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"Space travelers are called astronauts, Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman calls those exploring states of consciousness psychonauts, those who seek death acceptance via decompiculture may be called decompinauts."

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DECOMPICULTURE DECOMPINAUTS « The Infinity Burial Project

(See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necronaut)

March 08, 2012
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Best animated GIF I’ve seen yet.

Best animated GIF I’ve seen yet.

(Source: nzafro, via unnaturalist)

March 08, 2012
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Aren’t these old Nature journals pretty? Taken at the library today.

Aren’t these old Nature journals pretty? Taken at the library today.

March 08, 2012
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deadhorsebrooklyn: Yes, please. totalimmortalbeloved: Antique English surgical instruments and case, circa 1650.

deadhorsebrooklyn:

Yes, please.

totalimmortalbeloved:

Antique English surgical instruments and case, circa 1650.

(Source: browndresswithwhitedots)

March 07, 2012
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Cemetery in Aleppo, Syria (via Black Ribbon Blog: Facing Death with Equanimity) “Paul Conroy, the British Sunday Times photographer who survived after being wounded and trapped in Babr Amr, said this of the FSA fighter’s who risked their lives to smuggle him out of the country: “It was the rebels’ ability to face death with equanimity that gave them their strength. They’d accepted that they weren’t going to get out alive. It’s a way of taking power away from a brutal regime. I saw the same thing in Libya. A government has power over you as long as you are afraid it will kill you. Once you accept your fate and come to believe that if you survive, it will be a bonus, you have the power to achieve extraordinary things.”

Cemetery in Aleppo, Syria (via Black Ribbon Blog: Facing Death with Equanimity)

“Paul Conroy, the British Sunday Times photographer who survived after being wounded and trapped in Babr Amr, said this of the FSA fighter’s who risked their lives to smuggle him out of the country:

“It was the rebels’ ability to face death with equanimity that gave them their strength. They’d accepted that they weren’t going to get out alive. It’s a way of taking power away from a brutal regime. I saw the same thing in Libya. A government has power over you as long as you are afraid it will kill you. Once you accept your fate and come to believe that if you survive, it will be a bonus, you have the power to achieve extraordinary things.”
March 05, 2012
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Hans Christian Anderson made beautiful, strange, and sometimes morbid papercuts. They remind me a little of Mon Petite Fantome’s work. More of Anderson’s at the link. (via H. C. Andersen Tegninger, Odense Bys Museer)

Hans Christian Anderson made beautiful, strange, and sometimes morbid papercuts. They remind me a little of Mon Petite Fantome’s work. More of Anderson’s at the link.

(via H. C. Andersen Tegninger, Odense Bys Museer)

March 03, 2012
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Rutger: such an amazingly expressive, sad face. Paul Newman eyes in a weather-beaten, refugee face. deadhorsebrooklyn: Sean. Sean. Sean. Rutger! More Polaroids from Blade Runner.

Rutger: such an amazingly expressive, sad face. Paul Newman eyes in a weather-beaten, refugee face.

deadhorsebrooklyn:

Sean. Sean. Sean.

Rutger!

More Polaroids from Blade Runner.

March 02, 2012
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diehexen:

We are twins, SIAMESE from DIE HEXEN

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March 01, 2012
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"If Death were a man, my friends would tell me to break up with him. But alas, with Death there is no such option. We must do the best we can."

— On the Fear of Death | The Order of The Good Death

February 29, 2012
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cabinporn: This island shack was built for men lost at sea. It’s stocked with enough water and crackers to survive until found. Vlieland Island, Netherlands. Submitted by Marieke Kijk in de Vegte.

cabinporn:

This island shack was built for men lost at sea. It’s stocked with enough water and crackers to survive until found. Vlieland Island, Netherlands. Submitted by Marieke Kijk in de Vegte.

February 28, 2012
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