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On another note

Our neighbour upstairs has offered to teach me and the other young things on our street how to box.

So I say yes, or yes?

What's the matter, friend?

Just family. My brother's complete inability to comprehend the fact that some people don't want to devote their lives to making him more comfortable. And my mother's inability to realize that he is taking her for all he can get. Emotionally and monetarily.

And so when we don't have enough for the rent, she sends me to go to the landlady, with the idea that since I'm young she won't get mad at me.

This may or may not be true—I don't know how awful the landlady is to adults. But it has to be the most embarrassing/terrifying things to do. I don't even need to fake crying; all she has to do is mutter about how we're no good and she can't afford people who can't pull their own weight. The worst is when she stares me down with those cold snake-eyes of hers.

On the bright side, rent's not due till week after next, now. And mum promised she won't give brother dear any more money for a while.

blah. feelings. sorry to unload. love to you all <3

motionburnsthemood

TURTLE!

ijustkant

Ohmygoodness so cute <3<3

#turtle #strawberry #so #cute

I officially hate everything. Especially my brother.

If he didn't know what an arrdvark was, how could he know enough to steal its name? Flawed logic there.

What, are you suggesting he couldn't read? Just because your average peasant couldn't doesn't mean the king wouldn't be able to. Check your facts, anon. Get with the program. ;)

sillofshade-blog

Why did King Arthur steal the name of an aardvark? Rather rude of him.

ijustkant

Probably he didn't know what aardvarks were, since he was all the way in Britain and all. He probably thought no one would notice his plagiarism.

Why the fuck would a turtle need a cozy? And those lambs just look dumb. Honestly, this website's about more than baby animal photos.

I'm sorry. Was I talking to you?

allcreatures

Lambs wearing coats in Herefordshire as they were struggling with the Spring cold weather.

Picture: Newsteam (via Animal pictures of the week - Telegraph)

ijustkant

He has a jumper and everything!

#so cute #sheep #jumper

allcreatures

Etsy user Katie Bradley wondered if her tortoises were keeping warm enough when they wandered around the house or garden, so she started making crocheted cozies for them! [via Archie McPhee’s]

(via MAKE | Crocheted Tortoise Cozies)

ijustkant

SO CUTE!!!

#TORTOISES #THEY ARE SO CUTE #AHHH

william's house, inside and out.

#william james #his house #one day

William James Time

i was just rereading his essay 'The Moral Equivalent of war'—a long piece about how pacifists can't just say 'stop waging war' and expect any results, as the military institution is one which inspires national community and pride. He concludes that pacifists must offer some other sort of institution to provide those same feelings...

have some quotes!

"All these beliefs of mine put me firmly into the anti-military party. But I do not believe that peace either ought to be or will be permanent on this globe, unless the states, pacifically organized, preserve some of the old elements of army-discipline. A permanently successful peace-economy cannot be a simple pleasure-economy...We must make new energies and hardihoods continue the manliness to which the military mind so faithfully clings."

"Individuals, daily more numerous, now feel this civic passion. It is only a question of blowing on the spark until the whole population gets incandescent, and on the ruins of the old morals of military honor, a stable system of morals of civic honor builds itself up. "

"Great indeed is Fear; but it is not, as our military enthusiasts believe and try to make us believe, the only stimulus known for awakening the higher ranges of men's spiritual energy."

(full text: http://www.constitution.org/wj/meow.htm)

#william james #the moral equivalent of war #deep thoughts