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August 2010

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Currently growth has no correlation to quality of life. I am a healthy, happy 28 year old. I don’t take any medication and have no medical issues; I am bad for the economy. If I smoked (tobacco revenue, medical costs), drove a car (less walking, more medical costs, more gas, more oil revenue), and ate more processed foods (more expensive, more medical problems, medical costs), I’d be good for the economy. My less healthy lifestyle would promote growth.

Until we redefine what’s good, we will continue to encourage self-destructive behavior.

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—Andres regarding Credit Card Debt Drops To Lowest Level In 8 Years  (via soupsoup, tedr) (via fuckyeahradicalquotes) (via erickd)
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“It is shocking and profoundly regrettable, but, apparently, sales of oranges are falling steadily because people can no longer be bothered to peel them. As soon as I read this, I began buying oranges more frequently and eating them with greater pleasure. Now I peel an orange very slowly, deliberately, voluptuously, above all defiantly, as a riposte to an age that demands war without casualties, public services without taxes, rights without obligations, celebrity without achievement, sex without relationship, running shoes without running, coursework without work and sweet grapes without seeds.” —

From The Age of Absurdity : Why Modern Life Makes It Hard To Be Happy by Michael Foley.

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A Confederacy of Dunces turns 30 → nola.com

rd67:

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Just as some people talk in their sleep, sign language speakers have been known to sign in their sleep.

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“My reader Chad: “Speaking of holy ground, Lakota Sioux were sorta offended when we carved our Presidents into their sacred mountain.” —ebertchicago
Aug 23, 2010
Fishsuit: I Quit! → tumblelog.fishsuit.org

So I quit my job.

As some of you know, I took a three month sabbatical over the summer, and at the end of it I had to decide whether to go back. It was the age old debate: time or money? I have enough money saved up to survive for a while with a little belt-tightening, but it won’t last too…

inspirational!  wish i could do this now…

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“You throw an anchor into the future you want to build, and you pull yourself along by the chain.” —John O’Neal (via azspot)
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Words and Consequence → paulvanderklay.wordpress.com

azspot:

Do you really want to assert that words should always be consequence free? Go ahead, try it. I bet you can’t do it with words and if you do you are undermining your assertion itself.

How this all works is in fact the stuff of culture, the stuff of community, and the stuff of life together itself. This is why we speak.

So go ahead and test the limits. Limits have a way of finding us. If you imagine that you really want a world without consequential words I suppose you should try doing it yourself. My only advice is to not be surprised if an unwelcome consequence finds you quickly.

A wise book says “be quick to listen and slow to speak”.

Words are important.

I hear people saying “we should stop arguing with each other and just love each other.” Well, I suppose we don’t need to argue with each other, but I also think we can’t as human beings really love each other without words, and we’re not going to honestly relate to one another or be able to respect each other without talking about the words we disagree about. It hasn’t been done because it can’t be done and it won’t be done. Like it or not we’ve been given these powerful things called “words” upon which all human culture is built. Like it or not loving each other will always involve them even its hard.

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