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Ben Thomas for Scientific American, “Meaning on the Brain: How Your Mind organizes Reality” (via kindofamenace)
Diogenes was the best, tho.
(via malaptica)
You just found me in the wrong universe. That’s all. This is, as they say, the darkest timeline. Everywhere else, nay, “everywhen” else— us in the Civil War, us in Ancient Egypt, us in the swinging ’60s— we are happy.
If this theory holds, well, by the law of averages, there had to be one universe— just this one— where we don’t end up together. Here and now just happens to be it. If you think of it this way, nothing is our fault.
So see, that explains everything. We’re not together anymore because of the multiverse.
Well, isn’t that comforting?
If you’re sad, do like I do and just think of the other ‘verses. The ones where I believe in love and where I don’t hate myself and where I never feel the need to kamikaze relationships. A universe where we can have nice things. It’s helpful, right?
Because you could have loved me forever. And maybe in another universe, I let you."
It’s a song of belonging that makes you belong just by hearing it, it’s a song that’ll always take care of you and never leave you. If you have a heart, it breaks, if you have a heart that’s broken, it fixes.
“Within our lifetimes, we’ve marveled as biologists have managed to look at ever smaller and smaller things. And astronomers have looked further and further into the dark night sky, back in time and out in space. But maybe the most mysterious of all is neither the small nor the large: it’s us, up close. Could we even recognize ourselves, and if we did, would we know ourselves? What would we say to ourselves? What would we learn from ourselves? What would we really like to see if we could stand outside ourselves and look at us?”
- Another Earth
What Schools are Really Blocking When They Block Social Media (via world-shaker)
I very much believe that people will act according the expectations you set for them. Like if a teacher personally expects me to do well in their class or to focus I will and if I’m expected to be anything other than hardworking well, I just won’t come to class. Anyway, I think my fellow students and I can handle the internet, thank you very much.
Cornelia Funke. (via abrandnewsong)
Does someone want to explain to me what Cornelia Funke has written/what her books are about, because I’m too lazy to Wikipedia atm? (Besides, hearing about books from fans is usually better than wiki.)
“You liked the idea of space travel? Going places?”
“I don’t know. Yes. No. It wasn’t going places. It was being between.” Hitchcock for the first time tried to focus his eyes upon something, but it was so nebulous and far off that his eyes couldn’t make the adjustment, though he worked his face and hands. “Mostly it was space. So much space. I liked the idea of nothing on top, nothing on the bottom, and a lot of nothing in between, and me in the middle of the nothing.”
“I never heard it put that way before.”
“I just put it that way; I hope you listened.”
“No Particular Night or Morning”, by Ray Bradbury
