This blogs whole purpose is to discuss philosophy, psychology and politics, this blog is for the intellectuals. My name is Erin Taylor, I am seventeen years old.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
This is how we get down in #Oklahoma with #Tornados.
Welcome to my life. This blog just switched from politics to tornados in a fat minute.
NOAA has reported 19 tornadoes in Oklahoma and Kansas so far today.
Y’all stay safe! The largest one I’ve heard about is in/around Shawnee. Saw footage, scary.
Why do I live here? Why why why?
You know you live in Oklahoma when the news pauses on a shot of a trailer house, an oil pump and a tornado, all in one frame.
OOOOOOOOOOOK-lahoma, where the tornadoes come sweeping down the plaaaaaaaaaains
If I look out my sliding glass door, it’s sunny with blue skies, but if I look out my kitchen window, it’s dark skies and death clouds. I’m just going to sit in front of my sliding glass door and pretend there’s not a big tornado about twenty miles away from me.
This literally sums up living in Oklahoma in spring time.
Mr President, we want our houses back. And our pre-1948 land. It’s not fair what’s happening here, and most of the world doesn’t realise it. So if I had one wish I would get everyone’s rights back. From a little ball they stole from a boy in the street to a big farm they stole from a grandfather.
Excerpt from the letter of a Palestinian boy whose family had been evicted from their home. Read the whole letter here (via thepeacefulterrorist)
(Source: noorimherz)
Terrorism is a word with little content - it is a label for brutalities committed by ‘the enemy’, and from which one’s own acts of destruction are exempted. It is an inchoate and emotionally laden concept, a semantic mirror of our dishonesty and a repository for everything about war that we would like to disavow. Making a sharp distinction between war and terrorism is at best a self-deceptive game.
David Livingstone Smith, The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origins of War (via thepeacefulterrorist)
(Source: queerintersectional)
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.
Aristotle (via allthingsgreece)
“Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.”
~Bertrand Arthur William Russell ; born May 18, 1872~
