(discovered via They Blinked)

Let me tell you one thing first. War sucks big time. Don t let yourself ever be talked into having one waged in the name of your freedom. Somehow when the bombs start dropping or you hear the sound of machine guns at the end of your street you don t think about your imminent liberation anymore.

from Where is Raed?

(found at The Door Magazine's Chat Closet)

Societies and civilizations, as a whole, are machines that lubricate themselves with the blood of their members.

"The untutored egoist merely wants what he wants. Give him a theological education, and it becomes obvious to him, it becomes axiomatic, that what he wants is what God wants."

The Devils of Loudun, Alduous Huxley

(seen from The Last Word at The [Wittenberg] Door Magazine)

(seen here)

Listening to another person speak can be very difficult. And going to the trouble of wondering what it might be like to be this certain someone, particularly when you don't want to, is something that doesn't exactly come naturally. Thinking twice or looking back--looking again--or being generous in your consideration of another is what is meant by the word respect. And there is nothing quite so blessed as being the recipient of such kindness. It might be the most wonderful thing (specifically in the beginning stages of an acquaintance) that one human being can offer another.It is to be a bearer of good news. The merest whiff of the stuff is enough to make most anyone swoon or tear up over the memory of when it last happened to them or the fear that it might never happen again. It can make of the world --for the practitioner AND the beneficiary--an entirely different place.

Reality is a figment of our collective imagination.

(seen at The Sakamuyo Network)

(seen via John Campea)

NightCrawler: How can one so beautiful be so angry?

Storm: Anger can help you survive.

NightCrawler: So can faith

from X-Men 2

(from the song Ribbons and Bows by Daniel Amos)

And there may not ever be
Anything new here to say
But I'm fond of finding words
That say it in a different way
...
We've got some walls to climb
We've got some gates to crash
We've got a fire to light
Burn down the pious trash

( seen at The Journey)

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

from here

(from Innocence Decays)

Its funny how the thoughts that are in your head are completely pure until you decide to write them down? More often than not I find myself becoming increasingly frustrated with what I put down on paper, when in my head everything is well ordered and concise and has proper meaning. It's as if the act of writing contaminates the thoughts as they spill out onto the paper, or something within the pen itself somehow taints things. Perhaps everything is so eager to get out that in the mad rush odd bits get lost or jumbled up or find themselves in a different place to what is expected of them

(from They Blinked)

write more on: the importance of federation in intersubjective meaning networks
no centralized administration, control or failure... the violence of agreement/disagreement/ignorance