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This is terribly interesting!gjmueller: How walking through a...

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 15:17:23 -0500

This is terribly interesting!

gjmueller:

How walking through a doorway increases forgetting

The key finding is that memory performance was poorer after travelling through an open doorway, compared with covering the same distance within the same room. “Walking through doorways serves as an event boundary, thereby initiating the updating of one’s event model [i.e. the creation of a new episode in memory]” the researchers said.

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In Veneration Towards the One True God

Sun, 06 Nov 2011 14:59:00 -0500

I saw the most adorable photo today, stating the following:

“THANK GOD / FOR WHAT YOU HAVE / TRUST GOD / FOR WHAT YOU NEED”

How inspirational! I couldn’t help but take a few moments to thank god for all he’s done for the human race:

Thank you, my dear god, for blessing we few whilst you damn the rest of the world with poverty, hatred, and suffering despite whether or not they “trust you” to begin with. Thank you for creating the terms of survival to include adorations towards an invisible being that has historically arrived at the ends of European rifles. I appreciate the fact that you have spread disease and disaster amongst the planet (often through your zealous followers), and though I do not understand why any kind of benevolent being would wish such ill upon the human rance, I’m too blind to recognize that simply chalking this hypocritical notion up to “mystery” is intellectually dishonest. I appreciate the fact that your Church recognizes that spreading lies about contraceptives and speaking against them is more important than allowing individuals all around the world to have protection against sexually transmitted infections that may result in their slow, eventual deaths— along with the deaths of their children, whom will be born with the diseases of their parents. I’m also very supportive of the work you’ve done to help spread abstinence-only programs, which have been statistically proven to be less effective than safe-sex programs, in our schools regardless of that fact that the programs you’re in support of actually lead to more abortions. I see no contradiction with the fact that you both support the programs that propagate abortions and the fact that you are abhorrently against the practice of abortions because the idea that my indoctrinated beliefs could in any way be wrong, even when they blatantly contradict each other, is frightening and impossible for me to conceptualize.

Now, although I do not consciously recognize that there are those that would kill for the remaining two inches of the Subway’s $5-footlong that I just threw away, I feel the need to pretend that my invisible sky-daddy, to whom I pray to nightly, is loving because he allowed me to be born into economic security while he lets the rest of the world squander for resources that would otherwise be abundant. You’ve made it so easy for me to allow me to take everything that I own for granted in a world in which there are a plethora of people that are starving to death, even so when they cry out your name in vain, and for that I thank you once more for kindly allowing me to be born with more prosperity and opportunity than everyone else despite the fact that your supposed son, the man-god Christ, explicitly asks me to share my possessions with all. I love the part of the bible that says that you’re allowed to cherry pick which parts you like and which ones you don’t and only lend belief towards the ones that don’t seriously impinge upon my welfare or my wallet.

Clearly, all of the impoverished nations of the world are simply not trying hard enough to survive whilst my people and I, the white heterosexual majority of this country and all others, have been raping and pillaging (exploring and saving with the power of Christ) every new society that we’ve thrust our filthy hands into. It’s okay though, because I justify these actions by simply stating that the force-feeding of my god-concept upon indigenous peoples is more important than their rights to live or to hold opinions contrary to my own.

Frankly, I care not that the ideology that I uphold has been one that has only propagated its existence through forced (now willful) ignorance and bloodshed.

I prefer to leave my beliefs about our reality up to the primitive scribblings of the ancient men that lived in misogynist, patriarchal societies whose more “moderate” values I continue to attempt to force upon my fellow, modern-day countrymen because these values are the only ones I know, and to consider anything else would be nearly impossible from my indoctrinated mind; this means that they are objectivelly true. I am against human sacrifice, but I am comfortable with the idea that a man-god could be sacrificed to his god-self in order to appease himself and save mankind from the condition of sin that this god himself allowed to exist.

Aside from that, I view science and the progression of mankind as correct and reliable when it is convenient for me to do so (like when I’m getting an MRI or arguing over the internet), but treat the entire thing as a backwards conspiracy the moment that it mentions anything in relation to the faith-based belief system that my parents have insisted I swallow in fistfulls every Sunday from the age of my birth until the day I die; happily, I probably will because I view change as dangerous to my perspectives of the world we live in, which could only result in reprehension from the mythical god-concept I assert exists without evidence.

