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i was supposed to work on a lesson tonight but my headache is killing me + my throat still hurts and i seriously need to sleep early. a part of me feels guilty for not being “productive” today but i’ll still choose to rest early, work can wait.

scandireader

The books I ordered from an antiquariat in Sweden finally arrived today! I'm planning to use at least a few of these for my PhD proposal. I'm beyond excited and can't wait to read them.

atavus-blog

Thomas Struth - Pergamon Museum, Berlin, 2001

huitingreads

truly can’t wait for this semester to end so i can dig into the books i want to pick up

darkmacademia

the painted hall wallpapers; pls like or reblog if you use! [more]

thomastudies

my own interpretation of the famous quote “don’t study hard, study smart”: have your coffee machine ON your desk | instagram: thomreads

bakwaaas

📖.

nocturnalpoets

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allan Poe

litsocials

15.04.20 || my semester starts next week and i will have all my classes online which i've never had before. I'm nERVOUS and i still have so much to do and to read before classes start..

studislp

HarvardX Free Course: PredictionX Omens, Oracles, & Prophecies

Diviners were experts who accessed the hidden realms that held information about the future, accurately read the signs and acted as intermediaries between the visible and invisible worlds.

Diviners used a variety of tools and practices to predict the future. Roman priests read portentous omens in random natural acts like the appearance of comets or the flight of birds. Ifa and Christian diviners provoked messages through randomized processes like the casting of lots. A special few, like the Oracle of Delphi, were thought to have special abilities that allowed them to directly perceive the future. And astronomer-priests on every continent used non-random occurrences, like the motion of the planets, to divine future events. Today we draw boundaries between the domains of religion, philosophy, and science, but for thousands of years no such distinctions existed. Many so-called priests were also astronomers and astrologers, philosophers and mathematicians, advisors and diviners.

Once a year in ancient Egypt, the statue of Amun-Ra, the sun god, was carried out of its temple on a bark or palanquin and answer the questions of a lucky few. Prediction systems were embedded within cultural traditions that included public events and brought people together as a community at specific dates and times. Religious icons established social hierarchies and relations, and interactions with a common story allowed people to understand themselves in relation to something larger and older than any individual.

Every culture, no matter how distinct, seems to create and develop different ways to predict the future. Though the predictive systems are as unique and varied as the cultures themselves, certain features transcend the differences. Conceptions of the future, interpretation of hidden realms, and prediction as cultural tradition appear in civilizations divided by oceans, mountain ranges, and millennia.

(I do not claim this material, I pulled it out from my HarvardX class lecture. I thought it was interesting)

lizzibennet

jane austen really just repeatedly said “the sexiest thing a man can be is kind, selfless, attentive and honest about his feelings” and, as always, she was correct every single time