#toimagine

[sha-biest]

idk if splinter it still alive but, I like toimagine something like this:

splinter looks at his granddaughter

looks at mikey

looks at granddaughter

I am grandfather…

I AM GRANDPA

That is very accurate 😂🙏 Splinter is still alive, yes! He just travels around a lot with his husband

[my-prompt-dump]

you guys think it woud be fun to have a Hazbin Hotel x Supernatural crossover?

like in an au where Lucifer still didthe things he did on spn but after everything, and after having Charlie, said he can’t do it. idrc about the details but I like toimagine after Sam dies, he visits hell withDean and Lucifer is nervous as hell havig him as a guest cos of u know, shit that happened.

Charlie and the others baffled because who could be making the king of hell this panicky.

theyre surprised that it’s just a normal human soul that just arrived.

[alysseaallyn]

Inspired Pleasure

Writing is a Refuge

Diary of a Dancer   11Am Tues 17 Jan 78Reading Evelyn Waugh’s diaries over my third cup of coffeewith open mouthed amazement.  It seems almost a work of fiction. Try toimagine these whines and wails ever appearing in print! Imposserous BertLahr would say. Thank God for The Victorian High Colonic: a pre-mortembonfire. Highly recommended, my dear. 7:30 PM No word from J so I assume he is really…

[winfredkao]

14 years ago & now 🔥 #whynot #toimagine https://www.instagram.com/p/BwbOPs2HCYk/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=zaa194uuyd6l

[irrfahrer]

Gasping overly dramatic the young woman placed a small paw on her chest, throwing her head back too theatralically to be serious. During her little preformance Ziv grabbed tot he small white desk next to the biobed and pulled out a package of wound-closure-stripes: “Oh no, Master, now that sure had hurt my feelings! Are you trusting my skills so little?!” Then, not skipping a beat, she tapped her claw against the inside of Avoirs elbow, blocking with the Force with the right pressure on the right points the electric signals of the Nervus ulnaris, Nervus radialis  and Nervus medianus so that his hand turned into a numb, painless piece of flesh and bone for a second.  Before the second ended, she held her paw over where she was feeling the shrapnel in the mans hand and pulled it to herself towards her paw, carefully making sure the piece of metal would not cut any more of the tissue it had cut when entering his hand. The moment she closed her paw around the tiny piece of metal Ziv had already cleaned the broken open injury with the antiseptic spray and pinched the edges of the injury together with wound-closure-stripes. Only than she  loosed the blockade on the nerves she had set so that instead of a sharp pain of the shrapnel there was now the itching sensation of a cleaned and bandaged wound. Ziv placed the mans hand in her lap and looked at the small metalpiece in her paw, turning it curiously between her webbed fingers like a precious jewel as she tried to figure out what part of Avoirs lightsaber this had been.

“Oh wonderful, as if I needed another reason to never-kriffing-ever touch my Lightsaber again. Thank you for that story, Master Hedtlet.”, As if to show how uncomfortable imagining this scenario was makign her, the Tynnans fur bristled a little, poofing up like from electricity. She did not wanted to imagine any further what exoploding lightsabers could do to the wielder. She did not wanted toimagin what a exploding Lightsaber would do to her. She did not wanted to imagine what exploding lightsabers could do to Hedtlet. She did not wanted to imagine sitting again by his bedside, hoping that he would soon wake up. She did not wanted to imagine beeing alone again. So the young woman just took the mans injured hand, placed it on her lap and while holding it in her paws she started to carefully and softly use the Force to weave the layers of sinews, tissue and skin togeth rlike one would weave a carpet. There was a warm spark of her own lifenergy manipulating his celldeviding into using that given enrgy to speed up the healing in a inhumanly tempo so that, after a few breaths, only a faint pale line as smooth as glass was left on Avoirs hand. She continue to hold his bigger hand, warming it with her small paws:  “Huh, you are kriffing elenctic today, are you? I guess, when you have the same injuries as that poor youngling-Kriffer, than the explosion in your Lightsaber had gone the same route and went through the kriffing blade emitter? Which means -” The Tynann blinked, wriggling her ears and then pinning them back like a humanoid would furrow their eyebrows: “- huh, I have no kriffing idea what that means. Your lightsaber had too much energy for the emitter to handle? As if it had taken in the blasterbolt as- I don´t kriffing know-  extraenergy? But that would not make any kriffing sense.”

They were pirates. That's what Avoir remembered. They were pirates, and they broke into the ship. He pulled out his lightsaber, and they shouted... something. Then they shot at him, he deflected the shots...

No. His lightsaber had absorbed the shots. Like a sponge soaking up water. That, he couldn't forget. Then his lightsaber started acting strange, like whatever it had just absorbed was making it sick.

