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23.05.13
What if Logos Told the Truth?
A series by Viktor Hertz.
This started off hilarious and ended up putting tears in my eyes.
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23.05.13
That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts, don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are.
23.05.13
Religious beliefs are no different than other ideas and do not deserve special immunity from criticism. The fact that they have received immunity in the past has been a major source of problems for way too long. We would not be dealing with half of the religious harm we do currently if more people realized this—and spoke against them. There is no idea that inherently deserves ‘unquestioned respect’ or is ‘off-limits’ to critique and criticism. Any idea for which this immunity is demanded is very likely irrational, dangerous, and unsupported by evidence.
22.05.13
Sticks and stones can break my bones but words can mobilize an entire society in violent hate against me.
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22.05.13
I don’t know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, ‘Well, if I’d known better I’d have done better,’ that’s all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, ‘I’m sorry,’ and then you say to yourself, ‘I’m sorry.’ If we all hold on to the mistake, we can’t see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can’t see what we’re capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one’s own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that’s rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don’t have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.
21.05.13
The hilarious double standard “Mexicans are lazy, and too stupid/can’t be bothered to learn English” and “Mexicans are taking all our jobs”. So, you’re saying that you lost your job to a lazy person who doesn’t speak English, how bad at your job were you?
OH SNAP!
Oop.
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21.05.13
There is no African, myself included, who does not appreciate the help of the wider world, but we do question whether aid is genuine or given in the spirit of affirming one’s cultural superiority. My mood is dampened every time I attend a benefit whose host runs through a litany of African disasters before presenting a (usually) wealthy, white person, who often proceeds to list the things he or she has done for the poor, starving Africans. Every time a well-meaning college student speaks of villagers dancing because they were so grateful for her help, I cringe. Every time a Hollywood director shoots a film about Africa that features a Western protagonist, I shake my head — because Africans, real people though we may be, are used as props in the West’s fantasy of itself. And not only do such depictions tend to ignore the West’s prominent role in creating many of the unfortunate situations on the continent, they also ignore the incredible work Africans have done and continue to do to fix those problems.
Uzodinma Iweala, “Stop Trying to ‘Save’ Africa”
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21.05.13
Hey! Now you can easily post using Option+C (Z+C on Windows)! No more having to go to the top of your dash when inspiration strikes! Exclamation points!
I just want to say that Tumblr has made blogging so simple.
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21.05.13
Trevor Noah on David Letterman
isiXhosa - “Not as advertised”
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19.05.13
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