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5 tips - you shouldn't say to a depressed person : depression. Atheism And The City: “You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.” That there is only the natural world, which we are a part of, seems to me truth given the evidence.

Atheism And The City: “You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”

Thus the naturalist like myself realizes that man and nature are the same thing. Mankind is nature becoming conscious of itself. The late Anglo-American philosopher Alan Watts knew this quite well. Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic Chapter 222.5 Discussion. GuiltyKing said:Oh I'm sure it will make sense.

Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic Chapter 222.5 Discussion

But we'll be left guessing for a long time, I believe. Magi the labyrinth of magic abnormalities. Yard Sale Jackpot. TaydolfSwiftler on Gallerrit. Has Anyone Else Unintentionally Let Their Grades Fall Due To Their Depression? : depression. In Turkey, Renewed Anti-Government Protests - In Focus. One day last summer, as anti-government protests roiled Istanbul, a 14-year-old boy named Berkin Elvan was on his way to buy bread when he was struck in the head by a tear gas canister.

In Turkey, Renewed Anti-Government Protests - In Focus

After spending months in a coma, Berkin died this week -- reigniting anger at Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and sending thousands back into the streets in dozens of cities. Riot police were quick to react, disrupting demonstrations with water cannons, clubs, and more tear gas. At least two were killed, dozens more injured. Opposition groups are calling for further protests and are still seeking the ouster of Prime Minister Erdogan. [38 photos] Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: A young woman, held after she was wounded during clashes between riot police and protestors after the funeral of Berkin Elvan in Istanbul on March 12, 2014.

People hold images of Berkin Elvan as they gather In Ankara, Turkey, on March 11, 2014, to protest his death. Censorship and suppression in Belarus - Features. Nestled between Russia and Poland sits an autocratic state dubbed "Europe's last dictatorship", whose public enemies include Hollywood actor Jude Law and German heavy metal band Rammstein.

Censorship and suppression in Belarus - Features

Artistic directors and founders of The Belarus Free Theatre (BFT), Kaliada and Nicolai Khalezin, are also public enemies of their home country. Their crime is setting up an underground company aiming to cast a spotlight on the day-to-day struggles faced by their countrymen and women. They established the theatre in 2005, along with critically acclaimed director Vladimir Shcherban, and, just six years later, the couple were forced to seek political asylum in the UK - fleeing alleged harassment carried out by officials in the administration of President Alexander Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus with a self-described "authoritarian style" since 1994. How to talk to your Republican uncle about weed. : trees. Before I tried psychedelics , I never understood why anyone would cry at a wedding. Now after trying psychedelics , I cry at all weddings. : Drugs. What drugs teach the best life lessons? Is it only psychedelics you can truly learn from? : Drugs.

U.S. Government and Top Mexican Drug Cartel Exposed as Partners. For over a decade, under multiple administrations, the U.S. government had a secret agreement with the ruthless Mexican Sinaloa drug cartel that allowed it to operate with impunity, an in-depth investigation by a leading Mexican newspaper confirmed this week.

U.S. Government and Top Mexican Drug Cartel Exposed as Partners

In exchange for information and assistance in quashing competing criminal syndicates, the Bush and Obama administrations let the Sinaloa cartel import tons of drugs into the United States while wiping out Sinaloa competitors and ensuring that its leaders would not be prosecuted for their long list of major crimes. Other revelations also point strongly to massive but clandestine U.S. government involvement in drug trafficking. Relying on over 100 interviews with current and former government functionaries on both sides of the border, as well as official documents from the U.S. and Mexican governments, Mexico’s El Universal concluded that the U.S. Related articles: CIA “Manages” Drug Trade, Mexican Official Says Trafficker: U.S. U.S. Forget The Drug Dealers And Iran, HSBC Is Having A Great Year.

Ram Bahadur Bomjon. Ram Bahadur Bomjon He drew thousands of visitors and media attention by spending months in meditation.

Ram Bahadur Bomjon

Nicknamed the Buddha Boy, he began his meditation on May 16, 2005. He reportedly disappeared from the hollow tree where he had been meditating for months on March 16, 2006, but was found by some followers a week later. He told them he had left his meditation place, where large crowds had been watching him, "because there is no peace". He then went his own way and reappeared elsewhere in Nepal on December 26, 2006, but left again on March 8, 2007.

The 4 Craziest Ways Real Life Will Seem Like Science Fiction in 2014. 2013 was an interesting year in technology.

The 4 Craziest Ways Real Life Will Seem Like Science Fiction in 2014

It is becoming increasingly clear that smartphones and tablets have reached maturity, and that we shouldn't expect drastic new innovation on that front. We need to talk about TED. In our culture, talking about the future is sometimes a polite way of saying things about the present that would otherwise be rude or risky.

We need to talk about TED

But have you ever wondered why so little of the future promised in TED talks actually happens? So much potential and enthusiasm, and so little actual change. Are the ideas wrong? Or is the idea about what ideas can do all by themselves wrong? 15 timeless observations from history’s greatest dystopian novels. The dystopian novel has a long, dark and intriguing history.

