Irina Cumberland (b.1975) - Sea Diamonds 22. 2018. Oil on canvas.
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“Are you saying that murderers are right in the head??”
No there’s definitely something wrong with someone’s way of thinking if they can justify killing innocent people, but this doesn’t necessarily mean that they have a mental illness.
Extremist beliefs isn’t a mental illness.
Bigotry isn’t a mental illness.
Entitlement isn’t a mental illness.
Hate isn’t a mental illness.
Having a dysfunctional moral compass isn’t a mental illness.
We need to stop categorizing all these things as some undefinable “mental illness” and start looking at what we do as a society to develop and justify these things to a degree where people use them to justify killing.
maddie-pryor
Yes!
Dehumanization is something you Have to look for. If the murderer doesn’t see the person they killed as a person, then mental illness is probably not the main factor there.
Plenty of people murder women, poc, lgbt people, people of other religions etc. because they don’t see them as people.
Think about genocides - they aren’t perpetrated by big group of people/a government who all got mentally ill together the same way at the same time somehow, they just didn’t consider what they did murder because they didn’t see the victims as people.
I’m probably going to wind up reblogging this more than once because it is really fucking important.
“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”
— Maurice Sendak
Source: quotemadness.com
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“I love you despite you, despite myself, despite the entire world, despite God, despite the Devil, who also has a hand in this. I love you, I love you, I love you. Whether I’m happy or unhappy, gay or sad, I love you. I love you, do with me what you will.”
— Juliette Drouet, from a letter to Victor Hugo written c. February 1833
“Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt.”
— Ray Bradbury, from Something Wicked This Way Comes (Simon & Schuster, 1962)
“But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.”
— Jonathan Franzen, How to Be Alone (via quotespile)
“We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.””
— Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
The Nutcracker dance you’ve NEVER seen before!
fuckin amazing 👏🏾🔥
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this is the kind of art I want to see in the world
watch it without sound and you still know when every note falls. That’s some Damn Fine choreography!
OMG, the smile on the guy in the middle. LOVE.
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white bird in a golden cage
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i have thirteen unadulterated socks.
this is a sentence that jumped into my mind just now.
i had to google unadulterated to see if i could understand the sentence.
im afraid my guardian angel has A.D.D. or something. idk.
obviously i dont hold that against my angel.
why would i?
i make it a cup of tea.
and i ask if it has any allergies or food proclivities.
it doesnt answer.
i collect the fallen feathers
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“I always pray you’ll vanish– Turned to dew In the morning sun. That one day I’ll mistake you for rain.”
— poeticallyordinary (via poeticallyordinary)
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Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story (2017) dir. by Alexandra Dean
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“I freed myself in order to be alone. For me freedom means solitude, a solitude full of walks in the country, solitary strolls through unfamiliar cities, books scattered around my bed at night, lying open at random pages.”
— Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, from “Rien ne va Plus,”