tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54192063414833576292024-02-19T02:39:15.571+01:00WIMCICLELIFE FROM A PERSPECTIVE
Whimciclehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02478048456370080215noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5419206341483357629.post-42132468072557200622018-10-17T10:27:00.001+02:002018-10-17T10:27:39.715+02:00Dear Universe — an atheist prayer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="markup--strong markup--h3-strong">Dear Universe — an atheist prayer</span></h1>
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Many people would start a prayer like this; Dear God …</h2>
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They would go on with words of kindness or any requests they have to the man in the sky, ending with an “amen” like punching the send button in messenger.</div>
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Many times I too have wished for a god to pray to, someone to ask for support and help, but with this text, I am hoping to explain why I have chosen to believe in the “ultimate divine” instead.</div>
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So, dear universe, you incredible, complex and perfect thing, I want to start by saying I love you.</div>
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You are so huge and filled with mysteries, that I seem like a speck in it all, and when you zoom in on that, you realize that that speck is only more specks with even more specks inside.</h4>
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At almost any level the universe looks the same, whether you call it an organism, a planet, a solar system or a cell, they are all part of what makes everything, well … anything.</div>
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I am amazed by your beauty, perfection, and grace. What you truly are is beyond anything I will ever be able to even think of. That makes me love you, even more, it proves that you are more precious than anything inside of me, any idea or logic, any knowledge or thought. Everything is you, I too am a piece, just blinded to everything that I as a human being should not perceive.</div>
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Dear universe, I have complete trust in you. I know that whatever comes my way is a challenge I’ll need to go through. Even if you would choose to throw death upon me, let my life fall apart, I respect and love you for existing at all.</div>
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Dear universe there is still a lot to say, but I don’t know what words to use when explaining these feelings for an absolutely magical place. I wish I had words to tell about the very nature of existence, matter, atoms, time, space and everything else, but I will end this with another; I love you and I promise to stay curious my friend.</div>
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Dear Universe may you grow and evolve from our chaos, from our unsettling and crazy ways. Let there come beauty out of every action, every moment, every thought and every single passing day. Let there be life within you, trying to understand itself throughout. Let there be absolute peace in your seemingly chaotic ways.</div>
Whimciclehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02478048456370080215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5419206341483357629.post-62811212452258291472016-10-26T13:01:00.002+02:002018-10-17T10:20:41.646+02:00I'm Tired of Running - Where I have been<h1 class="graf graf--h3 graf--leading graf--title" id="0075" name="0075" style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8); font-size: 40px; letter-spacing: -0.028em; line-height: 1.04; margin: 0px 0px 0px -2.5px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hi there! You probably don’t have the slightest idea who I am, but today I am going to write you a little story. If you are reading this, Welcome and Thanks, I hope you will find it interesting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am only 18 years old, but already so tired of running towards future hope that I cannot see. Even more tired am I of running away from things, problems, truths and situations I don’t agree with, so I stopped, and here I am ….</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I often use the word <em class="markup--em markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1, 'salt' 1;">running</em> as a way to explain how I have been trying to get through life, fast, focused on progress and careless to what I am passing, but (luckily) I am not the kind of person to keep running through life without collapsing and giving up. I didn’t feel lucky when it first hit me, that I can say for sure, but if it hadn’t broken me the way it did, I would have never felt like life would be anything worth living.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Before I never felt true joy, it wasn’t necessary for producing. I felt strangely disassociated to myself and the world like I was floating a foot above my head with nothing to do and nothing to say. I didn’t enjoy people, even my closest of friends, because I wasn’t being human, I was just surviving another day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“I wasn’t being human, I was just surviving another day…”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I can’t say for sure why I felt that way but I have spent my afternoons and evenings working on understanding the mind and psyche since I was only thirteen years old. Here I am almost six years later, so what now do I have to say?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I worried a lot, and the things I worried about, I also really cared about. Not a good combination! I worried that I wouldn’t be able to take care of myself and that my mind wouldn’t hold up for what it was needed for. I worried about the fights in my family and the decisions I had to make in school. I even worried about what I would be doing five years into the future, on this day, at this moment, would I be doing the same things I had been doing before?