God Will Hear and Save Us

Continually revise your relationship to God until the only certainty you have is not that you are faithful, but that He is. -Oswald Chambers

[whitepeopletwitter]

[exeggcute]

why would you want to structure your life around an Academic Aesthetic. academia fucking sucks dude

[callstheadventurescience]

what you think academic aesthetic is: rain on the window panes of your fireplace-and-all-dark-wood-furniture study, tweed and cardigans, dead poets society, Coffee™

what academic aesthetic actually is: a terribly ubiquitous malaise arising from either the sinking feeling that the academy is eating its young, the reproduceability crisis, straight up racism and sexism, the exploitation of adjuncts and grad students, the rampant and largely unaddressed mental health crisis, or the vitamin D deficiency on account of there being no windows in your office

[aescapisms]

[thesouthernwind]

[jehovahhthickness]

I wanna be that CEO that pays their employees 70K a year like that white guy I be seeing all over the Internet. I can’t remember his name.

I’m not gonna be like Jeff Bezos but I do wanna be a multimillionaire 😂😂😂

[jehovahhthickness]

He took a pay cut. I’m not doing all of that. Ima just pay my people well and give top notch benefits.

[jehovahhthickness]

It gets better.

[desperate-acts-of-capitalism]

We are definitely going to talk about this guy on Buisness Desserts

Employees are not costs to be reduced, they are investments, they are assets that appreciate in value

[jehovahhthickness]

Absolutely

[doebunnybooks]

For the person commenting on not taking a pay cut, he HAD to change his lifestyle to be able to afford to pay his employees a living wage. He talked to accountants and they helped him break the numbers down based on data about the cost of living and various factors about the commute, housing issues, etc. All inspired by his best friend going nearly into debt over medical costs meanwhile he had several houses, a jet, and drank champagne daily.

He sold stock, houses, and changed his spending and as a result, his employees were overall happier and the way they worked improved. They all bought more shit and had more kids and did all the consumption people want for us while also enjoying their work and their boss enough to band together and buy him a fucking Tesla as a thank you.

And you know what he realized after taking his pay cut? He didn’t need the champagne or the girls or the “lifestyle” of being a billionaire. He feels fulfilled in his work and with the people he’s surrounded himself with and he feels that he’s made a step in the right direction that other businessmen and billionaires should follow.

Please read the article and his statements on twitter because it’s eye-opening to see that you CAN be successful doing things ethically. 

[stele3]

Update: during the pandemic, Dan Price cut his salary to $0 so that he could keep paying his employees.

[cowboybaedling]

What a lovely man

[probsjosh]

the only valid rich man

[whitepeopletwitter]

[eggsaladstain]

But imagine if you lived in a country where the color of your skin got you killed for driving, jogging, sleeping, yelling, parking, babysitting, sitting in a van, selling CDs, selling cigarettes, opening the door, walking at night, wearing a hoodie at night, holding a toy gun, lying on the ground, being homeless, being in a dark stairwell, holding a cell phone, having a broken taillight, exercising horses, having a bottle of pills, shopping at Walmart, holding a BB gun at Walmart, holding a phone in your own backyard, eating ice cream in your own house, and shopping, you would say, “That is a lawless country.” 

— Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj (x)

[disaster-lesbianbeau-deactivate]

“you make my heart beat in iambic pentameter.”

no you don’t understand shakespeare literally writes to the beat of your heart

that’s why shakespearean actors will sometimes pound their chests in time to the words during readings

that’s why you use fluctuations in the rhythm to track your character’s emotional state - any irregularities in the scansion are like the character’s heart stuttering or jumping or skipping a beat

that’s why when characters share the rhythm - switching off in the middle of a foot - those characters inevitably have an extraordinarily intimate connection

shakespeare fucking writes viscerally, he is literally in your body, and that, my friend, that is why the best shakespearean actors don’t posture and emote

you have to be fucking alive and passionate and electric - it can’t be intellectual, in the end, it has to be about connection and the sweating, cheering, jeering, bleeding masses you’re performing to, because make no mistake, shakespeare may go to lofty heights, but he only works if you’re just as grounded in the earth. he has to be in your body. he has to be in your body.

