1. Notes: 52 / 9 months ago  from ittt (originally from kaajbsaro)
   

   ittt:

   An intelligent person does not need the promise of heaven to see the merit of good deeds. 

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2. Notes: 632574 / 1 year ago  from mandaflewaway

   mandaflewaway:

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3. 1 year ago 

   i am waiting

   i am waiting for slumber

   to be lifted from the world

   for eyes to open wide

   and i am waiting for

   comprehension to finally dawn

   and for the ambien-induced sleep to cease

   and i am waiting for the

   realizations to set in

   and i am waiting for us to see that

   the desolate, cracked visage in front of us

   is the crooked, crooked way

   that things have been for millennia

   and will be yet for millennia to come

   and i am waiting for somebody

   to decry these events

   and i am waiting for

   the halls to echo

   only with a parting footstep

   as cobwebs cling in

   silence

   i am waiting for

   the waters of the gulf to consume

   and i am waiting for katrina

   to drink her fill

   and then drink some more

   and i am waiting for

   the blessèd aid to come

   and i am waiting for it

   to never arrive and reach the shores

   of the ravaged poor

   but to stop, halt expectedly

   before the destination

   as intentions never turn into actions

   and i am waiting for her to strike finally

   for the world to murmur at the horror

   and to pledge to send aid to help

   and i am waiting for the world

   to steal children from their cradles

   and i am waiting for voiced concerns

   to die unspoken on lips

   i am waiting for the apple to be picked

   from the tree within the gates

   and i am waiting

   for it to fall and startle newton

   and i am waiting for the pureness of

   scientific discovery

   to be poisoned

   and i am waiting for snow white

   to take the apple

   from the ill-disguised witch

   and i am waiting for her to bite into it

   for then the princess will plunge

   desperately into a deep sleep

   and i am waiting for the

   prince to arrive on his steed

   to place a single kiss and awaken her

   back into the land of the living

   and i am waiting for the prince

   to never saddle his mount and leave the castle

   i am waiting for

   my knights in shining silver armor

   to deliver the world

   from this darkness

   of poverty and abject horror

   and i am waiting for

   the clacking of

   the underground railroad

   to rescue us from slavery

   reminiscent of ages past

   but yet still very modern

   and very present

   the unspoken truth that

   is shameful and hidden by the news

   and i am waiting for

   rabid sale-shoppers to raise up the courage and destroy the monsters of consumerism

   that have managed

   to destroy the bonds of family in the west

   and that have exploited workers

   under the excuse of business

   everywhere else

   and i am waiting on generals

   to halt the warfare and genocide

   of the third world that ravage the ones

   who can afford it least

   and i am waiting

   for my knights to stay in camelot

   the tracks to lie silent and broken

   the shoppers to stay blissfully ignorant

   and the generals to keep on waging war

   and i am waiting for the status quo

   to be maintained

   and the boat to row merrily along

   i am waiting for politicians

   who pontificate

   on the hows for change to happen

   to set action to their words

   and i am waiting for

   the radicals and anarchists

   who promise revolution

   to either provide it

   or shut up

   and i am waiting for the millionaire

   who builds some schools

   to get together with other millionaires

   and actually fix something

   that will stay

   and i am waiting

   for politicians to keep with empty promises

   the radicals to just rail

   and the millionaires to just compete

   and i am waiting for the powerful

   to keep on with their power

   soaring higher and higher

   as the rest of the world

   become ants out of the airplane window

   smaller and smaller and insignificant

   until we are out of sight

   and out of mind

   and yet, i am still waiting

   patiently at first

   and then with annoyance and frustration

   and then anger

   for the things that i wish with all my heart

   that will happen and dawn upon us

   and i am waiting for the inevitable sadness

   that will inhabit us forevermore

   i am waiting, most of all, for the world

   to find a voice that will proclaim

   that this is unacceptable

   and that we will not settle

   and i am waiting for us to declare that

   we will not stand by

   when exploitation occurs

   and i am waiting for people to push away

   the veil that obscures the truth

   so that we may gaze upon its veracity

   unbridled and unafraid to face it

   and ready to confront our fears

   in order to change our world

   and i am waiting for

   us to take a stand

   on something

   anything

   to explain to others that we care

   and i am waiting for nothing to come

   out of this of all

   and i am waiting

   for more already-broken oaths to be sworn

   and more empty promises to be made

   and i am waiting

   for more wars to be fought

   and more people to be oppressed

   and i am waiting for the inexorable

   entanglement of ourselves

   in the sticky web that we have

   woven for ourselves

   and i am waiting for us to flail and thrash

   and to scream until our lungs are empty

   to try in vain to extricate ourselves

   and i am waiting for nothing because i know

   and everything because i dare to hope

   I am waiting.

4. Notes: 1 / 1 year ago 

   dear whatever god exists in whatever universe you believe in:

   pull your shit together and stop doing this to my friends.

   this?  this is why I can’t reconcile a god and this.  this is why.

5. Notes: 1 / 1 year ago 

   sometimes, i don’t know what it is i’m doing anymore.

6. Notes: 11 / 1 year ago  from shortformblog
   

   shortformblog:

   Afghan War apparently needs tanks now, for some reason

   The Afghan War’s been going on for nine years. Know what it’s been missing all this time? That’s right. Tanks. The Afghan War is finally getting its first tanks. About freaking time, if you ask someone who knows nothing about military policy (or why it’s necessary to take on terrorists with something this big), but just thinks tanks are awesome. source

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   Oh my god adorable.  Our defense money at work.  Because apparently they’re essential now, but this didn’t occur to anybody before.

   (Source: shortformblog)

    
7. Notes: 175 / 1 year ago  from fightthefaith (originally from goodreasonnews)
   

   goodreasonnews:

   way to go google

   Try it!  YES!

    
8. 1 year ago 
   
    
9. Notes: 67 / 1 year ago  from shortformblog (originally from officialssay)
   "If your conference wants to deny millions of Americans affordable health care, your members should walk that walk. … You cannot enroll in the very kind of coverage that you want for yourselves, and then turn around and deny it to Americans who don’t happen to be Members of Congress."
   - Rep. Joe Crowley, D—NY, in a letter to Republican leadership that asks incoming conservatives to forego the healthcare coverage they are set to receive as members of Congress. (Submitted by andrewgraham)

   (Source: officialssay)

10. 1 year ago 
    http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/education/stories/111510dnmetplanobookpulled.231af15d8.html

    I love the smell of censorship in America!

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