1. “We All Try” - Frank Ocean

    Lyrics:

    [Verse 1]
    I believe Jehovah Jireh
    I believe there’s heaven, I believe in war
    I believe a woman’s temple
    Gives her the right to choose but baby don’t abort
    I believe that marriage isn’t
    Between a man and woman but between love and love
    And I believe you when you say that you’ve lost all faith
    But you must believe in something, something, something
    You gotta believe in something, something, something

    [Hook]
    I still believe in man
    A wise one asked me why
    Cause I just don’t believe we’re wicked
    I know that we sin but I do believe we try
    We all try, the girls try, the boys try
    Women try, men try, you and I try, try, we all try

    [Verse 2]
    I don’t believe in time travel
    I don’t believe our nation’s flag is on the moon
    I don’t believe our lives are simple
    And I don’t believe they’re short, this is interlude
    I don’t believe my hands are cleanly
    Can’t believe that you would let me touch your heart
    She didn’t believe me when I said that I lost my faith
    You must believe in something, something, something
    You gotta believe in something, something, something

    [Hook]

    Try to believe (just try)
    I do believe I do believe

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  3. "get off patriarchy’s dick, america." I'm sorry but, this comment is the absolute best. And I'm not even American.
    byfire

    Thanks! I wasn’t sure about using “dick” in response to something that starts with a discussion about rape, but I’m just so fed up with how male-dominated everything is in this country. What Obama said hit home. Why are all these dudes talking about rape and abortion and…I mean, c’mon. None of you are ever going to be pregnant. This is not an academic discussion for half the people in America.

  4. thepeoplesrecord: Judges go wild over abortion! July 28, 2012 Here is the basic principle on abortion restrictions set out by Supreme Court precedent: The state can try to talk a woman out of having an abortion, but only if it doesn’t present an “undue burden,” and only if the materials used are “truthful, nonmisleading information.” In a 7-4 ruling this week on a South Dakota restriction, the 8th Circuit Court basically threw the second principle out of the window, implying we can’t rely on the prevailing medical evidence about whether abortion causes suicide. Meanwhile, a recent hearing in the pivotal Arizona 20-week ban challenge suggests a federal judge there is inclined to similarly disregard precedent. At issue in South Dakota is a 2005 “informed consent” law that, among other provisions being battled in separate cases, demanded that doctors tell women seeking abortions that abortion carries an “increased risk of suicide ideation and suicide,” despite no one ever having proved the causation, and the repeated discrediting of studies that claim to. The judges have mostly rationalized this by saying that telling women who are planning to have an abortion that there is an “increased risk” of suicide isn’t the same as telling them that abortion causes suicide. In other words, the state is just providing a helpful FYI! Even if the correlation is simply that preexisting mental health issues correlate with unwanted pregnancies. Presented with an American Psychological Association meta-analysis that dismissed the causal claim and found methodological flaws in the studies of correlations, alongside several studies cited by Planned Parenthood in its challenge, the majority basically threw up its hands and went postmodern on the entire notion of truth. “It is difficult to identify a solid objective basis for the criteria employed in these reviews to identify the ‘best’ studies,” they wrote. “We express no opinion as to whether some of the studies are more reliable than others; instead, we hold only that the state legislature, rather than a federal court, is in the best position to weigh the divergent results.” Source

    thepeoplesrecord:

    Judges go wild over abortion!

    July 28, 2012

    Here is the basic principle on abortion restrictions set out by Supreme Court precedent: The state can try to talk a woman out of having an abortion, but only if it doesn’t present an “undue burden,” and only if the materials used are “truthful, nonmisleading information.” In a 7-4 ruling this week on a South Dakota restriction, the 8th Circuit Court basically threw the second principle out of the window, implying we can’t rely on the prevailing medical evidence about whether abortion causes suicide. Meanwhile, a recent hearing in the pivotal Arizona 20-week ban challenge suggests a federal judge there is inclined to similarly disregard precedent.

    At issue in South Dakota is a 2005 “informed consent” law that, among other provisions being battled in separate cases, demanded that doctors tell women seeking abortions that abortion carries an “increased risk of suicide ideation and suicide,” despite no one ever having proved the causation, and the repeated discrediting of studies that claim to. The judges have mostly rationalized this by saying that telling women who are planning to have an abortion that there is an “increased risk” of suicide isn’t the same as telling them that abortion causes suicide. In other words, the state is just providing a helpful FYI! Even if the correlation is simply that preexisting mental health issues correlate with unwanted pregnancies.

    Presented with an American Psychological Association meta-analysis that dismissed the causal claim and found methodological flaws in the studies of correlations, alongside several studies cited by Planned Parenthood in its challenge, the majority basically threw up its hands and went postmodern on the entire notion of truth. “It is difficult to identify a solid objective basis for the criteria employed in these reviews to identify the ‘best’ studies,” they wrote. “We express no opinion as to whether some of the studies are more reliable than others; instead, we hold only that the state legislature, rather than a federal court, is in the best position to weigh the divergent results.”

    Source

  5. Things that scare me

    Abortion (although I’m generally pro-choice), Americanism
    Being and Becoming, the Body
    the Center, Chaos, centipedes
    Diffusion, Death, Discrimination
    Effusion, Eternity
    Fumbling, Ferocity
    Genocide, Gentrification
    Hegemony
    Ignorance, Infinity, -isms
    Jail
    Kafka
    Love, Loss, Life, Lust
    Mores, Monotony, the Masses, Memory
    Numbers, Numbness
    Oligarchy
    Pride, Posterity
    Quest, too many Questions to ever answer
    Riches, Righteousness (self-), Racism
    Supremacy, Submission, Sex, Sexism
    Time, Tumblr
    Undertones, the Underground (or lack thereof?)
    Verizon
    Will power, Want, Wanderlust, the Wind
    Xenophobia
    Yearly progress, Yearning
    Zoos

About me

Pursue understanding. Deconstruct systems in order to taste building blocks. Happiness waits else/everywhere. And the heart(h). Do spheres not pull at each other?
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