His lightsaber started to heat up, almost burning his hand, and then...

Light. Burning light that purged all it touched. Then darkness, complete and utter void.

But now, there was light. A familiar light, that he could recognize even with his eye closed. The light of a sickbay?

Avoir opened his eye, his cybernetic side reconnecting to his brain.

It was all a blur at first, until he saw a face he always enjoyed seeing. His Padawan, his student, his friend.

@irrfahrer said: "You know? You look pretty good in white." Ziv, sitting beside Hedtlet in the sickbay, gave him a grin that was uncomfortably full of very sharp teeth.

He returned the expression. "Good, because of all the concerns I have, how I look in white is certainly one of them.”

Avoir brought a hand to his face, and felt the side of his face that was still flesh. It was covered in bandages. He started feeling lower on his body, and the bandages continued, until he got to his chest.

“Did they say what happened to me?”

[vampiimuffin]

No one has ever cared for me as much as you do... #ScaryLove #💀❤️ . . . . . . #theneighbourhood #thenbhd #mx #🇲🇽 #elplazacondesa #ScaryLoveSingle #toimagine #ep (at Plaza Condesa (Ocesa))

[sayyoullstaytamera]

This weeks #traveltuesdays✈️ is to the walls of #derrylondonderry which I visited in 2015 on my first #contiki tour. I found this little plaque above one of the door ways on the wall. I found it very inspiring and just had to take a photo to remember #toimagine #tocreate #tolearn If anyone is thinking of visiting #ireland I can definitely recommend visiting #Derry and let’s just say my love for this city has also made #derrygirls on of my favourite shows on #netflix #visitderry #visitlondonderry #visitireland🍀 #leavingsweetlovelyderry #ireland🇨🇮🍀 #me (at Derry walls) https://www.instagram.com/p/BuVLld6gD8J/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1trsvmhg2scgk

[midnxghtsunwrites]

It was yet another night of saving Elena. Needless to say, you hated her — the way she strung along Stefan and Damon and dare say that she and Katherine were nothing alike. You laughed when she said that and frankly walked out of the Boarding House.

You cared for the brothers, of course. It was in your nature to protect them and anyone that you could – you might not like them but you still cared. That also went the same for Elena. You definitely didn't like her but you cared for her.

You have been nursing your bourbon for a good amount of time when you felt a presence beside you. You could tell that he was a vampire without even looking at him. A powerful one.

"Well, darling. You look like you've had a tough day." His accent was strong.

"Haven't we all?" You mumbled under your breath, knowing he could hear you. "What's a vampire like you doing in Mystic Falls?"

You didn't miss the surprise in his tone when he spoke, "What gave it away?"

"I can... Sense it." You said, vaguely.

"Hmm," He smirked, "What else can you sense, darling? What are you, a witch? A hunter?"

You shrugged, "I actually don't know what I am."

"I guess we should find out, shouldn't we?"

[scooby-nubie]

Imagine Elijah Mikaelson being in love with you, a werewolf and he is willing to kill anyone who attempts harm:

[avpdvoidspace]

not sure how common this is but besides ghosts, masks and the Void™ i also relate my avpd to being trapped inside of a bubble. like retreating yourself to your own little world where you see life go past by your own eyes, but you refuse to let yourself out of it or god forbid let anyone inside. i use a lot of imagery but this is a big one that comes to mind lol

I like that, anon. I don't do that exactly, but I like toimagine tiny little rooms for me to vibe in and be away from the rest of the world.

[tseneipgam]

“People easily understand that ‘primitives’ cement their social order by believing in ghosts and spirits, and gathering each full moon to dance together around the campfire. What wefail to appreciate is that our modern institutions function on exactly the same basis. Take forexample the world of business corporations. Modern business-people and lawyers are, in fact,powerful sorcerers. The principal difference between them and tribal shamans is that modernlawyers tell far stranger tales.”

“Telling effective stories is not easy. The difficulty lies not in telling the story, but inconvincing everyone else to believe it. Much of history revolves around this question: howdoes one convince millions of people to believe particular stories about gods, or nations, orlimited liability companies? Yet when it succeeds, it gives Sapiens immense power, because itenables millions of strangers to cooperate and work towards common goals. Just try toimagine how difficult it would have been to create states, or churches, or legal systems if wecould speak only about things that really exist, such as rivers, trees and lions.”

