This is the character meaning human, person, etc. in both Japanese and Chinese. Notice how it is made from two strokes which lean on one another. If either was to be taken away, the other would fall.
Also notice that as the strokes ascend, they come together and as they descend, they move apart.
5th September 2012
Reblogged From thebeautyofgray
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A veces siento que las personas no están conscientes de que están vivos. Es algo que le he tratado de explicar a muchas veces pero casi nunca me hago entender. Bueno, aquí voy otra vez, ojalá no sea otro de esos actos fallidos.
¿Han visto cómo las personas perciben su vida? La forma en la que…
George Orwell got it backward.
Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted.
He’s making sure your imagination withers. Until it’s as useful as your appendix. He’s making sure your attention is always filled.
And this being fed is worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about your mind. With everyone’s imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world.
"(Source: fragmentedfictions)
Adamant: unyielding; a very hard substance
Adroit: clever, resourceful
Amatory: sexual
Animistic: quality of recurrence or reversion to earlier form
Antic: clownish, frolicsome
Arcadian: serene
Baleful: deadly, foreboding
Bellicose: quarrelsome (its synonym…
Axolotls have the unique ability to regenerate most body parts. In a period of months, they can grow entire new limbs and even portions of the brain and spine.
(Source: devoureth)
· 51% of the boys and 41% of the girls said forced sex was acceptable if the boy, “spent a lot of money” on the girl;
· 31% of the boys and 32% of the girls said it was acceptable for a man to rape a woman with past sexual experience;
· 87% of boys and 79% of girls said sexual assault was acceptable if the man and the woman were married;
· 65% of the boys and 47% of the girls said it was acceptable for a boy to rape a girl if they had been dating for more than six months."
Societal Attitudes Supporting Rape (via searchingforavila)
This is fucking scary, and it shows that we do live in a “rape culture” in which abusers and rapists have little idea that they are doing something wrong. My abuser didn’t….
(via inthedarkcornersofmymind)
In which we despair for the universe…
(via invisiblelad)
There are so many of these horrible survey results, and everyone should know them and then tell me there’s no such thing as misogyny and rape culture.
(via wretchedoftheearth)
These stats need to be reblogged all the fucking time because SHIT
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Eleven to fourteen year olds.
Little kids.
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wow this is quite powerful
Amazing!
The level of comic-production I can only hope to achieve…-wistful sigh-
this is aMAAAAZING! it reminds me of the essay i wrote for first year public affairs and policy management at carleton!
