May 2012
2 posts
“What men mean when they talk about their “crazy” ex-girlfriend is often that she...”
– Lady, You Really Aren’t “Crazy” (via crookedindifference)
National Day of Reason →
On May 3, humanists and other freethinkers will be opposing National Day of Prayer by celebrating reason! Learn more on how you can participate.
April 2012
2 posts
Psssst! It’s a Peeps Show! →
The diorama I made for my workplace Peeps contest is in the Indianapolis Star! :)
At the Indiana Hemophilia and Thrombosis Center near St. Vincent Hospital on the Far Northwestside, the employees do serious work with patients with a variety of blood disorders, from hemophilia to sickle cell anemia.
It can be stressful, which is where Peeps came in.
Monday, six teams competed in an...
10 Points of Humanism
from “The Philosophy of Humanism” by Corliss Lamont
First, Humanism believes in a naturalistic metaphysics or attitude toward the universe that considers all forms of the supernatural as myth; and that regards Nature as the totality of being and as a constantly changing system of matter and energy which exists independently of any mind or consciousness.
Second, Humanism, drawing...
March 2012
4 posts
New Milky Way Photo Captures 1 Billion Stars →
More than a billion stars blaze bright in a new photo of our Milky Way galaxy snapped by an international team of astronomers.
“As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the...”
– Carl Sagan
February 2012
6 posts
“I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive. I am...”
– Bertrand Russell
January 2012
20 posts
“This book gives me more information about penguins than I care to have.”
– In 1944 a children’s book club sent a volume about penguins to a 10-year-old girl, enclosing a card seeking her opinion.
She wrote this.
American diplomat Hugh Gibson called it the finest piece of literary criticism he had ever read.
(via jamesthepious)
“Tonight, in the infinitesimal light of the stars,
The trees and the flowers...”
– Sylvia Plath, I Am Vertical (via loveyourchaos)
“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in...”
– Carl Jung
“Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in...”
– Carl Jung
“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a...”
– Carl Jung
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of...”
– Carl Jung
“Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the...”
– Carl Jung
“Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface...”
– Carl Jung
December 2011
19 posts
“So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that...”
– Alan Watts
“How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such...”
– Alan Watts
“It is better to conquer yourself
than to win a thousand battles.
Then the...”
“The life of Zen begins, therefore,
in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals...”
– Alan Watts
“Not to be bound by rules,
but to be creating one’s own rules –
this is...”
– D. T. Suzuki
“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be...”
– bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions (via osram-akoma)
“I can remember the early mornings—how the stubble,
A little proud with frost,...”
– “Waking on the Farm” by Robert Bly
“i remember the first time i saw someone lying on the cold street
i thought:...”
– “Subdivision” by Ani Difranco
The ‘Molitor’ Stradivarius of 1697 →
I never knew my violin-playing genes go this far back…this is SUCH an exciting discovery! Now, who wants to buy this Stradivarius for me…? :)
[In 1804 Madame Récamier’s two violins passed to a young General in Napoleon’s army, the Count Gabriel-Jean-Joseph Molitor (1770-1849). Count Molitor was evidently a musician of some stature as well as a distinguished soldier under both Napoleon...
“Zen mind is not Zen mind. That is, if you are attached to Zen mind, then you...”
