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[hellanne]

Please know there are much better things in life than being lonely or liked or bitter or mean or self-conscious. We are all full of shit. Go love someone just because; I know your heart may be badly bruised, or even the victim of numerous knifings, but it will always heal, even if you don’t want it to; it keeps going. There are the most fantastic, beautiful things and people out there, I promise. It is up to you to find them.

Chuck Palahniuk

this is one of my favorites

(via wethinkwedream)

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Hi, I'm back. =)

This blog is SO close to my heart, I could never retire it. Every single day of the ~12-odd months that I was away, I hoped to resolve my distance from this blog. It, in a way, represents me. I love all the things that I have posted here. It has helped me ponder, grow, and mature. Every post here is a thought that I once nurtured in my mind. My psyche. There is no way I could desert it. I'm back. :)

Progress may be a little slow, and I might not be posting as furiously as I was once known for, but I'll be getting there soon yo! 

I'm SO excited. SO. Excited. 

[thepeoplesrecord]

An orthodox Jewish rally took place in Foley Square in New York City today to denounce the Israeli military & its latest efforts to draft orthodox Jewish men into the Israeli Defense Forces. 

“The evil rulers in the Holy Land want to incite and seduce young men and teenagers to acquiesce to idol worship and to participate in the impure army,” reads one poster, a digital copy of which was obtained and translated by the Forward. Yiddish language posters not only denounced the new draft policy, but the Israeli government & the military itself.

Photo source

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WOW.

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Food Inc

I recommend that you watch this. And then make your family and friends watch it. Let everybody know that they could be leading better quality lives if they just ate even marginally better. I read this comment on some facebook page, and it may seem trite, but once you really appreciate its meaning, you know that it's the truth, and it can't be said any other way- 'Where are we really, without out health?'

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Oh. She isn't supposed to eat her feed? Silly cow!

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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.

Plato

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Source

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Now you know where Ben Bernanke learnt his economics from. 

[birdstump]

[shinjitxt]

lilo and stitch actually is the most depressing film that disney ever made

it’s literally about parents dying and a child being forced to raise her younger sister and about an alien coming and wrecking their house and having the fbi on their case only to show them true family and how to love each other when they feel so alone and really like no movie made me cry as a kid like this movie did

[curiouslyhigh]

it’s also one of the most uplifting stories for the same reasons. nani is one of the strongest and most real characters in any disney movie imho, because here’s this girl who has been strong through losing her parents and having to raise her little sister. she’s doing the best she can by trying to find a new job, trying to keep her sister happy and safe, trying to work with CPS to keep her family together. she’s got to deal with having her whole world turned on its ear constantly and she is such a powerhouse. sure, she loses her cool, but in her situation, others would do it in far less productive ways. she is fantastically protective of lilo and just wants everything to be okay.

nani is the serious best character ever.

[mermensch]

Lilo and Stitch is Disney’s greatest achievement imo.

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Not to mention that Nani is one of the only (if not the only) animated Disney characters with an average body shape.  You can even see her little stomach rolls in the third gif.

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Don't care about these comments. Simply liked the GIF :) 

[freemarketliberal-blog]

[T]he joy of breaking an unjust law is somewhat diminished by the knowledge that state functionaries may confine you in a steel cage for your having done so.

Robert Higgs (via freemarketliberal)

Word.

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The beach at sunrise. I think I'll go this weekend. 

[theamericanbear]

In the game of advancing the interests of the American people, it seems, Democrats and Republicans are not mutual opponents. They are a tag team, each one pushing the ball further and further down the field in the wrong direction. It’s still winter in America, and the dead hand of Ronald Reagan still guides this nation, decades after his exit from the White House. Welcome to the 9th term of Ronald Reagan, in the person of Democrat Barack Obama.

Bruce Dixon, Is This Barack Obama’s 2nd Term? Is it Bill Clinton’s 3rd? Or Is It Ronald Reagan’s 9th? (via theamericanbear)

Two faction of a one party state… Voting for a new master every four years DOES NOT mean you had a real choice or are in any way “Free”

(via auntieimperial)

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I wanna ask questions! 1. What do you for fun? Like when you'r bored? 2. What MBTI type are you? 3. Do you have friends in real life at all? Don't mean to be rude, but are you those sexy loner types? Oh, oh, and are you a boy or a girl?

Lol.

