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What kind of manfolk are you attracting??

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Body language vs Pheromones

More humans are weird: we are super into body language as a species. Like, we’re so into body language that we created cute pictograms to insert into our otherwise non-pictographic language specifically to add facial expressions to text communication. Which in and of its self is super cool. Most species have some form of this, like mating dances etc, but most of them also have pheromones to go with it. We do to, but we aren’t very good at sensing them or at least picking up that we’re sensing them. We rely on visual cues as our primary form of none-oral communication. So what if aliens are more pheromonal? Their body language is secondary to their chemical communication, so for instance they have a harder time flirting with someone across the room because they can’t smell/taste them. An alien and a human watch one of their friends at the bar interacting and the human say “we aren’t getting our drinks for a while, looks like Claire found herself a catch” and the alien is confused because how can you tell if she’s interested from across the room. You can see it on her face of course. Or! We describe some pheromonal cues visually, like when we describe pregnant women as glowing. Human ‘Preeya looks amazing right now’ Alien ‘She seems rather tired right now actually’ Human 'Well, yeah, carrying a baby is hard, but she’s got that pregnant glow’ Alien (concerned) 'Do humans produce bioluminescence when they are pregnant? That was not in the books! She does not appear any brighter’ Human 'What no not literally, it’s just.. idk a thing pregnant women have. Like an aura of life’ Alien 'Oh you mean her pheromones. Got it.’ Human 'What? I can’t smell anything.’ Or Human Mike returns to ship after unsuccessful night at the bars Mike: Hey guys I’m baaaaaack (slightly drunk singing) Caro Lyssan: Hah, struck out huh? Mike: What? Yeah this Caro chick was all over me one sec and then the Cupid Shuffle came on and when I started dancing to it she looked really grossed out and left. How could you tell? Lyssan: You have rejection stink all over you man. Take a shower it’s making me sad (The Cupid Shuffle is highly offensive in at least six cultures because shuffles are considered to be highly vulgar, similar to hip thrusting on earth)

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Women who are beyond done with all of this shit.

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bored at work so i made a compilation of my fave vines

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Existential Questions

1: What happened before the big bang? Was there another universe?

2: What is death? What happens when we die?

3: Is Hell other people? Or is there Hell?

4: If the stars we see are millions of years old, how do we know they still exist?

5: Do you have free will to fulfill your destiny?

6: If you could alter one small thing in the past, would you risk the effect on the timeline?

7: Are our dreams an alternate reality? Why or why not?

8: Without tangible evidence how can we be sure of things like the soul?

9: Is there Heaven? What is it?

10: Is there one truth? What is it?

11: If everyone in the world began to believe the same thing, even if that thing did not exist, would that thing then become real?

12: Do we settle for a common reality?

13: If a soul does not carry our memories, then what is a soul since it is our memories that make us up?

14: What purpose does a brain serve if a soul can exist and feel without it?

15: Do things happen as they should?

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Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don’t care what you’ll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

Albert Camus, from Notebooks, 1951-1959 (via railwaykid)

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A Man Walks Into a Bar and Then Leaves Because He Doesn't See the Point in Ordering a Drink

Two philosophers discuss the basic principles of nihilism and existentialism.

“Many people prescribe to being nihilist, but when it comes down to it, they are not. If they were true nihilists they surely would have killed themselves.”

“Not at all. Killing oneself is not compatible with nihilism. Suicide is the ultimate act of existentialism. They have created purpose to their life in so much that ending it is a purpose. A nihilist sees no point to life, but conversely a nihilist sees no point to death either. A true nihilist would likely die of old age or untreated illness.”

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Valentines day special: Soren Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)

Soren Kierkegaard was a brilliiant but anxiety ridden Danish philosopher whose brutal interpretations of Morality, ethics, love and religion would contribute to a miserable life which ended in 1855 when he died of an excruciating spinal disease.  We have much to learn about life and death when we study the existentialist teachings of Kierkegaard. 

Soren was born in 1813 to an immensley wealthly family in Denmark as one of seven children, he was physically frail and death surrounded him from a young age. By the time Soren had reached the age of 22 all but one of his siblings had died. Death was to become sorens obssession. 

He went to study theology at the University of Copanhagen and shortly after he graduated he fell in love with a beautiful 18 year old called Regine Olsen. They met in 1837 and in 1840 Soren became engaged to her. However he had second thoughts he watched the world around him where people would have 3 month love affairs filled with passion in the woods and secret meetings at midnight and a world where people’s love was arranged by their parents and they would tie the knot a year later, growing spiteful of eachother in old age. Kirkegaard came to the conclusion that you cannot have passionate love and dutiful marriage at the same time. Realising his marriage to Regine would kill the love that had drawn them together. He called off the engagement. 

He began to look more closley at the world around him.  

 “when I became an adult, when I opened my eyes and saw actuality, then I started to laugh and have never stopped laughing since that time”

What was Soren Laughing at? Life. He laughed because because the meaning of life was to buy a nice house, the goal of life to become a judge, the value of love was to marry a rich girl, that wisdom is what the masses say it is, that passion was to give a speech, that courage was to jump off an 8ft cliff, that politeness was to say thank you and you’re welcome, that fear of god was to go to church once a week. He saw the world for what it was and laughed. 

This school of thought is called exestenalism. It is seeing life from a different point of view. Imagine sitting at a dinner table with your girlfriend eating pie.     In reality you’ve shoved your legs under a carved piece of wood, covered in sheeps wool, taking bites out of dead animal cells with a metal spike, while making small talk with a person you ocasionally have sex with. 

However Soren was still drowning in melancholy, he thought everything that he did was wrong. He didn’t marry Regine but he regretted it, if he had married her he would have regretted that aswell. No one comes into life without crying,       no one is asked when they want to enter or leave. Everything in life is in a perpetually regrettable. Life is pain and misery. 

 To save himself from this feeling he published his works, in one day in 1843 he published 3 books. Another saving grace from the emptiness of life. Was his religion, he hated the established danish church but loved the simple gospels his father had taught him when he was a boy. The morality was simple but right in every aspect. If you live for god, you must be ready to die for god.             “To have faith is to lose your mind and to win god”

So when you’ve got no date for valentines day and you sit there covered in crumbs watching 9 hours of netflix. When all the Illusions of life have failed you. You can lean on the shoulder of Kirkegaard who can truly understand the emptiness of life. 

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“Down you must go then, each in his turn, to the habitation of the others and accustom yourselves to the observation of the obscure things there. For once habituated you will discern them infinitely better than the dwellers there, and you will know what each of the ‘idols’ is and whereof it is a semblance, because you have seen the reality of the beautiful, the just and the good. So our city will be government by us and you with waking minds…”

- Plato, The Republic (Allegory of the Cave)

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I’m going to die one day. And that fact alone should force me to live my life to the fullest. But I’m the opposite way around. I want to die because I am consistently eaten up by nothingness.

Juansen Dizon (via juansendizon)