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"dream ends. memories end. life ends." - but we still keep going

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The return...

#anime #hip hop #tumblw #wutang #getit

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Cursed Ender Eye (4 colors)

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Locked In.

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“Regain your senses, call yourself back, and once again wake up. Now that you realize that only dreams were troubling you, view this 'reality' as you view your dreams.” by Marcus Aurelius

The Stoic

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I Cut My Tongue

I Cut My Tongue

I cut my tongue. The edge of the knife was serrated. It’s not a big cut, and it doesn’t hurt. The cut stings just enough that I notice it’s there. I’ve never cut my tongue before, but I have licked knives. I’m usually licking the flat side of the knife. There might be something delicious on the knife at the time, so I lick it. Of course, I wipe the knife off afterwards. I cut my tongue this…

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#blood #consistency #maybe #practice #presence #randomness #writing

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Through Writing

I sit here inside of my cozy little nook with a cup of coffee listening to the wind in the breeze outside. The ring of windchimes in the distance. Everyday that passes is a day the opportunity to change my trajectory can be achieved. I don’t know where writing will take me, but I know that’s it’s been an escape from the doldrums of daily existence for eons now, not just for myself but for many.…

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my bloodless coup

at thirty one years of age, after thirty one revolutions around the sun, I’m STILL trying to figure myself out. I think it’s less a question of who I am and more a question of how I operate most efficiently. I’m starting to realize that I like to do whatever I want whenever I want regardless of consequence; this directly contradicts with notions of discipline and routine, however. Freedom is…

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#becoming #black Excellence #enlightenment #Introspection #manifestation #Meditation #patience #Reflection #revelation #writing

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important.

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#coffee #blackhumor #itsmoneytoget #letsgetit

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maybe tomorrow

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“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time”

— Thomas A. Edison

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There's this book I read back in middle school called Icons of Evolution by this guy Johnathan Wells, who made it his life's goal to "destroy Darwinism."

Practically none of the people around me growing up believed in evolution. I was homeschooled in the Bible Belt and my parents weren't "young-earth creationists" but almost everyone else was.

The book basically sets out to show that all the examples given in textbooks that demonstrate how evolution works are wrong or misleading, and therefore evolution as a theory is questionable.

I was looking through the book again recently and was struck by how it's actually a fantastic breakdown of how the version of scientific concepts taught in textbooks is extremely simplified and often wrong, but instead of showing how delving deeper gets you to a fuller understanding of the thing, the book just goes "see, evolution isn't real"

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Archer

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“Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe in little or nothing, and so they give their lives to little or nothing. One life is all we have, and we live it as we believe in living it…and then it��s gone. But to surrender who you are and to live without belief is more terrible than dying – even more terrible than dying young.” ― Joan of Arc