Furthermore, I enjoy spitting in the faces of all of those that are less fortunate and happy than I am by pretending that the reason I am in this current position is because an invisible sky-daddy willed it to be so, whilst still maintaining the insance level of audacity to call this horrendous, murderous, hateful, sexist, selfish creature “God.”

P.S. After I take the holier-than-thou stick out from my ass, I might come to the sad realization that not all of your followers think the same way that I do. What a shame, though it goes without saying that their silence towards my supposedly “non-Christian” attitude is evidence of their agreement. I am the true Christian because I am the true Christian, and the other so-called “Christians” know it because the only people that ever speak out against people like me are atheists and other freethinkers, despite how their silence only further discredits their own claims of “moderation.” There is only extremism because our voice is the loudest and the moderate “Christians” are afraid to speak up.

The purpose of this piece:

..Please, Christians: speak up against the extremists in your own belief systems that are damning your beliefs. Your voices have been drowned out, so much so that it is sometimes hard to remember that the terrible portrayal I’ve just presented does not represent all of you. You are better than this. You are not all blind, hateful, and willfully ignorant.

This is a wake-up call to the hypocrisy of your beliefs, but also a call to arms against those that would speak harm from the same pulpits you call “holy.”

You are thinkers, but you are quiet.

You are far too quiet.

um hey! <3

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 01:07:47 -0400

Oh hai there! :D <3

:3 <3 cant wait for saturday!

Tue, 18 Oct 2011 01:07:34 -0400

Neither can I!! (:

"Let me tell you some things. I used to investigate child abuse and neglect. I can tell you how to..."

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:11:44 -0400

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Let me tell you some things.

I used to investigate child abuse and neglect. I can tell you how to stop the vast majority of abortion in the world.

First, make knowledge and access to contraception widely available. Start teaching kids before they hit puberty. Teach them about domestic violence and coercion, and teach them not to coerce and rape. Create a strong, loving community where women and girls feel safe and supported in times of need. Because guess what? They aren’t. You know what happens to babies born under such circumstances? They get hurt, unnecessarily. They get sick, unnecessarily. They get removed from parents who love them but who are unprepared for the burden of a child. Resources? Honey, we try. There aren’t enough resources anywhere. There are waiting lists, and promises, and maybes. If the government itself can’t hook people up, what makes you think an impoverished single mom can handle it?

Abolish poverty. Do you have any idea how much childcare costs? Daycare can cost as much or more than monthly rent. They may be inadequately staffed. Getting a private nanny is a nice idea, but they don’t come cheap either. Relatives? Do they own a car? Does the bus run at the right times? Do they have jobs of their own they need to work just to keep the lights on? Are they going to stick around until you get off you convenience store shift at 4 AM? Do they have criminal histories that will make them unsuitable as caregivers when CPS pokes around? You gonna pay for that? Who’s going to pay for that?

End rape. I know your type errs on the side of blaming the woman, but I’ve seen little girls who’ve barely gotten their periods pregnant because somebody thought raping preteens was an awesome idea. You want to put a child through that? Or someone with a mental or physical inability for whom pregnancy would be frightening, painful or even life-threatening? I’ve seen nonverbal kids who had their feet sliced up by caregivers for no fucking reason at all, you think sexual abuse doesn’t happen either?

You say there’s lots of couples who want to adopt. Kiddo, what they want to adopt are healthy white babies, preferably untainted by the wombs and genetics of women with alcohol or drug dependencies. I’ve seen the kids they don’t want, who almost no one wants. You people focus only on the happy pink babies, the gigglers, the ones who grow and grow with no trouble. Those are not the kids who linger in foster care. Those are certainly not the older kids and teenagers who age out of foster care and then are thrown out in the streets, usually with an array of medical and mental health issues. Are they too old to count?

And yeah, I’ve seen the babies, little hand-sized things barely clinging to life. There’s no glory, no wonder there. There is no wonder in a pregnant woman with five dollars to her name, so deep in depression you wonder if she’ll be alive in a week. Therapy costs money. Medicine costs money. Food, clothes, electricity cost money. Government assistance is a pittance; poverty drives women and girls into situations where they are forced to rely on people who abuse them to survive. (I’ve been up in more hospitals than I can count.)

