Lovecraft In Brooklyn

A psychosis devours my developing brain; corroding as it may be, there is power in the brain and conscious existence for those that use it- L

[centuriespast]

VERBRUGGEN, Hendrick Frans Adam and Eve Banished from Paradise (detail of the pulpit) 1695-99 Gilded oak Cathedral of Ste Gudule, Brussels

[oupacademic]

“Atheism is not just a matter of the facts – does God exist or not? It is as much, if not more, a moral matter. Does one have the right to believe in the existence of God? If one does, what does this mean morally and socially? If one does not, what does this mean morally and socially?”

[oupacademic]

Michael Ruse, author of Atheism: What Everyone Needs to Know, explores the moral questions motivating “new atheists” like Richard Dawkins. 

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[lifeofapoorlawstudent-blog]

Question: why did you choose to go into law?

A little of this:

A lot of this:

Some of this:

But mostly so I can do this:

[aerocosmos-blog]

Rave Drug "Special K" Holds Promise for Treating Depression Fast

Companies and clinicians turn to ketamine to treat mental-health disorder as pipeline of new drugs dries up

[aerocosmos-blog]

It is so much easier to assume that we know it all. Or perhaps, having already reached conclusions in our own minds, we are loth to have them disturbed by facts.

W.E.B. Du Bois

[aerocosmos-blog]

And here in lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor-- all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, --who is good? Not that men are ignorant, what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so little of men.

W.E.B. Du Bois

[buttonpoetry]

Sam Gordon - “A Mother’s Hate” "The thing about a mother’s hate is that it’s not that different from a mother’s love." Performing at the 2014 Texas Grand Slam. Subscribe to Button on YouTube!

[mcnallyperiodicals]

Pure excellence, VESTOJ Issue Five, “On Slowness”, of deeper sartorial matters: "…slowness by contrast allows you to advance at a pace that encourages contemplation and observation. To be slow is far from remaining static; instead, slowness is a temporal notion that prioritises the journey over the destination." So, inside: Japanese boro and the beauty of things impermanent, imperfect, and incomplete; Lydia Davis writes of old women clothes; frozen artifacts; Gandhi and Khadi; “meditations of temporal infrastructures”; a dialogue between fashion and Death. (It has just occurred to me that this is the best issue of a journal I’ve read in some time.)

[scienceisbeauty]

Pillars of Creation revisited in high definition by the NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

Full history in the NASA site: Hubble Goes High Def to Revisit the Iconic ‘Pillars of Creation’

h/t Huff Post Science

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"Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives."

-William Cobbett (via quotedojo)

[artandsciencejournal]

We the Cell(s)

Joseph Farbrook's Cell in the New Body, 2006, is a virtual visual poem that uses a combination of rapid flash animation and text to evoke meaning. This work cannot be fully explained without actually experiencing it, so I would urge the reader to visit it on the artist’s site: http://www.farbrook.net/website/cell.html. The image and text compete with for attention because both are changing so rapidly and are equally intriguing. Farbrook addresses this dilemma by having the work on an infinite loop so that it can be seamlessly viewed as many times as needed to fully understand the meaning of the piece.  The images are composed of many small elements that squiggle and shift, as though they were cells, working together to create the image. This work explores individual identity within a larger body, such as a network. We are all part of several networks, we are parts of a greater whole: a student in a school, an employee of a company, a member of an association etc. As users we are also all elements of the World Wide Web. The Internet is a network and relies on collaboration.

We work together to create the world of the Internet by uploading data. I believe the “new body” that Farbrook refers to in his poem could certainly be read as the vast network of the Internet. We may or may not necessarily be aware of what our actions on the Internet are building towards, but every keystroke we submit is inevitably adding to the network of information. While use of the Internet has become almost completely integrated with most aspects of daily life, there are some who still feel overwhelmed or daunted by the Internet. Both those who now little and those who know all too well of the vastness of the Wide Web can find it an imitating space. Cell in the New Body addresses the virtual world, which is a world with an enormous population that is rapidly increasing and that we have more and more access to. We can feel very small and insignificant in this world now more than ever because we are made aware of the seemingly unlimited achievements and outputs of our peers. It can thus be a challenge to identify ourselves in this increasingly virtual world. We can consider ourselves lost in an infinite space or found within a whole.

- Emily Cluett

[thesquirtlesquad]

I read this as a kid and it had a really significant effect on me and and it’s a big influence on my world view and I still think it’s the most beautiful and profound thing anyone’s ever said about beauty

[centuriespast]

LASTMAN, Pieter Pietersz. Orestes and Pylades Disputing at the Altar 1614 Oil on panel, 83 x 126 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

[missadventvre-blog]

My daughter has not seen her biological dad since she was four. She’s 11 now. When she was two he contacted me and asked if I would allow him to terminate his parental rights so he could stop paying child support and I agreed.. I wanted to spare her the heartache of a revolving door father and the sacrifice of the financial support was well worth him never being able to disappoint her again. I never lied to her about where he went or who her dad was.. I have always answered her questions in the most age appropriate way possible. When she was four he contacted me and told me he has been diagnosed with cancer and would like to see her. I set aside a day and we met in the park. He had asked for two hours. He stayed 20 minutes and we never heard from him again.. Over the summer we ran into somebody that knows him and they commented on how she looks like his other children. They elaborated that he has settled down and has a family now. My stomach tied itself in knots thinking of how hurtful that must be to my daughter.. I cut the conversation short and we got in the car to leave and that’s when I saw her smiling. She said “mom.. He figured out how to be a dad. That’s such a nice thing. I’m happy for his kids.” And that’s the day an 11 year old taught me all I need to know about forgiveness

A comment on this Humans of New York post

Read this and had to share. Beautiful.

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[stoicremains-deactivated2017102]

I didn’t know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddamit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.

Jack Kerouac, On the Road (via halluzinogen)

[quotedojo-deactivated20161103]

"The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia."

-Elbert Hubbard (via quotedojo)

[yimmyayo]