Posts Tagged ‘Struggle’

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Eye Pad

by Seraphine Khorana on May 28th, 2010
Posted In: Comics
Eye Pad

I love toys you never thought you “needed” until you actually owned them, like having heated seats in a car. The Apple iPad strikes me as being one of those toys. Do you ever wonder how different the world would be if, instead of buying expensive toys we don’t actually need, we invested the money for the benefit of the truly needy? Apple expects $4 billion in revenues from the iPad, but I wonder how many homes, schools and sewer systems $4 billion would build in, say, Haiti, Africa or New Orleans?

We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty.
Quotation from Mother Teresa

Life’s pretty good, and why wouldn’t it be? I’m a pirate, after all.
Quotation from Johnny Depp

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Crap is Art

by Seraphine Khorana on December 22nd, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Crap is Art

“When you wet the bed, first it gets warm then it gets cold.” So says James Joyce. And this is true for everything: a man’s life, a mother’s love, worldly passion, weather, fashion, technology, war, a bird in the nest, a beating heart, milk on the floor, ball bearings, anger, the sun, a barking dog, ice cream, the sound of a hand moving through water, words, sulpher, the color blue.

You never know who will have the answers… but you must push to find the questions that need to be asked.
Quotation from Jason Manley

Hence art is indefinable. (Weitz, 1956)
Quotation from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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My Fascination with Xombies

by Seraphine Khorana on November 7th, 2009
Posted In: Comics
My Fascination with Xombies

Since Xombies are “born” mindless, one must assume their hunger for brains translates into a thirst for Knowledge; and that’s why Xombies will one day take over the world. They are unlike most Humans, who seem unwilling to learn– once they have already formed an opinion.

With the rest I dispense— I sever from what I thought would suffice me, for it does not— it is now empty and tasteless to me.
I heed knowledge, and the grandeur of The States, and the example of heroes, no more.
I am indifferent to my own songs—I will go with him I love.
It is to be enough for us that we are together— We never separate again.
Poem from Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

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T.G.I.F.

by Seraphine Khorana on October 23rd, 2009
Posted In: Comics
T.G.I.F.

In some countries, Friday is the equivalent of Sunday, meaning Saturday is the beginning of their work week, or my equivalent Monday. Some consider Friday to be an unlucky day to begin a voyage, but others say its a lucky day to plant potatoes. It proves not all Fridays are the same; there are Good Fridays, Black Fridays, First Fridays, Casual Fridays and Friday the 13ths. But I shouldn’t complain. Some people work seven days a week– for them, Friday doesn’t really exist at all.

Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.
Quotation from Richard Rorty

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Avoiding the Crash Wall

by Seraphine Khorana on October 21st, 2009
Posted In: Comics
Avoiding the Crash Wall

President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize “for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples.”
Let us wish him well for all our sakes.

I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that. I have said repeatedly that America doesn’t torture. And I’m gonna make sure that we don’t torture. Those are part and parcel of an effort to regain America’s moral stature in the world.
Quotation from President Barack Obama

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
Another Quotation from President Obama

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Setting Routines of Immutable Classes

by Seraphine Khorana on July 18th, 2008
Posted In: Comics
Setting Routines of Immutable Classes

Nothing is organized. I try to be more than what people expect,
but other people’s expectations don’t always mesh. That creates
a personal struggle. It’s not like I’m a problem person. Or am I?

Do You Have Any Rituals? (self-injury.net) *warning: very troubling and disturbing to read

“Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of
humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the
animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.”
Quotation from a speech by Adolf Hitler (1928)

“In the struggle between yourself and the world, second the world.”
Quotation from Franz Kafka, The Third Notebook

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