“some evolutionary psychologists argue that ancient foraging bands were notcomposed of nuclear families centred on monogamous couples. Rather, foragers lived in communes devoid of private property, monogamous relationships and even fatherhood. In such a band, a woman could have sex and form intimate bonds with several men (and women) simultaneously, and all of the band’s adults cooperated in parenting its children.Since no man knew definitively which of the children were his, men showed equal concern for all youngsters.Such a social structure is not an Aquarian utopia. It’s well documented among animals,notably our closest relatives, the chimpanzees and bonobos. There are even a number of present-day human cultures in which collective fatherhood is practised, as for example amongthe Barí Indians. According to the beliefs of such societies, a child is not born from the spermof a single man, but from the accumulation of sperm in a woman’s womb. A good mother willmake a point of having sex with several different men, especially when she is pregnant, sothat her child will enjoy the qualities (and paternal care) not merely of the best hunter, butalso of the best storyteller, the strongest warrior and the most considerate lover. If this sounds silly, bear in mind that before the development of modern embryological studies, people had no solid evidence that babies are always sired by a single father rather than by many”

“The forager economy provided most people with more interesting lives than agriculture orindustry do. Today, a Chinese factory hand leaves home around seven in the morning, makesher way through polluted streets to a sweatshop, and there operates the same machine, in thesame way, day in, day out, for ten long and mind-numbing hours, returning home aroundseven in the evening in order to wash dishes and do the laundry. Thirty thousand years ago, aChinese forager might leave camp with her companions at, say, eight in the morning. They’droam the nearby forests and meadows, gathering mushrooms, digging up edible roots,catching frogs and occasionally running away from tigers. By early afternoon, they were backat the camp to make lunch. That left them plenty of time to gossip, tell stories, play with thechildren and just hang out. Of course the tigers sometimes caught them, or a snake bit them,but on the other hand they didn’t have to deal with automobile accidents and industrial pollution.”

“There is no evidence that people became more intelligent with time.Foragers knew the secrets of nature long before the Agricultural Revolution, since theirsurvival depended on an intimate knowledge of the animals they hunted and the plants theygathered. Rather than heralding a new era of easy living, the Agricultural Revolution leftfarmers with lives generally more difficult and less satisfying than those of foragers. Hunter-gatherers spent their time in more stimulating and varied ways, and were less in danger of starvation and disease. The Agricultural Revolution certainly enlarged the sum total of food atthe disposal of humankind, but the extra food did not translate into a better diet or moreleisure. Rather, it translated into population explosions and pampered elites. The averagefarmer worked harder than the average forager, and got a worse diet in return. TheAgricultural Revolution was history’s biggest fraud. Who was responsible? Neither kings, nor priests, nor merchants. The culprits were ahandful of plant species, including wheat, rice and potatoes. These plants domesticated Homo sapiens, rather than vice versa.”

“With the move to permanent villages and the increase in food supply, the population beganto grow. Giving up the nomadic lifestyle enabled women to have a child every year. Babieswere weaned at an earlier age – they could be fed on porridge and gruel. The extra handswere sorely needed in the fields. But the extra mouths quickly wiped out the food surpluses,so even more fields had to be planted. As people began living in disease-ridden settlements,as children fed more on cereals and less on mother’s milk, and as each child competed for his or her porridge with more and more siblings, child mortality soared.”   

“It made sense. If you worked harder, you would havea better life. That was the plan.The first part of the plan went smoothly. People indeed worked harder. But people did notforesee that the number of children would increase, meaning that the extra wheat would haveto be shared between more children. Neither did the early farmers understand that feedingchildren with more porridge and less breast milk would weaken their immune system, andthat permanent settlements would be hotbeds for infectious diseases.”

“from the viewpoint of the herd, rather than that of the shepherd, it’s hard to avoid theimpression that for the vast majority of domesticated animals, the Agricultural Revolutionwas a terrible catastrophe. Their evolutionary ‘success’ is meaningless. A rare wild rhinoceroson the brink of extinction is probably more satisfied than a calf who spends its short lifeinside a tiny box, fattened to produce juicy steaks. The contented rhinoceros is no less contentfor being among the last of its kind. The numerical success of the calf’s species is little consolation for the suffering the individual endures”

