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[The Maple Scoop @MapleScoop]

LET’S GO OILERS! Get ‘er done!

[Jack Michaels @EdmontonJack]

The picture you didn’t know you needed this summer.

[Augustus @AugustusDelano]

Underrated life hacks:
- pray first thing every morning, last thing every night
- always keep an open notebook and pen within sight
- halve the amount time you allot yourself to read books & do your work
- extend your vision out by 5-10 years, then reverse engineer to present
- every time you catch yourself worrying, immediately surrender it to God
- never stop learning, ever, no matter what
- recognize no one is stopping you more than yourself

[Men of Purpose @Men_Of_Purpose]

The video I watched every morning At 4am for 6 months

[Victoria Byrne @Thevictoria76]

New life mission: Doing THIS to everyone 😂⏰

Who’s getting clocked next?

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.

He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.

Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.

Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.

Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.

Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.

Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.

The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

[B/R Open Ice @BR_OpenIce]

Oilers coach Kris Knoblauch has confirmed that Connor McDavid suffered a fracture in the foot/ankle area on this play in Game 2

[Learn Something @cooltechtipz]

400 calories of whole foods vs processed snacks

[Pat Laliberté - La Tribune du peuple @Pat77432407]

LES SABRES DE BUFFALO : UNE TRADITION UNIQUE DANS LA LNH ET LE SPORT PROFESSIONNEL AMÉRICAIN

Les Sabres de Buffalo occupent une place unique dans la Ligue nationale de hockey (LNH) et même dans le sport professionnel américain en général à cet égard.

Alors que la règle standard de la LNH veut que l'on chante l'hymne national du pays de chaque équipe présente sur la glace, les Sabres sont en effet la seule équipe américaine à faire chanter le Ô Canada avant tous leurs matchs à domicile, peu importe si l'adversaire est américain seulement ou non.

Plusieurs raisons expliquent ce lien privilégié avec le Canada :

•La proximité géographique : Le KeyBank Center de Buffalo est situé à moins de 10 minutes de la frontière canadienne.

•La base de partisans : Une partie importante des abonnés de saison et des spectateurs des Sabres provient du sud de l'Ontario (notamment de la région de Niagara et même de Toronto). Chanter l'hymne est un signe de respect et de bienvenue pour ces partisans qui traversent la frontière.

•L'influence canadienne : Le nom même de l'équipe utilise l'orthographe canadienne (Sabre au lieu de l'américain Saber).

Les propriétaires fondateurs des Sabres, Seymour Knox III et Northrup Knox, ont choisi cette orthographe délibérément pour rendre hommage à leur importante base de partisans canadiens.

De plus, l'histoire de la franchise est profondément marquée par des légendes québécoises, notamment la célèbre French Connection (Gilbert Perreault, Rick Martin et René Robert).

Pour de nombreux amateurs de hockey, Buffalo est affectueusement considérée comme « l’autre équipe canadienne » de la ligue.

[Blondelady2024 @arva61138]

This is probably the best answer I've ever heard to the question, "Why did God create evil?"

A professor at the university asked his students the following question:

“Everything that exists was created by God?”
One student bravely answered:
“Yes, it was created by God.”

The professor asked :
“If God created everything, then God created evil, since it exists. And according to the principle that our deeds define ourselves, then God is evil.”

The student became silent after hearing such an answer. The professor was very pleased with himself. He boasted to students for proving once again that faith in God is a myth.

Another student raised his hand and said:
“Can I ask you a question, professor?”
"Of course," replied the professor.

“Professor, is cold a thing?”
“What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you ever been cold?”
Students laughed at the young man's question.

The young man answered:
“Actually, sir, cold doesn't exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is actually the absence of heat. A person or object can be studied on whether it has or transmits energy.
Absolute zero (-460 degrees Fahrenheit) is a complete absence of heat. All matter becomes inert and unable to react at this temperature. Cold does not exist. We created this word to describe what we feel in the absence of heat.”

The student continued:
“Professor, does darkness exist?”
“Of course it exists.” said the professor.
“You're wrong again, sir. Darkness also does not exist. Darkness is actually the absence of light. We can study the light but not the darkness. We can use Newton's prism to spread white light across multiple colors and explore the different wavelengths of each color. You can't measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into the world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you tell how dark a certain space is? You measure how much light is presented. Isn't it so? Darkness is a term man uses to describe what happens in the absence of light.”

In the end, the young man asked the professor:
“Sir, does evil exist?”
This time it was uncertain, the professor answered:
“Of course, as I said before. We see him every day. Cruelty, numerous crimes and violence throughout the world. These examples are nothing but a manifestation of evil.”

To this, the student answered:
“Evil does not exist, sir, or at least it does not exist for itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is like darkness and cold—a man-made word to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not faith or love, which exist as light and warmth. Evil is the result of the absence of Divine love in the human heart. It’s the kind of cold that comes when there is no heat, or the kind of darkness that comes when there’s no light.”
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