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It finally broke me, I gave up on figuring it out or solving it in any way, and only after that, I have been able to see that the thinking I was doing, was completely unnecessary and putting me in lots of pain. I was making one life (my dream/expected life) in my head that had nothing to do with what is getting done in the real world. So I stopped …</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Always say “yes” to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say “yes” to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.” — Eckhart Tolle</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I stopped believing my thoughts, they were being deceptive and dishonest, and I got rid of any expectation of what life in front of me would look like and started trusting it to be a crazy mess (the most beautiful and complex mess there is). I stopped being harsh on myself and take quick final decisions, and let the flow of life take over in moments where I would have earlier panicked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I guess that back then I thought that life was more… final, then I do now. When panic came, I thought I’d die, when the family fought I expected them to break each other and when I couldn’t go to school, I could see my whole future falling apart. But all that was what it was because I expected it to be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #666666; font-style: italic;">“We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.” </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.8); font-weight: bold;">― </span><a class="markup--anchor markup--blockquote-anchor" data-href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7257647.Eric_Micha_el_Leventhal" href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7257647.Eric_Micha_el_Leventhal" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.439216); background-color: transparent; background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6) 50%, rgba(0, 0, 0, 0) 50%); background-position: 0px 1.07em; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-size: 2px 0.1em; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8);" target="_blank"><span class="markup--strong markup--blockquote-strong">Eric Micha’el Leventhal</span></a></i></span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have given life the trust I once had in myself, to give myself freedom, feelings, and understanding. I have let life make all those final decisions, while I just keep on doing what I can. I have put the universe in charge of what is and what is not, making sure my brain never thinks it knows something for sure because I wouldn’t want to give up my chance to know even more.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You could probably call this kind of “giving up” many things, but I love to call it surrendering to life itself. It is really understanding you are a tiny part of something so large and complex that we can only ever wonder about the truth. That the moment is a permanent thing (in the passing of life) and it is the way you do things that matter, not what you do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“It’s soothing to realize that my mind’s processes are inherently uncontrollable.”— Ruby Rucker</span></blockquote>
Whimciclehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02478048456370080215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5419206341483357629.post-24282478149985306432016-10-14T10:14:00.000+02:002016-10-14T10:14:55.232+02:00Coconut Oil - Natural Miracle Product<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have started using coconut oil in several ways after reading about all the wonderful benefits of it, and the even more ways to use it, everything from a moisturizer to cooking. There are several reason to why it is such an amazing product and ingredient, so let me tell you about about it:</span></b></h3>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Coconut oil contains a lot of saturated fat; 90% of the fatty acids in it are saturated. Because of this, it has scared people to believe that it will make them fat or unhealthy. The thing is that it isn't the normal kind of saturated fat that you will find in most of our foods now days, no, they contain <span id="goog_686805404"></span>Medium Chain Triglycerides. Read about it <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium-chain_triglyceride">here on Wikipedia</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The medium chain fatty acids are metabolized differently than our "normal" long chain fatty acids. They go straight to the liver and are turned into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ketone_bodies">Ketone bodies</a> which supply the body and brain with energy and have a therapeutical effect on people with brain disorders like Alzheimers and epelipsy. <a href="http://www.alzheimers.net/2013-05-29/coconut-oil-for-alzheimers/">Read more about that here</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These so called Ketone bodies also have an appetite reducing effect, which keeps you full longer and assists anyone who wants to lose weight or cut down on unnecessary eating. It is especially good for losing weight because it helps you burn abdominal fat, the most dangerous body fat that is highly associated with many western diseases, like heart disease.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">50% of the contents of Coconut oil is Luaric Acid. Read about it </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauric_acid" style="font-family: 'helvetica neue', arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">here on Wikipedia</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When digested, it creates a monoglyceride called monolaurin that can kill harmful pathogens like bacteria, fungi and viruses. That is why Luaric Acid often is used for medical purposes. It can be used to treat anything from the flu to yeast infections and chlamydia. <a href="http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-supplements/ingredientmono-1138-lauric%20acid.aspx?activeingredientid=1138&activeingredientname=lauric%20acid">Read more here</a></span><br />
