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Although located in the heart of Chongging, one of China's mega cities, Luohan Temple was constructed over 1000 years ago. Its ancient corridors lead to worn stone depictions of the Buddha while its wooden halls wafts with incense and are adorned with hundreds of local colourful deities.

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An old Chinese saying:

"People don't cry until they've seen their coffin; people don't turn back until they've hit the southern wall."

“不见棺材不落泪，不撞南墙不回头”

(Source unknown; if anyone knows where this saying came from please let me know)

Note: the "southern wall" refers to yingbi/影壁 or zhaobi/照壁, which is a wall inside the front door of a traditional courtyard residence (ex: siheyuan) meant to block the inside of the residence from outside view. The wall may be highly decorated if the owner of the residence is wealthy or of high status. Because traditional residences often "sit in the north and face the south" (坐北朝南) due to fengshui considerations, meaning the front door opens to the south, this wall is also in the south, and if one tries to walk south out of the residence, if they just go straight forward they will hit the wall, hence this phrase.

Overall this phrase is used to describe people who do not heed advice, cautions, or warnings. Usually said in exasperation when one's advice is ignored.

Edit: this phrase is also used specifically in the case of criminals to mean "criminals won't feel remorse or change for the better until they've seen the (often legal) consequences of their actions".

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things i’ll not call you a whore for:

sexual activity

how you dress

things i’ll call you a whore for:

stealing my food 

stealing my lemons

my cat likes you more than me

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I understand that there have been talks about an Israeli invasion of Rafah and I understand how absolutely catastrophic that would be for what is potentially the most packed area in the world, but I just want to point out that it feels like everyone is anticipating with fear a potential assault on Rafah whereas attacks and airstrikes are already happening and in fact they never even stopped for over 6 months now.

Keep talking about Rafah and keep talking about Gaza. There are absolutely no "safe zones" in Gaza and there never have been.

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wait guys. reblog this and tell me what the last movie you watched was. bonus points if you add a short review <333

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the devil judge — episode 9

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:/

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Found this really scary new horror game yall should check out. It's called indeed.com and it has a sequel called linkedin

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"i like you, attorney Han"

EVILIVE | EP. 1

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old people TV shows are so dear to me

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between tiktok and youtube slop, kids these days are subjected to possibly one of the worst media diets in the history of mankind. unlike me who was raised on the same 10 commercials for corn syrup products cycling between variety shows, as nature intended

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FUCK YEAH COLUMBIA UNI STUDENTS!!!!!!

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fans: the showrunner definitely knows what we like when it comes to zhang luyi because we got so many poor meowmeow!zly shots in the trailer

Zhang Luyi as prosecutor Duan Hongshan in the trailer of 正当防卫 | Justifiable Defense

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Its always

"Are you team green?"

Or

"Are you team black?"

But never

"Are you Team Milf?"

I am really only here for the women and the dragons. I'm just gonna be truthful.

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