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Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:15:08 -0400

truthrequiresnoapology:

youngblackandvegan:

peaceofmind-03:

cuntofdoom:

Because this always bears reblogging. Illustrates how cartography—specifically the ways in which cartographers shrink and expand land masses in order to depict a “flat” earth— distorts our perception of the world.

Whoa

i need people to know that the fact that Africa is often portrayed so extremely out of scale is not just because the map is a flat version of the round earth

Bruh.

Again. Call the majority population of POC minorities and pretend Africa is a small, static country. -_- The amount of diversity on that continent is staggering. Oh and all the countries north of the Sahara are also African nations.

Thanks,

Black Studies majors errwhere

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science111: 1. dip a spoon of gallium in a glass of hot...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:18:19 -0400

science111:

1. dip a spoon of gallium in a glass of hot water

2. make a bubble with smoke instead of air

3. dissolve the tablet in weightlessness

4. set fire to the energy-saving lamp

5. push two identical clouds of smoke

6. create a vacuum in the empty tank

7. set fire to the smoke from the candles

8. overturn the glass with smoke

9. pour the hot solution in a plastic cup [x]

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Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:16:26 -0400

hallucihoop:

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:16:04 -0400

hallucihoop:

ponyboy-gold: i can’t stop thinking about this article i read today about an arabian guy who was...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:13:56 -0400

ponyboy-gold:

i can’t stop thinking about this article i read today about an arabian guy who was deported for being too good looking and when i look at him

i see that it really is a crime

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Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:12:20 -0400

Everyone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water. And everyone you love is made of stardust,...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:10:40 -0400

Everyone who terrifies you is sixty-five percent water.

And everyone you love is made of stardust, and I know sometimes
you cannot even breathe deeply, and
the night sky is no home, and
you have cried yourself to sleep enough times
that you are down to your last two percent, but

nothing is infinite,
not even loss.

You are made of the sea and the stars, and one day
you are going to find yourself again.

cuntgarden: uni-tea: veganmovement2012: “Wherefore I say to...

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:04:15 -0400

cuntgarden:

uni-tea:

veganmovement2012:

“Wherefore I say to all those who desire to be disciples, keep your hands from bloodshed and let no flesh meat enter your mouths, for the Lord is just and bountiful; who ordains that man shall live by the fruits and seeds of the earth alone.”
Jesus, Gospel of the Nazirenes, Chapter 38, Verse 4

Oh hey Jesus encouraging us to follow a plant-based diet what

Yeees hehhe

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nearlya: G. Eddie Guidry. Scrapes, pencil and ink

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:12:07 -0400

nearlya:

G. Eddie Guidry. Scrapes, pencil and ink

our sun [x]

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:56:36 -0400

our sun [x]

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Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:55:58 -0400

karavis: kargu: I did this so quickly. learned just today that...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:24:06 -0400

karavis:

kargu:

I did this so quickly. learned just today that 2 sexual assaults happened in my high school district while I was a sophomore… 2 years after they essentially taught us girls that if we got sexually assaulted, it was out fault. The principal tried to cover it up and the assaulter only got benched during the sport for a while. the victims got blamed and hurt by their peers. it’s what they were taught to do, anyways.

I feel too tired to move.

I told myself that when I graduated high school, I would write the school a letter. I regret that I never did.

thegoddamazon: devilsmadvocate: thepeoplesrecord: Got this in...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:17:25 -0400

thegoddamazon:

devilsmadvocate:

thepeoplesrecord:

Got this in my email today:

Dear friends,

We are elders of the Maasai from Tanzania, one of Africa’s oldest tribes. The government has just announced that it plans to kick thousands of our families off our lands so that wealthy tourists can use them to shoot lions and leopards.The evictions are to begin immediately.

Last year, when word first leaked about this plan, almost one million Avaaz members rallied to our aid. Your attention and the storm it created forced the government to deny the plan, and set them back months. But the President has waited for international attention to die down, and now he’s revived his plan to take our land. We need your help again, urgently.

President Kikwete may not care about us, but he has shown he’ll respond to global media and public pressure — to all of you! We may only have hours. Please stand with us to protect our land, our people and our world’s most majestic animals, and tell everyone before it is too late. This is our last hope:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/maasai_fb_dm_3/?bNDofcb&v=23793

Our people have lived off the land in Tanzania and Kenya for centuries. Our communities respect our fellow animals and protect and preserve the delicate ecosystem. But the government has for years sought to profit by giving rich princes and kings from the Middle East access to our land to kill. In 2009, when they tried to clear our land to make way for these hunting sprees, we resisted, and hundreds of us were arrested and beaten. Last year, rich princes shot at birds in trees from helicopters. This killing goes against everything in our culture.

