Lux Rationis 🇪🇸🇪🇺💫

Hellenist - Neoconfucianist - Compatibilist - Bisexual ❤️ History, Arts, Philosophy & Science. Interested in national & international politics.

[Lux Rationis 🇪🇸🇪🇺💫 @LRationis]

This account stands for:

- Atheism/Agnosticism/Humanism

- Spiritual naturalism

- Liberalism

- Anti-Fascism

- Anti-Communism

- Anti-Islamism

- Post-Zionism (Confederalism)

- Anti-Neofeminism

- Anti-Globalism

- Anti-UN/NATO

- Soft Euroscepticism

- Pro-LGBT (✂️Q+)

[✿ Alma Bafrin ✿ @AlmaBafrin]

The 2 min history of Pakistan
Pun intended😏

[Shani @FearlessWolfess]

"Real knowledge is knowledge that makes us better human beings"

- Nawal El Saadawi

"Creativity, Women, Dissidence"

At Clandestinofestival Press

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him—will believe in anything. That’s Hitchens 3:16.”

— Christopher Hitchens

[Lux Rationis 🇪🇸🇪🇺💫 @LRationis]

It's one of the most romanticized aspects of Michael Jackson's life, but the reality points to exactly what you say: Diana Ross was a maternal figure and mentor, not a romantic partner.

Michael met Diana when he was a child (around 9 or 10 years old), and she took him under her wing when the Jackson 5 joined Motown. They lived together temporarily in California, and he saw her as a second mother/older sister. In his autobiography Moonwalk and in interviews, Michael always spoke of her with deep admiration, but in terms of inspiration and familial affection.

Diana described him as a "gentle and loving" person, and in his will, Michael named her as an alternate guardian of his children alongside his mother, Katherine. That speaks volumes about the protective role she played in his life.

There is no credible evidence of a romance between them; the age difference (she was older) and the mentoring context make it unlikely. Michael did have a childhood/teenage crush on her, but it evolved into a very close friendship.

Regarding his “type” of woman: Michael had a fairly specific taste: attractive, friendly women with strong personalities, lively and with a touch of tomboyishness (who climbed trees, played around, were natural, and not too “manicured and in heels all day”).

He himself said so in interviews: he valued class and elegance, but he was attracted to those who were energetic, cheerful, and authentic.

These ones fit the bill:

• Tatum O’Neal: His real “first love” (teenage). They had a youthful romance.

• Stephanie Mills: One of his first confirmed girlfriends, with musical chemistry.

• Ola Ray and Tatiana Thumbtzen: Evident chemistry in videos (Thriller and The Way You Make Me Feel). There was flirting and rumors of something more with Tatiana during the Bad tour.

• Madonna and Whitney Houston: More rumors and flirting.

• Brooke Shields: One of the most significant. They were very close in the 80s, attending events together. Michael publicly called her "one of the loves of my life" and said they dated a lot. Brooke always described it as a deep friendship (both understood the pressures of fame from childhood), but he seemed more in love.

Lisa Marie Presley seems to have been the one who came closest to his ideal. She was strong, rebellious, with character, famous in her own right (Elvis's daughter), and they shared an intense connection.

Their marriage (1994-1996) was short but very public and emotional. Many close friends and fans consider her his great love, although it was also complicated by external and personal pressures on both sides.

Michael's love life was always a mystery: shy, protected by his fame and childhood traumas, with many platonic or idealized relationships. He was never the womanizer some people imagine; he was more romantic and selective.

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@Uc_heyy02 Dorne, Love It!

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@Rainmaker1973 True

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@NazaninNour You’re right Nazanin

[𝚂𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚝𝚘𝚌𝚘𝚕 @2ndaryProtocol]

Share a magazine cover you love. 📸 🖤

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”

— Henry David Thoreau

[John Aziz @aziz0nomics]

One reason that virtually no Israelis have crossed borders and joined Hamas is because as soon as they do they will either be killed or taken hostage regardless of whether or not they claim to "support the resistance".

Hamas will just assume they are a spy.

[Nazanin Nour @NazaninNour]

When a Palestinian or Lebanese icon dies, nobody asks, “Well, where did they stand on Iran?”

Assholes like this view Iranians through their own ill informed, ignorant, uneducated world view.

You are no different than the monsters you claim to be fighting.

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@pilarnovasa Por desgracia así es, y yo también me he quedado perplejo

[נועה מגיד | Noa magid @NoaMagid]

Saghar Seifollahi Fard was a mechanical engineering graduate and a book author with her whole life ahead of her.

On January 9, the Islamic regime beat her to death.

Her blood matters too.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

"There is one very serious defect to my mind in Christ's moral character, and that is that He believed in hell. I do not myself feel that any person who is really profoundly humane can believe in everlasting punishment.

Christ certainly as depicted in the Gospels did believe in everlasting punishment, and one does find repeatedly a vindictive fury against those people who would not listen to His preaching — an attitude which is not uncommon with preachers, but which does somewhat detract from superlative excellence. You do not, for instance find that attitude in Socrates."

— Bertrand Russell, Why I am Not a Christian