Where did she come from?

I have come to realize a couple things in the past couple weeks:

1. I am so observant of human emotion that I forget to feel them sometimes.

2. I LOVE BUSTA RHYMES!

3. I have an obsession with jazzy tones (i knew this already from my Regina Spektor binge a couple years back)

4. I get chills every time I see Karmin do Busta Rhymes' part in this song.

Now You Know

Now what do we do?

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I'ts a full-proof system Apple's got here. Nobody's going to give up their status iPhone and these workers will still get paid close to $8 a DAY for sometimes close to 98 hours a month just to survive in the 24-people dorm rooms provided by the Foxconn.

Full-proof. 

Who wants a droid anyway?

Because SOMEBODY has to say something.

Difference between men and women.

I know it's 10 minutes long, but it's well worth your time. 

Chappelle has horribly spot on insight.

Two cool things that have almost nothing to do with each other

1. The Big Picture

Super awesome place to get all your news needs in LOTS AND LOTS of pictures!! 

Example: Cuban soldiers

2. North Korea... child labor or child prodigies? You decide

i dont know... what do i think? I think that the child's mind is a giant sponge at this point in their life and they WILL absorb anything that is given to them. They will also absorb the information or the task as if it was the norm because they don't know any better. So these parents decided to route these kids into strict discipline and long hours of practice and here is the fruit of their labor. I'll tell you one thing: the television was NOT their babysitter.

Now You Know.

LAVA.... but has nothing to do with lava

Laboratory for Visionary Architecture is the brains behind this ABSOLUTELY BREATHTAKING city in the UAE.
Full Article here

Giant umbrellas known as "Petals from Heaven" open during the day to provide shade AND simultaneously gather energy from the sun.

Then at night they are shut to let in the night's air.

Under view

MIND-BLOWING

But it's a bit peculiar to think about the amount of money needed to construct this city and then why it was placed in the area it was:

See that little green spot? Yea, it's right there. Right next to.... wait a minute!! Oil money created a city sustained completely by renewable resources? 

Irony? I don't know. But....

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Time Bankcrupt

I have no time for anything, but then find myself having too much time. It's a weird state I am in

Finished my 20-page paper though... Round two of revisions and then ONE MORE TIME AROUND until the final draft...

anyway, this is what i've been thinking about lately:

Anytime you find yourself in a situation where a friend, family member, ANYONE is coming to you for a problem, it is very important to ask that person how they feel about the given situation. This question is so loaded that it usually presses the person to really figure out their emotion on the subject.

Usually, the emotion roots back to fear... fear of SOMETHING that ended up turning into sadness, anger, embarrassment, humiliation...

what are you afraid of?? When you can help someone figure that out, you can help them resolve their own problem...

It also helps that person walk through their own emotion instead of just sitting there and listening to you trying to make up some superficial way to make them feel better... SOMETIMES all they need is a person to just listen.

On that note, egging the person on in their story does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for the other person... it usually ends up with a giant instigated response that leaves the person more mad, sad, embarrassed, etc.

EXAMPLE:
scene: Betty comes to you when she found out her boyfriend MIGHT be cheating on her.
Betty: Holy fuck I just read through Jon's texts and there's this girl that keeps texting him everyday, all day and i KNOW he's cheating on me.
You: WHAT THE FUCK!! Fuck Jon!! He's an asshole!! Who is this girl?? let's get her number out of his phone and call that bitch out!! COME ON!
Betty: YEA!!!
exit scene with pitchforks and gloves on


don't deny it... you've been THAT friend before.

Now You Know.

I'm back!

I took a tiny hiatus to focus on my 20-page paper. However, the hardest part (research and rough draft) is finished so I found some time for my own thoughts once again!

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

— C. S. Lewis

WOAH! that is some deep ass shit! haha but really. Marinate in that for awhile. Is this true?

 Is it truly a habit of the "do-gooders" and the "changers" to always be nagging?

 AM I ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE!?

 self-reflect, my friends.... self-reflect.