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End Of Evangelion + House MD season 3 episode 12 - One Day, One Room

#sstatt assoc #evangelion #end of evangelion #asuka langley soryu #asuka langley #house #house md #house m.d. #gregory house

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The funniest American of his time, Mark Twain, found life for himself and everybody else so stressful when he was in his seventies, like me, that he wrote as follows: “I have never wanted any released friend of mine restored to life since I reached manhood.” That is in an essay on the sudden death of his daughter Jean a few days earlier. Among those he wouldn’t have resurrected were Jean, and another daughter, Susy, and his beloved wife, and his best friend, Henry Rogers. Twain didn’t live to see World War One, but still he felt that way.

Kurt Vonnegut - Timequake

the thing about this quote (and other similar ones by Vonnegut) is that at first it might seem like it’s just pure pessimism and hopelessness, but to me this is the basis for all empathy and compassion, because taking suffering seriously is probably the hardest to do, but without that, empathy and compassion are just incomplete and useless

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local Twitter user comes to “terrifying” realization that someone’s physical appearance does not always indicate their political beliefs

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I still quote Eugene Debs (1855-1926), late of Terre Haute, Indiana, five times the Socialist Party’s candidate for President, in every speech: “While there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.” In recent years, I’ve found it prudent to say before quoting Debs that he is to be taken seriously. Otherwise many in the audience will start to laugh. They are being nice, not mean, knowing I like to be funny. But it is also a sign of these times that such a moving echo of the Sermon on the Mount can be perceived as outdated, wholly discredited horsecrap. Which it is not.

Kurt Vonnegut - Timequake

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“I have to tell you, though, that you are not the first person to say the game was all over for the human race. I’m sure that even in Egypt before the first pyramid was constructed, there were men who attracted a following by saying, ‘It’s all over now.’ ” “What is different about now as compared with Egypt before the first pyramid was built—” Ed began. “And before the Chinese invented printing, and before Columbus discovered America,” Jason Wilder interjected. “Exactly,” said Bergeron. “The difference is that we have the misfortune of knowing what’s really going on,” said Bergeron, “which is no fun at all. And this has given rise to a whole new class of preening, narcissistic quacks like yourself who say in the service of rich and shameless polluters that the state of the atmosphere and the water and the topsoil on which all life depends is as debatable as how many angels can dance on the fuzz of a tennis ball.”

Kurt Vonnegut - Hocus Pocus

#vonnegut #kurt vonnegut #kurt vonnegut jr #kurt vonnegut jr. #hocus pocus #climate change #global warming

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i feel like when talking about the concept of privilege it is meaningful to distinguish "everyone should have this but certain people don't" privilege (e.g supportive parents, relative safety) from "no one should have this but certain people do" privilege (preferential treatment in certain job fields, billions of dollars)

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Why throw money at problems? That is what money is for. Should the nation’s wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.

Kurt Vonnegut - Timequake

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I would have recognized the opportunity for a world-class joke, but would never allow myself to be funny at the cost of making somebody else feel like something the cat drug in. Let that be my epitaph.

Kurt Vonnegut - Timequake

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#star wars #andor #nemik

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jesus christ

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“Do or do not. There is no try”.

-Yoda, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

42 years later

“One single thing will break the siege. Remember this: try”.

-Karis Nemik, Star Wars: Andor

#star wars #andor #nemik #yoda

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There’s a moment in this video that just really hit me. A psychologist is talking about how parents talk to their kids about not letting species go extinct in the zoo and just this wave of emotion washed over me. This cannot be real. This is absurd. This is sci-fi. This is a Kilgore Trout short story about an alien planet in a Vonnegut novel.

#zoo #kilgore trout #kurt vonnegut

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Lower Decks is just perfect

#star trek #star trek lower decks #lower decks #boimler #ensign boimler #sulu #captain sulu

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if i say i’m a leftist don’t ask me what branch of leftism do i follow or what old white male revolutionary scholars i have read just know that i want everyone to eat food every day and i’m vibing

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But she listened thoughtfully when I told her about our little gang in New York City, whose paintings were nothing alike except for one thing: they were about nothing but themselves. When I was all talked out, she sighed, and she shook her head. “It was the last conceivable thing a painter could do to a canvas, so you did it,” she said. “Leave it to Americans to write, ‘The End.’” “I hope that’s not what we’re doing,” I said. “I hope very much that it is what you’re doing,” she said. “After all that men have done to the women and children and every other defenseless thing on this planet, it is time that not just every painting, but every piece of music, every statue, every play, every poem and book a man creates, should say only this: ‘We are much too horrible for this nice place. We give up. We quit. The end!’” She said that our unexpected reunion was a stroke of luck for her, since she thought I might have brought the solution to an interior decorating problem which had been nagging at her for years, namely: what sort of pictures, if any, should she put on the inane blanks between the columns of her rotunda? “I want to leave some sort of mark on this place while I have it,” she said, “and the rotunda seems the place to do it. “I considered hiring women and children to paint murals of the death camps and the bombing of Hiroshima and the planting of land mines, and maybe the burning of witches and the feeding of Christians to wild animals in olden times,” she said. “But I think that sort of thing, on some level, just eggs men on to be even more destructive and cruel, makes them think: ‘Ha! We are as powerful as gods! There has never been anything to stop us from doing even the most frightful things, if even the most frightful things are what we choose to do.’ “So your idea is a much better one, Rabo. Let men come into my rotunda, and wherever they look at eye level let them receive no encouragement. Let the walls cry out: ‘The end! The end!’”

Kurt Vonnegut - Bluebeard

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“Whenever I see a man wearing a medal,” said Marilee, “I want to cry and hug him, and say, ‘Oh, you poor baby—all the terrible things you’ve been through, just so the woman and the children could be safe at home.’” She said she used to want to go up to Mussolini, who had so many medals that they covered both sides of his tunic right down to his belt, and say to him, “After all you’ve been through, how can there be anything left of you?” And then she brought up the unfortunate expression I had used when talking to her on the telephone: “Did you say that in the war you were “combing pussy out of your hair’?” I said I was sorry I’d said it, and I was. “I never heard that expression before,” she said. “I had to guess what it meant.” “Just forget I said it,” I said. “You want to know what my guess was? I guessed that wherever you went there were women who would do anything for food or protection for themselves and the children and the old people, since the young men were dead or gone away,” she said. “How close was I?” “Oh my, oh my, oh my,” I said. “What’s the matter, Rabo?” she said. “You hit the nail on the head,” I said. “Wasn’t very hard to guess,” she said. “The whole point of war is to put women everywhere in that condition. It’s always men against women, with the men only pretending to fight among themselves.” “They can pretend pretty hard sometimes,” I said. “They know that the ones who pretend the hardest,” she said, “get their pictures in the paper and medals afterwards.”

Kurt Vonnegut - Bluebeard

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