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Anna Oleary

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The discourse on terrorism is generally devoid of historical perspectives (‘terrorists are pure evil’ is one popular trope) and lacks any positionality because, it is assumed, terrorists simply live outside of morality and social norms. But such ahistorical and essentialist attitudes came to haunt this discourse when a former terrorist, Nelson Mandela, became a Nobel Peace Prize winner, or, more recently, when Osama bin Laden, a former American ally, ‘turned’ terrorist. The discourse on terrorism also does not account for state terrorism, whereby state institutions such as the army or police inflict violence on civilian populations, as was the case in Nicaragua and Chechnya (and by the US via the Contras). This last point is particularly missing from the discourse on the Palestinian–Israeli conflict. All attacks on Israelis, whether inside the 1967 border or outside, whether targeting soldiers or civilians, are dubbed terrorist attacks. But dropping a one-ton bomb from an Israeli airplane on a five-story Palestinian house, in which a militant may be present, knowing full well that dozens of civilians will be killed, is hardly ever described in Western media as terrorism.

Dorit Naaman, 2007

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there's a reason taylor swift called her new album the tortured poets department because it would literally torture any poet that listens to it

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Madder Sky - Nakagawa Koutarou

Anime: Code Geass

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As always

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Margaret Stoddart - Riverside, autumn (ca. 1930)

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The Wood in Winter -   Valerius de Saedeleer , 1930 s .

Belgian ,  1867-1941

Etching and aquatint

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De kapelle der dooden, of, De algemeene doodenspiegel, 1737

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Astral Projection "Whosoever awakens the consciousness can no longer dream here in this physical plane or in the internal worlds. Whosoever awakens the consciousness stops dreaming. Whosoever awakens the consciousness becomes a competent investigator of the superior worlds. Whosoever awakens consciousness is an illuminated one. Whosoever awakens the consciousness can study at the feet of the master. Whosoever awakens the consciousness can talk familiarly with the Gods who initiated the dawn of creation. Whosoever awakens the consciousness can remember his innumerable reincarnations." - Samael Aun Weor

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Can still see the light ~Phantasy Star Online ENDING THEME~ (Piano Version) - Phantasy Star Online Episode I & II (GCN/XBOX, 2003)

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Trees in Northwick Park (1830)

David Roberts (Scottish, 1796-1864)

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“It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

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Giorgos Gounaropoulos (Greek,1890-1977)

Δέντρα, 1955 - 1960

coal and crayons on paper

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Lee Hyun Joung

Silence, 2022