The Double Shot

Encounter the world, and do not avert your eyes.

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In Memoriam: Robin Williams | July 21, 1951 - August 11, 2014

“We find ourselves trying to remember the good times and trying to forget the bad times, and we find ourselves thinking about the future. We start to worry, thinking, ‘What am I gonna do? Where am I gonna be in ten years?’ But I say to you, ‘Hey, look at me!’ Please, don’t worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting. And if you’re ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day… make a wish and think of me. Make your life spectacular. I know I did.”

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Rage against the dying of the light.

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#Atheist #God #Religion

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Moonlight on the interstate

She was 'cross the Georgia line

Looked out the window feeling great

Yeah, it had to come in time

And she said I'm never goin' back

She said at last I'm free

I wish ma could see me now, she'd be so proud of me

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers

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I met someone who claimed to be the devil… and I think I believe them

by reddit user athousandrows

Let me start off by saying that I’m not particularly religious. If you asked me if I believed in God, I’d probably just shrug, grunt out a few words about being on the fence about it and continue with my day.

Of course, that was before last night.

My friends are the kinds of people who like wild nights. Crazy parties, snort a bit of coke, take a bit of e in the bathroom, maybe hook up with someone and leave a text on my phone at ten past who-the- fuck-knows telling me they don’t need that ride I’m offering after all.

Keep reading

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im not american, can someone explain what he did?

[progenyofworms]

Reagan was elected in 1980, around the same time that HIV began spreading and turning into a pandemic. Nearly 60,000 cases were reported with more than 27,000 dead before he even mentioned the disease in a major speech, during his second term.

His administration spent years pushing back on requests for funding for treatment and research. It’s impossible to know for certain, but if the disease had been aggressively studied and treated in the early years it might have been contained to a few hundred or few thousand deaths here in the USA.

Also he cut funds for mental health treatment and facilities, turning disabled people out onto the streets, the War on Drugs was cranked up to inner-city warfare, and the fundamentalist Christian “Moral Majority” that was his power base happily watched queers and black people and sex workers and homeless people die alone and scared.

Until Donald Trump was elected, he was the best example of an oblivious wealthy white person riding a wave of bigotry into the White House, and empowering that bigotry to a degree that cost tens of thousands of lives.

TL;DR, he watched us die and didn’t care.

[rainaftersnowplease]

Your yearly reminder that Ronald Reagan’s grave is a gender neutral bathroom.

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Florence and the Machine at last night’s Spotify event in Brooklyn. As Florence began to sing Sky Full of Song a literal storm began to hit, she never faltered and embraced the storm.

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Watching this was an ethereal experience

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this queen literally summoned a storm during her performance when will your fave ever control the weather with such accuracy

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Well, look down yonder Gabriel, put your feet on the land and see

But Gabriel don't you blow your trumpet 'til you hear it from me

There ain't no grave can hold my body down

Johnny Cash

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“I don’t like the word love. It’s like patriotism, it’s like the flag, it’s the last refuge of scoundrels. When people start talking about what wonderful, warm, deep emotions they have and that they are loving people, I watch out. Somebody’s going to steal something.”

Gore Vidal

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The window burns to light the way back home

A light that warms, no matter where they've gone

They're off to find the hero of the day

But what if they should fall by someone's wicked way

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“The best revenge is not giving a shit.”

— Hira (via hedonistpoet)

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We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

Hunter S. Thompson

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I was sorry that I would never posses anything good, anything like her

That nothing good would ever belong to me

Not because I was always poor in dollars, but because I was poor at expressing myself one-on-one

I was as yellow as the sun perhaps

But also as warm and as true as the sun

Somewhere there inside me

But nobody would ever find it

- Charles Bukowski

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“I have so much of you in my heart.”

— John Keats, “Letter to Fanny Browne,” 8 July 1819 (via wordsnquotes)