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Todays English word of the day is: Ubiquity

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Maintaining Optimistic Mindset In Adversity

3 Daily Behavioral Patterns to Maintain OptimisticAn optimistic mindset is essential right now, and these 3 phrases help provide the proper lens of learned opti

3 Daily Behavioral Patterns to Maintain Optimistic

An optimistic mindset is essential right now, and these 3 phrases help provide the proper lens of learned optimism

This will not last forever.

This is not changing everything.

Your effort will make a difference.

These three phrases form the basis of Martin Seligman’s theory of learned optimism, a guide for how to frame adversity that has been found to effectively reduce anxiety. It is profound and very helpful in the current crisis. Before we explore each of these phrases a little more, let’s clarify a common misconception what optimism is – and what it isn’t.

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Why It's Hard to Escape Amazon's Long Reach - Wired https://nzzl.us/cK6jO88 via @nuzzel

"While its retail business is the most visible to consumers, the cloud computing arm, Amazon Web Services, is the cash cow."

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Because of its cultural pervasiveness, radical skepticism also seeps into the church. Christians cannot avoid wrestling with the questions culture is asking. If belief in God is irrational, as Dawkins argues, why should we believe in Him? If the New Testament is unreliable, as Ehrman argues, why should we trust what it says? Radical skepticism becomes an obstacle to faith for unbelievers, and a temptation for believers to abandon the faith. In the language of Paul, radical skepticism is a “stronghold” (2 Corinthians 10:4,5). What do Christians do with strongholds? “We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” Apologetics refutes skeptical arguments so unbelievers can become believers and believers can mature spiritually. Therefore, in our cultural context, both evangelism and discipleship require apologetics.

George Wood

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The Banality of the Banality of Evil

The Banality of the Banality of Evil

The Banality of the Banality of Evil, part of Banksy’s “Better Out than In” series. New York, 2013

Graffiti artist Banksy’s self proclaimed “Artist in Residence” stay in New York City in October 2013 resulted in some pretty epic pieces of graffiti being plastered all over the city. Die hard fans of the artist know that he does not shy away from making controversial political statements and…

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my entire blog and its aesthetics are fucked up because of two losers who send me bullshit i do not WANT TO REVISIT

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i DINdnt FUCKGNG  ask for thIS S S

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If you are anywhere on the Internet, anywhere at all, you cannot avoid it. When did that happen? When did we make that transition? Everyone I have asked has different answers, and I suppose we will never settle it definitively. All we can do now is accept it. This is the Internet in which we all live from here on out and there is no good to be had from complaining about it because it will not change.

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