And Then You Respawn?

Death might appear to destroy the meaning in our lives, but in fact it is the very source of our lives. As Kafka said, “ The meaning of life is that it ends.” Death is the engine that keeps us running, giving us the motivation to achieve, learn, love, and create.

‘Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory’ by Caitlin Doughty (via artisticinsight)

I made some little fairies out of pressed flowers 🌷

I hate linguistic anthropology. Why? One of the most influential experiments in linguistic anthropology involved teaching a chimp asl. One of the most influential linguistics is named Noam Chomsky. You know what the chimp’s name was?

Nim Chimpsky.

Fucking monkey pun.

And this is in textbooks, in documentaries, everywhere. And everyone just IGNORES THIS GOD AWFUL PUN cause of how important the experiment was. But

BUT LOOK AT THIS SHIT. FUCKING NIM CHIMPSKY. I HATE THIS WHOLE FIELD.

Nicknames: when you shorten someone’s name affectionately

Nicholasnames: when you elongate someone’s name affectionately

Not to get morbid - I'm in good spirits, I want to stress that - but hearing about those roman gravestones that address whoever pauses to read them makes me want to have one too once I'm done. But I don't think I want one that's sweetly thanking people for pausing to remember. I want to grab people by the throat from beyond the grave and put them into existential contemplations of their own life. Something along the lines of

In this moment we are both here - you there, aboveground, I here, below. Come tomorrow, I will still be here. Where will you be?

Also people act like autistic people would have been, like, left in the woods to die or something as kids for most of history, but as i said i'm researching islamic saints and in both islam and christianity there's an awful lot of just, like, "Yeah that guy decided to go live in a cave by himself and wore one (1) article of clothing and sometimes he would walk around and scream randomly, it meant he was closer to god than everybody else"

Ars longa, vita brevis is a Latin translation of an aphorism coming originally from Greek. The Latin quote is often rendered in English as Art is long, life is short.

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