October 2011
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An Interview: Derrick Shanholtzer [The World Is A...
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Interview: Kyle Minton [9/25/2011]
A string of impressive EP releases, strange tumblr activity, and a plethora of tales of drunken travels and house shows seem to be the making of the band The World Is A Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid To Die. Derrick Shanholtzer, guitarist and vocalist of the band, entertained Nothing Sounds Better with a few...
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“Since the notion that we should all forsake attachment to race and/or cultural...”
– bell hooks, “Killing Rage” (via bhavitavyata)
krning:
empires is playing northeastern tomorrow
in our starbucks too which will be great
guess who’s going!!!!!!!!!!!1
whaaaaaaaat omg why don’t I live in boston ;______;
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September 2011
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pete: hey patrick i have a new song, sing this
patrick: okay, akuwhgfshdfshdafhehfejwhgfhgfkjehgkldhf;oiydfreuiofhahfkjsdnbfuhkjnhduofhrwkjhgfgjhfaosuehgheofAHEWIOFHEIOFHEWIOFHIOWEHFAOWKIJHFEW
pete: sounds just right
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saraquael:
sceaterian replied to your post: People who use Instagram fucking constantly but who hate on Photoshop.
What is desaturation? Because the instagram photos are starting to drive me bonkers.
Desaturating an image is the wrong way to make it black and white.
Ooo why is it wrong? What’s the RIGHT way? I am intensely curious about all this technical image shit without actually...
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Personally, I love the new Delicious. Really.
spiritsflame:
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Delicious. I really appreciate the way that you have taken a user friendly, helpful and extremely useful tool and turned it into a convoluted mess that is nearly incomprehensible.
The part where there is no central location for all my tags is great. The fact that they are not listed in order of size, alphabetically or recent is even...
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brb saving this to tell my future children
Anonymous: Do you believe in saving sex for Marriage?
John Green: I can’t answer that question unless I answer the question of what constitutes marriage. And none of the definitions I have for marriage really hold up to scrutiny:
1. A marriage is a legal contract. But for the vast majority of human history, marriages were not legal contracts, so are we to say that all those people—from the Prophet Muhammad to Mary and Joseph—weren’t really married?
2. A marriage is a life-long monogamous romantic relationship. Well, this is patently untrue. 40% of marriages end in divorce; is it immoral for those people to have had sex during their marriages simply because their marriages later ended? If I’m single, meet a girl in Las Vegas, marry her, have sex with her, and divorce her the next day—is that somehow less ethically problematic than two unmarried people in a committed relationship having sex?
The question is further complicated by the fact that many people in the United States are legally prohibited from ever marrying. So if you argue that one must always wait for marriage, you end up arguing that gay people in New York can have sex after they get married, but that gay people in Alabama will never be able to have sex, at least until and unless gay marriage becomes legal in Alabama.
Which brings me to the biggest issue of all: To answer your question, I must not only define marriage (which turns out to be really hard to define); I must also define sex. What is sex? Is it actions that can result in procreation? Is it any kind of sexual intimacy? If so, is kissing sex? Is hugging sex if it happens to result in arousal?
We’ve created this aura around virginity as if one’s virginity is a real and tangible thing—but of course it isn’t. Sex and virginity are socially constructed concepts. Are you a virgin if you engage in oral sex? Are you a virgin if you’ve kissed a girl? Are you a virgin if it was just the tip? Are you a virgin if your hymen breaks from tampon-insertion?
In my opinion, our obsessive focus on virginity and sexual purity doesn’t serve anyone. Losing one’s virginity is not an event; it’s a process. Similarly, weddings are events, and signing your marriage license is an event, but marriages are not events. They are processes.
So no, I don’t think it’s inherently wrong to have sex before marriage, because I don’t know what sex means, and I don’t know what marriage means. I think people should feel empowered to make their own decisions about their own bodies in thoughtful and open conversations with their romantic partners.
And use condoms. The End.
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eleventy
For the longest time it felt like we were new friends - you know, that exciting getting-to-know-new-person phase - and looking back, I am utterly unable to pinpoint when that stopped and when it started feeling like we’d been friends for ages and ages. If there IS a boring middle period of friendship - and I don’t know, maybe there isn’t, I’m just throwing theories out...
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