As I walk on through this wicked world
Searching for light in the darkness
of insanity,
I ask myself, Is all hope lost?
Is there only pain, and hatred, and misery?
And each time I feel like this inside,
There's one thing I wanna know,
What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?,
What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?
And as I walked on
through troubled times,
My spirit gets so downhearted sometimes,
So where are the strong?,
And who are the trusted?,
And where is the harmony?,
Sweet harmony
'Cause each time I feel it slipping away, just makes me wanna cry,
What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?,
What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?
So where are the strong?,
And who are the trusted?,
And where is the harmony?,
Sweet harmony
'Cause each time I feel it slipping away, just makes me wanna cry,
What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?,
What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?,
What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding?
n o . s h a m e . n o . p r i d e . j u s t . t r u t h
"No matter how hard they try And no matter how loud they cry They can't buy their way into heaven."
"And money talks, in this world That's what idiots will say But you'll find out, that this world is just an idiots parade."
- Good Charlotte, The Chronicles of Life and Death
While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen:
for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
- II. corinthians 4:18
"We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord."-II. Corinthians 5:8
"What I am saying is that what they have in commen is that they are divorced from earth, and from the flesh."
- Merrick by Anne Rice
- You say you want a revolution -
this is Only the world.
Maybe redemption is stories to tell. Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell. - Switchfoot
not buying philosophies that are sold to me Just when you thought, it was safe to think In comes mental piracy, and no What I'm looking for Can not be sold to me I wish they all would stop trying Cuz what I want, and what I need, is and will always be free If you let them make you, they'll make you paper mache
At a distance you're strong, until the wind comes Then you crumble and blow away You should make amends with you
Lately, I'm beginning to find that when I drive myself, my light is found I guess it's possible, that I have been a bit distracted
And there are times when I feel improved, improved upon the past. And there are times when I can't seem to understand at all. To resist is to piss in the wind, anyone who does will end up smelling Knowing this why do I defy Cuz my inner voice is yelling There is a fist pressing against, anyone who thinks something compelling Our intuit we're taught to deny And our soul we're told is for selling Get out from under them Resist and multiply -Incubus
"Take all this pride and leave it behind, because one day it ends, one day we die."-Creed
Too many women
In too many countries
Speak the same language.
Of silence...
- Anasuya Sengupta
Female sexuality is turned inside out from birth, so "beauty" can take it's place, keeping women's eyes lowered to their own bodies, glancing up only to check their reflections in the eyes of men.
Virginia Woolf in A Room of One's Own had a vision that someday young women would have access to the rich forbidden libraries of the men's colleges, their sunken lawns, their vellum, the claret light. She believed that would give young women a mental freedom that must have seemed all the sweeter from where she imagined it.
A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.
If we believed the world were ours too, if we believed we could get away with it, we would ask for more love, more sex, more money, more commitment to children, more food, more care.
Images that turn women into objects or eroticize the degredation of women have arisen to counterbalance woman's recent self-assertation.
consumer culture depends on maintaining a broken like of communication between the sexes and and promoting matching sexual insecurities.
Consumer culture is best supported by markets made up of sexual clones, men who want objects and women who want to be objects, and the object desired ever-changing, disposable, and dictated by the market. The beautiful object of consumer pornography has a built in obsolescence, to ensure that as few men as possible will form a bond with one woman for years or for a lifetime, and to ensure that women's dissatisfaction with themselves will grow rather than diminish over time. Emotionally unstable relationships, high divorce rates, and a large population cast out into the sexual marketplace are good for business in a consumer economy.
- The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf
companies certainly market girl power to girls in only the weakest and most sexualized form.
Mostly this comes because as long as you keep girls "sexualized" it keeps them in their feminine role.
And, as long as you keep them girls (i.e. baby doll dresses, little barettes, etc...) then you can keep them "weak."
Being different is threatening to some people because it's easier to have your
identity shaped than to have to figure out what it means to be true to yourself. So in some ways it's jealousy.
advertising and marketing are very strong forces and they want girls/women to buy
lipstick and makeup, so they make us think that we have to in order to be a "real woman."
Girls are more than just helpless Barbie wannabes.
don't buy the lie.
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favour is deceitful. and beauty is vain. - proverbs 31:30
If there is a wound we must try to heal it If there is someone whose pain we an cure We will search till we find them
If the God’s have chosen that we should survive It will be for a reason.
- Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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