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Whimciclehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02478048456370080215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5419206341483357629.post-79809237829398409902016-04-27T18:00:00.000+02:002017-11-24T14:35:34.024+01:00Writing as a Child ...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="markup--strong markup--blockquote-strong" style="font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“When I was a child I wrote my own freedom. I wrote my own dreams. I wrote out any experience my soul longed for. My world lied in the spaces between the lines of blank pages, where I could meet the most interesting people and go through the most amazing things, see places I could only imagine and feel more than ever before. It was my heaven on earth and I was the angle coming to save me” — Alicia Adams</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I still remember the places I have been to; the sounds of the African Savannah at night, the sky lighting up like fire as the sun disappears below the horizon, the sweet sight of water after believing you were going to die of thirst.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I can almost smell the dirty fur and rotten breath of a predator I loved deeply, a young lonely lion male looking for somewhere to go after being kicked out of his family pride. Lion, my beloved friend in loneliness, he is responsible for my idea of <span class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-weight: 700;">power in peace and calmness</span>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I can’t help but ask; Did this shape me? Did my stories become a reality in my memories?</span></div>
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<span class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-weight: 700;"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1, 'salt' 1;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Did Lion make me less lonely even when I wasn’t glued to the pages of my notebook? Did the freedom I experienced make me feel trapped in the real world? Did those written adventures with others make me a more compassionate person?</span></em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I feel that it might, because deep in my heart I still feel protected and blessed by the characters and places I once created in my head. I feel like the words that come out might be what actually teaches me things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I don’t know if writing has changed me, but I know one thing for sure, every word I have written has taught me about something I didn’t know before.</span></div>
Whimciclehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02478048456370080215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5419206341483357629.post-16097246688733944502016-04-25T13:20:00.000+02:002016-10-26T12:47:23.962+02:00What I Want to Remember<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; letter-spacing: -0.003em; line-height: 1.58;">Even though the moment is permanent, time passes and life keeps going. One day I will be an old lady, with memories and stories, only existing in my head. I won’t have much in front of me, everything will already be behind me and my life will only be a visualization of what has happened to me. Thinking about it is kind of strange, that what is my everything right now, will be a simple story one day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What I find most important to <span class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-weight: 700;"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1, 'salt' 1;">remember is the smiles</em></span> I have experienced, friends, family, strangers, anyone who might have showed me a moment of such beauty, because that is what I consider joy; Seeing others smile. I want to <span class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-weight: 700;"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1, 'salt' 1;">remember my strongest feelings of joy, but also my strongest feelings of pain,</em></span> because without it joy would be useless. I want to look back at the contrast, the things I have gone through and feel grateful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I want to <span class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-weight: 700;"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1, 'salt' 1;">remember the moments that I couldn’t believe</em></span>, like my first experiences with love, drugs and friendship. I really hope I <span class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-weight: 700;"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1, 'salt' 1;">remember what my teen years was like</em></span>, what becoming an adult after always being a kid was like. I never liked to be in it, but I love to look back, that’s one of the reasons I am fond of endings, not so much of the beginning of things.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I want to <span class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-weight: 700;"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1, 'salt' 1;">remember my amazing connections</em></span>, with the amazing people within this world. But I guess now that I think about it, <span class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-weight: 700;"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1, 'salt' 1;">what I want to remember most of all, is the love</em></span>. I want to <span class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-weight: 700;"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1, 'salt' 1;">remember the love I have shared and given, that has been offered to me over the years</em></span>. I want to <span class="markup--strong markup--p-strong" style="font-weight: 700;"><em class="markup--em markup--p-em" style="font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1, 'salt' 1;">remember that incredible feeling of connection and joy so true</em></span>. It was love that got me through it and I want love to be my end.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: rgba(0 , 0 , 0 , 0.8); font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large; letter-spacing: -0.02em; line-height: 1.15;"><b><br /></b></span>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Growing up to me was all about realizing that everything I once thought, wasn’t what I thought it was. Every day that passed there was a new idea or concept I couldn’t quite wrap my mind around, leaving me with the conclusion that I didn’t actually know, I might have an understanding of part of it, but the bigger picture is missing. I don’t actually know WHAT I am, I am human, but what does that mean? Where am I? Well on earth, wherever that might be. I don’t know the fundamentals to my own existence, but still I exist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have always asked myself; If we are this blinded to the truth, doesn’t it make sense that we are not here to obtain true knowledge, but to keep fighting our blindness? Why would we grow up and realize that things aren’t what the seemed to be, just so we can stop learning and stay with an already obtained truth?