Gravitas

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[thechainsawtechnique]

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.

George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 1946

[thechainsawtechnique]

[thechainsawtechnique]

I'm not in the industry, not in the service, not into retail Not into nodding my noggin, neglecting the detail I'm only beginning, behold magnificence Brown-skinned black boy When his dread-head friends tall and omnipotent

[thechainsawtechnique]

     If I were a tree among trees, a cat among animals, this life would have a meaning, or rather this problem would not arise, for I should belong to this world. I should be this world to which I am now opposed by my whole consciousness and my whole insistence upon familiarity. This ridiculous reason is what sets me in opposition to all creation. I cannot cross it out with a stroke of the pen. What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support. And what constitutes the basis of that conflict, of that break between the world and my mind, but the awareness of it? If therefore I want to preserve it, I can through a constant awareness, ever revived, ever alert. This is what, for the moment, I must remember. At this moment the absurd, so obvious and yet so hard to win, returns to a man’s life and finds its home there. At this moment, too, the mind can leave the arid, dried-up path of lucid effort. That path now emerges in daily life. It encounters the world of the anonymous impersonal pronoun “one,” but henceforth man enters in with his revolt and his lucidity. He has forgotten how to hope. This hell of the present is his Kingdom at last. All problems recover their sharp edge. Abstract evidence retreats before the poetry of forms and colors. Spiritual conflicts become embodied and return to the abject and magnificent shelter of man’s heart. None of them is settled. But all are transfigured. Is one going to die, escape by the leap, rebuild a mansion of ideas and forms to one’s own scale? Is one, on the contrary, going to take up the heart-rending and marvelous wager of the absurd? Let’s make a final effort in this regard and draw all our conclusions. The body, affection, creation, action, human nobility will then resume their places in this mad world. At last man will again find there the wine of the absurd and the bread of indifference on which he feeds his greatness.      Let us insist again on the method: it is a matter of persisting.

The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus

[meleinfeld]

American Sniper review.

[thechainsawtechnique]

woohoo-sasquatch oh I see...

[fuckyoumondays]

[thechainsawtechnique]

And you don't have the tools To realize God won't talk to you

I been fakin it my whole life I been fakin it my whole life

[sometimesagreatnotion]

Your life is the harder course, I can see. On the other hand, mine is happening to me.

Phillip Larkin, Letters (via sometimesagreatnotion)

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[philosophicalqotd]

Re: Help

Is saying that you will help someone in a greater way later a sufficient reason for not helping them in the moment?

[thechainsawtechnique]

Seriously though

[thechainsawtechnique]

I run till I end up down  Then I get up again   I run my way out of town  Then I come back again  This life is what you choose  And what you choose to do  So do what you love to do  And love who loves you too

[philosophicalqotd]

Re: Sacrifice

Does altruistic self-sacrifice carry more moral weight than an act of altruism that is not self-sacrificing?

[thechainsawtechnique]

Dawn

[erdalinci]

Lichtgrenze

8.000 glowing balloons were installed by the former course of the the wall and released into the sky to remember the 25th anniversary of the Fall of Berlin Wall . The temporary installation based on idea by Christopher Bauder and Marc Bauder.

The footage shot in Mauer Park. Special thanks to Seda Tunca… 

[thechainsawtechnique]

If you have come here to help me, you are wasting our time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.

Aboriginal activist groups, Queensland, 1970's

[thechainsawtechnique]

The song is really about dissolution, about disappearance. That feeling of needing a force outside of yourself—whether it’s something or someone—in order to feel whole.

- K.Flay

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