15 timeless observations from history’s greatest dystopian novels

Kicking off in 1726 with Jonathan Swift’s rip-roaring satire Gulliver’s Travels, it’s gone through numerous transformations in the last three centuries. One thing all these books share, though, is that they make us think long and hard about the societies we live in. Study: Young men are less adventurous than they were a generation ago, primarily because they are less motivated and in worse physical condition than their fathers : science. Not a conspiracy anymore : worldnews. History. Norfolkpine comments on Detroit community beats alleged rapist of 15 y.o. girl with Down Syndrome after slow police response. 40% Of US Workers Now Earn Less Than 1968 Minimum Wage : politics.

"The loneliest people are the kindest. The saddest people smile the brightest. All because they do not wish to see anyone else suffer the way they do." -Unknown [2560x1600] : QuotesPorn. Eternal return. Eternal return (also known as "eternal recurrence") is a concept that the universe has been recurring, and will continue to recur, in a self-similar form an infinite number of times across infinite time or space.

Eternal return

Thousands of Germans protest against US surveillance : europe. Bufus comments on When the Motion Picture Production Code (1930) and the Comics Code Authority (1954) began regulating the moral content of so much American popular culture, did anyone strongly object? NSA amendment vote today: whether it fails or succeeds, America will have every member of the House on record either supporting or opposing the surveillance state's collection of customer data on all phone calls. : politics. Harold Meyerson: Big banks’ dangerous commodity monopolies. Before Goldman bought the warehouses three years ago, the Times reported, aluminum ingots generally were kept in the warehouses for six weeks before being shipped to factories to be turned into goods. Now they linger on average for 16 months, during which Goldman collects a daily storage fee from the banks, hedge funds and traders who own the ingots — a fee that is factored into the metal’s spot-market price and that raises the price for all aluminum sold on that market, no matter where it’s stored.

President Obama Has Given Himself the Right to Shut Down All Communications in the US in the Name of National Security : Anarchism. Alttt comments on All 19m homes connected to the internet to be forced to say if they want access to online porn, PM to announce. Chris Hedges says "We have shifted, I think, from a democratic state to a species of corporate totalitarianism." : politics. If We Don’t Break Up the Big Banks, They Will Manipulate More and More of the Economy…Making Us Poorer and Poorer : politics. J.K. Rowling and the Chamber of Literary Fame. Last weekend’s revelation that J.K. Police find evidence that woman burnt stolen artwork by Monet, Picasso, and Matisse. The lost work is valued at tens of millions. : worldnews.

Chapter 2: Hive Mind. In a darkened Las Vegas conference room, a cheering audience waves cardboard wands in the air. Froese.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/froese-et-al-13-turing-instabilities-in-biology-culture-and-consciousness-on-the-enactive-origins-of-symbolic-material-culture.pdf. Www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-11-13/pdf/2012-27742.pdf. Talking to the Future. Owner Makes Lifejacket For Pet Fish Called Einstein Who Can't Swim.

Ben Faccini – Street children. Years ago, along the cacophonous roads leading from Ramses Train Station in Cairo, I came across a small girl with a bright red headscarf weaving her way in and out of the slow-moving traffic, her bare feet shrouded in a haze of exhaust fumes. I watched as she banged on the windows of vehicles, the red of her headscarf a lurching traffic light forcing buses and trucks to a sudden halt. When drivers opened their windows to shoo her away, the girl pleaded for a chance to say something, running alongside the traffic to keep up. Uncowed by dismissive hand gestures or hastily resealed windows, she visited car after car, like a bee in a field of giant flowers, looking for a chance to speak to someone.

Borax comments on people say I'm gonna regret this, I say fuck you. Charles Ramsey: Hero of abductions case, instant Internet star. I'm no hero, Charles Ramsey tells CNNCharles Ramsey's 911 call: "She needs everything. She's in a panic, bro. " His quick action freed three women and a girl allegedly held captive Ramsey works as a dishwasher at a local restaurant (CNN) -- Within hours of becoming a national hero, a viral video star and the top topic on Twitter, Charles Ramsey talked about having trouble getting sleep.

NTR. Curse of "The Dirty Bottles" at Ye Olde Cross, Alnwick. Garage doors by Lake13. Video: Tribes vow to fight-to-the-death to save Amazon rainforest. Principal fires security guards to hire art teachers — and transforms elementary school. Orchard Gardens, a school in Roxbury, Mass., had been plagued by bad test scores and violence -- but one principal's idea to fire the security guards and hire art teachers is helping turn it around. Missing Pennsylvania woman reappears 11 years later in Florida Keys. And it's doing it 12.5 times more than it's telling anybody : worldnews. Kevin Krust Productions. Upload Kevin Krust Website Subscription preferences. TIL In Indian culture it is rude to say "Please" and "Thank You" to friends and family, the words are basically non existent. Instead it is expected to help one another out at any given moment. : todayilearned.

Visit Rapture. Owain Wallpaper by *inqWanderer on deviantART. First world problems: Rathalos Carapace... : MonsterHunter. CRAZY ROAD RAGE CAUGHT ON TAPE! Protesters expected to disrupt men's issues awareness event at U of T. Sandy Hook Good Samaritan Harassed. Can you name the authors of NPR's top 100 novels for teens. Indonesian man eaten by pet dogs after starving them. Prose. History[edit] Home Page. Posing Guide: 21 Sample Poses to Get You Started with Glamour Photography. Westboro attendee seeks seat on Kansas education board. Topeka is evil. Harry Potter promotes witchcraft.