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Alabama city destroying ancient Indian mound for Sam’s Club
This is complete bullshit on SO many levels.
1) It belongs to someone else
2) It’s sacred to that someone
3) It’s against the fucking LAW
4) Wrong, just fucking wrong…I have no more words
Please boost
Oh hey, this is just a fifteen minute drive from my university. Actually I think I remember my anthropology professor talking about this and he is one of the archaeologists fighting it.
via Hot Time in Delaware.
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— Kurt Vonnegut
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The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again.
There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling, I had to believe whatever clocks said.
There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling, I had to believe whatever clocks said.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Still—if I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
Still—if I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I’m grateful that so many of those moments are nice.
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— Hunter S. Thompson
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Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them.
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Lev Vygotsky
This is pretty much behaviorism from a social perspective.
