January 2012
14 posts
gazzyd replied to your post: Just got accepted to my first choice university to…
congrats, which uni?
Thanks! ANU =)
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Just got accepted to my first choice university to do Int’l Relations. So elated.
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And now to read John Rawls’ Political Liberalism, as well as actually attempt to understand the whole thing, within 24 hours.
Lowkey ft. Shadia Monsour - Too Much
I was just going through my archives and… this may have actually, at one time, been a somewhat decent blog. Now it’s just super vague sentences…
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unicef started following you
well, I certainly wasn’t expecting that.
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“The death penalty is the ultimate denial of human rights. It is the premeditated...”
– Amnesty International (via mpriestly)
The GOP debate…
This is … what even am I looking at? This is the first time I’ve ever seen a GOP debate and it is the most disgusting display of illogical, wilfully ignorant bullshit I have ever seen. This is absolutely terrifying.
My neighbour is having a 90s Britney fest. Too awesome.
I wonder what it’s like to have friends as an adult.
Illegal as a noun
sinidentidades:
Illegal being turned into a noun is by far the most ruthlessly effective way to dehumanize and demonize an entire group of people, which is why it is propagated by mass media and politicians to vilify these people as outsiders and aggressors of the state to justify the systematic abuse and exploitation these people are faced with on a daily basis.
December 2011
30 posts
“It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I...”
– Danzy Senna (via anotherdropinthesea)
Heading home. Quite sad.
“But if virginity is simply the first time someone has sex, then what is sex? …...”
– The Purity Myth: How America’s Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women by Jessica Valenti (via aequinoctium)
Ideology in action:
mehreenkasana:
zedweiller:
servile-masses-arise:
Americans who laugh at Kim Jong iL’s silly titles, and then regularly refer to their own president as ‘the leader of the free world’.
i’ll just put this here. heh.
Even though I can’t hate Hobbes because he supposedly the Grandfather of modern day liberalism, I kind of do hate him right now because he is ruining my week of Christmas. If I have to even read these few chapters of the Leviathan one more time, I’m going to start bawling my eyes out. Hobbes’ theory of natural law and the social contract theory are not an appropriate assessment...
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nighteyes replied to your post: the-sexpat-life replied to your post: In a…
I just love Big Red because it’s delicious :)
Ok, I will revise my position. Cinnamon flavoured gum is some big American and, additionally Guy, thing. Seriously though, no. Cinnamon in gum is not right on any level.
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the-sexpat-life replied to your post: In a completely meaningless addition to this blog,…
Ouch, dude :/ Wait, is it cinnamon flavored or something? That happened to me once~
sorry, haseeb, only just realised you replied to this! no dude, it was like, regular mint flavoured gum. I don’t get this cinnamon flavoured gum thing. I notice this is like, some big American thing…...
popmuslim:
When you dehumanize a person, you can justify any crime you carry out upon them. This serves to justify, encourage what is essentially an abhorrent foreign policy. And in the wider scheme it serves to exonerate any blame.
So when you hear these words like ‘A million Iraqi people dead’ you are desensitized to the words ‘Iraqis dead’, you are desensitized to these words because it’s...
I’m quite suspicious of this essay I have due on Friday. We are to summarise Hobbes’ theory of natural law and the social contract theory but my entire summary can be based on three or four chapters of the first book of Leviathan, even though we were assigned the second book. Very suspicious and concerning, indeed. I feel I’m missing something here.
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My boyfriend is buying me a toaster for xmas. It has four slots and a bagel setting. Clearly, he knows me quite well. On a bad day, it’s comforting to know that one can cook four pieces of toast simultaneously.
“What would happen, for instance, if suddenly, magically, men could menstruate...”
– Gloria Steinem (via loveyourchaos)
fuck it all. something shows up on my dash that I know is bullshit and I can’t even make a coherent post explaining why because I’m so fucking sick. Why can’t this ever happen when I’m not sick? If it did, this might actually be a quality blog.
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In a completely meaningless addition to this blog, I just want to say: this Thai gum I bought here in Delhi makes the tip of my tongue burn like an absolute motherfucker. It worries me a little bit.
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Anonymous asked: At least give us all a hint?
Something amazing might happen for me soon but I’m afraid to tell anyone what it is because I don’t want to jinx it.
“Algeria and Palestine/Israel were the most prominent locales of politically...”
– Joel Beinin, Is Terrorism a Useful Term in Understanding the Middle East and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict? (2003)
In the last 24 hours it seems as if my dashboard and those in my message box have forgotten this. Good thing I’m right in the middle of doing all this research about terrorism. How...
“When I ask my students at the beginning of my Men and Masculinity course about...”
– (via fuckthisdamnplace)
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I’ve been reading Max Weber’s Economy and Society and I’ve just realised that I’ve been compulsively highlighting every single line. It’s like, I know what I’m reading is somehow important but my brain just cannot translate what I’m reading into anything that makes sense. And for some reason, I just think that, if I highlight everything now, when I come...
“Atheist are routinely asked how people will know not to rape and murder without...”
– 10 Myths Many Religious People Hold About Atheists, Debunked (via sourdoughislife)
Hahaha…wow
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ahahahah BURN
(via divinecross)
I am literally terrified whenever someone tells me this. I just go:
(via sageoflogic)
“Can the hungry go on a hunger strike? Non-violence is a piece of theatre. You...”
– Arundhati Roy from The Guardian (via counterworlds)
November 2011
2 posts
“When some of these cardinals and bishops have experienced their first...”
– George Carlin (via cwnl)
Men get really angry when I say this but I’m going to do it anyway: Gentlemen, I could literally not care less what your opinion is about abortion or what women do with their bodies. Your opinion doesn’t matter and won’t until the day you push what may as well be a ham out...
“Sometimes I’d rather be a tree frog. I don’t think they fall asleep worried that...”
– (via fuckyeahstephenfry)
“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via ismiledsweetly)
October 2011
7 posts
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Tonight I see Stephen Fry. That is all.
Just booked my flight to Delhi. Super excited.