Rachel Lynn

[Fav ⛧ @Favwontmiss]

For the kids who waited until the last minute to write an essay and then just word vomited onto the paper and turned it in unedited and still got one of the top grades, are you diagnosed with ADHD and neurodivergent now? Or are you a writer?

[Codie Sanchez @Codie_Sanchez]

I think about this weekly

[Claire Taylor 🇬🇧ioekah Lumish , ( Alcyone ) @ClaireT13274488]

"Your great-grandmother was not trying to manifest a beach vacation. She was not curating an aesthetic. She was not optimizing...anything. She had a list, and the list was short, and the list was sacred.

A full pantry. Healthy children. A roof that did not leak. A husband who came home. A garden that produced. A few good dresses. A reliable stove. Sunday dinner with people she loved. Enough flour for the week and enough kindness for the neighbors.

That was the whole dream. That was the whole life. And by the standards of most of human history, achieving that list was a roaring success.

Then the twentieth century happened, and somebody figured out that a woman who is content is terrible for business. A woman with a full pantry is not running to the store. A woman who is satisfied with her kitchen is not redoing it every four years. A woman who knows what enough looks like cannot be sold the next thing.

So they got to work. They made the small house embarrassing. They made the old car embarrassing. They made the home-cooked meal embarrassing, and then when nobody knew how to cook anymore they sold it back as a meal kit with a celebrity chef on the box. They raised the cost of living until both parents had to work, and then they sold daycare and convenience food and weekend therapy to fix the exhaustion that working both jobs created in the first place.

They took your great-grandmother's list and called it poverty. They took her life and called it limited. They took her contentment and called it a lack of ambition.

And then they sold you ambition. They sold you a bigger house you cannot clean, a car you cannot pay off, a wardrobe you do not wear, a calendar you cannot survive, and a vague constant feeling that you are still falling behind.

You are not falling behind. You are running a race that was designed to have no finish line. The race itself is the product.

-copied and pasted author unknown

[Zeo @zeo_ex]

According to Feng Shui, the mess in your house isn't random. It's a map of where the energy is stuck in your life.

Overflowing closet =

[John Cena @JohnCena]

Neither persistence nor curiosity alone acts strongly enough for sustained breakthroughs. Mix them together and try to absorb them everyday. The combination can be almost magical.

[Deep Psychology @DeepPsycho_HQ]

A psychiatrist at John Hopkins studied people who claimed to speak with God.

what he found in their brain scans left even seasoned scientists in quite disbelief:

> His name was Dr. Andrew Newberg.
A scientist. Not religious.
He had one question what happens inside the brain during prayer?

He expected nothing unusual.
Just neurons firing. Thoughts forming.
Nothing more.

He was wrong.

During deep prayer, the brain did something unexpected.
The part responsible for self-awareness went quiet.
Like a switch turned off.

> And when that happens the boundary between you and everything else disappears.
You no longer feel separate.
Not from people.
Not from the world.
Not from something greater.

He called it “absolute unitary being.”
Not just a feeling a measurable state in the brain.

But that wasn’t the most shocking part.

The brains of people who prayed regularly
looked physically different.
Stronger connections.
Lower stress.
Healthier patterns.

Even the brain’s fear center the amygdala became less active.

Ancient traditions always knew this.

Here’s the simple truth:
When you pray, your brain stops treating you as alone.
It starts treating you as connected.
Supported. Part of something vast.

He spent 30 years trying to prove it was all in the mind.
Instead, he found it was changing the mind all along.

Maybe it was never empty after all.

[Naruto @NarutoNolimits]

Jordan Peterson on how to know who your real friends are:

1. Here's the weird test most people miss: you can tell them good news and they'll actually help you celebrate. that sounds easy. it isn't. tell most people something good happened to you and they give you a little whack, then start talking about the great thing that happened to them three years ago. or worse, the great thing that happened to someone they know.

2. the good ones let you have your win. that's rarer than you think. some people, you're almost afraid to admit something good happened, because the second you let it be known, they'll try to take it away.

