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Inktober 30 - Month’s almost over..!

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Coping Statements for Anxiety

It is often possible to manage anxiety by actively replacing irrational thoughts with more balanced and reasonable thoughts like the following: 1. I’m going to be OK. Sometimes my feelings are irrational and false. I’m just going to relax and take things easy. Everything is going to be fine. 2. Anxiety may feel bad but it isn’t dangerous. There’s nothing wrong with me. Everything is going to be OK. 3. Feelings come and feelings go. Right now I feel bad but I know this is only temporary. I’ve done it before so I can do it again. 4. This image in my head isn’t reasonable or rational. I need to change my thinking and focus my attention on something that’s healthier, and generally helps me to feel good about myself. For example _____________. 5. I’ve managed to interrupt and change these thoughts before – so I know I can do it again. The more I practise this, the easier it will become. Anxiety is a habit – and it’s a habit that I can break! 6. So what if I am anxious. It’s not the end of the world. It’s not going to kill me. I just need to take a few deep breaths and keep going. 7. Just take the next step. Just do the next thing. 8. Even if I have to put up with a period of anxiety, I’ll be glad that I did, and persevered, and succeeded. 9. I can feel anxious and still do a good job. The more I focus on the task at hand, the more my anxiety will ease, then disappear. 10. Anxiety doesn’t have a hold on me. It’s something I’m working on, and changing over time.

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my parents aren’t teaching me life lessons.

#i need some adults to TEACH ME SHIT ABOUT LIFE

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snake……… on………… meeeee………… (snake on me)

snake…… meeeee…….. OOOOOOON (SNAKE ON ME)

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We are witnessing the rise of global authoritarianism on a chilling scale

A pattern emerges. (Reuters/Mohamed Azakir/Jim Young/Charles Platiau/Maxim Zmeyev)

Written by Manu Bhagavan Professor of history and human rights, Hunter College

Many have observed the authoritarianism underlying the campaign of US presidential hopeful Donald J. Trump, most vividly brought into relief by the attempts to quash protest, to muzzle the press, to stoke violent confrontations, and to deny culpability for any of it. The Harvard scholar Pippa Norris has recently warned that Trump is part of a larger pattern in the West, citing radical populists like France’s Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands.

But in fact authoritarianism is on the rise nearly everywhere. Charges of heavy-handedness, disdain for opposition and critical press, and strong-arm tactics have been leveled against the likes of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Shinzo Abe, Narendra Modi, Benjamin Netanyahu, Vladimir Putin, and even Aung San Suu Kyi. Parochial factors have no doubt played important roles, but cannot account for what appears to be a phenomenon occurring on a global scale.

I believe the international authoritarian moment can be explained by three interconnected factors: the globalization of the economy and the emergence of gargantuan, non-state multinational corporate actors; the globalization of conflict, as manifest in the Long War (on Terror); and the globalization of crisis, as with public health and environmental threats.

 I believe the international authoritarian moment can be explained by three, interconnected factors. Trends dating back decades, but really coalescing in the 1990s, have helped to weave together the global economy and make each country more interconnected and interdependent than ever before. Companies around the world raced to adapt, initially just to survive growing competition. If they were successful, they sought to take advantage of the new environment, using rewritten trade rules from the 1970s and 1980s and incentivizing tax opportunities to create sprawling, multinational corporate entities with disaggregated chains of production. Because of their unimaginable reach and power, these entities have grown increasingly unaccountable—no government, not even that of the United States, has the ability to provide true oversight over them.

The systems of global corporatism are already bigger than any one person or group, and people the world over are feeling increasingly anxious. They have sensed a loss of control over their lives and…. Read on:- http://qz.com/643497/we-are-witnessing-the-rise-of-global-authoritarianism-on-a-chilling-scale/

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Islamic terrorism IS related to Islam

I’m going to say this because it really need to be said:

It’s high time people STOP saying Islamic terrorism has nothing to do with Islam. It HAS to do with it. It doesn’t have to do with all Muslims sure, but it HAS to do with Islam. 

Plenty of moderate Muslims, reformators, ex-muslims… etc… are trying HARD to have a conversation on how Islam can be reformed. They are trying to scrutinize the scriptures that are used to commit such acts of violence and trying to point out their flaws and when you - comfortably sitting in the west - are saying that those same scriptures are flawless and should be neither criticized nor scrutinized after atrocities are committed in their name and should not be held accountable for it nor questioned at all, what you end up doing is helping shutting down their conversation and playing into the hands of theocrats instead. Islam is an idea and has such it doesn’t have any rights (only people do), it shouldn’t be shielded from criticisms, and when an idea has led enough people to violence that we can recognize a pastern, it is imperative to let people wonder why - even if it’s to conclude that other factors might hold a bigger responsibility in this.  

Because while religious terrorism might not have to do with your personal conception of religion, what it is, and what it aims for, it has to do with the conception of those who kill in its name, so it has to do with religion. Saying that doesn’t mean it has to do with all religious and it’s time people understand that nuance. 

Once and for all it is time to let people have that conversation without shutting it down, silencing people is neither helpful nor productive.  

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As someone with experience with both my own and my mothers schizophrenia; stop being such a whiney bitch, it's a joke not a forced lobotomy. Also stop dragging gender into everything, people don't like Hillary because she flips like a dime according to public opinion, not because she has a vajayjay.

Sanders with a HILARIOUS mental illness joke there. Man, if Jennifer Lawrence said that, she’d be ripped apart up here for days on end. Too bad Bernie’s not a woman, or else he might actually be criticized for the things he says.

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No individual is responsible for the actions of their "race".

I feel like there’s now “black guilt” going around, so let me say this:

Just because you are black, does not mean you are responsible for the actions of other black people. As such, you do not need to apologize for their actions on behalf of also being a black person.

This sounds exactly like “As a white person, I apologize for what my ancestors did.” It is guilt that you should not have to feel.

Unfortunately, yes, there are bad people who are black, and also shitty people who like to generalize based on the actions of those black people.

But you should never feel guilty for it! It’s not your fault, and you cannot help being the same skin color as them.

If anything, feel proud that you aren’t like them!

Basically, stop apologizing on the behalf of your race. You don’t have to apologize for something that’s not your fault. :)

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UO: soldiers arn't the biggest scum of the earth

strongly agree | agree | neutral | disagree | strongly disagree

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Rescued Shelter Kitten Finds Forever Home and Can’t Stop Smiling