“ Most people do not wish to accept that the order governing their lives is imaginary, but in fact every person is born into a pre-existing imagined order, and his or her desires are shaped from birth by its dominant myths. Ourpersonal desires thereby become the imagined order’s most important defences.For instance, the most cherished desires of present-day Westerners are shaped by romantic,nationalist, capitalist and humanist myths that have been around for centuries. Friends givingadvice often tell each other, ‘Follow your heart.’ But the heart is a double agent that usuallytakes its instructions from the dominant myths of the day, and the very recommendation to‘Follow your heart’ was implanted in our minds by a combination of nineteenth-centuryRomantic myths and twentieth-century consumerist myths. The Coca-Cola Company, forexample, has marketed Diet Coke around the world under the slogan, ‘Diet Coke. Do whatfeels good.’Even what people take to be their most personal desires are usually programmed by the imagined order. Let’s consider, for example, the popular desire to take a holiday abroad.There is nothing natural or obvious about this. A chimpanzee alpha male would never thinkof using his power in order to go on holiday into the territory of a neighbouring chimpanzeeband. The elite of ancient Egypt spent their fortunes building pyramids and having theircorpses mummified, but none of them thought of going shopping in Babylon or taking askiing holiday in Phoenicia. People today spend a great deal of money on holidays abroadbecause they are true believers in the myths of romantic consumerism.Romanticism tells us that in order to make the most of our human potential we must haveas many different experiences as we can. We must open ourselves to a wide spectrum of emotions; we must sample various kinds of relationships; we must try different cuisines; wemust learn to appreciate different styles of music. One of the best ways to do all that is tobreak free from our daily routine, leave behind our familiar setting, and go travelling indistant lands, where we can ‘experience’ the culture, the smells, the tastes and the norms of other people. We hear again and again the romantic myths about ‘how a new experienceopened my eyes and changed my life’.Consumerism tells us that in order to be happy we must consume as many products andservices as possible. If we feel that something is missing or not quite right, then we probablyneed to buy a product (a car, new clothes, organic food) or a service (housekeeping,relationship therapy, yoga classes). Every television commercial is another little legend abouthow consuming some product or service will make life better.Romanticism, which encourages variety, meshes perfectly with consumerism. Theirmarriage has given birth to the infinite ‘market of experiences’, on which the modern tourismindustry is founded. The tourism industry does not sell flight tickets and hotel bedrooms. Itsells experiences. Paris is not a city, nor India a country – they are both experiences, theconsumption of which is supposed to widen our horizons, fulfil our human potential, andmake us happier. Consequently, when the relationship between a millionaire and his wife isgoing through a rocky patch, he takes her on an expensive trip to Paris. The trip is not areflection of some independent desire, but rather of an ardent belief in the myths of romanticconsumerism. A wealthy man in ancient Egypt would never have dreamed of solving arelationship crisis by taking his wife on holiday to Babylon. Instead, he might have built forher the sumptuous tomb she had always wanted.”

“Paradoxically, genetic superiority (in terms of immunity) translated intosocial inferiority: precisely because Africans were fitter in tropical climates than Europeans, they ended up as the slaves of European masters!”

“In many societies women were simply the property of men, most often their fathers,husbands or brothers. Rape, in many legal systems, falls under property violation – in other words, the victim is not the woman who was raped but the male who owns her.”

“Many modern Greeks also think that an integral part of being a man is being sexuallyattracted to women only, and having sexual relations exclusively with the opposite sex. Theydon’t see this as a cultural bias, but rather as a biological reality – relations between twopeople of the opposite sex are natural, and between two people of the same sex unnatural. Infact, though, Mother Nature does not mind if men are sexually attracted to one another. It’sonly human mothers steeped in particular cultures who make a scene if their son has a flingwith the boy next door. The mother’s tantrums are not a biological imperative. A significant number of human cultures have viewed homosexual relations as not only legitimate but even socially constructive, ancient Greece being the most notable example.” 

“In truth, our concepts ‘natural’ and unnatural’ are taken not from biology, but fromChristian theology. The theological meaning of ‘natural’ is ‘in accordance with the intentionsof the God who created nature’. Christian theologians argued that God created the humanbody, intending each limb and organ to serve a particular purpose. If we use our limbs andorgans for the purpose envisioned by God, then it is a natural activity. To use them differentlythan God intends is unnatural. But evolution has no purpose. Organs have not evolved with apurpose, and the way they are used is in constant flux. There is not a single organ in thehuman body that only does the job its prototype did when it first appeared hundreds of millions of years ago. Organs evolve to perform a particular function, but once they exist,they can be adapted for other usages as well. Mouths, for example, appeared because theearliest multicellular organisms needed a way to take nutrients into their bodies. We still useour mouths for that purpose, but we also use them to kiss, speak and, if we are Rambo, topull the pins out of hand grenades. Are any of these uses unnatural simply because our worm-like ancestors 600 million years ago didn’t do those things with their mouths?”

