#decision-making quotes

[hamletthedane]

Love that Oppenheimer is a deeply disturbing horror movie about a man forced to accept that he is, in a person, the representative manifestation of mankind’s evil in committing one of the greatest horrors of human history - LITERALLY acting as the modern Prometheus, tormented by his sins for the remainder of time. Knowing that he will never be pitied and his actions will forever be utterly unforgivable because the blood of genocide and the potential of total human annihilation will eternally drip from his hands.

But also the simultaneous indictment by the film that to blame a single person for the Manhattan Project is to refuse to accept your own capacity for great evil if the ends ever seem to justify the means, and the culpability of every member of a species that lets itself create something so unspeakably terrible.

Hate that twitter’s take on such a nuanced and brilliantly handled examination of those issues is “movie bad because protagonist not evil enough.”

[lesvianism]

having a lot of thoughts and feelings about this comparison

[yunogf]

"The first thing that came to me was I didn't want to make something obvious for my solo...This solo album is purely, entirely mine, so my thoughts play the biggest role. The difference is that I have the biggest input in it...while working as a group, when we filmed NCT 127 music videos, there were many times when it was a lot about my face shot just close up. There are a lot of those moments, like 0.1 seconds of [a close up shot] of my face. I was that kind of member, so up until now, if I showed that image a lot, there are more things I can show beyond that as well. I've got lots more to show...so what I thought was I wanted to do something different from what I've been showing since debut, different from what people expect of me." - Jaehyun, "The Journey of 'J' | Part 2"

[marksandrec]

Welp.

Anyway happy weed number day to those who celebrate

[crabrat]

James: So I’m in the store looking for some garam masala (hot spice)……but you’re not here!

James: [the most obnoxious wink ever ]

Regulus:

[mswyrr]

Reminder that Lucy Gray herself wrote the first Snowbaird happy au fanfic

[crazydaymycrazyway]

Bond: If you take a shot for every bad decisions you make, what state would you be in?

Albert: Sober

Bond: ...you seem to me to be the type of person to make a ton of them though

Moran: Oh yes he does. It's just he doesn't ever f**king get drunk

[blackswaneuroparedux]

No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair.

- General George S. Patton

Patton never minced his words because he lived them out. The great World War Two general believed he could not lead his men effectively unless he got his hands dirty himself. That way he could understand exactly what he was asking of them. Hence his belief that a good leader should, “Do everything you ask of those you command.” His inspirational style and aura rubbed off on people fighting beside him, and it came from setting a personal example.

[palatinewolfsblog]

"Character is how you treat those who can do nothing for you." Attributed to Nelson Mandela.

[cod-dump]

*Rudy and Soap are intensely staring at each other, not a word being said*

*Alejandro and Ghost are in the background wrestling*

Rudy: …

Soap: …

Rudy: Want to switch husbands?

Soap: Sure

[danthropologie]

Ricciardo opens up on his McLaren departure: “I didn't care anymore" | Goodwood Road and Racing

[kakairuprobably]

[Kakairu with naruto as their child, probably]

Naruto : Sensei, can I go to the store and get ice cream?

Kakashi : why? what did Iruka say?

Naruto: he said no

Kakashi : then why should I let you?

Naruto : he's not the boss of you.

Kakashi , internally: this is a trap this is a trap this is a trap this is a t-

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

CALIBORN: LET ME GET ONE THING FuCKING STRAIGHT. I'M FuCKING MANIACAL. I'M ABSOLuTELY FRANTIC. I'M MAD DOG. I'M BERSERK. I'M GOING WILD FuCKING INSANE. I'M A CYCLE PATH.

CALIBORN: I WAKE uP AT 11:30 AND DRINK FLAT MOuNTAIN DEW. Y'ALL ACTuALLY CHEW YOuR SPAGHETTI? WEAK. PATHETIC. uGLY. I SWALLOW IT DOWN MY SLIPPERY GuLLET LIKE IT'S NOTHING.

CALIBORN: I GO TO KuNG Fu LESSONS ON TuESDAY AND SATuRDAY SO I CAN KICK YOUR ASS. I FLuNG MYSELF INTO A NYQuIL-INDuCED 5-HOuR NAP AT 2:00 PM AND WHEN I WOKE uP I COULDN'T SEE SO I JuST WENT BACK TO BED AND WHEN I WOKE uP IT WAS NEXT WEEK.

[shalom-iamcominghome]

Today we are all Jews by choice. Usually we say this of those who undertake the great transformative journey of converting. But if we look a little bit deeper, in an open society we are all Jews by choice. ... Nobody is looking over our shoulders: we are completely free to decide whether and to what extent we want to make Judaism a part of our lives.

... If I want to feel a spiritual presence in my life, I can't wait until all the evidence is in about whether God exists or not. I have to begin with an affirmation—a declaration, as it were, of what's important to me. I have to make a leap. The promise of Judaism or any spiritual system is that if we make that leap, things will begin to open for us. Transformation will start to happen.

The leap that Judaism asks us to make is not a leap of faith, but a leap of action. Ta'amu u-re'u, as Psalms 34:9 tells us: Taste and see. This will only become a reality if you dare to get your feet wet. Do you hunger for spirituality? Take on some form of spiritual practice and you will begin to satisfy that hunger. Start as small as you want. Our tradition has a saying: perform one holy deed, and another will quickly come in its wake.

-Jewish with Feeling, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi. 2005, p. 115-116

[svsss-fanon-exposed]

I saw someone saying that I “add my headcanons to my meta posts” and I just wanted to address that idea.

First, my posts are mainly for three purposes: to present quotes directly from canon, to examine original wordings and translation/cultural connotations, and lastly to provide my own analysis and interpretation of the quotes based off of what is said in canon and what can be reasonably inferred.

It’s not “my own headcanons.” It is meta analysis.

Even so— I point out the parts of my posts which are based on my interpretation instead of direct evidence. It’s not presenting headcanons within meta posts as canon, or basing analysis off of headcanons. I base analysis off of evidence, and make it clear when it’s analysis and interpretation. I also like to state multiple potential explanations and theories where they exist— sometimes I will also say which I ascribe to, but leave it up to readers to make their choices.

If I state something as fact, it is because it is backed up in the text or through cultural and linguistic details.

If you read one of my posts and think that I’m “including my headcanons” then please, please let me know, because I want these to be as accurate as possible. Don’t just vague-post about me! Because guess what, I’m human and make mistakes, and maybe I miss some detail or forget to add an “in my interpretation” clause. Or maybe there is canonical basis for my statement but it isn’t the post’s topic so I didn’t include it, in which case I would respond to your question with the quotes— for example, my recent post regarding Ning Yingying’s age.

Anyway. I don’t really care about being right the first time around, but I do care about being right by the end of it, so if I get something wrong or miss something tell me. Don’t make comments about me “adding my headcanons to my meta posts” like it’s some kind of intentional misleading. Because that’s what I am explicitly trying not to do and would appreciate the chance to either present my case or edit my post to match canon.

[thepersonalwords]

If you care about what people think about you, you will end up being their slave. Reject and pull your own rope.

Auliq Ice