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Why, as a gay man, would you want to get married in the house of a religion that doesn’t welcome you with open arms, that thinks you are a dinner?
Marc Almond (via London Evening Standard - feature interview - 22nd April 2013)

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Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with lips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are.
Jonathan Safran Foer “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”

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spaceships:

Maira Kalman

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jockohomo:

“Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.”
—Camille Paglia
(via FW)

jockohomo:

“Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.”

—Camille Paglia

(via FW)

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Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties — all these chase away loneliness by making me forget my name’s Dave and I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, really deep serious sex, and, in various ways, religion — these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.
David Foster Wallace. (via minusmanhattan)

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We can live without
religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive
without human affection.
Dalai Lama  (via quote-book)

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If religion is the opium of the people, tradition is an even more sinister analgesic, simply because it rarely appears sinister. If religion is a tight band, a throbbing vein and a needle, tradition is a far homelier concoction: poppy seeds ground into tea; a sweet cocoa drink laced with cocaine; the kind of thing your grandmother might have made.
Zadie Smith, White Teeth (via mappeal)

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honeyboomboom:

meandnothingless:

Got a problem with gay marriage? How about gay rights in general? Want to know what the Bible REALLY says about homosexuality? PLEASE reblog this so everyone can be educated. 

Love, meandnothingless.tumblr.com :) 

Boom.

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And now, a different kind of Apple book « Observatory

minimalmac:

To Steve Jobs, Simplicity was a religion. But it was also a weapon — one that he used to humble competitors once thought to be invincible.

This is going to be a great book. Pre-ordered.

(via DF)

Ditto.

Insanely Simple - The Obsession That Drives Apple’s Success

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If I had to choose a religion, the sun
as the universal giver of life
would be my god.
Napoleon Bonaparte (via eloquentandhonest)

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True character
arises from a deeper well
than religion.
E. O. Wilson (via eloquentandhonest)

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utnereader:

Superman was born from the creative minds of two Jewish teens whose  boyhoods were steeped in comic books and science fiction. At age 18,  co-creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster first drew the caped superhero  that would capture the imagination of future generations. Academics have  attributed the boys’ inspiration for Superman to the lofty pages of  literature (Shaw), philosophy (Nietzsche), and religion (the Golem). But a far more likely muse, according to Reform Judaism magazine, was something much more accessible to a couple of sci-fi geeks: a real-life strongman from Poland. Keep reading …
(Image by aka Kath)

utnereader:

Superman was born from the creative minds of two Jewish teens whose boyhoods were steeped in comic books and science fiction. At age 18, co-creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster first drew the caped superhero that would capture the imagination of future generations. Academics have attributed the boys’ inspiration for Superman to the lofty pages of literature (Shaw), philosophy (Nietzsche), and religion (the Golem). But a far more likely muse, according to Reform Judaism magazine, was something much more accessible to a couple of sci-fi geeks: a real-life strongman from Poland. Keep reading …

(Image by aka Kath)

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Your daily life is
your temple and your religion.
When you enter into it
take with you your all.
Kahlil Gibran (via reluctantbuddha)
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