“Biologically, humans are divided into males and females. A male Homo sapiens is one who has one X chromosome and one Y chromosome; a female is one with two Xs. But ‘man’ andwoman’ name social, not biological, categories. While in the great majority of cases in mosthuman societies men are males and women are females, the social terms carry a lot of baggage that has only a tenuous, if any, relationship to the biological terms. A man is not aSapiens with particular biological qualities such as XY chromosomes, testicles and lots of testosterone. Rather, he fits into a particular slot in his society’s imagined human order. His culture’s myths assign him particular masculine roles (like engaging in politics), rights (like voting) and duties (like military service). Likewise, a woman is not a Sapiens with two Xchromosomes, a womb and plenty of oestrogen. Rather, she is a female member of animagined human order. The myths of her society assign her unique feminine roles (raising children), rights (protection against violence) and duties (obedience to her husband). Since myths, rather than biology, define the roles, rights and duties of men and women, the meaning of ‘manhood’ and ‘womanhood’ have varied immensely from one society to another.  To make things less confusing, scholars usually distinguish between ‘sex’, which is abiological category, and ‘gender’, a cultural category. Sex is divided between males andfemales, and the qualities of this division are objective and have remained constantthroughout history. Gender is divided between men and women (and some cultures recogniseother categories). So-called ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ qualities are inter-subjective andundergo constant changes. For example, there are far-reaching differences in the behaviour,desires, dress and even body posture expected from women in classical Athens and women inmodern Athens. Sex is child’s play; but gender is serious business. To get to be a member of the male sex isthe simplest thing in the world. You just need to be born with an X and a Y chromosome. Toget to be a female is equally simple. A pair of X chromosomes will do it. In contrast,becoming a man or a woman is a very complicated and demanding undertaking. Since mostmasculine and feminine qualities are cultural rather than biological, no society automaticallycrowns each male a man, or every female a woman. Nor are these titles laurels that can berested on once they are acquired. Males must prove their masculinity constantly, throughouttheir lives, from cradle to grave, in an endless series of rites and performances. And awoman’s work is never done – she must continually convince herself and others that she isfeminine enough.Success is not guaranteed. Males in particular live in constant dread of losing their claim tomanhood. Throughout history, males have been willing to risk and even sacrifice their lives,ust so that people will say ‘He’s a real man!’ ”

“In fact, even today coins and banknotes are a rare form of money. In 2006, the sum total of money in the world is about $60 trillion, yet the sum total of coins and banknotes was less than $6 trillion. More than 90 per cent of all money – more than $50 trillion appearing in our accounts – exists only on computer servers. Accordingly, most business transactions areexecuted by moving electronic data from one computer file to another, without any exchangeof physical cash.”

“The mere fact that Mediterranean people believed ingold would cause Indians to start believing in it as well. Even if Indians still had no real usefor gold, the fact that Mediterranean people wanted it would be enough to make the Indiansvalue it.Similarly, the fact that another person believes in cowry shells, or dollars, or electronicdata, is enough to strengthen our own belief in them, even if that person is otherwise hated,despised or ridiculed by us. Christians and Muslims who could not agree on religious beliefs could nevertheless agree on a monetary belief, because whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something”

“In the 300 years from the crucifixion of Christ to the conversion of Emperor Constantine, polytheistic Roman emperors initiated no more than four general persecutions of Christians. Local administrators and governors incited some anti-Christian violence of their own. Still, if we combine all the victims of all these persecutions, it turns out that in these three centuries, the polytheistic Romans killed no more than a few thousand Christians. In contrast, over the course of the next 1,500 years, Christians slaughtered Christians by the millions to defend slightly different interpretations of the religion of love and compassion. The religious wars between Catholics and Protestants that swept Europe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are particularly notorious”

“So, monotheism explains order, but is mystified by evil. Dualism explains evil, but ispuzzled by order. There is one logical way of solving the riddle: to argue that there is a singleomnipotent God who created the entire universe – and He’s evil. But nobody in history hashad the stomach for such a belief”

“For most of history, humans knew nothing about 99.99 per cent of the organisms on theplanet – namely, the microorganisms. This was not because they were of no concern to us.Each of us bears billions of one-celled creatures within us, and not just as free-riders. Theyare our best friends, and deadliest enemies. Some of them digest our food and clean our guts,while others cause illnesses and epidemics. Yet it was only in 1674 that a human eye first sawa microorganism, when Anton van Leeuwenhoek took a peek through his home-mademicroscope and was startled to see an entire world of tiny creatures milling about in a drop of water.”

“Treating living creatures possessing complex emotional worlds as if they were machines is likely to cause them not only physical discomfort, but also much social stress and psychological frustration.”

“Obesity is a double victory for consumerism. Instead of eating little, which will lead to economic contraction, people eat too much and then buy diet products – contributing to economic growth twice over”

“Previously bride and groom met in thefamily living room, and money passed from the hands of one father to another. Todaycourting is done at bars and cafés, and money passes from the hands of lovers to waitresses.Even more money is transferred to the bank accounts of fashion designers, gym managers,dieticians, cosmeticians and plastic surgeons, who help us arrive at the café looking as similaras possible to the markets ideal of beauty.”

