Seloui

Cult~ural Contrarian | Complementarian

[Keith Redmond @ExCllrRedmond]

It’s appears that the woke army have come out to defend the “don’t hug a granny” ad because they want you to start to believe that children can consent to being touched.

Get it yet? They want to introduce the notion of child consent. It’s a plan. It isn’t an accident.

[Leo Tolstoy Literature @LeoTollstoy]

Tolstoy on the consequences of our own actions:

“People aren’t punished for their sins, they’re punished by their sins. This is the gravest and surest punishment.”

[Fatima Gunning @fatima_gunning]

Immigrants having “a say” on a country’s immigration policy isn’t a thing. I didn’t have a say on Japan’s immigration laws. My father didn’t have a say on Ireland’s immigration laws.

[Employment Law Ireland @EmployRightsIE]

We never really gave ourselves a chance to be a republic. Our Constitution came in 1937, the British Crown wasn't finally removed until 1949, and our courts weren't formally established under the Constitution until 1961. Then came the 1972 referendum to join the European Community, sold to the Irish people on the promise of free trade and prosperity, with little understanding of just how much power they were handing over. We had barely established our republic before our politicians started giving it away. We replaced British foreign rule with Brussels foreign rule. Brussels has simply adopted a modern version of the British plantation, and to get away with it, all it needs is a collection of spineless Irish politicians willing to sell out their country for a grubby political career and the chance to stand at a podium pretending they're statesmen. Mediocre career politicians with little experience of life beyond party politics, suddenly convinced they're qualified to decide the future of a nation. Britain spent centuries trying to control Ireland. Our politicians didn't govern this country. They gave the country away.

[Gia Macool @GiaMMacool]

And it will always happen like this

Because you’re never gonna be attracted to your identical twin

Polarity is what attracts

And what sad is most people fight this, thinking somehow the other person is defective because they’re not like them

When in reality, they actually need the balance.

[Natism @Natism]

Five highest forms of intelligence :
1. Pattern recognition
2. Delusional optimism
3. Quiet discernment
4. Strategic detachment
5. Deep curiosity

[Principal⭐️ @OkadikeOnyeisi]

There is an unwritten rule to life that most people never get told. After every long stretch of hardship and uncertainty, a period comes where you make quantum leaps across multiple areas of your life at once. It happens all at once, and it happens because of everything you survived before it. The only requirement on your end is simple. Do not give up on yourself before that period arrives.

[Laura W. @BumpstockBarbie]

How can you NOT believe in God when octopuses dream and otters have a favorite rock they carry around in a little skin pocket and cows have best friends and bees are out there communicating the coordinates of flowers through dancing and they have regional dialects?

Cats are purring at frequencies associated with bone healing? Forests get absolutely incinerated and respond by growing flowers? Dolphins literally invent names for themselves and yell them across the ocean? Penguins are waddling around Antarctica looking for the perfect rock to give their partner?

CROWS REMEMBER YOUR FACE. THEY TELL OTHER CROWS ABOUT YOU. THEY TELL THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT YOU. YOU CAN HAVE GENERATIONAL BEEF WITH A BIRD. I NEED YOU TO UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS.

Goats have accents. Rats laugh when you tickle them. Elephants mourn their dead. Whales make songs and then OTHER WHALES LEARN THE SONG and suddenly everybody across the ocean is singing the new song.

Monarch butterflies are born knowing how to fly thousands of miles to a place they have never been.

Sea turtles hatch out of an egg, immediately sprint toward an ocean that they have never seen, disappear into it for like 3 decades and then somehow come back to the same beach they hatched on.

Birds can see colors that we humans can’t see. There are colors out there right now that we don’t even get to know about.

There are sea slugs that eat algae and use the chloroplast/chlorophyll and then are just like…photosynthesizing. And they’re super adorable.

There are mushrooms communicating underground. There are seeds sitting in the dirt for decades like “no actually I will wait. It’s fine.”

Squirrels plant trees because they forget where they put their snacks. Relatable.

A CATERPILLAR GOES INTO A LITTLE BAG THAT IT CREATES ITSELF AND DISSOLVES MOST OF ITS BODY INTO ORGANIC GOO AND REARRANGES ITSELF, GROWS WINGS AND THEN LEAVES. WHY IS THIS NOT MORE BEAUTIFULLY TERRIFYING TO PEOPLE??

And you’re telling me a tiny acorn knows how to become a huge tree? It just has a blueprint inside itself?

Your body started as ONE CELL.

ONE.

And that cell divided itself into a brain that can think about its own existence and eyes that can look at stars and hands that can hold somebody else’s hands and a heart that runs on electricity without you even asking it to?

The iron in our blood was made inside a star??

We are walking around on a wet rock covered in bioluminescent oceans and singing whales and laughing rats and birds holding lifelong grudges and flowers exploding out of fire and somehow we’re supposed to act like this is a normal place to live?

We’re supposed to act like this is all just a random, accidental sequence of events?

[alexei @alexeixbt]

what doesn't kill you introduces you to carl jung, marcus aurelius, epictetus, friedrich nietzsche, james baldwin, bell hooks, audre lorde, frantz fanon, paulo freire, joseph campbell, alan watts, ram dass, gary zukav, brene brown, gabor mate, shadow work, attachment theory, nervous-system regulation, ancestral trauma, existentialism, stoicism, meditation, emotional intelligence, neuroplasticity, metacognition, pattern recognition, game theory, delusional optimism, boundaries and discernment.

