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Yeah you're right. It WOULD be pretty fucked up if you were a swan but you were raised by ducks and you grew up never seeing another swan or even knowing that such a thing as a swan even existed so you just thought you were a duck with something super wrong with it.

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Through previous research, literature reviews, and empirical studies, Clifton and his team of researchers concluded that humans have over two dozen primal world beliefs. However, most of these beliefs cluster into three categories. They are:

The world is a safe place (as opposed to a dangerous one). This determines to what extent people believe the world is full of threats.

The world is an enticing place (as opposed to a dull one). This determines individuals’ willingness to engage with the world – i.e., doing what they find interesting, beautiful, and meaningful (or not).

The world is alive (as opposed to mechanistic). This determines whether people view the world as a place where things happen because of the efforts they make and that the world needs one’s help and intervention.

To explain how much power our primal world beliefs can exercise over our lives, Clifton urges us to remember a time we were in a place we hated and then to imagine being stuck there forever. “Those of us who see the world as dangerous, dull, and mechanistic are stuck in a place they hate their whole lives,” he explains. “The downstream effects on behavior and well-being are potentially enormous.”

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piecesofporcelain on ig

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tbh the more time you spend around open, wild bodies of water like rivers, lakes and seas the more you begin to understand why pretty much every culture in the world has a similar eerie, hypnotically beautiful yet terrifying temptress figure who lures people into the depths to drown them and/or eat them in its folklore representing the seductive call of the water. it really is just like that.

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Sara Teasdale, from The Collected Poems of Sara Teasdale; "Song,"

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Stephen Dunn, The Insistence of Beauty: Poems

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some loser: humans are innately selfish creatures

my psych book:

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visual by zayn alarbi, words by ibrahim nasrallah

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Zhao Yannian. Nightmare # 2.

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Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits (translated by Magda Bogin)

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it's so cringe how every song on the radio by a woman is about how good she is at having sex. id make a song about being ass at sex. i twist the dick like a pretzel and bite it off that's what id sing

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the Columbia University arrests are worse than they seem. They're arresting protesting students for trespassing. It goes without saying students cannot meaningfully "trespass" in the common areas of a university they attend. So Columbia University has suspended all student protestors from their institution, in the process revoking their access to housing, their belonging, and most crucially damaging their academic futures. We are witnessing full scale silencing and removal of anyone of conscience from the next generation of academia.

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