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It doesn’t make sense to me. I think we are here to learn, keep growing and never settle with a final truth. That’s how we figured out the earth isn’t flat, isn’t it? It’s when we lift away what we once KNEW (what we considered as true), that we can once again see clearly and keep moving forward.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Knowledge is addictive, it becomes a part of our human ego. It boosts us with a feeling of accomplishment and superiority; I am capable of life, is what is says to us, others are not as capable. We hold it dearly and throw it at anyone we consider needs our intellectual help. We take pride in it, our words of truth, or what I would call them, our beliefs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Many people would not agree with me when I say that everything that you know, holds no true knowledge at all, it is just your beliefs. It’s not that the things that you believe couldn’t be true, it’s just that how could you ever tell?</span></div>
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Whimciclehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02478048456370080215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5419206341483357629.post-81652232833687392022016-04-04T13:15:00.000+02:002016-10-26T12:51:07.653+02:00Living - Surviving for Love<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Why do we live? Why would anyone ever sign up for this crazy thing called life? Why would we struggle to make money, so we can spend it on things for our life that might just end at any moment? What reason do we have to want to get through the pain we go through and not just take the fast way out? Why do we choose life?</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These are questions that have been haunting me for many years and that I couldn't find an answer to, leaving me in desperate need for reason and hope, but I just realized something that has drastically changed how I see it. I realized that I ask about the meaning of things at all times, except when I do something for someone else, then time seems like something unimportant. <b><i>We don't live for ourselves or for surviving, nor do we live for success and productivity, we live for the people we love.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have been feeling a lot more full of life lately, and I think it has to do with the fact I have decided to dedicate my heart and soul to loving this world and the people within it. After my long search for purpose and meaning in my teen years, I have concluded that life doesn't really have a point to it, we're born one day and we die another, it's simple and straight forward. But still we wake up every morning and ask ourselves, what should I do with my life? When I was depressed, that was the scariest question!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I didn't know what I wanted to do with this life, I didn't even know what being human really meant, and I absolutely couldn't wrap my mind around that I have a role or play any real part in it all. People seemed to be going somewhere, they found meaning, but however I looked at it I couldn't understand why living was a better option than dying, and when alive, why not just lay here, why do we care about getting things done?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I decided to myself that life is nothing special, just a moment in time, that I (whatever "I" am) is part of. It doesn't matter how much money or success I have, where I am, when I am or what I do, life is just gonna be life and I'll be tumbling around inside it, but at least not alone. That's what has gotten me inspired. I know how painful things can be, and anything I do that might ease that pain in someone else's heart would be something worth existing for. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Because when I was in pain, a smile or a hug would have been a miracle, but I could smile and hug myself all I want, it wouldn't make a difference. Because we can't make our own miracles, we can't make our own joy, only one heart touching another can do such a thing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You didn't choose to be here, be alive, be human, and I feel great sympathy for the pain and struggling it has and will bring you, I have many times wanted out because of it, and that is why I care. Because every person is holding something dearly, that hope that someone will live with less pain than themselves, less struggles, more smiles, that even with all our pain the world will have light in someone.</span><br />
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Whimciclehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02478048456370080215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5419206341483357629.post-80601622766588007502016-03-31T10:56:00.001+02:002016-10-14T10:58:44.968+02:00The Speech You Should Hear<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is a really great speech and I think everyone should see it, so I will share it here. It is a heartwarming and amazing speech by Charlie Chaplin that I hadn't heard until the other day, when it suddenly plopped up on my Facebook feed. He explains the situation on earth really well and says what many people say nothing about. </span></div>
