Booshka
A mess of stuff.
Jun 25 '09
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The burqa–faith, enslavement, or none of the above?
Is the burqa a religious sign or a symbol of enslavement?
It’s both—and neither. In fact, the burqa is a culturally and religiously loaded Rorschach test. What might be the epitome of religious expression to one person might only symbolize systemic misogyny to another. That’s simply the way symbols work—an otherwise valueless object becomes laden with meaning based on the personal and cultural perspective of the observer. And attempts to qualify a symbol as being definitely one thing over another reveals much more about the observer than it does about the object itself.
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Jun 25 '09
Jun 25 '09
Jun 24 '09
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Jun 24 '09
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“First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.”
— Aristotle (via reluctantbuddha)
59 notes (via reluctantbuddha)
Jun 24 '09
Jun 15 '09
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“I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how.”
— Joseph Stalin
(via retropolitics)
(via retropolitics)
Jun 15 '09
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Learn to Fly
Flash game somewhere between Yeti Sports and Hedghog Launch. My best time is 24 days.
Jun 11 '09