1. I LIVE for fun. If I stop having fun, I stop doing the things I am doing to re-evaluate. Sometimes the transition takes time, but I don't make compromises with fun. ;) And I never get bored. Honestly. Not like other people do. But I have burst of spontaneity, and when I can't indulge those emotions, then I get bored and restless. But usually, I find a way to channel it out. It's usually by eating something I have never eaten before. :)

2. I'm an NT. You can figure  out the rest if you care. :)

3. I have friends in real life, rather sadly. :P I don't know how I do it, I start off everywhere by sticking by myself, not going out of my way to talk to anybody etc. But somehow, people are always trying to talk to me. Even though I act uncool, and don't say anything witty, or make an effort to talk to people, I'll still get invited to parties, or concerts, or asked things, or saved a seat for. And it's not even like most people just try it once, and leave it alone when I don't respond. They try multiple times, and are usually genuinely nice people. So, eventually, I become friendly too. And that's great, because this way I have actually managed to get to really interact with interesting people. So, I have friends. I just don't hang out with them as much as they hang out together. Like, if they hang out thrice a week, I'll chill with them once every other week. LOL. So, I'm picky with my social appearances. :P

And I'm a girl. And if you've read basic psychology about attraction and society and stuff, you'll know that the sexy loner image is sexy only on a man, not as much on a woman. LOL, but seriously, I don't know if I'm seen as a sexy loner type. 

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I don't want to 'travel' anymore

SO. I just struck upon this idea. I don't want to do that. Those sort of trips are for photo-ops, and are really superficial. You only see things that other people tell you to see, and you don't make up any of your own opinions on that city/country/culture.

So I am not going to travel anymore. I would rather move to a new place for 2 months every year. I'd live there. Learn the best places to shop at. Watch how people did their usual things. I'm going to be experimenting those on myself. This is going to be my new experiment. I want suggestions. I plan to do this in the summer of 2014. I need to pick a place, save up enough money, read up about that place/culture/history. And book my tickets in advance so that I get a good deal. 

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Y are ya like so... anonymous?

Why are YOU like so... anonymous? :P 

Ok, well basically, I want to interact with more people. People that I'm unlikely to bump into in my physical vicinity. So. If I don't be anonymous, then everybody I know in 'real life' are going to end up being the people I would interact with on Tumblr. 

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Circuit, followed by The Eight Basic Loser Scripts, and The Eight Basic Winner Scripts-

Biosurvival

Loser: “I don’t know how to defend myself.”

Winner: “I will live forever, or die trying.”

Emotional-territorial

 Loser: “They all intimidate me.”

 Winner: “I am free; you are free; we can have our separate trips or we can have the same trip.”

Semantic

 Loser: “I can’t solve my problems.”

 Winner: “I am learning more about everything, including how to learn more.”

Sociosexual

Loser: “Everything I like is illegal, immoral, or fattening.”

Winner: “Love and do what thou wilt “

Neurosomatic 

Loser: “I can’t help the way I feel.”

Winner: “How I feel depends on my neurological know how.”

Metaprogramming

Loser: “Why do I have such lousy luck?”

Winner: “I make my own coincidences, synchronicities, luck, and Destiny.”

Neurogenetic

Loser: “Evolution is blind and  ”impersonal.”

Winner: “Future evolution depends on my decisions now.”

Neuroatomic

Loser: “I’m not psychic, and I doubt that anyone is.”

Winner: “In the province of the mind, what is believed true is true, or becomes true within limits to be learned by experience and experiment.” (Dr. John Lilly)

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Sometimes when people reblog my year-or-so old posts, I rediscover them. And it's kind of invigorating. :) This one is ripe for a reblog. Especially at a time when I'm learning up about SO many things. It's like a mini-revolution here in my apartment, and nobody outside of it seems to be aware of it. Epiphany, is that you approaching? ;) Heh.

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I bet the writer Rick Cohen isn't even a real person. 

And I'm saying this not because it attacks Ron Paul (because I don't care so much about being loyal to politicians), but because this article has absolutely no structure, too much absence of logic to be written by a vertebrate, and even is Paul's corrupt, there are OBVIOUSLY more corrupt men/women in Washington. Hell, in every other national capital in the world. 

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“Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.”

--Ezra Pound.

Well, then there needn't be so many sheep. I hate how people think it's ok to degrade the vision and creativity of human intelligence to that of a flock of sheep. Or the 'masses' as how we have grown used to referring to ourselves! Human intelligence is miraculous. It helped us survive through years of evolution even though we weren't the strongest, fastest, or most nimble among all the other creatures. We were like the dodo birds, except we had brains. So let's show ourselves some respect for that. Anywhoo, off-track.