#Refusal

[palatinewolfsblog]

"Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in." Aristotle.

[quotelr]

A sincere decision to make is to refuse to give up until the society experiences the defeat of every form of injustice and ungodliness.

Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

[thepersonalwords]

They want you to use a black umbrella; use yellow, use red, use green and always refuse the thing they want you to use! Refusal is often more honourable than conformity!

Mehmet Murat ildan

[virtuouslibertines69]

"We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden itself." - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

Speaking is impossible, but so too would be silence or absence or a refusal to share one’s sadness.

Jacques Derrida, The Works of Mourning

[foxboy-thing]

A vent

A rant, even. I don't know what tw tags I should put here other than a general vent tw. Stay safe and be nice to yourself!

I want an autism evaluation by an actual specialist but every time I bring it up with my mom she just says that I'm not autistic. I can't bring it up with her without me crying afterwards and even when she says she will look into it she makes it seem like such a big burden on her. I've taken a whole bunch of screening tests and I've always scored higher than the autistic threshold. I think that if I wasn't gifted and talented I'd have been diagnosed by now. I was verbally diagnosed by a therapist when I was 13 but it wasn't legal or put on my record. There's basically zero teen autism diagnosis services in my area so I feel really stuck. My irl friends are super supportive of me and my self identification so I feel safe at school with them around. I thought about talking to the school phycologist about it but my mom might have been contacted about it and just the thought of that makes my stomach hurt. My mom said that a doctor could just look at me and tell that I'm not autistic but I don't know who to trust and how to feel. I feel really stuck.

[randomreasonstolive]

Reason to Live #9469

 Refusing to do things that cross my boundaries.  – Guest Submission

(Please don't add negative comments to these posts.)

[vasilinaorlova]

What would you refuse that others desire?

[shortmeteor]

Mazzarato's book on Duchamp is so good. Short, sweet, to the point, clear, fun and just ... good. Read it! It matters. It is useful It is about art and work and the world. It is about refusing to participate in this shit world. It is about identity. It is short and clear and profound. It is easy and meaningful.

[theoffingmag]

Theo LeGro, "The first time I pried a blade from your fist I told myself never again"

[music-fr34k]

"Hey, nice that the speaker works so good but- how about you two switch to headphones for now. You have two headphones, remember?"

@genius-in-training

“Why? It’s not even that loud-”

[palatinewolfsblog]

Do not live half a life

and do not die a half death.

If you choose silence, then be silent.

When you speak, do so until you are finished.

If you accept, then express it bluntly.

Do not mask it.

If you refuse then be clear about it

for an ambiguous refusal is but a weak acceptance.

Do not accept half a solution.

Do not believe half truths.

Do not dream half a dream.

Do not fantasize about half hopes.

Half the way will get you nowhere.

You are a whole that exists to live a life

not half a life.

Khalil Gibran.

[quotelr]

When people refuse to pay the price of personal responsibility for the problems of the nation, these same people end up paying the high price of irresponsibility, which is often in tragedy and sorrow.

Sunday Adelaja

[howifeltabouthim]

No, I said, no. I believe in no. I believe in a hard, resistant, diamantine no. No and no again. No, I will not. No and never and not. I prefer not to. I have grown sick to death of yes. Oh yes, I will. Yes, certainly, of course, yes, darling, yes, sweetheart. Yes, yes, yes. And she said yes.

Siri Hustvedt, from The Blazing World

[perry-urban]

so ive been considering at what age it becomes appropriate for one to make a blog and begin airing out their fermented thought-forms in an attempt to reclaim the vessel. the answer is never. people are not entitled to be heard about anything. a blog is an adamant refusal to admit that your words are worthless in the face of all human experience. so why are things still said?

[cmweller]

Challenge #03951-J299: What Do You Mean, Again?

A young god offers to make Wraithvine a god. They do not know that Wraithvine is already a 'living god' worshipped by an ever-growing number of individuals. They only know how kind the gentle elf is, yet how strong and firm, they are, and wanted to reward them for all that they have done. -- Anon Guest

Deification is weird. Gods are wont to spring forth from any number of causes. Some mortals meet extraordinary circumstances, like falling into the well of magic. Some mortals killed a fallen god and therefore inherited all the residual devotion from their warlocks-turned-clerics. Some are just so gosh-darn legendary that deification happens through public faith.

One became a minor god by building a small shrine to see which god arrived[1].

This one had risen out of a necessary need, with people praying for their mercy shortly after they gave them a name. Myazmar most often took form as an ill-smelling cloud, but was personified as a filthy person of uncertain gender. That was how ze appeared to Wraithvine when the Eternal Wizard arrived.

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