November 9, 2012
"Fable should be taught as fable, myth as myth, and miracles as poetic fancies. To teach superstitions as truth is horrifying. The mind of a child accepts them and only through great pain, perhaps tragedy, can the child be relieved of them. Men will fight for superstition as quickly as for the living truth — even more so, since a superstition is intangible, you can’t get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, as so is changeable."

— Hypatia of Alexandria (370 - 415 BC)

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May 30, 2012
"The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more."

— Christopher Hitchens

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January 31, 2012
"The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more."

— Christopher Hitchens

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July 19, 2011
mariaarassiee: e-a-r-t-h: Don’t let this photo scare you. The Suri girls in the village of Tulgit cut themselves with thorns and razors so they scar in these patterns. These scars are considered attractive and many girls desire individual designs. Some people might consider this horrifying just as some people consider inserting silicon inside a person as horrifying. Every culture has a different perception of beauty, but regardless of it all beauty is pain. 

mariaarassiee:

e-a-r-t-h:

Don’t let this photo scare you. The Suri girls in the village of Tulgit cut themselves with thorns and razors so they scar in these patterns. These scars are considered attractive and many girls desire individual designs.

Some people might consider this horrifying just as some people consider inserting silicon inside a person as horrifying. Every culture has a different perception of beauty, but regardless of it all beauty is pain. 

(via theazerilime)

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May 7, 2011
"I think the realisation of oneself is the prime aim of life, and to realise oneself through pleasure is finer than to do so through pain."

— Oscar Wilde

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