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wrongwithmechemically: Results of a triple dog dare… This...

Sat, 25 May 2013 00:53:57 -0400

Results of a triple dog dare…

This scene has pretty much haunted me for my entire life.

You guuuuuuuuys. Du’as and prayers for a job would be really appreciated, I’ve been...

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:56:00 -0400

You guuuuuuuuys. Du’as and prayers for a job would be really appreciated, I’ve been looking really hard and seemingly without any luck.

redeemedandloved replied to your post: On Empathy and Compassion Interesting perspective. How do you...

Fri, 24 May 2013 03:03:40 -0400

redeemedandloved replied to your post: On Empathy and Compassion

Interesting perspective. How do you reconcile that viewpoint with…Israeli soldiers who murder Palestinian children…child molesters…mass murderers…etc

It’s hard to believe that evil people don’t exist, right? I believe that a lot of the time, violent acts are results of conditioning. I don’t believe that people are genetically predetermined to be sociopaths, I think “monsters” are created within their own environments and that rehabilitation is always an option. It’s a hard point to make though, and it’s an internal battle that I always fight whenever I’m reading a case study on war or hearing about a child being injured. I separate justice from what I believe makes a good person — just because I believe that we all have the capacity to be good, does not mean that we allow crimes to happen without any form of punishment. But — and I’m going to focus on Canada and the United States here — “punishment” (Our prison system) needs a severe reform. A reform which includes rehabilitating inmates, not further destroying them.

On Empathy and Compassion

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:43:00 -0400

I think, the most important thing that I’ve ever learned is that there are no good people and no bad people. When I was sixteen, I told a man on a train that I didn’t believe in bad people — he told me that I’ll learn when I’m older. And while I (Insh’Allah) am still at the beginning of my life, I can’t see my judgement ever being impaired by the idea that there are people who are purely made of evil.

I think empathy and compassion are choices we make. You choose to relate to someone, to help them, and to accept them despite their many flaws and mistakes. To feel compassionate towards someone may be the greatest gift you can ever give to anyone.

We do not always extend our compassion. Sometimes we’re greedy, and mean, and cruel. Being human means that you’re always vulnerable to your own vices, but that, in itself is so beautiful to me because making mistakes means recovery. It means letting go of your worst memories, and gaining second chances. I believe in feeling shame and guilt for your mistakes, but never regret, because one day all of the shame that you feel towards all the bad things you’ve ever done will change you into a better person. Your mistakes will become subtle scars in your heart, and while they may always leave a gentle bump of scar tissue, they serve as reminders that you have healed, that you have forgiven yourself, and that you are always growing.

"You don’t want to let go, but you don’t want to be hurt either. It’s not a great place to be, but..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:28:24 -0400

“You don’t want to let go, but you don’t want to be hurt either. It’s not a great place to be, but what can I tell you?”

- Junot Diaz, This Is How You Lose Her (via erraticintrovert)

"It’s simple. The dependency on anything other than God will make you weak."

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:22:04 -0400

“It’s simple. The dependency on anything other than God will make you weak.”

- Yasmin Mogahed (via erraticintrovert)

I’m gonna go ahead and say that Yasmin Mogahed has a serious problem.

No Scandal tonight.

Fri, 24 May 2013 02:07:42 -0400

deezyville:

*Huddles in corner chanting “752”*

thalamtnafsee: i dont think god has a religion. i think she just has a message: survive.

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:50:37 -0400

thalamtnafsee:

i dont think god has a religion. i think she just has a message: survive.

What are your favourite photo blogs?

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:48:04 -0400

What are your favourite photo blogs?

knowledgeequalsblackpower: kronosinasuit: Kerry Washington...

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:35:09 -0400

knowledgeequalsblackpower:

kronosinasuit:

Kerry Washington being amazing as always.

Understand colorblinders out there. Please get it.

"I saw that you were perfect and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:53:57 -0400

“I saw that you were perfect and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect and I loved you even more.”

- (via arabarabarab)

Photo

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:53:50 -0400

This is a pact to myself that I will never let the cold, dark, and empty parts of this world jade...

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:39:29 -0400

This is a pact to myself that I will never let the cold, dark, and empty parts of this world jade me.

humansofnewyork: “After this I go to work at a pizza shop. My...

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:52:00 -0400

humansofnewyork:

“After this I go to work at a pizza shop. My wife and I were college professors in Bangladesh. I taught accounting. But one dollar in America becomes eighty dollars when we send it back home.”

HoNY’s posts are sometimes so painfully honest and close to home.

مآ أجمّل أنْ تصمتْفيْ ؤجهْ منْ ينتظرْ منِك الخِصَام وما أجمل أنْ تضحكفيْ وجهْ منْ يُنتظرْ منك...

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:28:32 -0400

مآ أجمّل أنْ تصمتْ
فيْ ؤجهْ منْ ينتظرْ منِك الخِصَام

وما أجمل أنْ تضحك
فيْ وجهْ منْ يُنتظرْ منك البكـاءْ

How beautiful is it to stay silent
When someone expects you to be enraged from them.
And how beautiful it is to laugh
When someone thinks you are going to shed tears.

"And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good."

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:28:09 -0400

“And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.”

- Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner (via nuuralayun)

"Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason."

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:26:26 -0400

““Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.””

- Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns (via becca-tong)

"This is what I don’t get - Women are impure because males have touched them. Who’s the dirty one..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:14:53 -0400

“This is what I don’t get - Women are impure because males have touched them. Who’s the dirty one here?”

- Comment on Jezebel article “Female ‘Purity’ Is Bullshit” (via jececilia)

"Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves."

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:04:10 -0400

“Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.”

- Henry David Thoreau (via erraticintrovert)

Thoreau totally wrote this while hiding in a ditch in some New England forest.

"You can’t find intimacy—you can’t find home—when you’re always hiding behind masks. Intimacy..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:02:12 -0400

“You can’t find intimacy—you can’t find home—when you’re always hiding behind masks. Intimacy requires a certain level of vulnerability. It requires a certain level of you exposing your fragmented, contradictory self to someone else. You running the risk of having your core self rejected and hurt and misunderstood.”

- Junot Diaz (via eunoira)