My Disrupted Life

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The most current incarnation was established in the 2005 Seven Soldiers:	Mister Miracle mini-series, written by Grant Morrison. In it Darkseid (or Dark Side, as he was calling himself) gained full control of the Anti-Life Equation, which is revealed to be:
	loneliness alienation fear despair self-worth ÷ mockery ÷ condemnation ÷ misunderstanding × guilt × shame × failure × judgment n=y where y=hope and n=folly, love=lies, life=death, self=dark side
	By speaking said equation, Darkseid can insert the full formula into people's minds, giving them the mathematical certainty that life, hope and freedom are all pointless.

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A map of woman’s heart from the 1800s, equal parts amusing and appalling.

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If you cannot work out whether your present situation, challenge, relationship et al is yet another state of unconscious self-sabotage despite the fact you feel deprived, drink.

The Overthinking Person’s Drinking Game — thoughtcatalog.com — Readability

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To have that sense of one’s intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference. If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with us, so little perception as to remain blind to our fatal weaknesses. On the other, we are peculiarly in thrall to everyone we see, curiously determined to live out — since our self-image is untenable — their false notion of us. We flatter ourselves by thinking this compulsion to please others an attractive trait: a gist for imaginative empathy, evidence of our willingness to give. Of course I will play Francesca to your Paolo, Helen Keller to anyone’s Annie Sullivan; no expectation is too misplaced, no role too ludicrous. At the mercy of those we cannot but hold in contempt, we play roles doomed to failure before they are begun, each defeat generating fresh despair at the urgency of divining and meting the next demand made upon us. It is the phenomenon sometimes called ‘alienation from self.’ In its advanced stages, we no longer answer the telephone, because someone might want something; that we could say no without drowning in self-reproach is an idea alien to this game. Every encounter demands too much, tears the nerves, drains the will, and the specter of something as small as an unanswered letter arouses such disproportionate guilt that answering it becomes out of the question. To assign unanswered letters their proper weight, to free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves — there lies the great, the singular power of self-respect. Without it, one eventually discovers the final turn of the screw: one runs away to find oneself, and finds no one at home.

Joan Didion on Self-Respect | Brain Pickings

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The Tree of Life (2011) - Fake Criterion

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“Nobody’s dreaming about tomorrow anymore. The most powerful agency on the dreams of a nation is currently underfunded to do what it needs to do — and that’s to make dreams come true. How much would you pay for the Universe?”

A beautiful supercut of astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson’s passionate Senate testimony on the spirit of space exploration, edited with awe-inspiring historical images and footage. Inspired by the Sagan Series and the Feynman Series.

Tyson’s new book, Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier, should be required reading for every politician and citizen.

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Music Posters by Viktor Hertz

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Music Posters by Viktor Hertz

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Julian Burford, a Netherlands-based graphic designer, has turned eight different modern day food products and turned them into square iPhone app icons. Despite having to meet Apple’s icon guidelines, Burford has managed to keep the foods looking 3D and has kept a nice uniform style throughout.

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