Reblogged from Bohemea.
October 14, 2012, 10:14am
Hell’s Highway
Highway safety films, 1950s
October 14, 2012, 10:11am
“We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. We develop all those long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality of our lives in different ways, without really extending our body of worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. Basically, we live a short disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up our lives with shite, things like careers and relationships to delude ourselves that it isn’t all totally pointless.”
— Irvine Welsh (via fabuloso-thailand)
(Source: snoopboner)
September 23, 2012, 9:01am
Nailed it. Political discourse in this country has gotten strangely bifurcated as the right uses terribly transparent two dimensional code words like this that get a ton of media attention and the left don’t, but splinter off into a million well-written and unread arguments. Conservatives use the soundbite by aiming for the intellectual level of someone who only understands or has the attention span for soundbites. We should be more upset about this in the USA.
(Source: eclecticbanana)
September 17, 2012, 9:22am
“We don’t even ask for happiness, just a little less pain.”
— Charles Bukowski (via selfinspiration)
(Source: henrycharlesbukowski)
September 17, 2012, 9:20am
Einstein and his therapist.
“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” — Ernest Hemingway
September 15, 2012, 5:53pm
“… if the stuff of the universe that we know directly is mind, and matter is the same thing known only by means of conceptual symbols created by mind, it would seem as reasonable to call at least part of reality mind as to call it matter. And matter, even crude matter, is not what it was. It has turned into energy, and the atom has become a pattern and the molecule a pattern of patterns, till all the different physical substances and their behaviour have come to be regarded as the outcome of the structure of their primitive components. But we have already met with pattern in the nervous system, underlying and rendering possible the most fundamental characteristics of the mind. And pattern in some mysterious way possesses a life of its own, for it can survive a change in the identity of its component parts as longs as its structure remains the same. As a wave can move over the sea and remain the same wave, though the water of which it is composed is continuously changing, a pattern can shift over the retina and therefore over the visual area of the brain and remain recognizably the same pattern. The pattern of our personality though it changes slowly remains substantially the same, though every protein molecule in the body, including the nervous system, is changed three times a year. The ingredients have altered but not the structure.”
— W. Russell Brain, Mind, Perception and Science (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
September 15, 2012, 5:51pm
First off, this is not a photo.
Second: this is the first ever real and helpful interaction I’ve seen in YouTube comments, and it’s flagged as spam.
September 15, 2012, 5:47pm