EVERY TIME SOMEONE BRINGS UP THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA I GET SO ANGRY.
but why
Because it got burned. All of that knowledge, lost forever.
The library was destroyed over 1000’s of years ago. The library consisted of thousands of scrolls and books about mathematics, engineering, physiology, geography, blueprints, medicine, plays, & important scriptures. Thinkers from all over the Mediterranean used to come to Alexandria to study.Most of the major work of civilization up until that point was lost. If the library still survived till this day, society may have been more advanced and we would sure know more about the ancient world.
That graphic grinds my gears every time I see it
romans.
Julius Caesar to be precise
Remember this when you’re conquering. Keep the books.
THIS HURTS MY HEART SO MUCH EVERY TIME ITS BROUGHT UP
I didn’t think it was possible. But I fell in love with her all over again.
I took a risk. A big one. I got on a metal bird and sailed across the sky, thousands of miles away. To a place where my kind isn’t as accepted, where my safety was at risk.
I did it for love. Just a tiny whisper of hope after I had given up on it so many times before.
I landed. Shaking. Scared. Nervous. I didn’t know what to do. What if she’ll hate me. I hate myself. I hate everything about myself. I should just turn around and never come back. She deserves better. We’ve tried this before and it didn’t work, what could possibly be so different this time??
I held my breath and walked out of the terminal. The crisp air hitting my face. I could make out her face in the shadows of her windshield.
She got out and hugged me. No, held me. She held me and in an instant, all my fears melted away. She was there for me as I was there for her. She was always the one. 6 fucking years of her running around my head and she was finally there, in front of me, holding me, loving me unconditionally. I never thought it would happen, boy was I wrong.
I felt something. Something warm, but sharp. I opened my eyes to see what it was. She had already let go and was getting back into the car. I looked down to see what I was feeling. There was nothing there… It was internal. It was my heart.
I felt empty without her there. My heart was aching for more. Every inch of my body felt cold and lifeless without her touch. I followed after her and decided at that moment that I would never let myself go another day without her. Without my one true love.
I lost my job again. Well, I didn’t lose it, I got fired.
A week before probation is up… for the first time in my life I had this really detailed and aspirational 5 and 10 year goal planned out, revolving around this company. And I’ve been jerked around for 9 months trying to get the dream position I applied for.
Finally, four days before the start date of the dream job, they cut me.
I spent the last 3 months doing nothing but working. 16 days straight, 16 hours on 8 hours off, overtime galore. Barely any sleep or sanity.
The entire time my personal life was a mess. My mental health deteriorating, my boyfriend and his family making me want to just fucking ***.
I’m just so fucking done with this life. I didn’t want it. I didn’t ask to be born. I don’t want to be here anymore. I just want it to all be over. But I’m not strong enough to end it. Never have been, never will be.
I’ve just lost all hope all over again.
I just wanna go so far away and never turn around. I want to leave everything behind and never come back.
1. Doctor finds anecdotal evidence that people are passing kidney stones after riding on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at Disney World
2. Doctor makes 3-D model of kidney, complete with stones and urine (his own), takes it on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad 60 times
3. “The stones passed 63.89 percent of the time while the kidneys were in the back of the car. When they were in the front, the passage rate was only 16.67 percent. That’s based on only 60 rides on a single coaster, and Wartinger guards his excitement in the journal article: ‘Preliminary study findings support the anecdotal evidence that a ride on a moderate-intensity roller coaster could benefit some patients with small kidney stones.’”
4. “Some rides are going to be more advantageous for some patients than other rides. So I wouldn’t say that the only ride that helps you pass stones is Big Thunder Mountain. That’s grossly inaccurate.”
5. “His advice for now: If you know you have a stone that’s smaller than five millimeters, riding a series of roller coasters could help you pass that stone before it gets to an obstructive size and either causes debilitating colic or requires a $10,000 procedure to try and break it up. And even once a stone is broken up using shock waves, tiny fragments and “dust” remain that need to be passed. The coaster could help with that, too.”
SCIENCE: IT WORKS
Update:
“In all, we used 174 kidney stones of varying shapes, sizes and weights to see if each model worked on the same ride and on two other roller coasters,” Wartinger said. “Big Thunder Mountain was the only one that worked. We tried Space Mountain and Aerosmith’s Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster and both failed.”Wartinger went on to explain that these other rides are too fast and too violent with a G-force that pins the stone into the kidney and doesn’t allow it to pass.“The ideal coaster is rough and quick with some twists and turns, but no upside down or inverted movements,” he said.
