I’m at a wealthy middle-aged christmas party with my best friend a woman came up to me and said “you have to try the gouda” and I said “is it firm?” and she said “yes I wouldn’t have anything less” and we both threw our heads back and laughed and I’m still not sure why
wheres that pic from parks and rec. you all know the one
Me- I don’t wanna go to class today. I feel out of it
*classes is cancelled *
Me- God???? Is that you???
Me: I️ don’t want to go to work today
Boss:
(Looks like God’s got both our backs today)
Bless this day ❤️❤️❤️
I swear this post is blessed or something because I said “I want a reason to go somewhere” while looking at this post and then pretty much just after, my mother asked me to go to the store to get some eggs since I used the last 2
Unrelated, but boy do I wish I were an anthropology major in college right about now so that I could write a bombing thesis on why doing the hokey pokey at Hurricane Florence in the hopes that she’ll turn herself around is a seemingly legitimate modernized attempt at animistic folk magic.
As an anthropology minor and psychology major I can absolutely assure you that it is. A large portion of magic particularly folk magic regarding weather and tragedy is about meaning making and reassurance. It drives humans up the walls to have no control over our environment and for bad things to happen for no tangible reason because we’re normally so good at controlling our world and noticing cause and effect. Because of this even just joking about “Let’s blast “Florence at the Machine at Hurricane Florence until it leaves” makes us feel better because it gives us an illusion of meaning when its not there.
Lets break that joke down into some different language though. “Let’s play the music of a woman who bears the same name that was given to this storm in the hopes that it leaves us in peace.” Suddenly it sounds really legit. Or the joke used above “Let’s play a song we’ve all known since our youth and pray that the storm is compelled to follow the steps.”
Animistic folk magic and other things that we consider to be long gone like sacrifices to beings for safety (many modern approaches to recycling and composting focus on ‘giving back’ to an unnamed source for future safety), reverence or fear of spirits or the unknown (fae/ghosts/demons/evil in general), and the worship or reverence of certain sites (monuments/national parks/memorials) have stayed with us because they’re an inherently human part of the meaning making process when confronted with our world.
At the end of the day it’s more comforting to think of a hurricane as a sentient entity sent to wreak havoc rather than an unfortunate byproduct of greedy people not listening to a hundred years of scientific warnings. You can reason with a hurricane.
also if this happens a lot of trans people may end up homeless and the. the government turns the other eye- proves how much they hate us!!!!!
Part of the problem (probably intentionally) is that there’s so many big stories all the time, so stuff like this gets bumped down, not protested too much, because everyone’s panicking about trump authoritarian incident #400789.
And that’s part of how they win, sneaking stuff in under the radar, timing things like press releases at times when it won’t get picked up.
you’d think edward cullen – a dude who’s like 110 years old and has multiple degrees and is incredibly smart – would come up with a better excuse than ‘it’s the, uh, fluorescence’ and just walking away
Gay Ryan 