December 2011
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kittentroops asked: OH OH OH I WANT TO GO SEE YOU SING. I think Mat is going to be in CA then but I'll try to get Michael and Fraga down.
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Hey Eugene/Oregon Tumblrfriends!
cincodenada:
So you know how I joined the Portland Gay Men’s Chorus a while back? Well, our Christmas concert is coming up on December 9th and 10th, and it’s going to be pretty awesome. But good news for my Eugene cadre of Tumblrfriends: we’re also doing a preview/outreach/public dress rehearsal in Eugene on Sunday, December 4 at 4pm at the First United Methodist church at 1376 Olive Street....
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“The 10000 Hour Rule is about crushing dreams. It’s about understanding that...”
– The 10000 Hour Rule (via azspot)
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Oregon Executions to Be Blocked by Gov. Kitzhaber... →
notadinnerparty:
A lot of wonderful excerpts here:
“It is time for Oregon to consider a different approach,” Governor Kitzhaber, a Democrat elected last fall, said in a news conference in Salem on Tuesday afternoon. “I refuse to be a part of this compromised and inequitable system any longer; and I will not allow further executions while I am governor.”
“They were the most agonizing and...
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WatchSo, um, it’s been raining hereabouts. This video is from Olympia-area, and a product of the same storm that dropped over two inches here in Portland.
And yes, those are salmon trying to swim across a road.
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“Every reader of the Bible in one way or another ends up actively interpreting,...”
– Christian Smith, The Bible Made Impossible (via invisibleforeigner)
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ipomoeaandthestarstealers:
alpha-lima-lima:
So I grabbed a copy of Breaking Dawn, because I want to see if Stephenie Meyer really did write that Edward and Bella went on their honeymoon on the west coast of Brazil.
“The taxi continued through the swarming crowds until they thinned somewhat, and we appeared to be nearing the extreme western edge of the city, heading into the ocean. We stopped...
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Step 103: Know how and when to exit a conversation
adulting:
(click to zoom)
At least 87 percent of casual, small-talk conversations last too long. The problem here is twofold:
• People are afraid to end the conversation and; • “It’s time to end this talk” hints are ignored.
A solution to the first problem after the jump …
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This is a wonderful blog.
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“Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into...”
– Barack Obama, in a keynote speech to Call to Renewal, a liberal Christian group, back in 2006.
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Anonymous asked: "why is that a better source of authority than humanism" -- the advantage I see of deity over humanism is consistency; one being makes the rules for everyone. With humanism, who makes the rules? The strongest? The smartest? Who decides who is smartest? We could look at history and make decisions based on what works, and what doesn't, but people never agree on what works...
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“The new rebel in our time is a skeptic and will not entirely trust anything, and...”
– G.K. Chesterton
(That’s actually one paragraph. I inserted line breaks because, frankly, every single one-hundred-ton line of it deserves to be held up to the light and considered. So… if life is meaningless, we have no basis whatsoever to say that anything or anybody is wrong. But if life isn’t...
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I just had a terrifying realization
Not four years ago, Sarah Palin was candidate for the vice-presidency of the United States of America.
Man.
I had purged that from my memory, and just had to check Wikipedia to make sure I wasn’t making things up.
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Hey Eugene/Oregon Tumblrfriends!
So you know how I joined the Portland Gay Men’s Chorus a while back? Well, our Christmas concert is coming up on December 9th and 10th, and it’s going to be pretty awesome. But good news for my Eugene cadre of Tumblrfriends: we’re also doing a preview/outreach/public dress rehearsal in Eugene on Sunday, December 4 at 4pm at the First United Methodist church at 1376 Olive...
WatchInteresting little video. Not much more than novelty now, but it’ll be interesting to see where this kind of thing goes. Be sure to click and drag, otherwise you might be sorely confused.
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alyssarosalie-deactivated201201 asked: Sooooooooo what do you believe?
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Question...
…am I a dick? It’s okay to say I am. I kind of think I might be. I was going to leave it alone until comment #2. I just get tired of people attributing everything to God, but perhaps I should leave well enough alone in situations like this. Because I do truly love hearing about everything my cousin is doing - she’s doing Christianity right, going out there, helping people...
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Grammar Nazi IRL
So the other day, as I was locking up my bike, I noticed this City of Portland parking van parked near my office:
I was greatly annoyed by this, because while I could figure out the intended message, it’s only because this kind of message is prevalent, and I was honestly confused for a second because what it actually says doesn’t make much sense.
For those not as obnoxious as me:...
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“In general, not everything that is new is trendy; not everything that is...”
– Dave Eggers, on the copyright page of Mistakes We Knew We Were Making 