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On Putting the Needs of Other People Before Yours

Posted by Rose Schwartz on Apr 18, 2012 in Essays, Images, Personal | 0 comments

I once stated that I was happy I made my father happy. I sacrificed having a wedding to please my father. My mother convinced me to make him happy. Looking back upon it, it makes me feel as if my feelings are not important. They weren’t that time, anyway. I had a very small wedding. I don’t know if I wanted a big one but I wanted a secular one. I wanted a comedian to perform a very short ceremony followed by a more-casual-than-most type of reception. Since I had to have the Jewish...

I haven’t been posting much lately

Posted by Rose Schwartz on Jan 17, 2012 in Images, Personal | 0 comments

I actually got a well-paying freelance side job. Lately, I’ve been busy with managing websites and design elements. I’m still around, so have no worries! For now, enjoy this quick image manipulation I created recently. You can even see up my nose! :P SHARE...

When I die…

Posted by Rose Schwartz on May 4, 2011 in Essays, Personal | 3 comments

When I die, I don’t want to be buried; it’s just a waste of space. I’d rather it be a playground for children or research facility. When I die, I will become one with the Earth. Dirt and star stuff. When I die, it won’t be any different to me than before I was born. I’ll be no more. I don’t want anyone to visit a lonely grave site with soon-to-be-dying flowers. I want to be visited in memories. Death always looms. We must accept this to appreciate every...

The Pro-Life Stance is not Consistent

Posted by Rose Schwartz on Mar 31, 2011 in Essays, Rants | 4 comments

I read a post on Tumblr earlier today. I reblogged it but then thought it deserved further thought. It begins: Alright. The Pro-LIfe stance pretty much says that the right to life supercedes all other rights. This means that the pregnant persons’ right to bodily domain is superceded by the fetus’ right to be alive. And yet, we never hear a peep out of them in situations in which the right to bodily domain supercedes the right to life. If abortion is to be made illegal and the right to life...

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, No Cognitive Dissonance (Wallpaper)

Posted by Rose Schwartz on Jan 29, 2011 in Images | 3 comments

One more wallpaper I created: The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. it is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more. Ayaan Hirsi Ali I already have a few more others on...