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homeschooling in the US needs to be regulated but this is one of those conversations that immediately gets crushed by extremist conservatives and even well-meaning liberals will pipe up to be like "well some homeschooling is good!" when that's absolutely not relevant. regulation will not change anything for the homeschooling families who are serious about their children's education. the people who need to be regulated are the fringe extremists

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unavoidable that you will be the villain in someone else's story. You will be painted in an unfavorable light. You will be the irredeemable one. and all of this will happen despite how nice you might usually be or how kind or how respectful or how warm. and you will just have to move on.

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n-clair · 2 hours

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Wait… Isn’t Ed Balls day coming up? ED BALLS DAY, I HAVE TO GET READY TO CELEBRATE

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n-clair · 7 hours

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how it feels seeing new angela image 😁

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n-clair · 8 hours

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Whatever the case, feel free to write long-winded explanations in the tags, I WILL read them!

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n-clair · 9 hours

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"theres shipping on tumblr" fork in kitchen i just dont see how people are surprised with this like genuinely

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n-clair · 11 hours

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Critical Thinking Cheatsheet

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n-clair · 11 hours

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Pros of reading authors you don't agree with:

You can make informed rants about how wrong they are.

A+ practice for learning to read texts critically and thinking for yourself, even among people you do agree with.

Occasionally, begrudgingly, they may have a point.

Even if they don't, being able to articulate why helps you understand your own beliefs and spot errors in your thinking.

You'll be much more persuasive to the other side if you understand their arguments and aren't just making assumptions based on what you've heard from others.

Academic drama is incredible.

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n-clair · 11 hours

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elon musk had a third child with grimes that he kept secret until the release of his biography. he named it techno mechanicus

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are hesse's books just philosophical yaoi

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n-clair · 11 hours

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"Ayo Mr. White! I just heard this phrase; The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas. You're smart 'n shit, do you have any idea what that means, bitch?"

"Jesse, we - fine. I might as well explain, we're done cooking for Gus for today. You heard a line by the famous German author Hermann Hesse; specifically, from his 1919 novel 'Demian'."

"Demian? I thought that was just the name of that gay little bitch from the gacha game Skinny Pete likes."

"Jesse, you imbecile. You went through all your big years of high school and you never once listened to a Hesse lecture?"

"Demian follows the story of Emil Sinclair, a boy in Germany who slowly finds himself falling into the 'world of evil'. It all begins when another boy of his school, Franz Kromer, tempts him into keeping money from his family. An older boy, Max Demian, takes up for young Sinclair and drives Kromer away.

Years go by, and Sinclair, who grew up Christian, finds himself filled with desires he finds sinful; he blames Demian for this, and he hates himself, too. How could he have fallen into this world of evil, after all? All he wanted to do was thrive, why was that so hard?

As it turns out, he just needed to break free and accept himself for who he was. He needed to thrive to the beat of his own heart and live for himself, not for any god nor for his father or mother.

In the end, Sinclair and Demian reunite, and Demian departs as they enter war with a kiss. He disappears, yet Sinclair sees features of his friend and guide in himself in the mirror.

The novel has themes of Jungian and Freudian psychology, Catholic guilt, and self-liberation.

There, was that satisfactory? Or were you dozing off and not applying yourself, just like in class?"