Public display of an Abstract Mind

  1. straighttohelvetica:

    Granddad: Here’s the thing. Relationships are like people, I guess. They begin, they have adventures, they grow old, and they die. Me and Mo both made it to old age, but we let our friendship die way too young. And that was really stupid of us. Mo thought I was good at saying deep things. But I’m not. — The Boondocks 1x13 - The Wingman

    (via mydaysareblu)

  2. The glory of friendship is not the outstreched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
    Ralph Emerson

  3. On my way to go watch the game.. Let’s Go Boston (Taken with instagram)

    On my way to go watch the game.. Let’s Go Boston (Taken with instagram)

  4. Interesting brandonandthebeasts: Woah. What. Woah. What. What. I don’t even know.

    Interesting

    brandonandthebeasts:

    Woah. What. Woah. What. What. I don’t even know.

    (via thatjoerapkid)

  5. Not in the mood….at all

    I get tired of being the bigger person….biting my words because unlike other people I think about the effect of what I do and say can have on another person. I’m normally the person to walk away from a situation, come back to it later and address it when I feel it can really get worked out. I’ll completely ignore blatant rudeness/b!tch-like behavior/catiness and chalk it up to someone being a hater. But over and over and OVER again, people completely take for granted how nice I really am…and today Im just not in the mood….at all.

    So instead of potentially putting myself in a situation where I KNOW I’m going to be blown, I’ll make other plans. Instead of calling to find out why someone else was upset and wanted to act a fool, I’m waiting for an apology.

    To put it very simply….folks can positively kiss my ass today. Sorry, that’s just how I feel.

  6. (Source: allycattt, via anchorzawayyy)

  7. vicemag: Harry’s Freedom Foxhole - Legislating Love Love is awesome. Love is awesome in the I-feel-like-high-fiving-strangers-and-listening-to-early-Beatles-records sense, but it’s also “awesome” in the old sense, i.e., “inspiring great apprehension or fear.” It can be a terrifying force, sweeping through your life and throwing you around like a plastic bag—all of a sudden you’re ignoring texts from your friends, ducking out of work early, driving on the highway at 3 AM thinking, “This is normal, this is fine. I’ll just call in sick tomorrow, we’ll spend the weekend in Connecticut. It doesn’t really matter if I overdraw my checking account to pay for the hotel.” Love is a hand on your heart that occasionally clenches into your fist. Compared to that, what’s marriage? A ring? A piece of paper that you get so your taxes are easier to fill out? Everyone agrees that it’s way more than that. To conservatives who try really hard to oppose gay marriage from an intellectual standpoint that doesn’t involve outright gay bashing, marriage is an “institution” (also see “the institution of family”). They’ll usually lump in the rising numbers of single mothers and stuff like vitro fertilization in with gay marriage and get real abstract in their efforts to suggest that the consequences of gay marriage could be disastrous and far-reaching. Conservatives can’t say what those consequences will be, but they’re convinced that ominous stuff is on the horizon once men who already live together and have sex and arguments become able to freely visit one another in the hospital if they get sick. For gay people, the issue is less abstract. They want to marry because everyone else can marry, and because their minority status is pretty much based around who they love—who they’re capable of loving—the law’s acknowledgement of that love is especially important. It’s one of those issues that seems so obvious to me I can’t even understand why it’s an issue. There are a bunch of people who are discriminated against in a way that’s important (at least symbolically), and you want to keep things as they are because a) some dude in a desert wrote some shit thousands of years ago or b) you have some extremely complex philosophical justifications for objecting to anything ever changing? Continue

    vicemag:

    Harry’s Freedom Foxhole - Legislating Love

    Love is awesome. Love is awesome in the I-feel-like-high-fiving-strangers-and-listening-to-early-Beatles-records sense, but it’s also “awesome” in the old sense, i.e., “inspiring great apprehension or fear.” It can be a terrifying force, sweeping through your life and throwing you around like a plastic bag—all of a sudden you’re ignoring texts from your friends, ducking out of work early, driving on the highway at 3 AM thinking, “This is normal, this is fine. I’ll just call in sick tomorrow, we’ll spend the weekend in Connecticut. It doesn’t really matter if I overdraw my checking account to pay for the hotel.” Love is a hand on your heart that occasionally clenches into your fist. Compared to that, what’s marriage? A ring? A piece of paper that you get so your taxes are easier to fill out?

    Everyone agrees that it’s way more than that. To conservatives who try really hard to oppose gay marriage from an intellectual standpoint that doesn’t involve outright gay bashing, marriage is an “institution” (also see “the institution of family”). They’ll usually lump in the rising numbers of single mothers and stuff like vitro fertilization in with gay marriage and get real abstract in their efforts to suggest that the consequences of gay marriage could be disastrous and far-reaching. Conservatives can’t say what those consequences will be, but they’re convinced that ominous stuff is on the horizon once men who already live together and have sex and arguments become able to freely visit one another in the hospital if they get sick.

    For gay people, the issue is less abstract. They want to marry because everyone else can marry, and because their minority status is pretty much based around who they love—who they’re capable of loving—the law’s acknowledgement of that love is especially important. It’s one of those issues that seems so obvious to me I can’t even understand why it’s an issue. There are a bunch of people who are discriminated against in a way that’s important (at least symbolically), and you want to keep things as they are because a) some dude in a desert wrote some shit thousands of years ago or b) you have some extremely complex philosophical justifications for objecting to anything ever changing?

  8. Guess I’m waiting for something to do at the moment😁 (Taken with instagram)

    Guess I’m waiting for something to do at the moment😁 (Taken with instagram)

  9. (Source: vicemag)

  10. Ridin with my Momma! @iamtonya (Taken with instagram)

    Ridin with my Momma! @iamtonya (Taken with instagram)

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