>In each and every dark pit of desperation, I have never seen a pro-lifer. I ain’t never seen them babysitting, scrubbing floors, bringing over goods, handing mom $50 bucks a month or driving her to the pediatrician. I ain’t never seen them sitting up for hours with an autistic child who screams and rages so his mother can get some sleep while she rests up from working 14-hour days. I don’t see them fixing leaks in rundown houses or playing with a kid while the police prepare to interview her about her sexual abuse. They’re not paying for the funerals of babies and children who died after birth, when they truly do become independent organisms. And the crazy thing is they think they’ve already done their job, because the child was born!

Aphids give birth, girl. It’s no miracle. You want to speak for the weak? Get off your high horse and get your hands dirty helping the poor, the isolated, the ill and mentally ill women and mothers and their children who already breathe the dirty air. You are doing nothing, absolutely nothing, for children. You don’t have a flea’s comprehension of injustice. You are not doing shit for life until you get in there and fight that darkness. Until you understand that abortion is salvation in a world like ours. Does that sound too hard? Do you really think suffering post-birth is more permissible, less worthy of outrage?

“Pro-life” is simply a philosophy in which the only life worth saving is the one that can be saved by punishing a woman.

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- Hauntingly well written. Almost makes the proposition of exposing hypocrisy seem easy.

Sources:

STFU, Conservatives: When I say I’m pro-life… (via stfuconservatives)

“wow. amen to this.” (via thegeorgemott)

24. Don’t be satirical; it’s not like anyone...

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 02:57:08 -0400

24. Don’t be satirical; it’s not like anyone actually reads that stuff anymore.

derbrandtaucher:

gildedlightandlunacy:

i’m dying

The Latin at the top X’D Fuck, I’m crying.

I like the song playing on here! BTW use the picture I took of you at the cabin that's sepia with you looking into the distance as ur id pic. It's so tumblr and so you all being like "oh look at me I'm contemplaiting the world and being cute" :P <3

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 19:02:47 -0400

I’m glad that you do! (: I like the picture we settled on. :P <3

Don't get your hopes up for the messaging system. It's pretty awful. HOWEVER, you can install Disqus. If a debate platform is really what you're gearing toward, it's the way to go. Tumblr is great because of quick, condensed, and well-linked sourcing to stories, news, ideas, and images. It's got a lot of power. So combine that with actual commentability and you've got a winner. This tumblr is as good as you make it. Welcome on board Joe :)

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 18:49:17 -0400

Sounds pretty awesome— I’ll have to look into that! Thanks bunches for the advice and the warm welcome. :)

Amazing what a little critical thinking can accomplish. ;)

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 05:34:00 -0400

Amazing what a little critical thinking can accomplish. ;)

IT MEANS THE CALL OF THE VOID

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:48:37 -0400

Sure, but I figured an explanation would do it better justice. ;P

Tumblr?

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:49:51 -0400

This is it. So, does this make me a “tumblr-er?” Honestly, I don’t know what I’m doing here. I guess we’ll find out. xD

Well, first thing’s first. I need to set up some sort of posting schedule or something. Maybe start with a discussion topic worth discussing and work my way along with that? I’d like to have debates on this; something to that effect. Don’t expect a plump serving of cat pictures. ;)

Still trying to figure out the whole messaging system— it’s terribly different from what I’m used to. I’ll have to make due, haha.

So, uhm.. Welcome one and all.

Ok thats really cool about your title and I totally understand that feeling. But seriously please give yourself atleast a picture! Your to sexy not to show the e-net who you are ;P

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:31:39 -0400

Aww haha <3 I’ll work that out in a sec. :)

get a better theme for your blog! Ps your a cuttie butt! and It was great to see you and Alli this weekend. But this is totally anonymous so you'll never guess who this is! :3 <3

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:24:40 -0400

I love my theme!! D: Haha thank you! Bahaha, oh but of course! xD Whoever could this be!?! :O!

what does your blog's name mean? is it french?

Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:24:01 -0400

It is. :) It is a lovely, new word that I have recently come across that does not translate in the English language. To answer your question, you could say that it means something akin to the feeling that one gets whilst standing atop something very tall that make one want to jump off.