March 2012
nirvikalpa:
Smile a lot. It will cure whatever ails you.
( ◐ 〰◐)☂
"'Whoever acts like an angel makes a devil of...
hermeticlibrary:
“Pathology of the Sublime” from Problems on the Path of Return by Mark Stavish, M.A. in Vol 3 No 1 of Caduceus.
”’Whoever acts like an angel makes a devil of himself.’ — Pascal.” [via]
Original Article
“This place is a dream
only a sleeper considers it real
then death comes like...”
– Rumi (via nirvikalpa)
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The Hermetic Library Tumblr: "In fact few people... →
hermeticlibrary:
Psychological Effects of Pathworking from Problems on the Path of Return by Mark Stavish, M.A. in Vol 3 No 1 of Caduceus.
“In fact few people stay with any system long enough to realize the genuinely spiritual aspects of the Work they are doing. The need for genuine self-honesty and…
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The Types of Followers on Tumblr.
fuckyeahndasian:
The Watchers - You never hear from them and they never like or reblog your stuff but you know they are out there just watching.
The Likeaholics - Those sadistic bastards that seem to like everything you post but refuse to reblog anything.
The Reblog Junkies - They appear from time to time to reblog pages worth of posts and then just disappear until they need their next...
Watchbuttershrooms:
chubbycartwheels:
spookyinwonderland:
beardandbanjo:
So wrinkly. SO cute.
urghhhh, I fucking want one so badddd. D; 3
Want. WANT. WANT!!
babyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy <3
omgomgomgomg :D
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Prejudice: [PoC calls white person a cracker].
Racism: Two centuries of PoC being stolen from their homelands, driven out of their native lands, tricked, raped, infected with disease, and otherwise downtrodden so as to remove them from any chance of being the dominant race.
Prejudice: [PoC gives a white person a nickname playing on the fact that they're white].
Racism: PoC must, from the moment they realize a baby is on the way, worry about whether giving a child a name reflecting their heritage will affect their chances at a good life in the future. Hint: it will.
Not racism: Calling out that slavery lasted for two centuries, and civil rights did not happen for PoC until the 20th Century (you know, the century which only ended TWELVE YEARS AGO).
Racism: We should not talk about it, because it makes [non-PoC] feel bad.
Not racism: A non-PoC actor can get pretty much any role s/he wnats.
Racism: ... including roles that were originally written as PoC. PoC actors must settle for roles making them servants, sassy women, jive turkey men, criminals, drug addicts, or abused downtrodden prostitutes, the better to reinforce the negative mental image of PoC in the minds of the zeitgeist, and hold up the excuse that "they bring it on themselves".
Not Racism: Flattering pictures of people used to represent them on the web.
Racism: Flattering pictures of Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, Michelle Bachman. But the most unflattering pic available of Michelle Obama is used for the same article.
Not Racism: Articles about women's features.
Racism: Article purporting to have scientific "proof" that Black women are uglier than women of any other race.
Not Racism: America is where everyone is supposed to have equal chance.
Racism: Equal chance? Freed slaves were lucky if they got 40 Acres and a Mule, after working for free for generations for people who are now wealthy and offered no other reparations.
Not Racism: Irish History Month, Italian History Month, French History Month, German History Month, etc. All of which would, technically, qualify, btw, as White History Months.
Racism: It's not Cameroon History Month, Nigerian History Month, Egyptian History Month, Zimbabwean History Month, Zaire History Month, Somalian History Month, etc. It's BLACK History Month. Doesn't matter what country in Africa you come from. If you're Black you just all get lumped in together.
Not Racism: PoC describe their experiences.
Racism: Non-PoC interrupt, derail, silence, mock, deride, or cite "oversensitivity" because it makes them feel uncomfortable to know that PoC have endured this, and to have to acknowledge their privilege -- and their responsibility to do something about it if they really are as anti-racist as they profess.
Not Racism: PoC generalizing white people to protect themselves; including avoiding them in any capacity.
Racism: Calling that "prejudice" as if it's on the level of prejudices that actually damage anyone. It's called REASONABLE PARANOIA.
...add your own examples.
“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so...”
– Alan Watts (via nirvikalpa)
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Partition Function
isomorphismes:
5 = 5 5 = 4 + 1 5 = 3 + 2 5 = 3 + 1 + 1 5 = 2 + 2 + 1 5 = 2 + 1 + 1 + 1 5 = 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1
There are 7 ways to split up five things. Seven different ways you could divide up 5 balls, 5 dolls, 5 wrapped-up candies,
How many ways are there to divide up 4 things? 8 things? 20,000 things? 198^198 things? Even if you had a few days to write a computer program that would...
February 2012
Archaeological News: Stolen Ancient Mayan... →
archaeologicalnews:
BALTIMORE (WJZ)– It didn’t take Indiana Jones to crack the case, but what federal agents recovered would have been right up his alley.
Alex DeMetrick reports ancient Mayan artifacts were returned Friday to their rightful owner.
Some go back a thousand years, all fashioned by Mayan…
