#great thoughts

[obliteratedknees]

I think men need at least a masters in gender studies before they're allowed to be in positions of power

[artist-issues]

yo, some of the stuff on your blog has finally given me the ability to articulate something I haven't been able to before. (this'll be long but I don't think you'll mind lol)

the reason I've had such an issue with a lot of the "think critically of your media" sentiment I see online, is that people aren't really thinking critically about what a story(media) is saying, but what potentially bad thing it could be saying.

people would say "remember that no story is perfect!", but then demand stories be perfect anyway and condemn them as problematic for... not even their actual flaws, just perceived and potential flaws. stories would be condemned as saying something bad just because you could force a bad thing out of them, even if the argument wasn't logically sound. you could never enjoy something without a constant disclaimer of "I pretty promise I'm aware of the bigoted tropes and I don't believe them 😁" . it was exhausting.

as an example: I've seen people condemn the trope of robots or aliens (non-human people) acting like autistic people as implying autistic people aren't human... but it does not at all logically follow "this robot acts autistic, therefore if you're autistic, you're a robot", and none of the stories I know of with autistic "coded" aliens and robots are used to communicate that! yet the trope gets accused of that, even though it usually just exists to say "people should be treated as people even if they're weird", or ask "what if you don't fit in?" or "why do we(humanity generally) act this way? what if we didn't?" etc.

there's nothing inherently wrong with that trope. it's not actually saying anything bad, but people would twist it into saying something bad, and get angry at the pretzel they just made for being twisted!

but that's not actual critical thinking! you're not analyzing something to find out what it is, just what the worst possible thing it could be is (even if it doesn't logically follow). like that cursed mirror from "the snow queen".

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all this to say: your method of asking "what is this story trying to say? what did this story say? and is that true?" is so much better and such a realer example of "critical thinking" than what gets passed off for it a lot of the time.

I appreciate this and agree with all of it!

[aajkesamachar2026]

E.V. Ramaswamy aka Periyar Quotes: पेरियार ने ताजिंदगी किया हिंदू धर्म का विरोध, पढ़ें उनके महान विचार

E.V. Ramaswamy aka Periyar Quotes: पेरियार ने ताजिंदगी किया हिंदू धर्म का विरोध, पढ़ें उनके महान विचार #Ramaswamy #Periyar #Quotes

E.V. Ramaswamy aka Periyar Quotes: दक्षिण भारत में ई.वी. रामास्वामी यानि पेरियार का जन्मदिन मनाया जाता है. पेरियार ने ताजिंदगी हिंदू धर्म और ब्राह्मणवाद का जमकर विरोध किया. उन्होंने तर्कवाद, आत्म सम्मान और महिला अधिकार जैसे मुद्दों पर जोर दिया. जाति प्रथा का घोर विरोध किया. यूनेस्को ने अपने उद्धरण में उन्हें ‘नए युग का पैगम्बर, दक्षिण पूर्व एशिया का सुकरात, समाज सुधार आन्दोलन का पिता, अज्ञानता,…

E.V. Ramaswamy aka Periyar Quotes: पेरियार ने ताजिंदगी किया हिंदू धर्म का विरोध, पढ़ें उनके महान विचार

[focr]

Astronomers tell us that every year millions of meteoric bodies make their way towards our earth with a speed many times greater than that of the swiftest cannon-ball. These, beyond doubt, would strike the earth and destroy its inhabitants but for the air which surrounds it, That air, soft and yielding as it seems, offers so powerful a resistance to the swift motion of the falling meteors that they become vaporized through increased heat, and if they reach the earth at all, it is only in the form of minute meteoric dust. This physical fact has its counterpart in the spiritual realm.

The influences of evil which assail the Christian as he goes through the world are often enough to crush and kill in him all spiritual life and joy and beauty, but round about him there is the atmosphere of the Divine love, and that love resists all evil, being as a consuming fire, keeping back from contact with the trusting soul everything that would destroy its purity and blast its blessedness. The love of God is a perfect protection to every Christian believer; with it around us we can walk with untrembling tread, knowing that no “weapon formed against us can prosper,”

~ Great Thoughts

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[gina025]

Never let someone’s negativity affect your positivity.

Return all bad things to their place of origin.

May you be blessed 😇

[gina025]

May people’s negativity never touch your kindness

May people’s negativity never hurt your heart

May people’s negativity never touch your spirit

Protect your peace at all cost and always

You deserve to be happy

Sending you positive energy

Be blessed