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Whimciclehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02478048456370080215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5419206341483357629.post-13875381517894853102016-02-23T10:17:00.003+01:002016-10-26T12:38:12.213+02:00Gaming - Virtual Super Tool<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Games! They are becoming more popular, more accessible and in more varieties than ever before. We have computers, phones, game boys and video games, all getting smaller and easier to bring with us anywhere we go. Games played on machines and screens are loved by many, but not everyone is so sure about the many benefits gaming has.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A recent study from the Education Development Center (U.S) shows that children between 4 and 5 that had used digital media had improved their skill in letter recognition, association and better understanding of stories and print. Preschool teachers also claim that a child that has seen videos and played video games are better prepared for success in kindergarten than children from low-income families without access to computers or games. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What we see in general with children and game playing is an improvement in social and practical skills. For example, playing games like World of Warcraft and League of Legends teaches children(and teens) personal responsibility, how to work as a team toward a common goal and promoting teamwork to complete a task.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Game based training programs are becoming a popular and efficient way to train college and university pupils in various subjects too. Medical students use virtual operation programs to practice before taking on real patients and pilots always use a computer program to get the feel for flying before getting into a actual plane. These are only two of many ways to educate with digital media!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Students that play games are in general better at test taking and get higher scores. A good example is the 3D virtual simulation of the American/Canadian boarder that was used by college students, where they took the role as guard. Their test scores improved from 56% to 95%, and that is a HUGE difference!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Games put you in situations and offer challenges you might not usually get yourself into (or want to get into in real life). That could be anything from building a house to caring for a whole civilisation, or shooting hiding creatures in the dark forest. No matter what it is, you are learning and strengthening neuron connections while taking actions and figuring out how to keep moving forward, and the more we do something, the better we get. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Game players perform 10 to 20% better while being tested in cognitive and perceptual abilitys than non-players. Gaming also improves your ability to solve problems, make split-second decisions and improves hand and eye coordination.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It seems like gaming offers you the full learning package, teaching you how to act, think, make decisions, take actions and work with others. The best thing is that there are games for everyone, from birth until you die.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ever since birth we have been striving for that good feeling inside that we call joy, or happiness, but what exactly is it? Some seem to be happy when they spend time with friends and some when they play video games, others always seem happy, while some will hardly ever wear a smile. So it seems that happiness is not just one thing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">My view on happiness has changes a lot after depression hit me, actually it was part of the reason I got depressed in the first place. I spent my years growing up thinking, like most people, that the grass is greener on the other side. Happiness was a goal in my life. I wanted to understand it, create it, spread it and be it, but what I didn’t know was that the idea of happiness has been talked and written about more than it has been understood. All over the internet there are articles on subjects like “ways to become a happy person”, “living a happy life” and “the key to happiness”, but as the years passed and I read more of these kinds of articles, I started to understand </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 14.6667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">the illusion of happiness.</span></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Coffee is one of the most common and popular hot drinks in the world and by those who drink it, it is often said to be one of the best. I am a coffee lover myself and have enjoyed many different coffee drinks during my short 18 years of life. Cappuccino, Mocha Latte, spiced latte, espresso, </span></b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>macchiato, and so many more. We all seem to love spending expensive money on a fancy cup of coffee at our favorite café!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Coffee is a popular brewed drink made from coffee beans, which is actually the seed inside the red berries on the coffee plant. The plant is only native to subtropical Africa and islands in southern Asia, but has now been exported and cultivated in over 70 countries, primarily the equatorial regions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are over 100 coffee species, but there are only two main species that are widely produced and sold around the world and that is Coffee Arabica and Coffee Robusta. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They are very different!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Coffee Arabica is often considered higher quality than Coffee Robusta, since Robusta can have a burnt or even rubbery taste and is usually much cheaper, about half price of Arabica. The reason behind the low price and weird taste is that the Robusta beans have a lot more caffeine than the Arabica beans, almost dubble the amount; 2,7% compared to 1,5%. The large amount of caffeine in the Robusto keeps the insects away, making it the stronger and more hardy of the two species. Robusta beans also contain only half the amount of sugar of that the Arabica beans does, making Robusta most peoples second choice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You can tell the difference between an Arabica and Robusta bean just by looking at it. The Arabica bean is oval and sometimes a little bent, while the Robusta is very round and symmetrical.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Most coffee that you buy in a grocery store is a mix or blend, meaning that it contains both Arabica and Robusta beans, making it cheaper and way easier to produce than Arabica alone. </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Instant coffee is usually made from almost only Robusta.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The picture on the side is 1,3,7 - Trimethylpurine, is the magical chemical we call Caffeine, a central nervous system stimulant. It is the worlds most widely consumed psychoactive drug, but unlike most other psychoactive drugs, it is legal and unregulated in nearly all parts of the world.