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adeyami:

abaldwin360:

deconversionmovement:

rapidfireredhead:

lackofbelief:

I never thought I’d see an American president have the courage to say something like this … to the Christian Broadcasting Network, no less.  Way to go, Obama!

 Fantastic. <3

Daily dose of Christian persecution.

Maybe his spine is finally growing back.

Let this be true

my president

lampsarepeople2:

p3n1s:

katedanley:

OWS_W2D2-0418 by pweiskel08 on Flickr.

What They did not want you to ever find out is that your generation, the generation born between 1980-1995, actually outnumbers the Baby Boomers. They knew that if you ever turned your eye towards political reform, you could change the world.

They tried to keep you sated on vapid television shows and vapid music. They cut off your education and fed you brain candy. They took away your music and gave you Top Ten pop stations. They cut off your art and replaced it with endless reality shows for you to plug into, hoping you would sit quietly by as They ran the world. I think They thought you were too dumb to notice.

Indeed, I thought They had won.

But I watched you occupy the capital of Wisconsin. I see you today as you occupy Wall Street. And I see a spark, a glimmer of the glorious new age that is yours. A changing of the guard, a guard that has stood for entirely too long and needs your young legs to take his place.

I watch you turn away from what is easy and stand up for what is right. I see you understand we as a society are only as strong as our weakest link. I see you wise beyond your years. And I am proud. Give ‘em hell, kids. You are beautiful.

Can this be reblogged everywhere please.

this post

captured-elegance:

Irena Sendler 1910-2008 A 98 year-old German woman named Irena Sendler recently died. During WWII, Irena worked in the Warsaw Ghetto as a plumbing/sewer specialist. Irena smuggled Jewish children out; infants in the bottom of the tool box she carried and older children in a burlap sack she carried in the back of her truck. She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers wanted nothing to do with the dog, and the barking covered the kids’ and infants’ noises. Irena managed to smuggle out and save 2500 children. She eventually was caught, and the Nazis broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar buried under a tree in her backyard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived and reunited some of the families. Most had been killed. She helped those children get placement into foster family homes or adopted. Last year Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was not selected. Al Gore won- for a slide show on Global Warming.

effyeaharthistory:

The “Sarcophagus of the Spouses”, Etruscan, c. 520-510 BCE, Louvre, Paris. 

So you think all ancient societies were patriarchal and that there was extreme inequality in regards to women? Think again. While most were, there was a civilization nestled right between the Greeks and the Romans that took women a little more seriously: the Etruscans. Etruscan society was pretty radical when it came to their treatment of women, and most examples of this are found in funerary art.

Women were allowed at the traditionally all-male symposia. In Greece, the symposium was an all-male event (with drinking, and sex, and sometimes ideas). Women were only allowed as prostitutes or slaves. However, in Etruscan society, women were allowed at similar banquet-type events. They weren’t servants or prostitutes — they were equals. The notion of women dining with men was completely foreign to surrounding societies.

Etruscan women have been described “as immoral and powerful, mingling more freely with men than did Greek women—-offering toasts at the banquets that for Greeks were traditionally all-male events (Larissa Bonfante).” That Etruscan women were a part of such a controversial event indicates their high place in society.

Unfortunately, the Etruscan society was assimilated into that of Rome and subsequently, the traditions and ideals towards women were stamped out by the dominating Roman society.

Etruscan women also kept their own names after marriage and were able to own property. Aristotle also commented on the atrocities of Etruscan culture, shocked that the wives did not stay home like they did in Greece. Women were also allowed to go to sporting events, which traditionally Greek women were kept from.

Etruscans shared similar dining practices with other archaic cultures like the city of Sybaris in Magna Graecia. So, it seems that in “Archaic” cultures, their women were allotted more freedoms than “more developed” societies that boasted larger territories and more “advanced” government regimes.

The inclusion of women in such high statuses not only depicts that the practice existed in Etruscan life, but that it was important to the members of society and in the veneration of their dead.  

While there are many depictions of couples in banquet scenes, perhaps the most poignant images of couples and of women in Etruscan art are found in sarcophagi. One of the most famous examples of this is the Sarcophagus of the Married Couple from the Etruscan city of Cerveteri. The Etruscan couple is seated on a kline, gesturing towards the viewer. The husbands arm is resting protectively on his wife’s shoulder, representing familial union. They are stretched out on a symposium kline, an image which would have been rejected in Greek culture. It shows their shared importance, elevating the woman to equal status as the man. There are also sarcophagi depicting only women, showing their importance. 

Who knows where modern society would have been if maybe Etruscans had influenced their surroundings, rather than the patriarchal Greeks and Romans. 

giannimartelli:

soundundertone:

“first time daddy sees his 3 week old”

this is beautiful.

He’s looking at her like she’s made of gold.

i will never NOT reblog this. this is absolutely beautiful

This will always make me smile.

asdfghjkl jfkahdfkj i can’t-

highonpride:

There’s this girl. I met her online around this month last year. She was in Libya, I was in the Philippines. The same month, we confessed we liked each other. She became mine and I became hers. So much had happened. I flew to Canada. We had a hard time adjusting so we would argue a lot. But we made it through that hard time. We both planned on coming home to the Philippines. A secret we planned. But this tragic thing happened in Libya. The protests had hit the city my girlfriend was in. They were repatriated. I arrived in the Philippines last March 5. She arrived last March 10. On the 11th, last Friday, we finally met each other. It’s our very first time meeting after a year of being in a long distance relationship. 

This is our very first picture together.

I am the happiest person on earth right now and probably the luckiest :”> Whoever said online relationships are hard to keep? 

I love her so much ! 

rachpuckermanleamsalling:

This 4 month old baby was found under rubble in Ishinomaki, state of Miyagi, Japan. She was stuck under the rubble for 3 days. She managed to survive for those 3 days and she has since been reunited with her father.

 This needs more notes.

giannimartelli:

anotherjen:

I drew this for cardinal-bitchface.  I hope you find it adorable! <3

Oh I was totally going to reblog this but I’m a dumb and forgot to do so.

OMG i love this thank you so much ;www; i can’t aaaaaaa my smile is going to split my head in half it’s so wide. THANK YOU! <3