Now the government has announced it will clear a huge swath of our land to make way for what it claims will be a wildlife corridor, but many suspect it’s just a ruse to give a foreign hunting corporation and the rich tourists it caters to easier access to shoot at majestic animals. The government claims this new arrangement is some sort of accommodation, but its effect on our people’s way of life will be disastrous. There are thousands of us who could have our lives uprooted, losing our homes, the land on which our animals graze, or both.

President Kikwete knows this deal would be controversial with Tanzania’s tourists - a critical source of national income - and does not want a big PR disaster. If we can urgently generate even more global outrage than we did before, and get the media writing about it, we know it can make him think twice. Stand with us now to call on Kikwete to stop the sell off:

This land grab could spell the end for the Maasai in this part of Tanzania and many of our community have said they would rather die than be forced from their homes. On behalf of our people and the animals who graze in these lands, please stand with us to change the mind of our President.

With hope and determination,

— The Maasai community of Ngorongoro District

Sources:

The Guardian: Maasai fury as plan to lure Arabian Gulf tourists threatens their ancestral land

allAfrica: Land Grab Could Spell ‘The End of the Maasai’

IPP Media: Maasai villagers frustrate efforts to vacate for Ortelo

The Guardian: Tanzania denies plan to evict Maasai for royal hunting ground

The Guardian: “Tourism is a curse to us”

New Internationalist Magazine: “Hunted down”

Society for Threatened People: Briefing on the eviction of the Loliondo Maasai

FEMACT: Report by 16 human rights investigators & media on violence in Loliondo

The Endorois people (also in Kenya) were removed from their sacred land in the 1970s under similar circumstances & for similar motives (the establishment of parks for colonial tourists.

PLEASE REBLOG THIS AND SPREAD THE WORD GUYS. Traditional cultures in East Africa have been getting completely trampled on by the government and barely anyone seems to know or care. And this loss of land isn’t just destroying their livelihood but their entire culture. These really are issues that could actually get some backing if people just freakin’ knew about them, so PLEASE SIGNAL BOOST!

HUGE SIGNAL BOOST.

I will not tolerate this bullshit…especially since I have extended family that are Massai. This isn’t right and they know it. I am so sick of African leaders forgetting their own people in order to appease the rich white tourists that most African countries have become reliant on to bring in revenue.

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Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:10:21 -0400

awakeningapril: VIBRATIONS AND MAN’S RESPONSE Both the ancient...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:37:41 -0400

awakeningapril:

VIBRATIONS AND MAN’S RESPONSE

Both the ancient sages and modern scientists agree that everything in life is formed of vibrations. We are told that vibration is the result of force or energy, concentrated in some mysterious way and caused to vibrate, shake or oscillate at different speeds. The difference between one object and another is ultimately a question of rate of vibration. IT is the number and arrangement of the electron within an atom, and the varied cohesion of atoms into molecules, which go to make up these vibratory differences.

Low rates of vibration form the more static or visible objects; we might say that they send out only slow ripples; higher rates of motion, between the rapidly flying particles, form less tangible things such as gas. These particles intermingle rapidly with the air, but often they do not move sufficiently quickly to penetrate through solids. Vibrations of a relatively low frequency are known to us as sounds. Higher ranges are known as heat. Sound and heat are fine enough to pass through certain solids. We all know about the ripples or waves caused by sound. We also know about the electrical impulses, through the wireless, and we call them wave-lengths and know all their measurements.

We might picture the scale of vibrations as a vast keyboard, on which there are many octaves and different types of vibration and motion. One range of motion expresses itself as solid, liquid, and gaseous forms. Other ranges are perceived as sound, heat and those intangible things about which we know little.*

Above the octaves of sound would come those of light and color vibrations. The colors range from red—the lowest (vibrating at 451 million-million times per second with a wavelength of 36,918th of an inch)—up to Violet. We see this order of colors in the rainbow and in the spectrum. Above the Violet, color can no longer be seen by the eye, and we find the ultra-violet rays and the X-ray. It is here we begin to find vibrations that can penetrate through most solids. Higher up on the scale we find even finer wavelengths said to be on par with electrical impulses of human thought.

