisms
(Source: substancem)
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(Reblogged from scipsy)
Former United States Vice President Dick Cheney, for example, reportedly requires the television set be tuned into a conservative news channel before he enters a hotel room […]
Individuals strongly committed to certain religions often avoid contact with information or people that can tempt them away from their doctrine. […]
Receiving information that supports one’s position on an issue allows people to conclude that their views are correct but may often obscure reality. In contrast, receiving information that contradicts one’s view on an issue can cause people to feel misled or ignorant but may allow access to a valid representation of reality. […]
Individuals strongly committed to certain religions often avoid contact with information or people that can tempt them away from their doctrine. […]
Receiving information that supports one’s position on an issue allows people to conclude that their views are correct but may often obscure reality. In contrast, receiving information that contradicts one’s view on an issue can cause people to feel misled or ignorant but may allow access to a valid representation of reality. […]
‘Feeling validated versus being correct’ (2009) by Hart et al.
People are motivated to defend their attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors from challenges and therefore to selectively search for congenial information that confirm pre-existing views, and to avoid uncongenial information.
(via scipsy)