3. the other test is bad news. you can tell them and they'll just listen. they won't tell you why you're stupid, why it's your fault, why something worse happened to them once. they don't derail the whole thing. they just listen.

4. hanging around people who pull you down is attractive, and that's the trap. you don't have to take any responsibility. you can all whine together about how wretched life is. no accountability, no effort. feels good short term. it's a terrible long term plan.

5. so surround yourself with people who want the best for the best part of you. and if someone won't move toward anything better, keeps doing the same damn things, going nowhere, you have both the right and the responsibility to walk. putting up with it isn't kindness. that's enabling. you're giving it your tacit approval.

[1776 Live @250YearsAgoLive]

For some unknown reason, Thomas Jefferson is preoccupied this morning with recording the temperature.

He writes that upon awaking at 6 AM, the temperature is a pleasant 68.0 degrees Fahrenheit, but that it is creeping up toward 70.

On his way to Congress, Jefferson purchases a thermometer. It costs three pounds and 15 shillings.

No-body knows why he is so concerned with the temperature today, especially, and for what reason he desires an accurate read.

[Snoopy @snoopyb047]

Happy Independence Day! 🇺🇸🇯🇵

[Rachel Lynn @literallyrach]

"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country."
- Marquis de Lafayette

So much history in just 250 years…. keep dreaming big in the next, Kiddos 😉🇺🇸

[World of Science @Science_TechTV]

Mathematics is the language in which God has written the universe.

- Galileo Galilei

[Mary allison @maryisalien]

When you do a hearing on mind control but the mind controlled population doesn’t notice 🍒

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🔥 HELL YEAH! A pilot just used his airplane to draw a USA 250th banner using his flight path

It took him over FIVE HOURS of flying time to do this.

What a PATRIOT! 🇺🇸

[Rachel Lynn @literallyrach]

❤️

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

Remember the 1984 film, The NeverEnding Story?

Most people think it was just a kids’ fantasy film. It wasn’t. It was actually an allegory, and a warning.

I'll explain...

The protagonist in the movie is a young man by the name of Atreyu who is fighting against a force in the universe called "The Nothing." The Nothing sucks meaning out of everything it touches.

Sound familiar?

The Nothing is the same spiritual war we’re living through right now: the slow decay of joy, creativity, wonder, amusement and critical thought.

Here's the important part...

The Nothing wins when you stop caring.
It only grows when we stop imagining.
It only grows when we lose our hopes.
It only grows when we forget our dreams.

Our joy is resistance.
Our creativity is rebellion.
Your amusement is your armor.
Your critical thinking is your sword.

The Nothing only wins if you let it.

[Paul Anleitner @PaulAnleitner]

The Sandlot has the single greatest vision of American life ever put on film.

This scene is what it’s all about. 🇺🇸

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

HAPPY 250TH AMERICA!!!!

[Rachel Lynn @literallyrach]

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[The Scientific Lens @LensScientific]

“My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.”

— Albert Einstein

[Matt Krisiloff @mattkrisiloff]

I’m so excited to share this update on @Conception –

We’ve generated the first early human eggs derived from stem cells.

This is a big deal -- the potential to redefine fertility is real.

[Fortune MMXM @FortuneMMXM]

For over 4days now, I haven't sleep. I've been studying this video over and over again.
Bookmark and learn from it

[Jett 🜲 @iky_fwjett]

My mom had a massive brain tumor removed last year.

When she woke up, she wouldn’t stop talking about an art gallery she’d visited in her dreams.

She said every painting there had been made by a man named Oren Voss.

According to her, he was a gay artist who looked both young and old at the same time. She described him as incredibly kind, wise, and almost glowing.

For days she was convinced he was real.

She made us search for him online. She wanted to know where his gallery was.

Nobody named Oren Voss existed.

Eventually she accepted that he had never been real.

My mom is 67 years old and has never painted a single thing in her life.

She recently bought canvases because she says someone has to paint Oren Voss’s portrait before she forgets his face.

My mother’s brain tumor apparently invented an artist and now she’s trying to bring him into the world.