Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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Head in the clouds
The giraffe is the only animal that has the heart far from the thoughts… It has fallen in love yesterday and still doesn’t know it. – Stefano Benni [via the wonderful Libr’Aria] – Giraffes by Rubuni Rashidi, 2010
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Kill nothing but time
If you can do no good, at least do no harm. Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to
Today I learned Jupiter is the love child of Edvard Munch and Vincent Van Gogh. Antibiotics and indoor plumbing sure are It, but in my opinion, the best thing about being alive in this day and age is all the space travel. Now that we’ve broken through the stars, we’re experiencing a whole new level…
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How I Spent The First Day of 2018, 11:57 a.m. – 2:03 p.m.
Spoiler alert: it was drinking and reading scary short stories on the couch. Suffer The Little Children, Stephen King The Boogeyman, Stephen King There Will Come Soft Rains, Ray Brabury The Yellow Wallpaper, Charlotte Perkins Stetson Army of One, Junji Ito The Jaunt, Stephen King* Wendigo – Pt. One & Two
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In These Times
I met a man in Nigeria years ago, an Ibo, who said he had three hundred relatives he knew by name. His wife had just had a baby. They were going to take it on foot to be welcomed and marveled at by as many of those relatives as they could find, even though there…
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Trans ī re
Trans ī re Fredrik Raddum 2017 Currently feeling…
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Thanks
Thanksgiving Day was a holiday when everybody in the country was expected to express gratitude to the Creator of the Universe, mainly for food. Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
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Such possibilities still exist
“When I was a boy, and when Dwayne Hoover was a boy, all the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month.It was during that minute in nineteen…
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The key to everything
This is the key to everything: Realize you’re alive. Remember that it’s never too Late to look at the sun. One more time. Sergio Bambarén [Via] & Edvard Munch, View from Nordstrand
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Breakfast of the Birds
Gabriele Münter Breakfast of the Birds 1933
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