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40 Belief-Shaking Remarks From a Ruthless Nonconformist. If there’s one thing Friedrich Nietzsche did well, it’s obliterate feel-good beliefs people have about themselves.

40 Belief-Shaking Remarks From a Ruthless Nonconformist

He has been criticized for being a misanthrope, a subvert, a cynic and a pessimist, but I think these assessments are off the mark. I believe he only wanted human beings to be more honest with themselves. He did have a remarkable gift for aphorism — he once declared, “It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.” A hundred years after his death, Nietzsche retains his disturbing talent for turning a person’s worldview upside-down with one jarring remark.

Even today his words remain controversial. Here are 40 unsympathetic statements from the man himself. 1. Iron Man's House is up for Sale & The Urban Shogun. Zoom.gif from threadless.com - StumbleUpon. - StumbleUpon. 35 Celebrity Mosaics That Will Blow Your Mind. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, Recycled red, white & blue trash including McDonalds wrappers, toy soldiers, cigarettes, a Costco card, and a pretty sweet sneaker.

35 Celebrity Mosaics That Will Blow Your Mind

COURTNEY LOVE, Pills. BIG BIRD, Cereal. CHEECH AND CHONG, Drug and alcohol paraphernalia KATHY GRIFFIN, Trash donated by Kathy to the artist. KIM KARDASHIAN, Red Vines. 6 Crackpot Conspiracy Theories (That Actually Happened) We really do try very hard here at Cracked to maintain a no-bullshit policy.

6 Crackpot Conspiracy Theories (That Actually Happened)

We're not the goddamned New York Times, but we do try to make sure we don't repeat a claim unless we can link to a smarter group of people who confirm it. We kind of think everyone who touches a keyboard should do that. But in the course of looking down our noses at the nutjobs who spread urban legends and conspiracy theories, we have to sometimes stop and point out that there are downright terrifying historical precedents for even their craziest of claims. The Government Is Transmitting Thoughts Into Our Brains! This is the stereotypical "tin foil hat" conspiracy theory that the government has the ability to beam thoughts into or out of your skull using its Illuminati mind-ray technology.

You can use the same excuse to get away with stealing lunches from your co-workers. But they're not the only ones who have ever claimed to hear voices broadcast directly into their heads. Why It's Not So Crazy Inside their heads. List of unusual deaths - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - StumbleUpon. This is a list of unusual deaths.

List of unusual deaths - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - StumbleUpon

This list includes unique or extremely rare circumstances of death recorded throughout history, noted as being unusual by multiple sources. Some of the deaths are mythological or are considered to be unsubstantiated by contemporary researchers. Oxford Dictionaries defines the word "unusual" as "not habitually or commonly occurring or done" and "remarkable or interesting because different from or better than others. Russia's Thieves By Law Will Slit Your Damn Throat. Even if you don’t know anything about Russia, you probably know that there’s kind of a bit of a problem with organized crime there.

Russia's Thieves By Law Will Slit Your Damn Throat

Alexander Gentelev knows that and a lot more, which is why he decided to make a documentary about the explosion of organized crime in Russia following the break-up of the Soviet Union. Thieves By Law also looks at the origins of the modern-day Mafia in the thieves’ code of the old Soviet Union, a code everyone in the criminal underworld was bound by. People like Vitali Dyomochka, who looks like John Malkovich playing Nosferatu, always wears black polo necks and talks a lot about honor and a murder he once committed.

Another of the stars, Alimzhan Tokhtakhunov, is a luxury-obsessed Uzbek who pads around his ornate mansion in slippers that say “made it in life” on them. The Russian Mafia is an international organization embedded in every part of Russian life. The most watched and most highly-rated TED talks at the moment. - StumbleUpon. This is about the synchronicity number 23, and thus about the phenomena of synchronicity in general.

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To write about this topic objectively is impossible, as all experiences are necessarily subjective, involving as they do the element of consciousness, which cannot be instrumented. This is perhaps a study in the affirmation that any assertion of an objective observer is inherently impossible, and yet at the same time there is a deeply imbedded pattern of coherency in all that we regard as random. Randomness itself is nothing more than a pattern of deeply imbedded complexity of order; an order so complex it is not immediately discernible or obvious.

The 6 Most Incredible Real World Beast Masters. Disney movies make hanging out with wild animals look like a walk in a fun, happy, completely predator-free park.

The 6 Most Incredible Real World Beast Masters

But in the real world, being around untamed wildlife isn't so much about carefree singing and dancing and monkeyshinin' as it is about running and screaming. Then coming back later to clean up the poop trail you inevitably left behind. Or it usually is, anyway. These people have apparently chosen to just go the Disney route, like ... #6. Virtual Reality - Virtual Realities!!! - Worldwide Distributor of Virtual Reality. Breathingearth - CO2, birth &death rates by country, simulated real-time - StumbleUpon.