Wash Ya Damn Hands

Rena. 25. Just some scientist or something ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[mariacallous]

[kikokuso]

I have a new favourite batshit rail idea

Please build it for the funny please please please

[vacuously-true]

You're right. I SHOULD be able to take the train from Minneapolis to Berlin.

[typhlonectes]

[absoluteconceptofbeauty]

does anyone hve any sin recommendations i just fell from the garden of eden five seconds ago

[thatdykepunkslut]

Sodomy

[anarchafemme]

Sodomy

[jjeessuuss]

Sodomy

[arsnof]

Weed then sodomy

[mr-ribbit]

i cannot recommend wearing fabric of mixed materials enough

[mithli-archive]

[mithli-archive]

racists getting mad in the notes on this cute video I posted now lmao. the reason I posted it to begin with is because I was seeing too many posts about Palestine where people were talking about Palestinians as if they are a political problem to be solved and not human beings.

[digi-moe]

Of course when it comes to Palestinians who simply trying to enjoy moments of happiness they often get judged and disrespected for it!!! anyways here's the full song that they’re singing. it's a traditional folk song sung by the beloved Palestinian singer-songwriter Rim Banna, known as the voice of Palestine. (Rest in peace). her music truly captured the spirit and resilience of Palestine. May her legacy continue to inspire and resonate with people around the world. ✌🏼🖤❤️🤍💚

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[fullafag]

original post date: May 18, 2021

[wikilifeadvice]

make your own foot scrub

[pochowek]

feet are pretty hard to make

dont call me a scrub ever again

[wikilifeadvice]

please stop making me read this

[rebelling4freedom]

Camels chilling at the beach in Morocco

[a-book-of-creatures]

Unrestrained summer fun

[charlesoberonn]

My favorite mermaid art is the one of a family photo with a mermaid mother and old sailor father and their sons are both reverse merfolk (human legs with fish heads).

[nevver]

You up? Alex Krokus

[peysk]

OP must have been eating seasonal fruits when they wrote this!

[sleaterkinnie-deactivated202412]

that onion headline that's like "whatever. the emo kids are all sitting on each other's lap" is their realest one yet

[angelicguy]

Many of you may be asking- what is rap? Well, to put it simply, rap is the part of the Gorillaz song that sounds- a little different.

[normalwizard]

White boy shocks staff at chinese restaurant by ordering in perfect ancient sumerian

[maestrosigma]

excellent names on the enemy team tonight

[owldude]

[ublock-origin]

Charles Darwin once called a bombardier beetle a "little inconsiderate beast" after it shot hot acid down his throat. The reason the beetle managed to do that was bc Darwin tried "gently" holding it in between his teeth, because he was searching for beetles and found some rare beetle that he could not let escape, and since he already had a beetle in each hand he needed to free up one of his hands to get the third beetle.

[skaldish]

To my international friends: If you ever wonder why Americans are the way they are, just remember that 1/3rd of all US citizens are in a cult that teaches them to suppress the activity of their prefrontal cortex, particularly when it comes to doubt, critical thinking, and differentiating emotional responses from personal values.

[skaldish]

1/3rd of Americans are Evangelical, and Evangelical Protestantism is a cult. We just don’t think of it as one because it’s so normalized. However, it follows the B.I.T.E. model of cult dynamics.

Evangelism teaches its followers to always maintain states of bliss and ecstasy for Jesus. What this does is condition the brain to always operate out of less-evolved parts; areas that are responsible for more primal emotions like euphoria, anger, and fear. Because of how we’ve evolved to survive, the brain will actually shut down our higher functioning—including critical thinking skills—in favor of these primal emotions, when they’re active.

Always feeling bliss = never questioning or feeling doubt. Evangelicals may actually fear the thoughts that do originate from their higher brain-parts because they think it’s the devil tempting them away from their religion. They’ll engage in self-indoctrination techniques to make this stop.

This creates a cognitive dissonance so great that many Americans have no separation between how they feel and what they believe. This is really bad because their minds have literally no defense against undue influence. They’ll vote for the dude who hyped them up enough. They’ll buy into the conspiracy theory that excites them the most. They’ll side with whatever gets the best reaction out of them, and getting a rise out of people is super easy to do.

Things like financial insecurity and low employment make this worse, too.

[skaldish]

And just to be clear, this kind of conditioning can happen to anyone, regardless of their intellectual capacity.

Cult conditioning has nothing to do with how smart or dumb people are. You can condition literally any brain with the right time and environment.

Counteracting undue influence is a skill, and like any skill, it needs to be taught.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Cult experts frequently point out that the smarter people are, the more susceptible they are to this once the initial hooks are in, and the harder they are to deprogram. This is because while this kind of conditioning does not rely on intelligence, the ability to rationalise does -- the smarter someone is, the better they can rationalise what they already believe, so if they’re committed to following their feelings, a smart person is much better at making it seem (to themselves as well as others) that they’re actually using logic and reason rather than making ad-hoc justifications after the fact.

Also, people who know (or believe) that they’re smarter than average tend to assume that this makes them harder to fool, conditon, or lie to. Which makes somebody much easier to fool, condition, or lie to.

[faint-petrichor-deactivated2026]

So I am from the US but now live in Argentina, and as The American(tm) I often get reasonably asked the question, "Why are Americans, you know, like that?"

The best and most immediate answer I could come up with, and the one I've stuck to, is telling people that America is a country defined by being a haven for cults and religious extremists since its inception. And people are always like "god that makes so much sense."

But you know, the wildest thing is if I tried to tell any given American this (which I have) chances are they'd be like, "No way, that's absurd." And I think the thing is, if you're an American and have lived most or all of your life in America, this is just your normal. But when you live somewhere that is less saturated with religious dogma, cults and anti-intellectualism, it's readily apparent.

[mightycnidarians]

Hi! Always make sure to do your own research when seeing posts like this without sources! Here are a few articles I found on the subject.

The Wasting of the Evangelical Mind

The peculiarities of how American Christianity took shape help explain believers’ vulnerability to conspiratorial thinking and misinformatio

https://www.patheos.com/blogs/keithgiles/2022/07/escaping-the-evangelical-cult/

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/06/evangelical-church-pastors-political-radicalization/629631/