#arbitrary

[jokingluna]

[thesubtlepenguin]

© richard b potter 2023

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[agentfascinateur]

Israel has prevented thousands of Christians from the occupied West Bank from accessing Jerusalem to participate in the celebration of Palm Sunday

[zindagi-se-darte-ho]

i cannot wait for the leaves to finally fall, to engulf everything in their orange hue. i want to look out of my window, while drowning in melancholy and investing one last hope in living, and i want to simply bask myself in that weather. i want to hold my darkest, saddest book in my hand and sip beverages with a strong aroma of spices while enjoying mundane things about living.

[philosophybits]

If every purely arbitrary or purely random connection of form and matter is grotesque, then philosophy has its grotesques as well as poetry; only it knows less about them and has not yet been able to find the key to its own esoteric history. There are works of philosophy that are a tissue of moral discords from which one could learn disorganization, or in which confusion is properly constructed and symmetrical.

Friedrich Schlegel, Athenaeum Fragments

[imkeepinit]

[semperardens-juli]

She said there was comfort to be found in the permanence of mathematical truths, in the lack of arbitrariness and the absence of ambiguity. In knowing that the answers may be elusive, but they could be found. They were there, waiting, chalk scribbles away.

And The Mountains Echoed, Khaled Hosseini (x)

leave a little kindness (x)

[chronicsilliness]

girlhood is a spectrum

[elegantzombielite]

"In its original literal sense, 'moral relativism' is simply moral complexity. That is, anyone who agrees that stealing a loaf of bread to feed one's children is not the moral equivalent of, say, shoplifting a dress for the fun of it, is a relativist of sorts. But in recent years, conservatives bent on reinstating an essentially religious vocabulary of absolute good and evil as the only legitimate framework for discussing social values have redefined 'relative' as 'arbitrary'."

Ellen Jane Willis, writer (14 December 1941-2006)

[eric-sadahire]

What’s your idea of a perfect date?

DD/MM/YYYY, I find other formats a bit confusing.

[kekwcomics]

THE ARBITRARY ELEVEN-HUNDREDth POST!

The Uncannily-Strange, barely-there 1100th Post.

GOSH!

[thesubtlepenguin]

© richard b potter 2023

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[agentfascinateur]

Freedom for Vladimir Kara-Murza

Russia can offer no lessons until it lets people speak.

[thedepressexpress]

i like tumblr for the opposite reason but same energy. i wanted to be on this site so bad when I was kid but there was an arbitrary unspoken rule that I couldnt be and I didn't realize it was arbitrary till I was 22? like I can do whatever I want?? this is my home now, don't you dare come here with ur grubby greedy algorithm loving hands, you can try to pry it from my cold dead hands but then I'll be here like a young ghost learning to haunt an old house that has a rave in basement and one gaggle of gay autism on the main floor

idk if it's just me but i'm glad that the majority of people outside of here believe tumblr is a dead site because like i've been here for 13 years and like this is my house??? i don't need thousands upon thousands of people flocking here it'd be like inviting chimps to a house party total fucking carnage

[funsimplethings]