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Caffeine works through blocking the adenosine receptors, preventing the onset of drowsiness, but it also stimulates some parts of the autonomic nervous system. Many use it as a energy boost when needed or to improve performance, as caffeine is known to have these effects, but it has shown in studies that some people use it just to feel more like themselves or they consider coffee a need.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Caffeine drinkers often, without knowing or thinking about it, end up with drug dependency complete with withdrawal symptoms when you fail to keep the intake up, causing headaches, irritability and sleepiness. These withdrawal symtoms can stay just a few hours up to a couple of days and will most definitely put you in a grumpy mood.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Caffeine occurs naturally in 60 different plants, including Coffee beans, Tea leaves, Guarana, Yerbe Mate and Kola nuts. You can extract the caffeine by pressure cooking caffeinated plants with CO2, you then get caffeine in white powder form. This powder is used in products with added caffeine and as available dietary supplements.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It is one of the worlds most loved and consumed drugs, but it hasn't always been as accepted. Through history several countries have banned it wanted to make coffee and caffeine illegal, including Sweden at various times between 1756 - 1823.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Even though caffeine classifies as "generally recognized as safe", a tablespoon of pure powdered caffeine can be lethal and some people have died from this kind of overdose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Khan Academy is a great way to learn something new today! It is a global online classroom that offers more information than you'll ever be able to go through. The courses are complete with videos, texts and assignments, all to make it easier for you to learn everything about a subject. It is a non-profit website for anyone out there to access with a computer or phone and their app is beautiful, well organized and easy to use. I have taken a few courses and been very impressed by their content, you should try it too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tyke was captured as a baby in Africa and trained to do tricks in the circus. Even though she was hard to handle and unpredictable, they kept her in the show, resulting in her running off a few times and hurting trainers and assistants. Ty, her main trainer was the only one who could work with her in a functional way and he explains there special relationship and how he experienced Tyke, afraid and frustrated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's a very sad, but beautiful tale of a lonely, afraid elephant and people connecting to show the world that this what is going on isn't alright.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Watch it on Netflix: <a href="http://www.netflix.com/watch/80066806?trackId=13752289&tctx=0%2C0%2C77628a5a-bc21-40bb-9558-9e6720eb2a86-12841397">Tyke Elephant Outlaw</a></b></span></div>
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Whimciclehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02478048456370080215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5419206341483357629.post-87891402432935170222016-01-31T14:47:00.002+01:002017-02-14T13:38:57.950+01:00Elevate - The Ultimate Brain Trainer<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Elevate is an app I have been using for almost six months now and I have to say, I am really happy with it. It provides a personalized game based training program with three different activities for you to do daily. Elevate has been downloaded over 10 million times on app store and was selected as <i>App Of The Year 2014 by Apple. </i></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On their website they describe it as <b style="font-style: italic;">a cognitive training tool designed to build communication and analytical skills. </b>They game based program is adjusted to your skill, want and need, and it tracks your progress as you complete training. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It only takes about 5-15 minuts to complete the three daily activities so everyone's got time to do it! If three activities aren't enough, there are a few extra things to explore in the app.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What Kevin does is something so many people thought wasn't possible, interact with wild animals with a relationship built on trust, not fear. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Through history we have beaten and used animals, making them fear us to gain control, but Kevin shows the opposite way of handling these powerful animals, and when you see it, it makes so much sense. The only reason any animal acts violently is that they feel a need to act on their fear, and when you beat them and break them, that fear will lash out, not the animal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>For a perfect example on what happens to wild animals in fear see the movie: </b></span><b style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4254838/?ref_=nv_sr_2">Tyke - Elephant outlaw</a> </b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In Kevins relationship with the lions <b>there just isn't the need for any fear</b>, the lion feels safe and the man feels safe. This goes for any animal. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The sanctuary he has is called Kevin Richardson's Wildlife Sanctuary and their mission is to provide a self-sustaining sanctuary for large carnivores to preserve the species. They do this through awareness, education and funding. What they do is very important, especially since two subspecies of the lion just gained the protection from the U.S Endangered Species Act after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Cecil_the_lion">Cecil</a> the famous lion was shot last year. This only restricts people from bringing hunting trophies (like paws and heads) into the country, not the actual hunting of the animals.</span><br />
