Install Theme

nostalgebraist:

Hubbard was a habitual user of drugs, under the influence of which most of the Scientology catechism had been written. In that light, I thought, books like The History of Man made more sense. And he had a habit of using affirmations which he repeated every day. One of which was: “All men shall be my slaves! All women shall succumb to my charms! All mankind shall grovel at my feet and not know why!”

nostalgebraist:

As the film progresses, the guests go through an emotional and physical transformation slowly transfiguring from land mammals into sea mammals, as they fall in love.

nostalgebraist:

Our culture, like that of a pumpkin, has many enormous uncharted hollows and it is full of many seeds (ideas) that will lead us down several different unknown paths of excitement and wonder in the future.

nostalgebraist:

Similarly, Jason Alexander claims that fans of the George character turned on him only twice: once because of Susan’s death, and again due to George eating an éclair out of a trash can in the episode The Gymnast.

nostalgebraist:

Moreover—and here the other reviewer was close—his postmodernism just doesn’t fly, because contrary to their opinions, there IS objective truth, as recent events have clearly demonstrated.

nostalgebraist:

Sadly, a tediously long (and dated) piece on online library catalogues, and an 150-page essay on the word ‘lumber’ broom out the reader with staggeringly dull pedantry.

nostalgebraist:

This is Dawkins the defender of children everywhere, the Dawkins I want to cradle me in his arms.

nostalgebraist:

Kevin, who usually maintained his stance of cynicism, could not speak from grief; the two of them drove along and then Kevin slapped him on the shoulder, which is the only avenue open to men to show love for each other.

nostalgebraist:

His flame wars with Dmytry are the sort of classic, pseudo-rational froths, devoid of self-awareness that used to be the bread and butter of /r/subredditdrama before the advent of contemporary metadrama.

nostalgebraist:

1994: Invasion of the Quantodactyls