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i would like an oppenheimer-esque film to be made about louis pasteur in his quest to create a rabies vaccine, please

yesssss we got a discussion of vampires!!! stephanie meyer MENTIONED lets goo

Fine! I’ll start reading again.

“when we simply guess as to what humans and other times and places might be up to, we almost invariably make guesses that are far less interesting, far less quirky – in a word, far less human than what was likely going on.” purr yas slay

“…a defining feature of humans… is that we like to know why things happen, especially why really bad things happen. and if a reason is not immediately apparent, we will find one.” literally no one fucks with john green the way that i fuck with john green

“nothing is so privileged as thinking history belongs to the past.”

“man is the animal that doesn’t know what to do with itself. The mind has many possibilities, but we can live no more than one life… when you choose your vocation, you have actually chosen a model and it will fit you in a little while… you’re shaped by your life” i just know the online leftists HATE to hear it

“…consciousness thinks it’s running the shop, but it’s a secondary organ of a total human being and it must not put itself in control. it must submit and serve the humanity of the body.”

summation of becoming a woman: “typically it is to sit in a little hut for a certain number of days and realize what she is.” hell yeah brother

“‘history is a nightmare from which i am trying to awake.’ and the way to awake from it is not to be afraid, and to recognize that all of this, as it is, is a manifestation of the horrendous power that is all of creation. the ends of things are always painful. but pain is part of there being a world at things” joseph campbell we may disagree on many ways but game recognizes game.

I started this book years ago, but never finished it! I really think it just wasnt the right time for it, now as I read it I feel like a i appreciate it so much more and I can actually properly digest campbell’s points

i forgot how to read for the month of may but i remembered again so im reading now.

“if the birthing woman’s body is a machine producing a product then it makes perfect sense that once the production opening reaches the standard, the product should be immediately produced given that time is of the essence if production schedules are to be maintained.”
purr yas strange making writing go for the technocratic model’s jugular with that one (also capitalism’s 🤷‍♀️)

“ individuals of high, cognitive complexity, for example, may adopt a relative view of reality tolerant of many interpretations of a given phenomenon whereas individuals with simpler cognitive systems will tend to insist on one correct interpretation.” NOT the point of the book… but… slay……

oh anthropological literature how i have missed you 😭

he’s done being emo and decided to start EATING

“in permitting man, nature has committed much more than a mistake in her calculations: a crime against herself”
“we get a better hold of ourselves and of being when we have reacted against negating, dissolving books…”
e. m. cioran in 1969 france (i think?) 🤝 me in america 2025

“its not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late” UM. SORRY?????????? 😭

homie is EMO

“if we’re going to try to protect boys from the manosphere quagmire we’ve got to understand what pulls them in the first place… that our current societal version of masculinity is failing them. It leaves them isolated, forced to adopt a swaggering bravado that prevents them from talking about how they feel or forming mutually supportive relationships.” 👏👏👏👏

“women have always been the Canary’s in the coal, mines quietly singing. But we are so used to seeing them die at men’s hands, so used to justifying and excusing it as normal or understandable that it wouldn’t occur to us to consider this enough of an aberration to raise alarm… sometimes men die too. the how we shout and react.” if i had a dime for every time i starred a paragraph by laura bates…

i actually love when the author of the book “men who hates women” discusses the woman-hating contributions of an author that an ex-boyfriend of mine went to see live.

thank god laura bates writes with such a fun attitude, it really is what gets me through the details she writes if these men’s beliefs.

“its almost impossible to come to grips with the epidemic of violence, facing women and girls when we’re not able to clearly name an examine the problem… because we don’t describe them in ways that acknowledge the connections between them”
a man overheard me telling my sister im reading this book and asked me why and then proceeded to tell me that books and classes will only confirm feminist bias :|

“[the overseer] argued that… the result of which would be the freedom of the slaves, and the enslavement of the whites.” …so white men have been doing this whole “dismantling oppression actually oppresses me” thing… forever then… cool.

“till we no longer merely ‘hide the outcast,’ or make a merit of standing idly by while he is hunted in our midst; but, consecrating anew the soil of the pilgrims as an asylum for the oppressed”

giving me lots to ponder about…….