“ As we have seen, new aptitudes, behaviours and skills do not necessarily make for a better life. When humans learned to farm in theAgricultural Revolution, their collective power to shape their environment increased, but thelot of many individual humans grew harsher. Peasants had to work harder than foragers toeke out less varied and nutritious food, and they were far more exposed to disease andexploitation. Similarly, the spread of European empires greatly increased the collective powerof humankind, by circulating ideas, technologies and crops, and opening new avenues of commerce. Yet this was hardly good news for millions of Africans, Native Americans andAboriginal Australians. Given the proven human propensity for misusing power, it seemsnaïve to believe that the more clout people have, the happier they will be.Some challengers of this view take a diametrically opposed position. They argue for areverse correlation between human capabilities and happiness. Power corrupts, they say, andas humankind gained more and more power, it created a cold mechanistic world ill-suited toour real needs. Evolution moulded our minds and bodies to the life of hunter-gatherers. Thetransition first to agriculture and then to industry has condemned us to living unnatural livesthat cannot give full expression to our inherent inclinations and instincts, and thereforecannot satisfy our deepest yearnings. Nothing in the comfortable lives of the urban middleclass can approach the wild excitement and sheer joy experienced by a forager band on asuccessful mammoth hunt. Every new invention just puts another mile between us and theGarden of Eden.Yet this romantic insistence on seeing a dark shadow behind each invention is as dogmaticas the belief in the inevitability of progress. Perhaps we are out of touch with our innerhunter-gatherer, but it’s not all bad. For instance, over the last two centuries modernmedicine has decreased child mortality from 33 per cent to less than 5 per cent. Can anyone doubt that this made a huge contribution to the happiness not only of those children who would otherwise have died, but also of their families and friends?”

“We can congratulate ourselves on the unprecedented accomplishments of modernSapiens only if we completely ignore the fate of all other animals. Much of the vauntedmaterial wealth that shields us from disease and famine was accumulated at the expense of laboratory monkeys, dairy cows and conveyor-belt chickens. Over the last two centuries tensof billions of them have been subjected to a regime of industrial exploitation whose crueltyhas no precedent in the annals of planet Earth. If we accept a mere tenth of what animal-rights activists are claiming, then modern industrial agriculture might well be the greatestcrime in history. When evaluating global happiness, it is wrong to count the happiness only of the upper classes, of Europeans or of men. Perhaps it is also wrong to consider only the happiness of humans”

“Kahneman found that when counting moments of oy and moments of drudgery, bringing up a child turns out to be a rather unpleasant affair. Itconsists largely of changing nappies, washing dishes and dealing with temper tantrums,which nobody likes to do. Yet most parents declare that their children are their chief sourceof happiness. Does it mean that people don’t really know what’s good for them?That’s one option. Another is that the findings demonstrate that happiness is not thesurplus of pleasant over unpleasant moments. Rather, happiness consists in seeing one’s life inits entirety as meaningful and worthwhile. There is an important cognitive and ethicalcomponent to happiness. Our values make all the difference to whether we see ourselves as ‘miserable slaves to a baby dictator’ or as ‘lovingly nurturing a new life’. As Nietzsche p”ut it,if you have a why to live, you can bear almost any how. A meaningful life can be extremely satisfying even in the midst of hardship, whereas a meaningless life is a terrible ordeal no matter how comfortable it is.”

“Physicists define the Big Bang as a singularity. It is a point at which all the known laws of nature did not exist. Time too did not exist. It is thus meaningless to say that anything existed‘before’ the Big Bang. We may be fast approaching a new singularity, when all the conceptsthat give meaning to our world – me, you, men, women, love and hate – will becomeirrelevant. Anything happening beyond that point is meaningless to us”

[arcticgirlradioactive-blog]

Heaven it's hella lit ���🙌🏻 #ToImagine #theneighbourhood #Heaven #Compass #jesserutherford #zachabels #music @thenbhd @jesserutherford

[twohoursmattpinfield]

THE NEIGHBOURHOOD – Jesse, Jeremy, Zach, and Mikey on prolific recording sessions for series of EPs, working with producer Lars Stalfors, and growing up friends in SoCal https://audioboom.com/posts/6590669-the-neighbourhood-jesse-jeremy-zach-and-mikey-on-prolific-recording-sessions-for-series-of-eps-working-with-producer-lars-stalfors-and-growing-up-friends-in-socal

[anyescortusa]

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So as to get whatever you could ever imagine in the room, the key is actually very simple. Right here it is ...

- GIVE YOUR LADY AMAZING SEX.

Seriously, when you offer your woman amazing sex - she will willingly do basically ANYTHING you desire in the bed room. Provide her great sex and also all the impact jobs you might ever imagine will be your own. You'll likewise be much more likely to get her to desire ANAL SEX as well as even team sex (if that's your point).

Currently, let me inform you how to give your lady impressive sex ... First, you have to know that incredible sex is not offering your female one clitoral orgasm using your tongue or fingers. You can offer her an ORGASM by doing this - however that is not remarkable sex (it's just okay sex).

