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I want to go to THIS guy’s church.

This is an hour-long talk from Skepticon, about the need for Humanist groups to create local communities spaces for freethinkers to meet.

I historically have found Community hard to come by. I was often dragged to church as a child, and grew up knowing that those people were Not My People. So I grew up without a People. As an adult I have found some places where I could be with My People; but finding time to GET to those places has often been expensive and difficult. And so I am not part of any congregation, and usually content to be so. But it is often hard; occasionally in subtler and more pervasive ways than harder than I can easily express.

I suspect that many MANY churchgoers go because they need to be Part Of Something, and many more go because they Need People. If there were options for people to meet that any kind of belief in water walking or talking snakes, I imagine those other groups might dry up and fall off just THAT much quicker.

1 day ago | 285 notes

WE ARE DEVO

rediscover-me:

She is THE baddest bitch.

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1 day ago | 149,037 notes

REBLOG if your icon is actually you.

Meh.

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1 day ago | 28,757 notes

historicalheroines:

 I’ve created these flyers for a school activist project where I bring more attention to the women in history that have been forgotten or ignored. This blog will be an extension of those flyers where I post longer biographies of these women and other bad-ass women like them. Too often women’s achievements have been pushed aside, either by others in their lives, or else by the historians who choose to ignore them. This tumblr is dedicated to celebrating them and bringing their achievements to light!

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3 days ago | 31,042 notes

Let me tell you a story. The day after Columbine, I was interviewed for the Tom Brokaw news program. The reporter had been assigned a theory and was seeking soundbites to support it. “Wouldn’t you say,” she asked, ‘that killings like this are influenced by violent movies?” No, I said, I wouldn’t say that. “But what about ‘The Basketball Diaries’?” she asked. “Doesn’t that have a scene of a boy walking into a school with a machinegun?”

The obscure 1995 Leonardo DiCaprio movie did indeed have a brief fantasy scene of that nature, I said, but the movie failed at the box office and it’s unlikely the Columbine killers saw it.

The reporter looked disappointed, so I offered her my theory. “Events like this,” I said, “if they are influenced by anything, are influenced by news programs like your own. When an unbalanced kid walks into a school and starts shooting, it becomes a major media event. Cable news drops ordinary programming and goes around the clock with it. The story is assigned a logo and a theme song; these two kids were packaged as the Trench Coat Mafia. The message is clear to other disturbed kids: If I shoot up my school, I can be famous. The TV will talk about nothing else but me. Experts will try to figure out what I was thinking. Kids and teachers at school will see they shouldn’t have messed with me. I’ll go out in a blaze of glory.”

In short, I said, events like Columbine are influenced far less by violent movies than by CNN, “The NBC Nightly News” and other news media, who glorify the killers in the guise of “explaining” them.

The reporter thanked me and turned off the camera. Of course the interview was never used. They found plenty of talking heads to condemn violent movies, and everybody was happy.

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Roger Ebert (via confusedtree)

Needs no comment. Really.

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wickedlovelyperfectlyimperfect:

This is a picture from the Curiosity Rover on Mars showing Earth from the Perspective of Mars. You are literally looking at your home from the Perspective of another planet. Epic times indeed

Call it my hometown, actually. We’re gonna blow this popsicle stand, and then watch out.

wickedlovelyperfectlyimperfect:

This is a picture from the Curiosity Rover on Mars showing Earth from the Perspective of Mars. You are literally looking at your home from the Perspective of another planet. Epic times indeed

Call it my hometown, actually. We’re gonna blow this popsicle stand, and then watch out.

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1 week ago | 7,342 notes

rosalarian:

littlefroggies:

bisexual-community:

Common Myths About Bisexuality from the lovely Webcomic Jesus Loves Lesbians, Too by bi blogger & author Maria Burnham (writer/memoirist) and Maggie Siegel-Berele (comic artist). 

I usually don’t reblog stuff like this because this is my art blog but this hit close to home and reminded me of so many conversations that made me feel like garbage.

It always makes me see red when I see lesbians (and gay men) treating bisexuals this way. I don’t think I can even type too much more without quickly reaching a point where I just smash my head into the keyboard.

It’s funny; I generally do the opposite thing.

For decades it has been my considered opinion that EVERYBODY is bi; just that most folks, straight AND gay, are in denial. I mean, it’s one thing to say you don’t like some piece or other of genitalia (the more fool you, but hey, whatevs), but saying you don’t like one or another PERSON because of… plumbing? How shallow is THAT?

And the proof that bisexuals are not greedy is the fact that most people are fools. Life is short! GET GREEDY, PEOPLE!

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1 week ago | 55,279 notes

gailsimone:

talkaboutspaceships:

Couple has really awesome Batgirl/Nightwing wedding cause they’re awesome.

(source: http://imgur.com/a/XSADm)

If my editors ask where I am, please tell them I can’t write any scripts because I am DEAD FROM THE CUTENESS AND ADORABLENESS.

SilentAJ — thinking of you.

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1 week ago | 44,331 notes

thetadoctor:

artbylexie:

prettygeekygirl:

Here is just a sample of some of my recent photo project, CONsent, which you can read about here.

Please read and spread the word around. I got to work with some great cosplayers, photographers and fans and I really hope to continue this project if it gains enough support. 

Thank you for looking!

I just want to say that as a cosplayer at cons, this is a real issue. The amount of things that get said (and mostly REQUESTED) to us is ridiculous. This deserves a signal boost.

On Facebook a couple days ago BelleChere posted basically asking people to not proposition her. Throughout the comments she noted she was married and neither one of them appreciated creepy comments made toward her. A number of people proceeded to argue with her saying that because she dressed up, it was okay.

I know a ton of people who have dealt with harassment at cons and they feel like they can’t say anything because it’s a convention. WRONG. You deserve to feel safe no matter where you are. Dressing up is not giving someone permission to say something to you or do anything to you.

This is a great project and it gets a boost from me. 

I love this. That is all.

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3 weeks ago | 23 notes

Spiraling Outwards: Eight Simple Rules for Dating My Partner

silentaj:

spiralingoutwards:

Preface: I remember being a teenager when the “Eight Simple Rules for Dating My Daughter” email went around. My own dad loved it, sending it to me maybe every couple of months as if he forgot I’d seen it all those times before. The “Eight Simple Rules” were tongue-in-cheek (or maybe not),…

Not bad. Could be Main Squeeze and I, with a bit of tweaking.
(I -really- need to make us both pamphlets….)

This idea is GREAT.
Most of them would need to be tweaked somewhat for the relationships I have seen, and most of them would need a lot of tweaking for any relationships I’ve had. Even in the poly community I don’t fit most standard molds.
Rule 7 is the exception; THAT one is a flipping scream, and so VERY true.

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