[foreignerongermansoil]

Excerpt from Kató Lomb’s “Polyglot: How I Learn Languages”

[nobrashfestivity]

Shiraga Kazuo (Worm's) Crawl 1954

[tenpoundhand]

james tissot!!!

[aa05150]

Surgery by Robert Karraker

[dataandphilosophy]

“For example, if you’re trying to convince people to boycott a segregated store, your object is to convince them that boycotting the store will have a strategic effect, not that desegregation is morally important. For whatever reason, on a cognitive level human beings have a really hard time with this. Smucker cites an example of a Lefty roleplaying session where people were tasked with selling an action to people who agreed with them on principle but didn’t see the strategic merit of the action. Surprisingly, the sellers couldn’t make the conceptual switch to sell strategic merit: instead, they doubled down on THIS ISSUE IS IMPORTANT — even though it had been stressed to them that the people they were selling to bought into the importance of the issue. People react poorly to “this is important, so do WHATEVER I SAY”; they want to be convinced that what you’re proposing will work.”

Source.

[myfootyrthroat]

Also from above:

“Bob Wing, a grassroots organizer, explains this nicely: “If winning feels impossible, then righteousness can seem like the next best thing.” But righteousness is not conducive to getting normies to join your team if your team cannot demonstrate ability to, at least sometimes, win. Nor does righteousness help you make real inroads with regular people.”

[nyctaeus]

Mathieu Tremblin, ‘Parking tickets bouquet’ (2013)

[kaalbela]

Medina Trevathan

[weepingwidar]

Vanessa Smith (British, 1974) - Protection (2024)

[milksockets]

jeff leatham in swarovski crystal palace: the art of light and crystal - teneues (2010)

[yugiohz]

I don’t think it’s possible to go through your 20s without considering to join a monastery at least once

[crambery]

the beloved residents of heaven

[orthodoxadventure]

Holy Trinity Orthodox Church, Mebane, North Carolina

[rawcunningmaster]

Orthodox Priests blessing a nuclear reactor

[orthodoxadventure]

Protection of the Mother of God Orthodox Church in Rochester, New York

[pjackk]

Do u guys even like me or am i a paraya

[deadelated]

one sip of uncles beer fills the stomach of a grown nephew

[thunderstruck9]

Ghada Amer (Egyptian, b. 1963), La recette du gâteau de la Forêt Noire [Black Forest Gateau Recipe], 1993. Acrylic and embroidery on canvas, 100 × 100 cm.