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

All your intelligence is sterile if you don't have people to love and protect and build future with. the smartest man in the world is the most miserable if he has no one at his back, no one to carry his name, no one to fight alongside. the sadness you feel is your lack of roots, family, tribe, people to live and die for. find them and pour your genius into making them great and you'll find the missing peace you thought smarts alone could bring, but it can't.

[Seloui @selouia]

@megha_lilly I have an 18month old i need to start reading to her

[Katy Faust @Katy_Faust]

At the airport, watching a dad with his probably seven-month-old. He has her in the air, shifting her around mechanically, like a robot. She’s kicking her legs and squealing.

Mom comes back from the bathroom and immediately straps the baby to her chest. She leans in and snuggles.

Nobody tells Dad to engage in stimulating play with his child. Nobody tells Mom to pull her close and soothe her.

They interact with the same child differently because men and women are different.

Children don't need two adults tossing them in the air. They don't need two parents soothing and comforting them. All stimulation and no security leaves them unmoored; all comfort and no challenge leaves them afraid to venture out.

Children need one parent who promotes attachment and one parent who promotes independence.

Children need a mother and a father.

A culture that treats either one as optional asks children to go without so adults can feel affirmed.

[Cleopatra 🪷 ✞ @amandaperera]

All women are whimsical & playful by nature. If that energy is blocked, it’s because she doesn’t feel safe enough with her man or because there are a lot of stressors in her life. High cortisol forces the nervous system to stay in survival mode, which is what dims a woman’s glow

[Katy Faust @Katy_Faust]

One more time.

#Adoption and #surrogacy are not the same thing.

In both cases, the child loses one or both biological parents.

But in adoption, the adults raising the child are seeking to mend the wound. In surrogacy, the adults raising the child have inflicted the wound.

Adoption is an institution centered around the best interests of the child.

Surrogacy is a marketplace centered around the desires of adults.

In adoption, adults do hard things on behalf of children.

In surrogacy, children do hard things on behalf of adults.

One supports children’s rights.

The other violates children’s rights.

[Isabel Brown @theisabelb]

Haven't even watched the Sydney Sweeney ad yet, so can someone explain to me like I'm 5 why a woman monetizing her sexualization is all of a sudden "setting women back hundreds of years" according to the very feminists who insist sex work is real work and that women should be able to profit from pornographic content on Only Fans? 🤔

Was it all bad all along after all?

[🕊️ @lichthauch]

A man who has seen the bottom of himself and survived will have the light of heaven on his side

[Megha @megha_lilly]

Behind every cheerful person is not vapidness or superficiality, rather, it is a great rebellion against the darkness and requires great strength and courage.

[yimika. @yimikaaaa]

My position on argumentation is often sourced from a phrase I read in a Japanese book:
'Always remember that to argue, and win, is to break down the reality of the person you are arguing against. It is painful to lose your reality, so be kind even if you are right.'

[Nadia @thegenesisbl0ck]

I’m all for gender roles buuut I think some right wing bros fail to see the nuance in it. If you really want to have a youthful, happy, sex-hungry wife, you’re going to have to help her with some of the household tasks. Especially once children are in the picture. Tell her to go take her bath after dinner while you clean up. Take the kids on Saturday morning while she goes to Pilates. Being too anal about explicit Man and Woman duties is what’s making your relationship weird.

[Dvorstone @dvorstone]

There is a category of woman I'll call the "High Romantics."

These women are not passive, robotically submissive, but they desperately crave masculine authority. Without it, they're prone to chaos and mild madness. They are the most cat-like women.

These women tend to be smart but usually underachieve. You find them writing or holding on to the edges of a "career" but they're rarely "intellectuals." They're not aimless bohemians, though sometimes they travel in the same circles. They can be prone to negativity but aren't misanthropic or nihilistic. They just hate traversing through life without a worthy man. They're the kind of woman who smokes but doesn't drink, dances with strangers but doesn't sleep with them, reads Nietzsche but talks about Rilke, or maybe David Bowie. They're prone to holding onto letters and journals, a poem or a song they keep returning to; the trappings of an inner-world they long to share.

Sometimes, these women can present contempt for men but their hearts aren't really in it. It's just an affect to mask their disappointment that they haven't been thrown over the shoulder of a knight or a noble barbarian yet.

These women have erotic voltage whether they look chaste or provocative, but without exception, they are the most sexual of women. These are the women who give you "crazy girl sex" without the crazy.

These women used to get picked up by men with sufficient authority to tame them, but more and more I see these women unmarried when they're older. Maybe these women are more damaged by modernity or maybe men simply aren't interested in taming them anymore. Both possibilities are tragic.

Shirley Keeldar is a good literary example of the woman who will only accept the man who can contain her, and (laugh if you want) Evelyn O'Connell from "The Mummy" is a good example from film of a woman who gives a man that missing element that elevates him.

They don’t lack for life without a man. They’re too heroic to pout. Still, they are lesser without one, and they know it. They don’t want to be the star. Sometimes they want to give him the last piece that makes him great, and stand just beside him. Sometimes they only want him to contain them; he becomes the constraint that they volunteer themselves into. Either way, they're not asking for the eyes of the world, only to be held by the one man worthy of doing so.