A Short Life Span
Rage and beauty.
What I’ve noticed walking around Vanderbilt is that everyone seems so self-conscious. People seem to be conforming because they are self-conscious, or rebelling because they’re self-conscious. Few people seem to dress like their own self, or be free from the pressure to either conform or rebel. For example, attractive girls and guys are either hit or miss; either the girls straighten their hair everyday, dye it lighter, and have a LongChamp bag, or they make it a point not to dress well at all. For guys, either you own all Polos and khaki shorts because all other guys do, or you wear baggy pants and completely bland shirts.
At Vanderbilt, people who are “different” know that the mainstream culture on campus is self-conscious; but they, too, perpetuate the ubiquity of the mainstream by reacting to it. By dyeing their hair red, blue, green, streaks, etc., it gives people who are hesitant to adopt the mainstream more reason to do so. There’s a lack of attractive alternatives.
What you crave is the ideal
What the whole world longs for
To taste the beauty
That is irresistibly enticing
And completely and endlessly
Alluring
To revel in it’s essence
And be blinded by it’s
Purity and light
But unknowingly,
Your eyes perceive
Only part of the truth.
And as your senses peak,
And your eyes orgasm
From the sight of
His beautiful skin,
And flowing hair,
You neglect the
ugliness in your heart
and mind
And when they come crashing down,
Weighing on your shoulders
And tripping up your faultless stride
You stop and wonder why
Paradise
is not so beautiful.
ENTps do not readily follow social norms. They do not like to have their independence threatened by unnecessary rules, and they can appear expedient and out-of-place in a society that values any various forms of unnecessary subjugation. While ENTps may have a healthy respect for rules when they are necessary as a guideline or are necessary and good for the well being of people, they do not readily tolerate intentional subjugation to any type of rule or method that they consider to be out-dated or harmful to the well-being of individuals. ENTps tend to look down on people who do so, considering them to be childish and lacking of confidence.
1. We’re not natives. While ordering a person to forget his or her racial origins seems ignorant and arrogant today, Europeans thought this idea was brilliant. Moreover, Europeans didn’t fathom that Africans loved African culture, and weren’t interested in assimilating to European culture. Europe was arrogant enough to assume that Africans would love European culture, and that Europeans were “open-minded” enough to “help” Africans. Was that a joke? Aside from thinking that Africans would “forget” African culture to imitate bigoted Eurocentrism, history shows that until the 1960s, European Americans didn’t help African Americans at all.
2. You raped black women, and won’t admit it. Brand this statement in your mind, even if you don’t agree with this note, because it is fact, not opinion: Black male slaves did not rape white women during slavery. Black men did not consistently impregnate the slave owner’s white wives; white slave masters and their teenage sons consistently and apathetically raped and impregnated black female slaves, i.e. Beloved. The only women carrying children who weren’t their own race, were black women. The biracial offspring were often categorized as black because of the “One Drop Rule”, which is why many biracial Americans today often can’t balance Black and White race evenly, as they should have been allowed to do all along.
Today, America fears the supposedly hyper-sexual black man, yet history provides ample evidence that White slave owners raped a lot of their black female slaves… so who holds White men accountable for being hyper-sexual back then? The fear that Black men are rapists was often used during Jim Crow to scare Whites from supporting black-owned businesses and from integrating of schools. Thus, America should realize that this stereotype only existed to prohibit black economic empowerment and leadership.
3. You didn’t teach us how to read or write English. The first thing White people are eager to do with immigrants is teach them to read and write American English as soon as they get here. Conversely, not only did Whites punish Africans for learning to read and write, Whites told Africans that their efforts to teach them would be futile, because Africans were incapable of reading and writing anyway. Whites didn’t abolish this concept with slavery, however. Long after slavery, Whites threatened African Americans who were equally educated, or who tried to integrate White schools, by burning down or bombing African Americans’ houses or churches, or intimidating African Americans by lynching someone in the community.
4. You used physical violence against us if we tried to run away. Before anyone, black or white, asks why Africans would not run away or rebel against their owners, remember that both of these protests were punishable by death, or beating short of death. If someone did run away and escape for good, the slave owners beat those who remained behind.
5. African labor manufactured America’s infrastructure and wealthy economy.
Even the White House was built by Africans and free African Americans. Yet many non-blacks are laud the work ethic of White Americans and immigrants, without being equally impressed with the work of African Americans.
Damon Weaver (10 years old) interviews the President. Good answer on low-income communities, Obama.
“It seems that everyone under 40 who dies takes their cell phone with them,” said Noelle Potvin, a counselor for a Hollywood, California funeral home. While there are no official statistics kept on this phenomenon, funeral directors all over the world are reporting it as a trend.
Sometimes, friends and family leave the departed messages during the funeral. One New York woman went so far as to continue paying her late husband’s cell phone bill so she could call him — and graciously engraved the phone number on his headstone, so others could also make a call to the afterlife.Unfortunately for the grieving widow (and for any buried-alive scenarios) most cell phone services don’t offer reception six feet under.
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What do you think? Do you wanna take your cell to the grave?
People who have just cleaned their hands are more lenient in their moral judgments.
Researchers at the University of Plymouth had students watch an intense three-minute scene from the dark drug movie “Trainspotting” — intended to elicit feelings of disgust.Afterward, half the students washed their hands, and half didn’t. Then all the students were asked to rate a series of socially unacceptable behaviors on a nine-point scale from completely OK to totally wrong.
The scenarios ranged from taking money from a found wallet to using a kitten for sexual arousal. In all cases, the students with clean hands judged the behaviors to be comparatively less wrong. “This research shows that we are subconsciously influenced by how clean or ‘pure’ we feel,” said study lead researcher Simone Schnall.
So the next time you’re caught up in something morally dubious, instead of a drink to quell that sinking feeling of shame, you might be better off giving your hands a good scrub. (This is in no way an endorsement of molesting kittens.)(source)