Impressive sex is the sort of sex that triggers your lady to brag to her friends regarding how great you are. Impressive sex is the sort of sex that makes your lady consider you as "the most effective she's ever before had". And also to provide your woman remarkable sex, you need to provide her lots of kinds of climax. Give her clitoral orgasms, VAGINAL climaxes as well as MULTIPLE climaxes.

Offer her climaxes so hard therefore effective they bring a tear to her eye. Provide her orgasms that make her scream your name so loudly it wakes the neighbours. Essentially, provide her sexual satisfaction like very couple of guys recognize just how to offer a woman. Do that and she will certainly be permanently grateful, meaning that all the strike JOBS and various other rowdy points that you desire from your woman in the room, will certainly become yours. Guaranteed.

In order to give your woman great sex as well as great deals of climax, you should do several points that the "typical man" does not do. For starters, you need to respect your female outside of the room. Just when you appreciate your woman will certainly she totally open up to you and also surrender to you in the bed room https://anyescortusa.com/.

Next off, you have to always tell the truth as well as be a male of your word. This builds depend on. When you have a standard level of depend on, you can after that go on to build SEXUAL depend on with your lady. Without sex-related trust your woman will never ever obtain actually naughty with you in the bed room.

So if you desire all the strike jobs and anal sex you could ever before visualize - never lie or be dishonest with your lady.

INSIDE THE bed room you need to take control and also lead your female. Females are sexually submissive and also they like solid, sexually positive, macho males. When you come to be that type of guy and also take control of your woman, she will certainly love you for it.

Please remember that you should only TAKE CONTROL inside the bedroom. Your lady does not desire you to regulate her beyond the room. As a matter of fact, males who try to control their ladies outside of the bed room are the specific opposite of what females desire. They are weak, clingy and unconfident.

To offer your lady great sex you need to also TALK DIRTY. Females enjoy filthy talk because it promotes their mind (as well as for ladies, sex is really mental). Numerous guys hesitate to talk dirty, but you need to "step up" and utilize your voice in the room if you wish to become "the most effective your female has actually ever had".

There is nothing else choice. Various other things you should do to give your woman terrific sex are to use techniques like The Welcomed Approach as well as The Deep Area Method to offer her climaxes like no male will certainly have done in the past.

And likewise remember to do things in different ways each time you make love with your lady. Make love to her in lots of ways as well as in numerous places - otherwise points will obtain dull. As well as if you enable the sex to obtain monotonous - your lady will certainly quit wanting it. I'll finish by providing you two powerful examples from my very own personal life.

With my initial partner (prior to I truly exercised what terrific sex was) I had the sort of irritating sex life that numerous males have and also maybe that you have today. I wanted a lot more sex than my partner as well as I really did not recognize why. What is essential to note is that then in time I thought that providing her one clitoral climax each time we made love sufficed. How incorrect was I!

Anyhow, I divided up with her as well as fulfilled a brand-new girl. This time around things were extremely various. I enlightened myself as well as I gave this lady extraordinary pleasure. I gave her clitoral orgasms, vaginal orgasms as well as several climaxes each time we made love. I additionally sometimes provided her squirting orgasms as well as even climaxes without touching.

Now, allow me ask you a couple of concerns ...

- The number of blow jobs do you assume I had with this woman?

That's right ... as lots of as I wanted.

- Do you assume I had anal sex with this lady?

You bet I did.

- And do you think this girl wanted as much sex as I did?

Truth be told - in some cases she desired MORE THAN I DID.

Now I assume you'll concur that is a massive contrast between those 2 relationships. And also all I did to make the change was some understanding. I showed myself how to offer females incredible sex. It wasn't very easy, but it was worth it.

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Alright ok. Then if that’s what you feel about your friends, I can barely start toimagine how the one you’ll actually love will be treated, a true lucky and blessed guy 😮

Though just a friend there is definitely love there. I have nothing but great things to say about them. I’m sure they would think they’re lucky in the beginning but I’m quite a lot to deal with haha

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Finished Basement Ideas - Photos, tips and cost estimates