I just love this because it’s HILARIOUS and yet also a perfect archetypal example of The Scientific Method:
1. Hypothesis
2. Experiment
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
6. GOTO 1 (the scientific method is iterative, don’t forget that part)
was this like… done in cooperation with disney management or did some random scientist go through bag check with a 3d printed kidney and a bottle of piss and start looking for big thunder mountain fastpasses
Of course, the researchers had to get permission from Disney World before bringing the model kidney onto the rides. “It was a little bit of luck,” Wartinger recalls. “We went to guest services, and we didn’t want them to wonder what was going on—two adult men riding the same ride again and again, carrying a backpack. We told them what our intent was, and it turned out that the manager that day was a guy who recently had a kidney stone. He called the ride manager and said, do whatever you can to help these guys, they’re trying to help people with kidney stones.”
I still cry weekly about the fact that I lost Kristin. She was the greatest thing to ever happen to me. I hate that I fucked it up. I hate myself for ever letting her get away
logged onto tumblah for the first time in years and was surprised to see so many notes and messages. Apparently I scared people with some super depressed posts regarding suicide and whatnot the last two or three posts i’ve left.
Still alive sorry!
No need to worry about me, the void im in is still existent, still haven’t crawled out of this hell hole of a house and relationship.
Thank you for the kind words, but theres nothing wrong with wanting to die. I just think I wasn’t meant to be born into this world at this time in history.
Yeah so anyways, I don’t think i’ll post much more on here ever. Just the yearly birthday post to myself. I kinda like that tradition.
Anyways, I’m gonna start streaming again when Black Ops 4 comes out, heres the link.
I missed it last year and I vowed that would NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN.
YES
omg i didnt reblog this last year!
HAHAHAH
Every year on my birthday someone brings this scene up. This is why I love this movie!
Happy birthday future Jazmine, -18 yr old Jaz.
As I write this its the day after my 19th birthday. In the past 48 hours I’ve consumed a lot of alcohol and a lot of wisdom from my peers. All the advice I can say from right now is stop wasting your time dating people, being friends with people, and interacting with people. It just makes for shit.
Happy birthday future Jazmine, -19 yr old Jazelonious
The past 6 months of your life have been a world of hurt and changes. the next six months of your life will have even more. You’ll move out on your own, get a full time job that you have to keep, see beyoncé out of province, possibly see K later in the year… It’s a lot.
You’ve done so much in your 19th year, and you have a lot more to 20th. Good luck on your 21st year of life.
Heppy birthday future Jazmine, -20 year old Jazelonious Prime.
p.s. when you read this a year from now your fat ass better be in las vegas getting drunk and losing all your money.
Theres so much that has happened in such a short time. You lost your best friend, the love of your life, your home, your money, any respect people once had for you. You cheated and lied your way through life to stay afloat.
Life is dark right now. you have big things planned for the future but its not gonna be easy. You have a boyfriend you dont deserve. You also have a boyfriend you dont want.
You have friends who arent actually your friends. You had a job where you thought you were wanted but nobody actually cared for you.
You left your family, hoping that they would understand just how bad it was, hoping it would be some form of punishment, only to find that they couldnt care less.
Do us all a favour and end it. You’re not worth the air, you never have been.
I missed it last year and I vowed that would NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN.
YES
omg i didnt reblog this last year!
HAHAHAH
Every year on my birthday someone brings this scene up. This is why I love this movie!
Happy birthday future Jazmine, -18 yr old Jaz.
As I write this its the day after my 19th birthday. In the past 48 hours I’ve consumed a lot of alcohol and a lot of wisdom from my peers. All the advice I can say from right now is stop wasting your time dating people, being friends with people, and interacting with people. It just makes for shit.
Happy birthday future Jazmine, -19 yr old Jazelonious
The past 6 months of your life have been a world of hurt and changes. the next six months of your life will have even more. You’ll move out on your own, get a full time job that you have to keep, see beyoncé out of province, possibly see K later in the year… It’s a lot.
You’ve done so much in your 19th year, and you have a lot more to 20th. Good luck on your 21st year of life.
Heppy birthday future Jazmine, -20 year old Jazelonious Prime.
p.s. when you read this a year from now your fat ass better be in las vegas getting drunk and losing all your money.
