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A Multidimensional Doctor of Pharmacy⚕️

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

Believe you are chosen. believe it stupid, blind, believe it so wildly and so completely that people around you get uncomfortable. brute force your delusion into the skin of the world. the world will laugh, will try to look away from you. do not stop until the world gives up

[Aseel Swaid @aseelswaid9]

The historic city of Timgad in Algeria is more than 1,900 years old.

[Illimitable Man (IM) @SovereignIM]

Arguing is sort of like sex. It should be a privilege to do it with you, because it's not something you are willing to do with just anyone. Many people want to do it with you, but you actively refuse it to all but the most worthy.

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“When you meet a swordsman, draw your sword. Do not recite poetry to one who is not a poet.”

— Linji Yixuan

[𝓓𝓸𝓬_𝔃𝓮𝓮 ✧ @doc_zee7]

When you finally do your laundry and all your top-tiers clothes are back

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”

— Sigmund Freud

[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

By the way, France dropped 17 nuclear bombs on Algeria

[Shane Parrish @shaneparrish]

Holy cow.

I’ve been reading the Rockefeller archives, and found this gem, where John D. Rockefeller comments on Napoleon Bonaparte.

"It is hard to imagine Napoleon as a business man, but I have thought that if he had applied himself to commerce and industry he would have been the greatest business man the world had ever known.

My, what a genius for organization! He also had what I have always regarded as a prime necessity for large success in any enterprise - that is a thorough understanding of men and ability to inspire in them confidence in him and what is of equal importance, confidence in themselves. See the men he picked as Marshalls, and the heights to which they rose under his inspiration and leadership.

It is by such traits as these, that men get the world of the world done. It is all a battlefield. Bonaparte, without the able marshals he had about him, would not have been the master of his age. he went into a battle with the knowledge that his marshals could be depended on - that in a given situation they could be relied upon do to the necessary thing. Their devotion to him, coupled with their enthusiasm - that’s another great attribute - and the qualities which his influence upon them brought out, won the fight.

Another thing about Napoleon was his virility - his humanity. I mean humanity in the broad sense, of course. He was a human being, and virile because he came direct from the ranks of the people. There was none of the stagnant blood of nobility or royalty in his veins. There’s where he had the advantage over the the monarchs of Europe to begin with. He could think quicker and along more individual and original lines than any of them. And being from the people, he was in close touch with the people.

The men with whom he had to combat didn’t understand either him, or the people and it is always hard to successful control what you don’t understand. Napoleon didn’t play the game, as the saying goes, as they understood it. And then, coming direct from the people he had the sympathy; he appealed to their imagination; Europe had not yet been education to the fact that it could get along without any kings at all, and the French people, I believe, reasoned that if they have to have king to rule them, it was better to have a king of their own kind and from their own ranks, than from the breed which had ruled them for a thousand years. In an age when the people had been but recently released from slavery and had not acquired the art of governing themselves, leaders of their own kind were few, and that made it easier for Napoleon to rise to the heights which he attained.

A Napoleon would be impossible in our day. Democracy has educated us away from such a think. There are too many able and ambitious rivals to hold in check one who aimed too high."

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I'm really amazed at how many people don’t appreciate the sky. It’s literally a pleasure to watch the clouds, the stars, the sun, and the moon.

[Redd @ReddCinema]

A French acrobat by the name of Bastien Dausse developed a device that simulates lunar gravity

[✒️ @Literariium]

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”

— Vladimir llych Lenin

[le.hl @0xleegenz]

I want to be as delusional as the guy who sued Redbull for not giving him wings and won $15M

[James Clear @JamesClear]

A Monday morning question for you:

Is the situation actually complicated or is it really quite straightforward, but you're making it complicated because it requires a lot of courage to make the straightforward decision?

[Chad Crowley @CCrowley100]

“Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.”

— C.S. Lewis, On Three Ways of Writing for Children

[ghost @deadpoet_______]

a museum of unsent love letters

[Resko★ @Bloke_Baz]

i wanna meet myself from another person's point of view and experience my own energy

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

Stop explaining yourself. Let them misunderstand. Read by candlelight. Memorize prayers you don't believe yet. Fast until you see clearly. Delete your autobiography. Burn your manifestos. The story you tell about yourself is a cage. Visit graves of people you never met. Learn their names anyway. Sit in empty churches. Silence is older than doctrine. Stop waiting for permission. The elders are dead. You are the elder now. Teach yourself ancient languages. Not for resume. For resurrection. Walk at midnight. Notice what moves in darkness. Befriend it. Your fear is obsolete genetics. Murder it. Stop journaling feelings. Journal prophecies. Then make them true. Find teachers who scare you. If they comfort you they're lying. Comfort is the enemy. Read the texts they banned. Ask why they were banned. The answer is always the same. Learn to fight. Doesn't matter which discipline. A man who cannot defend cannot build. Stop consuming content. Create doctrine. Your doctrine. Forge weapons from your wounds. Every scar is a lesson you paid for in blood. Collect them. The crowd will call you crazy. That's how you know it's working. Find the others. They're looking for you too. Start the monastery. Physical or digital doesn't matter. Build the fortress. Man the walls. Something is coming and the soft will not survive it.

[critter @BecomingCritter]

my therapist said this to me, and it hit me like a brick: “Procrastination is how you preserve the fantasy of your potential.”