As soon as you get started considering basement thoughts you can not stop. Anytime somebody visits your home you consider how cool it is playing pool downstairs though you tend the bar and keep your eye on the match that you are seeing in your own 90" projection display. If you have got children like I do it is easy toimagine them where they may be loud, inventive and cluttered without ruining the main floor living area or your own sanity. I enjoy thinking about what is possible with my cellar and I locate new cellar thoughts every day online. When you are all set to turn these ideas to the real thing check this out article on just how to finish a basement. I intend to utilize this part of this site to discuss these thoughts with you and explain to you ways to prepare to make those a reality by believing beforehand during the 5 cellar finishing phases. (before I forget, should need to catch where these cellar thoughts goes, check out my review of cellar layout applications) BASEMENT IDEAS Dartboards - Nothing may be quintessential into a cellar compared to dartboards. Simple to cheap set up and a lot of fun. Basement Pole - Cellar rods are gruesome but with a little preparation you may turn them in a layout advantage. Emphasize artwork, add light into the midst of a space, anchor a bite bar. Guest Bedroom - I really like it when my family comes to see us and I need them to have a relaxing and fun time. Nothing assists that more than providing them a lavish bedroom of their own where they could get off for a couple minutes and get a fantastic nights sleep. This cellar thought post breaks down an wonderful picture I found of a guest bedroom and shows one of the secrets to reach the exact same look and texture. Wood Pallet Walls - Excellent basement finishing idea to bring some colour and texture into your cellar walls. Continue reading this informative article before you begin since there are a couple of security things to think about prior to working with wood. Constructed bookcase - You do not need to become a master carpenter, only a few added planks and foresight during the framing stage. This is Jenn's beloved basement thought - an art market with down-lighting and two bit trim. Art Niche - What exactly is? Isnt' that only a sunk in framework in the wallsocket? Yup! But add a few very simple light and frame it using a few trimming plus it can add enormous depth, elegance and character into a occasionally plain and dull room. House Theater / Audo - Video - The article has 7 tips you should think about to prep a cellar area to get some great sound and video. You have to do these BEFORE drywall! If nothing else, have a look at tip. A Door Bell - Say what? I purchased pizza because of my poker night throughout my basement renovation rather than heard the man from downstairs. Do not forget to put in a doorbell in your own plans. (not difficult) Angled & Trimmed Basement Windows - People puny basement windows require some help. This post includes two excellent suggestions about the best way best to have the maximum light from your cellar windows and make them seem larger than they are. Up Lighting - Particularly for the ceiling of the cellar living space. By utilizing a cast, rope light and preparation a switched socket in the ceiling you're able to make some fantastic soft light for you picture nights. Finished Basement Thoughts on Pinterest - The Ideal Place to save you cellar thoughts is really on Pinterest. It is totally free and it makes it super simple to arrange everything into logical classes. Video Projector - I am almost hesitant to write this one since I wish to do this job so poorly. I have not built my final picture room however, but I have prepped for it throughout the framing and electric periods. You will want to have an outlet from the ceiling, one for your projector and also one for your motorized projection screen. Stained Concrete Floor - (a.k.a. something that I actually brightens up). If you'd like your cellar to appear "super cool" you ought to consider staining your flooring. It is particularly easy if your concrete is either new or hasn't been painted or sealed. Yes, despite the horrible story, you can certainly do it yourself and get fantastic results. This is just one of my preferred basement thought, a built in closets. Slightly ashamed to show this pic 'cause the cellar is clutter, but this seems great and has been easy to construct. Chalkboard - Chalkboard paint along with a few trimming and your children have an amazing an enjoyable chalkboard to write on. Also looks great from the wine vendor or as a darts scoreboard. Easy and enjoyable project and it actually works! Utility Sink - Believe ahead only marginally when doing your area and plumbing preparation and you may have an wonderful additional sink for washing around for under $50 dollars. Got pets? Consider developing a pet washing channel. Unique Toilet Idea - This is much more for the men. Well, it is strictly for the men. Ladies, click if you would like to but you will not be interested in it. Boots and Gloves - Strategy to home wet boots, boots and coats. If you buy a great deal of snow in wintermonths, and particularly if your children play outdoors, the cellar is a superb place to put away wet winter equipment. Place a socket nearby to plug into a dryer that is boot/gloves. Plan for a seat on place and a floor surface. 7 Basement Finishing Ideas motivated by our shore house. It is official. I have the fever. Basement layout strain. Every home I visit I'm clockin' thoughts for my cellar. Here are seven tips from our shore trip to Kiawah, SC. Basement Paint Colors - Want some suggestions for what colours to use on your new finished basement? This site has a lot of images of fantastic color combinations, also it tells you the specific brand and colour name. Check it out, it is fantastic! What is an upward Flushing Toilet? 13 Tips and Suggestions in my parent's basement finishing job. Hi Mom! Following is a post using a video tour of my parent's basement and 13 basement thoughts they heard while completing their basement. Adding - Wizard of OZ style basement doors and a cupboard beneath the stairs (so cool)! More Coming Soon.... . Have a look at my Pinterest Page for additional pictures and layout ideas. Alright guys, this will provide you an inkling of what I intend to place in this particular section. Each one of those topics are going to have their own essay just require a little more time to have them pulled together. In case you've got a fantastic basement thought leave a comment below. Enjoy it!