holy motherfucking shit i love shakespeare so much, get him in your bones, breathe him in, stomp and rage and pine, dadum dadum dadum dadum dadum, it is literally to the beat of your heart

[eriklehnsherrgf]

[allthingshyper]

MLK was assassinated just over 50 years ago

He'd be 91 if he were alive today

Don't ever let them trick you into thinking this was a long time ago

[no-longer-another-bondi-blonde]

In 1990, the high school dropout rate for Dolly Parton's hometown of Sevierville Tennessee was at 34% (Research shows that most kids make up their minds in fifth/sixth grade not to graduate). That year, all fifth and sixth graders from Sevierville were invited by Parton to attend an assembly at Dollywood. They were asked to pick a buddy, and if both students completed high school, Dolly Parton would personally hand them each a $500 check on their graduation day. As a result, the dropout rate for those classes fell to 6%, and has generally retained that average to this day.

Shortly after the success of The Buddy Program, Parton learned in dealing with teachers from the school district that problems in education often begin during first grade when kids are at different developmental levels. That year The Dollywood Foundation paid the salaries for additional teachers assistants in every first grade class for the next 2 years, under the agreement that if the program worked, the school system would effectively adopt and fund the program after the trial period.

During the same period, Parton founded the Imagination Library in 1995: The idea being that children from her rural hometown and low-income families often start school at a disadvantage and as a result, will be unfairly compared to their peers for the rest of their lives, effectively encouraging them not to pursue higher education. The objective of the Imagination library was that every child in Sevier County would receive one book, every month, mailed and addressed to the child, from the day they were born until the day they started kindergarten, 100% free of charge. What began as a hometown initiative now serves children in all 50 states, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom, mailing thousands of free books to children around the world monthly.

On March 1, 2018 Parton donated her 100 millionth book at the Library of Congress: a copy of "Coat of Many Colors" dedicated to her father, who never learned to read or write.

[snorlaxatives]

no offense but the whole kissin kate barlow and “i can fix that” sam storyline from holes is quite frankly one of the most gripping and tragic in the history of cinema and i’m still not recovered from it

[allthingshyper]

“You, your children, and your childrens children can dig for the next one hundred years. And you will never find it. Start digging, Trout.”

Absolute fucking metal last words.

[hevrtout]

I will not ask you where you came from I will not ask and neither should you

[tacoboutgradschool-deactivated2]

[mooretome]

Yes I still get to get married. Yes we still get a salvaged 1/8 the wedding we planned. Obviously we're happy to change our plans to keep as many people as possible safe. But I just want to take 10 seconds to be really fucking devastated that we lost absolutely everything else. We will never get any showers, rehearsal dinner, bachelor/bachelorette parties, we can't have our full wedding party there or the vast majority of our family let alone our friends. And we'll never get that back. Even if we do something else in a few years (which honestly we won't because I won't ever want to do that. I felt selfish enough being the center of attention the first attempt) we'll never get to do it the way it was supposed to happen and anything we do will always have this hanging over us and this will always be a giant black spot on our story. And we've dealt with so much shit the last few years I was just really hoping we could have one thing, the one thing supposed to be about us, go right.

[gothammite]

yknow i saw an article that was like “robert pattinson standing strong against the batman hate! :)” and im like. you fools. you absolute clowns. don’t you know who you’re dealing with? you realize this is the man who waded through all of the twilight hate? with stride? basically brushed it off of his shoulder immediately? even as a non twilight fan in the early 2000s i knew this man would never succumb to the words of the simple minded. batman criticism means nothing to him. he cannot be defeated now. youve cast the perfect impermeable wall. he’s too powerful and we’re at his mercy

[tonicollett-deactivated20210415]

LITTLE WOMEN 2019, dir. Greta Gerwig

[adeles]

#2020 mood