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I know this is sudden and very out of the blew. I recently quite using this blog along with the rest of my other accounts. I have made a new account called @acidicdragon that I am on all the time now. It's mostly the same, I just wanted a fresh start! If you wish to follow me there, you can! I know I kind of just up and left this account, but I wanted something new.

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Manhole covers in Japan are art pieces. Credit to photographer S. Morita.

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I never really thought about this before but "suffer in silence" is a Christian thing? It's supposed to be a virtue and you're generally criticized for complaining. Even the Pope called complainers "whiners," and said we should suffer in silent endurance (in a homily on May 7th, 2013).

I grew up soaking in that attitude, and I know I've internalized it a great deal. I'm working on recognizing it, but I still catch myself thinking that way all too often.

I'm reading Why Be Jewish? by Edgar Bronfman, and he takes a different view. Complaint is a Jewish pastime, he says, with biblical roots, and he points out that it's both natural and necessary: "...complaint arises from a sense of deep dissatisfaction. Without complaint, there is no criticism, there is no vision of the way things can be. Complaint is the beginning of the vision of a better world. It rejects complacency and it rejects the status quo."

It occurs to me that the social enforcement of "suffering in silence" serves the ends of capitalism quite effectively. I'm going to make a point to complain a little more and a little louder in the service of change.

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sixpenceee

“The dark blue bottom of an iceberg that just rolled over “ by reddit user Sarahjaha

fairlyavg

get Aang outta there

theincrediblemoonchild

Reblog to help save the Avatar!

ofdirtandbones

I don’t want to grow up

I wanna build a fort in the woods and play using sticks as swords

None of my friends wants to play anymore.

fogpowers

not to hijack or anything OP but like I think this is one of the most devastating things about our society

we are taugh that we’re meant to spend our adult lives generating capital and recovering from generating capital and then doing it again

play is one of the most creative things a human can do and we’re not meant to stop playing when we get big, our storylines are just supposed to get in-depth

but capitalism is like “no, freedom to play is for CHILDREN, your purpose is to PRODUCE”

ofdirtandbones

WoW tea

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m-thegreatandpowerful

Me: OH! I caught a snapping turtle--wouldnt it look so nice in its tank in my house---

Um............. ????? EXCUSE ME???? IT JUST??? SITS??? THERE??? ON THE FLOOR??? NO TANK??? WHAT IS GOING ON. DOES HE NEED A LEASH? A.... PET BED? HE HAS NO HOME THIS IS AN OUTRAGE. I AM NOT SHARING MY BED WITH HIM. WHAT DO I DO WITH THIS THING

UPDATE: IT HISSES WHEN YOU GO UP TO IT AND CLICK "A" AND YOU CAN MOVE IT AROUND LIKE FURNITURE. THIS IS NOT NATURAL. I DONT LIKE THIS

ANOTHER UPDATE: YOU CAN SET HIM ON TOP OF THINGS???

lexa-el-amin

truer words have never been spoken

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This man is trapped in his house with what's going to be like 1000 giant moths and it is somehow the funniest thing I have seen in days.

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I rarely reblog things but this is an old classmate of mine! I haven’t seen him in years but he always took moths and other insects to school to look after them. Hang in there, Bart!