February 2012
237 posts
timeimmemorial:
For you often feel others as you feel yourselves. For you feel the anxiety of the world, and its bottomless narrowness and self-assurance.
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For your fear of the absurdity of existence.
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For your transcendental realism and lack of everyday realism.
- from Be Greeted Psychoneurotics!, Kazimierz Dabrowski, 1972
gone to croatoan: The Next Language →
wansmile:
The next search engine innovation will allow searching directly using symbols. It will allow searching using anything that can be rendered in ASCII, and will iterate the searches in graphic networks. As Google provide results for proficiency when asked for proficiencies, Symbol-Google will provide…
anthrodynia
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. a state of exhaustion with how shitty people can be to each other, typically causing a countervailing sense of affection for things that are sincere but not judgmental, are unabashedly joyful, or just are.
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Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.
– Guillermo Maldonado (via leichenschrei)
seems like all the people I follow are having bad days. a bit down myself lately. demons makin the rounds. this is for everyone: <3
Invent your own mythology or be slave to another man’s.
– William Blake (via rd67)
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I propose that (some of) the purposes of literature are to reveal what we know...
– Katherine Hayles (via endofinquiry)
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The Hermetic Library Tumblr: D.I.Y. Magic →
hermeticlibrary:
You might be interested in D.I.Y. Magic by Anthony Alvarado from Floating World Comics due in March.
“What is magic? It is the fine and subtle art of driving yourself insane! No really, it is just that. It is a con game you play on your own brain. It is the trick of letting…
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What we speak becomes the house we live in.
– Hafiz (via terramantra)
everything is happening in the dark
and everything is happening all at once
– dax riggs
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work work work work [smoke]
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work work work work...
– the more you look the more it will hurt
Es ist alles lächerlich, wenn man an den Tod denkt.
– (“Everything is ridiculous when one thinks of death.”)
Thomas Bernhard
(via slabbb-blockkk-hilarious)
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following Alien HUNGER we had the Sacred Star’s Runaway testicle in the rich...
– 2.24.12 (via horse-poems)
The real is a closely woven fabric.
– Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception (via hollovv)
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Sorcery is not supernatural. And it never was.
– Bishop Timothy Archer (via isamizdat)
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melissagorga:
i used to have a lot of friend, now i think they think i’ve gon crazy talking to people on tumblr i’ve never met
melissagorga:
i used to have a lot of friend, now i think they think i’ve gon crazy talking to people on tumblr i’ve never
melissagorga:
i used to have a lot of friend, now i think they think i’ve gon crazy talking to people on tumblr i’ve
melissagorga:
i...
there are people who: music is the most versatile... →
therearepeoplewho:
music is the most versatile thing, because it has to slot into everything else; into experience. how has experience changed? static-image is versatile, but still believes that it can demand your full attention. some static-image-makers understand that not every viewing is a concert. text-based…
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The problem with escapism is that when you read or write a book society is in...
– China Miéville, interviewed about how his fantasy writing interacts with his politics in Issue 88 of International Socialism Journal (2000). (via kwerey)
The human brain contains an “interpreter” function that generates a conscious...
– Economics and the Brain: How People Really Make Decisions in Turbulent Times | Neuroscience News
“So, if we are confronted with information that does not connect with our self-image, knowledge, or conceptual framework, the interpreter creates a belief to enable all incoming information to make...
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null
humancomputer:
null is zero, is 0, is negligible, is {}, is measure, is math, is theory
(we begin)
null is the unique set having no elements; two sets are equal if they have the same elements; speak of “the empty set”, versus “an empty set.”
(“null-set”, maybe: a void; a space; a calm; a peace; mindless; vast; and vacuum)
null is maybe empty.
(it will remain empty after a Google search;...