September 2011
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“The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know....”
– Stephen Fry (via thelittlephilosopher)
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UW-Stout Chancellor Doubles Down on Censorship of... →
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Together with Provost Julie Furst-Bowe and Vice Chancellor Ed Nieskes, Sorensen defended UWS’s censorship in an email to all faculty and staff on September 27. The three administrators wrote that “the posters in question constituted an implied threat of violence. That is why they were removed.”
These administrators are obviously Alliance spies from the core planets and are afraid...
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More than 400 high schools under occupation in... →
While university students are fighting in departmental General Assemblies to continue with their occupations against the new education Law (faced with the prospect of cancellation of their annual examinations if they do so), high school students are now forcefully entering the emerging wave of action against austerity in Greece. More than 400 high schools are currently under occupation (some...
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I may be possibly overreacting but...
I’m mildly terrified about putting my boyfriend through a whole 1950’s “meet the parents”…thing.
I thought my mom was kidding when she first mentioned it to me, but then when he introduced himself properly to my mom while at a school event, she told him he had to formally introduce himself to my father and grandmother. Hair brushed and everything. I wasn’t...
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sherlockstardisbluescarf:
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Reblog this if you're older than Google.
It scares me that there’s only 1000 reblogs.
It scares me that there’s only 3000 reblogs.
how old is google?
google is 13 today
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that awkward moment when you've had your hand up...
most-awkward-moments:
More here.
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six seasons of Doctor Who
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aharrypotterlife:
Doctor Who and and the time I had a leather jacket and kicked ass
Doctor Who and the greatest romance of all time
Doctor Who and the time I accidentally reawakened my arch nemesis Time Lord
Doctor Who and the awesome ginger who saved the universe
Doctor Who and the time I made bowties and fezzes cool
Doctor Who and the time absolutely nothing made...
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“I can believe things that are true and things that aren’t true and I can believe...”
– Neil Gaiman, American Gods (via boxofoctaves)
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Sherlock Season 2 is to be aired in January 2012
cumberqueen:
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FINALLY
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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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I don't really get this hype about The Silence....
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