I just found something amazing while doing research for a project, written by “MammaBear” on shakesville.com: “Tsarnaev Cites War as Motivation for Bombing”:

“I don’t know how to articulate this properly, but I am very upset over family, friend, acquaintances inability to see that there are people who live in Iraq and Afghanistan and the other more than 150 countries we have soldiers in, and that sometimes those people don’t like one bit how they’re being treated by these troops, and when we do things like kill their children and use drones to totally ignore national borders and stuff, these people will be upset with us.

It’s like they’re not real people, who are experiencing real terrible things at the hands of the US, that we would never, ever tolerate in this country.

Last week while we were having Boston and West, in Bangalore they had a bombing too with six people significantly injured and when I discussed it with other people I know all I got was a shrug and where even is that anyway? Same thing with the horrid China earthquake. Even one relative said to me that ‘life doesn’t matter to those people the way it does to us, they’ll just carry on, you’ll see’ but I think they’re totally wrong.”

And there was another awesome response by “Meganology”:

Even one relative said to me that ‘life doesn’t matter to those people the way it does to us, they’ll just carry on, you’ll see’ but I think they’re totally wrong.

Yes, they do carry on in the face of violence. They carry on when there are bombs dropping on their neighborhoods, when some of their neighbors are dying in their homes, when school is called off because it’s not safe to go. They carry on when they hear military planes flying overhead. They carry on when a relative is jailed and nobody knows when he’s getting out or can even visit him.

And that? Is not the same as those things not mattering to them. They keep going because what the hell else are they supposed to do? There’s work to be done, bread to be baked, gardens to be tended, a shop to be run, because if you stop doing those things in the midst of fear then there won’t be food for people to eat. There’s schoolwork to be done because somebody has to make sure that the kids have whatever chance they can get at a better future. It’s not like they care any less or grieve any less or fear any less. It’s that this has been going on for so long that they’ve had no choice but to find ways of coping with it. It’s precisely because they care that they keep on doing what they’ve got to do to survive.”

Current draft/Speculative thoughts/Not finalized

“Because, paradoxically, fantasy is a good way to show the world as it is. Fantasy can show us the truth about human relationships and moral dilemmas because it works on our emotions on a deeper, symbolic level than realistic fiction. It has the same emotional power as a dream.” -Lloyd Alexander

In addition to Lloyd Alexander’s point about dreams, I’ve realized more and more that creativity quite often stems from sources such as dreams or other forms of sudden inspiration - on other words - the subconscious. Einstein, even though he was primarily a scientist, was one of the few people ever to realize this, as he said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Knowledge is knowledge, they’re facts. It is with the power of imagination that we can APPLY that knowledge and DO SOMETHING with it. This is how innovation happens and has happened throughout history. It is innovation that has moved history forward. And in order for innovation, you need IMAGINATION. The capability for imagination is the highest level of what MAKES us human. A computer can calculate and formulate the specifics of the mathematical realm, but it is only human beings that possess the potential to CREATE something purely from imagination. How, then, can anyone declare that imagination is insignificant?

“Made-up stories can matter, and they matter to us in the real everyday world just as much (and in many cases more than) the real people we know and the real things we do. Made-up stories matter for precisely the same reason that anything matters: because we decide they matter, because we imbue them with meaning.
Chimpanzees, while they are very smart and interesting creatures, cannot tell each other stories about war heroes fighting sirens and a cyclops to get home. They cannot use such stories to shape their values and their relationships and their worldviews. We can, and do, and this engagement with constructed narrative is (imho) a big part of what makes us human.” -Franny Billingsley

***Fiction/fantasy/scifi writers:

*As depicting, analyzing, satirizing, exploring REAL historical events, human society, human nature, ethical morals: J.R.R. Tolkien [Lord of the Rings as influenced by his experience of WWI]

*As being the thinkers who possess the insight to not only understand human society in their own times, but also to recognize the subsequent effects and results of that society and where it is heading - they are the ones who are insightful as to the future conditions of human society, and end up being actually quite accurate. Examples: George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Ray Bradbury. Thus, fiction becomes a field of speculation as to the current or future conditions of humanity.

Still doesn’t make sense to me that the world runs on entire contradictions where:

1. The systems designed precisely to administer justice are the ones perpetrating injustice and tyranny [Government & Law]

2. Where the people whose purpose is to “serve and protect” are the ones perpetrating the brutality needed to be protected from. [Police System]

3. Where the systems meant to be exposing the truth to the people are the ones manipulating the truth. [Media]

EVERY single institution in this world is the utter contradiction to what they are SUPPOSED to be. No one cares about doing their job the way they are supposed to be doing it. They don’t hold the principles they are supposed to be standing for. And that’s why the world is so messed up.

I’ve always thought that people who are invisible to others possess a certain serene beauty about them, precisely because they themselves are so unaware of it.

Wow so I find it absurdly ridiculous that Tumblr doesn’t let you follow/like from a secondary blog. So can my PLL-loving friends please follow my PLL blog, thank you very much! =) http://prettylittlecritique.tumblr.com/

Its not another PLL page with images, although I appreciate those. This is more of a written critical analysis of the many significant themes of the show, and a speculation of the endlessly intertwining mysteries within it.

It would also make me very happy if anyone took the time out to promote it too! Thank youuu =)

Image Credit: By Zivamar2 on DeviantArt

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fangirl challenge ♥ [3/10] pairings

SPENCER X TOBY → “I’ve never had a safe place to land, but now I feel like I do. I want you to stay safe.”

And its that time of year again! Ramadan Mubarak everyone! The air itself seems vibrant with the magic of Ramadan. InshaAllah we can take the utmost advantage of our time this month in strengthening our connection with Allah and attaining the sheer mercy of Allah, for which there are truly no words ♥ Let’s leave the earthly world behind to immerse ourselves within the exhilaratingly spiritual world that is Ramadan.

Poem I wrote for my sociology class on Social Change and Movements, with somewhat of a focus on panopticism.

Where the declaration of truth is treason
Where undeniable evidence
Of truth on a screen
Distributed to the world through a web of electric veins
Can be manipulated, distorted
And the lie believed
Where humans
Are mere labels of identification numbers
Constrained, bound to a system
Of omnipresent panopticism –
A mere step away from
Big Brother
Is Watching You

Serve and protect
Is to mercilessly, callously, apathetically
Beat, shoot, blind, blame;
Serve the injustice
Protect the Façade

Apathy, the acceptance
Of “serve and protect”
Of injustice and the Façade

Dissolve from your mind
The lies and the propaganda
Insidiously fed you
Through the ever-deceiving media
To which you are so insistently and blindly inclined

Dissolve
In a whatever singularity
In a whatever label
A whatever number
A whatever identity
Watch them –
As they watch you.
They are only the 1%

LMAO. This is too funny haha. My two favorites <3

Talisa was perfect for Robb, but I want someone like her for Jon too, not Ygritte =(

“Probably Jon Snow. Probably. I’m guessing. That’s who Dany would like.”

I so totally do not ship Jon and Daenerys, because I think their characters/purposes are too vastly different…but seeing this gif wants to make me ship them lol…or maybe just Kit Harrington and Emilia Clarke. Because this is too cute haha

Aww….I could not get over Ned’s death =( Especially after that description Robb gives of him about what its really like being a lord.

Omg I am so mad at all the spoilers I’ve been reading that Jon does end up having a relationship with Ygritte…I am hoping that at least ULTIMATELY he doesn’t end up with her. Otherwise, I would be SO furious and disappointed. I know a lot of people ship them, but I feel like he deserves better than her.

LMAO omg I love him.