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chunib4

whats your sexuality?

mysteryincorporated5ever

#sometimes I'm like???#but maybe better to be empathetic

theblogofeternalstench

fieldbears

OH MY GOD THOUGH

sapphia

BEST COMEBACK ON ANY COMEDY PANEL SHOW EVER AND SHE’S NOT EVEN A COMEDIAN

hannahismyharto

Can she calculate the amount of cold water he needs for that burn?

justbearwithit

I like Sean Lock, but lololol, well deserved.

folieapleasedont

when the depression hits but you still gotta do shit

lchurley

this is my new favorite post on this site

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eastiseverywhere

Yoko Shimizu Illustration for Michael Puett & Christine Gross-Loh’s The College of Chinese Wisdom US (2016) [Source]

I’m kind of amazed at how profoundly cynical this WSJ essay is:

When students arrive at college these days, they hear a familiar mantra about the purpose of higher education: Find yourself. Use these four years to discover who you are. Learn flamenco dancing or ceramics, start a composting project, write for the student newspaper or delve into 19th-century English poetry. Self-discovery, they are told, is the road to adulthood.

So why is it that so many students feel such anxiety? On campus, we hear the same complaint again and again: “I’ve done lots of extracurriculars. I’ve taken a variety of courses. Why can’t I figure out who I am and what I want to do?”

Our answer: Read Confucius, Mencius, Zhuangzi and other Chinese thinkers who lived more than 2,000 years ago. Recognize that the contemporary Western emphasis on self-discovery and self-acceptance has led you astray.

Instead of struggling to be authentic, Confucius proposed another approach: “as if” rituals, that is, rituals meant to break us out of our own reality for a moment. These rituals are the very opposite of authenticity—and that’s what makes them work. We break from who we are when we note the unproductive patterns we’ve fallen into and actively work to shift them—“as if” we were different people in that moment.

When you hear your girlfriend at the door and make yourself go to greet her instead of sitting there absorbed in your iPhone, you are creating a break. When you make a point of ignoring your mother’s harping and solicit her guidance, you are recognizing that both of you are constantly shifting and changing and capable of bringing out other parts of each other. Instead of being stuck in the roles of nagging mother and put-upon child, you have behaved “as if” you were someone else. It turns out that being insincere, being untrue to ourselves, helps us to grow.

#interesting

cupcakelogic

out of context this is a picture of senator amidala who is not very good at making sand angels but is determined to succeed

cupcakelogic

i just remembered there was a clone here with her so

feastevil

a short comic for class about queerness, my own queerness, and stuff i internalized as an adolescent. the printed version has a lot of blank space separating each event, so if you want to check it out the way it’s intended to be, you can go here