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When you see people as walking mounds of dirt, sentient and capable, suddenly the world becomes a more beautiful place.

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This literally just tells me that psych medication dulls you off your passions, and markets that unpassionate state as "no longer mentally ill," when you were just a passionate person. I've noticed a lot of people stop being attracted to their mates as well as a result of ssris, etc. Idc, damage is damage, and the hypocratic oath states you will not do damage. People will fight me on this, but that's their drugs talking. And anyone drugged isn't in a stable state of mind, so their opinions are invalid as far as I'm concerned.

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headcanon that percy likes to occasionally drop into the news reports and crime cases against him just to hear himself described as "percy jackson, 16, tall, well built, framed for terrorism, anarchy, murder....." and be like

"🥺you think im well built ��👈❤️??"

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Even with a warrant from the judge he would not be able to enter. He would have to rely on his human partner to be invited in, who would always seem to thereafter state to his overly polite vampire coworker that he can "come on in," allowing passage over the threshold.

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"what do I do if I have theories" will always be the fucking funniest reddit post

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New Galaxies TM164 (detail) © Peter Solarz

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A Cord of Hope

In a provocative image, the talmudic Sage R. Abbahu imagines that God created and destroyed multiple worlds before creating the one we now inhabit (Bereishit Rabbah 3:7). Commenting on this midrash, R. Joseph Soloveitchik strikingly observes that “here we have God not only creating, as in the Biblical text, but also recreating, rebuilding after destructions.” Why is this important? Because, R. Soloveitchik suggests, the way God is portrayed here is meant to teach us a profound ethical and spiritual lesson: “As God creates and recreates… so too, should [human beings] be ready to rebuild and reconstruct, even as previous structures collapse.” This is not easy, Soloveitchik admits: “To build initially is difficult, but to rebuild is even more challenging.” Faced with destruction and devastation, we are nevertheless “bidden to start over again with faith and resourcefulness, as God did. … This, then, is what the Torah requires of [human beings]: to act, to create and, when necessary, to recreate, even as did the Divine Creator.” To be tasked with being God’s partner, in other words, is not simply to be presented with raw materials and told to build. It is, at least some of the time, to be confronted by horrible loss—by confusion about the past and uncertainty about the future, by the temptation to succumb to despair and fatigue—and to somehow manage to choose life instead. And yet that choice can feel—and be—so hard. To buoy myself lately, I have been reflecting on the Hebrew word for hope, tikvah, which also means “thread,” as in the phrase tikvat hut ha-shani, the cord of crimson thread that Rahab hangs outside of her window as a sign for Joshua and the Israelites to let her family live (Joshua 2:18). I find myself thinking: sometimes hope is little more than a very slender thread, but that thread is everything, almost literally salvaging life from the grips of death. A verse in Job reflects on the hope suggested by a tree: איוב יד:ז כִּי יֵשׁ לָעֵץ תִּקְוָה אִם־יִכָּרֵת וְעוֹד יַחֲלִיף וְיֹנַקְתּוֹ לֹא תֶחְדָּל׃ Job 14:7 There is hope (tikvah) for a tree: if it is cut down it will renew itself; its shoots will not cease. A chopped-down tree may look dead, but under the surface there is the possibility of more life. This same hopefulness is captured by a verse in Isaiah using an almost identical metaphor to foretell the messianic redemption: ישעיה יא:א וְיָצָא חֹטֶר מִגֵּזַע יִשָׁי :וְנֵצֶר מִשָּׁרָשָׁיו יִפְרֶה Isaiah 11:1 A shoot shall grow out of the stump of Jesse, a twig shall sprout forth from his roots. Perhaps this is our task: to affirm (to insist) that, even if much of what we care about most is hanging by a thread, growth, change, and renewal can (will?) yet come.

-- Rabbi Shai Held, Hadar Institute

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Sometimes I see some variety of North American Little Guy (opossum, raccoon, etc. ) and I’m like “okay”

BUT THEN I start thinking about how excited somebody from not-North-America would be to see this Guy. Like, would an Australian be excited to see the only marsupial not from their country? Are there raccoons in zoos on the other side of the world that are regarded as unique and exotic creatures? Idk but it’s made me more excited to see Guys in my area.

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I'm really surprised how many young fiber art people don't know that they can get pattern books from their local library. So as a PSA:

Your local public library has pattern books! They have crochet, knitting, weaving, and quilting pattern books! If they don't have the book you want, or the craft you want, you can ask for us to get it for you! It's free!

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Suzanne Rivecca, Ugly Bitter and True

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huge fan of reading and learning, but also an even bigger fan of sleeping and being unconscious.

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Adam Parrish really is THE character cuz he's a bisexual magical straight A student with self worth issues but he also casually killed a guy and was like "why do i have to do everything myself- gansey stop screaming- you're welcome"

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Virginia Woolf, from her novel titled "The Voyage Out," originally published in 1915