February 2012
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People who defend smoking cigarettes. →
I don’t get it.
The following is the dumbest logic I’ve ever seen. If your lungs are in working order, the tar and other chemicals isn’t going to automatically just sit there and accumulate because that’s not what bodies are designed to do. It will take years of damage to make your body less efficient at processing the chemicals, and at a different rate for each person....
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Tumblr Staff: A New Policy Against Self-Harm Blogs →
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One of the great things about Tumblr is that people use it for just about every conceivable kind of expression. People being people, though, that means that Tumblr sometimes gets used for things that are just wrong. We are deeply committed to supporting and defending our users’ freedom of speech,…
Shit son. Tumblr’s going after the thinspo world. Bets on what percentage of...
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Good news of the day
I don’t have to continue in Biology! Woooooooooooooo! If I can survive the next 3 labs and final exam, I won’t have to worry about this anymore!
And even more exciting: in the summer I might be taking a History course all about witch craft!
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Minor differences →
omg
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jtotheizzoe:
The Forgetting Pill: Can We Erase Painful Memories?
If you could take a pill that would erase any memory, would you take it? Traumatic memories can be painful, debilitating baggage, persisting for decades and often difficult to control. Previous therapies involved discussing traumatic memories in detail, but new models of the elastic and networked basis of memory have demonstrated...
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“How do you let go of attachment to things? Don’t even try. It’s impossible....”
– Eckhart Tolle
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“It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their...”
– Rollo May
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“Madness, like crime, was a loss of self-control, a straying from the path of...”
– Michael Ignatieff
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“How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?”
– Cormac McCarthy; No Country for Old Men
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“The women we really love are the women who complete us, who have the qualities...”
– Robertson Davies, The Manticore
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Can’t focus on my History homework because all I can think about is how much I hate Biology. Four days until I see an advisor.
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“But all our lives we’ve been treading paper in the space between the...”
– Thrice
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“Money is terrible. It’s just a depressing way of boiling our wonderful world...”
– Charlie Brooker
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“When enough is enough, that’s when you know that you’re halfway...”
– Rise Against
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So attractive.
I wish my body had a little hidden screen so that if I do something it doesn’t like, it can just tell me what I did. I have another rash on my face and I can only think of one unlikely thing it could be (medication).
I just love leaving my house with burning, red, bumpy cheeks.
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“And now you know that you can choose to lose
the part in your heart where your...”
– Linkin Park
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Too stressed out to study for my midterm in 5 hours.
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“Of the 29 experts writing DSM-5, 21 received honoraria, consultancy fees or...”
– Reason #1 you and I should not put blind faith in psychiatry.
Why full disclosure is healthy - New Scientist
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Join Good Reads and then add me. →
It’s like a social network for books. You know you want to.
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“If there is a fear of falling, the only safety consists in deliberately jumping.”
– Carl Jung
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“You know what I would do for love. But no one ever asked me how far I would go,...”
– I Wrote This For You
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Indian giver →
“If god takes life he’s an Indian-giver” suddenly makes sense now.
Wikipedia, in all its elegance:
The phrase can be considered offensive,[3][4] particularly to American Indians.[5]
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“- But people are people, not trolls or archetypes.
- Yes, and our great task is...”
– Robertson Davies
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Do some cultures have their own ways of going mad?... →
denyinghipster:
In short, yes but no.
Ironically relevant.
“Depending on whom you ask, the notion that some cultures have their own ways of going crazy is either the ultimate in cultural sensitivity or the ultimate in Western condescension.”
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Psychological anthropology, what up. →
I have this other problem where I love every single class I have taken so far in university and I wish I could major in everything.
This one might have teeth. We’ll see. If I ever get around to connecting with a senior tutor about figuring out my life choices…
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Is GPS All in Our Heads? | NYTimes.com →
IT’S a question that probably every driver with a Garmin navigation device on her dashboard has asked herself at least once: What did we ever do before GPS? How did people find their way around, especially in places they’d never been before?
Like most questions asked in our tech-dependent era, these underestimate the power of the human mind. It is surprisingly good at developing “mental maps”...
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“People do have control over their lives because we hate the idea what we have...”
– My anthro prof. I clearly don’t go to class enough. When did anthropology turn into philosophy?