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Whimciclehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02478048456370080215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5419206341483357629.post-66205833630375801852016-01-30T20:50:00.000+01:002016-10-18T09:46:58.481+02:00Rick and Morty - Philosophy Update <div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Here is the 8-bit Philosophy explained by </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6-ymYjG0SU0jUWnWh9ZzEQ" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Wisecrack</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://wimcicle.blogspot.com/2016/01/rick-and-morty.html"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">another post about Rick and Morty ...</span></b></a></span></div>
Whimciclehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02478048456370080215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5419206341483357629.post-89121370238296344972016-01-29T15:19:00.002+01:002016-11-08T13:53:38.989+01:00Life in a Day (2011)<h4 style="text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Half a year ago I watched</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> the movie; Life In A Day. If you haven't seen it I strongly recommend you do. It gives you a look at the world we live in, the lives of the others and an idea of how much actually happens on earth every single day.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What's so special about this movie is that it is a crowd-sourced documentary, meaning that the crowd (just normal people in their everyday lives) was part of making it. It is an arranged series of video clips from over 80,000 clips captured from around the world during a 24 hour period, on July 24, 2010.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 1 hour and 35 minute movie have been put together and selected from 4800 hours of Youtube footage and was released January 27, 2011 at the Sundance Film Festival. It follows people through their day, showing you what they see, do and experience. Ready to look into <i>Life In A Day?</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is free access to the movie on Youtube and to make it as simple as possible for you to watch, I added it here below. <i><b>Enjoy!</b></i></span></div>
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Whimciclehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02478048456370080215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5419206341483357629.post-15545219519292845222016-01-29T11:53:00.001+01:002016-09-27T15:13:52.472+02:00Youtube - Crash Course<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Do you want to learn something new today? There is this super awesome Youtube channel by the name Crash Course that can teach you everything from astronomy to psychology through speedy talks. Perfect for anyone who "doesn't have time" for taking a class in that subject you have been wanting to learn for so long.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse">Youtube</a> <a href="https://plus.google.com/116235110441731507697">Google+</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/thecrashcourse">Twitter</a> <a href="http://thecrashcourse.tumblr.com/">Tumblr</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/YouTubeCrashCourse">Facebook</a> <a href="https://www.instagram.com/thecrashcourse/">Instagram</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Crash course is a channel that educates through short videos where they tell you the most important and informational things about the subject. They have a colorful design and talk about things in a very interesting way, making these videos quite fun to watch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I see learning as the most important aspect of a life. From the day we are born to the day we die our brains will be re-wiring itself and learn new things, and it's up to you what gets put in there. It is incredibly satisfying to get a better understanding of the world around and new doors will open with every step.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have decided to watch the Crash Course - Psychology Playlist during the next few weeks. Psychology and the workings of the mind has always been a big interest of mine and I am excited to learn more about it. Since the videos are pretty short (about 10-15 minutes long) It's perfect to watch and reflect over each video, taking in information and getting used to to new concepts. I also like to draw while watching to understand and clarify.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As I wrote earlier, Crash Course offers courses in different subjects and I will put links to the playlists below, so if you are interested just <b>click on the link and get started on your free course of your choice</b>:</span></div>
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Whimciclehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02478048456370080215noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5419206341483357629.post-38107793474647236232016-01-18T00:22:00.001+01:002016-10-18T09:47:08.816+02:00Rick and Morty<h4 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you haven't seen it you should, well if you are into pretty brutal humor and cartoons put together in a genius way . I watched it every week when it was airing and I can't even say how excited I am for them to start airing again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What inspired me to write this post was the new game app Pocket Mortys by Adultswim. It's a really fun game inspired by the classic pokémon game boy game, collecting different kinds of Mortys and battling others. The characters are all the same ones from the series and they will make you laugh with their funny dialog and characteristics. When you've collected two of the same Mortys you can combine them into a better one, and throughout the game you collect and create gadgets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>If you are already playing it, these are some good links</i> - <a href="http://www.gamerevolution.com/faq/pocket-mortys/full-recipe-list-for-pocket-mortys-121601">Crafting recipe list</a>, <a href="http://www.iphonefaq.org/archives/975039">Morty Combining</a></span><br />
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Watch some episodes on: <a href="http://www.adultswim.com/videos/rick-and-morty/">Adult Swim - Rick and Morty</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Post update on the philosophy behind the show: <a href="http://wimcicle.blogspot.com/2016/01/rick-and-morty-philosophy-update.html">8-bit philosophy</a></span><br />
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