Apparently the vibrations of the mind can travel instantaneously many hundreds of miles, as in thought telepathy, passing through all solids which intervene. They have an intimate connection with electricity which, as we know, can travel round the world in a flash. Each thought is a vibration having a set wave-length!

How having placed sound, light and heat in their respective order as we know it, we must ask what they are and how we know they exist:

Had we and the animals no ears, what would sound be?

What we know as sound is only a small section of “octaves” on the large scale of vibrations transmitted to the brain via receivers in the ears. The human ear is successful only up until a certain point, beyond which it can receive no more. However, many animals hear vibrations which to us is no longer sounds at all.

Higher up on the keyboard than sound comes heat. Our skin contains little recievers to transmit these vibrations, to which the ear is no longer sensible. Farther up the scale, we still come to light and color – to which we have the optic nerves (eyes) for registering those vibrations to the brain. The eyes can only receive vibrational information up until violet, the higher vibrations pass through the eye lens.

The question now arises — Have we any organs which can deal with those higher vibrations?

These last vibrations are soooo fine, that they use the ether as their vehicle instead of the heavier air particles. The ether is the indefinable substance in which this Earth and all of the atoms of the air are supported. The finest vibrations which we have yet considered are within the realm of electrical and magnetic phenomena. These are the forces which man also contains within himself, and which can be ultilized through the mind.

THE PITUITARY BODY & THE PINEAL GLAND

Let us inquire about the organ we have with which to register these particular vibrations, embracing the radiations and emanations which come under the general term psychic. There are two small glands in the head which give doctors much cause for speculation, the Pituitary Body and the Pineal Gland.

The former is a tiny, double bean-shaped body situated behind the root of the nose. It is posed so that it is very sensitive to vibrations. We know that:

In some way it is connected with nurture, body-building, and the nervous system.

If it is removed all organic function ceases.

If overdeveloped it produces Giantism, while if underdeveloped Dwarfism is the result.

The Pituitary Body has been called, “The Seat of the Mind”.

The frontal lobe is concerned with emotional thought, of the type which produces poetry and music.

The anterior lobe is connected with more concrete intellectual concepts.

The Pineal Gland is a tiny cone-shaped body in the middle of head, behind and just above the Pituitary. It contains pigment (DMT, Melatonin, Melanin), similar to that found in the eyes, and is connected by two nerve cords with the optic thalmi; it is said to control the action of light upon the body, and for these reasons scientists have suggested that it is the remnant of a third physical eye. Men of learning have pronounced it to be the point in the human being where soul and body meet, “The Seat of Intuition”.

It is said that when, for specific reasons, the Pituitary Body and the Pineal Gland have become fully stimulated, their vibrations fuse and stir into life the mysterious ’Third Eye’ of man, the Eye of the Soul. Apparently this activity provides the mind with a perfect instrument with which to work, a transmitter by means of which vibrations of very differing types can be translated, interpreted and rearranged. Man can also become sensitive to the finer chemical magnetic emanations in the ether, and can ‘see’ the numberless thought-forms, entities and creatures, the endless complexities and types of life which make up a vast world of teeming energies which the limited capacity of ordinary physical sight is unable to register.

Of course there are some people who have this power today, but we do not understand its use nor how to train them properly, consequently their development is left to chance. Sometimes people use these powers without knowing what they are doing, nor what the result will be, as in the case of some forms of mental healing, based on ‘blind faith’. In curing some diseases, either by self-treatment or by a mental healer, the fine vibrations of the mind act on the lower vibrations of the diseased tissue. We know of many cases of ‘instantaneous’ healing.

The only real power to do such things lies within ourselves, but we must first learn to use our OWN highest vibrations. The mental worker knows that she has to steady down all her bodily disturbances and vibrations before she can concentrate at all. She needs to not only be able to ignore the vibrations all around her, which she can only do if they are steady and balanced (a hum of traffic disturbs many much less than odd drops of falling water), but also she must have steadiness and blance of every activity in her own body—so that she can ignore it.

The mind has power over everything that it can understand and visualize. Therefore the first step of all is to study these arguments and theories, and those facts which are supported by adequate testimony, and with a perfectly open and logical mind.

(Source)

*Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, see table, p.255

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