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My dad and I once had a disagreement over him using the adage "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger."

I said, "That's just not true. Sometimes what doesn't kill you leaves you brittle and injured or traumatized."

He stopped and thought about that for a while. He came back later, and said, "It's like wood glue."

He pointed to my bookshelf, which he helped me salvage a while ago. He said, "Do you remember how I explained that, once we used the wood glue on them, the shelves would actually be stronger than they were before they broke?"

I did.

"But before we used the wood glue, those shelves were broken. They couldn't hold up shit. If you had put books on them, they would have collapsed. And that wood glue had to set awhile. If we put anything on them too early, they would have collapsed just the same as if we'd never fixed them at all. You've got to give these things time to set."

It sounded like a pretty good metaphor to me, but one thing I did pick up on was that whatever broke those shelves, that's not the thing that made them stronger. That just broke them. It was being fixed that made them stronger. It was the glue.

So my dad and I agreed, what doesn't kill you doesn't actually make you stronger, but healing does. And if you feel like healing hasn't made you stronger than you were before, you're probably not done healing. You've got to give these things time to set.

The thing with statistics - via

This is the definition of Chaotic Evil.

oh it’s perfect in every way

I absolutely hate it

You’ve seen rube goldberg, now try rude goldberg

send cropped political memes

like this

everyone’s reblogging this and no one’s giving me any lmao

I gotcha

The most majestic of creatures has a snack.

I FOUND IT GUYS I SPENT HALF AN HOUR LOOKING FOR THIS VIDEO AND ITS HERE

Always reblog peent.

*before clicking play*: IS THIS WHAT i THINK IT IS???

*clicks play*: IT ISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

omg!! omg

Forever reblog.

Heaven let your eent shine down.

SOUND ON.

i love geography

When a post makes you snort, reblog it.

Advertising peaked at the Discovery channel “Boom de Yada” commercials

Absolutely classic

give yourself a gift and rewatch it :)

every now and then i want to bring this back, its just so pure of a sentiment as well as a mission statement about why educational programing is awesome i love the whole world and being part of it

This is my aesthetic.

This is literally the most heart warming story I have read on Twitter so far. I think this is exactly what friends should do, and I feel everyone deserves people like this.

A barn rasing:  a collective action of a community, in which a barn for one of the members is built or rebuilt collectively by members of the community.

because you cannot, you CANNOT, build a barn on your own, and without it, you will not be able to survive. 

What a fuckin’ gem of a sentence. “What we did today was a barn rasin” 

Those are some damn cleaned glass doors

Wholesome prank

Things are not always as they seem.

Posted with permission from the artist @ByTwistwood. Story by Matthew Wisner.

Mr Rogers A+ Parenting

Two fandoms I never expected to intersect.

Please check out my new blog: Animals-Are-People-Too

It is dedicated to showcasing animals who display traits traditionally thought of as “human,” such as intelligence, playfulness, friendship, and empathy.

Wifey material. 

Watch The Bullying Experiment video here. 

I almost cried when I saw this part.  This is what you do.  You don’t continue on your way because it doesn’t involve you.  

Look at the way she shields the stranger WITH HER OWN BODY. This is what needs to happen when you see someone being bullied or harassed.

How to deactivate a capybara.

Yesss....

squares, turning

A fascinating use of positive vs. negative space.