My 9 year old brother has the right picture

  • My mom : One day all you're going to want to do is spend time with girls.
  • My 9 year old kid brother: How do you know that?
  • Mom: That's what happens, you just wait and see.
  • Brother: well how do you know what i am going to like. Maybe i will like boys! maybe i will like girls! maybe i will like both mom!
  • Mom: what do you like right now?.
  • Brother: I don't like anything! I just like Xbox right now. I'm a kid, i dont want to think about that stuff. Everyone always seems so upset over liking boys or girls. I Just want to play Call of duty. Everyone would be better off liking video games instead of boys or girls.

“We are past the point in this country now where one's views on homosexuality can be called a "matter of conscience." No. Being against equality here isn't a matter of conscience anymore than having been against racial equality in 1955 was. It is just bigotry plain and simple. Enough. Piss off. Go form your own Boy Scouts. Go form your own stupid country. You aren't America anymore.”

—Michael Tomasky, being awesome.

“I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. ”

—Khalil Gibran

“I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness. ”

—Christopher Hitchens 

“As the culture evolves, people who benefitted from the old ways invariably see themselves as victims of change. The world used to fit them like a glove, but it no longer does. Increasingly, they find themselves in unfamiliar situations that feel unfair or even unsafe. Their concerns used to take center stage, but now they must compete with the formerly invisible concerns of others. If you are one of the newly-visible others, this all sounds whiny compared to the problems you face every day. It’s tempting to blast through such privileged resistance with anger and insult. Tempting, but also, I think, a mistake. The privileged are still privileged enough to foment a counter-revolution, if their frustrated sense of entitlement hardens.”

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The Distress of the Privileged « The Weekly Sift

NAILED IT.

“If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding.”

—Dalai Lama
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