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12 Dozen Places To Educate Yourself Online At No Cost
“All education is self-education. Period.“
It doesn’t matter if you’re sitting in a college classroom or a coffee shop. We don’t learn anything we don’t want to learn.
Those people who take the time and initiative to pursue knowledge on their own are the only ones who earn a real education in this world. Take a look at any widely acclaimed scholar, entrepreneur or historical figure you can think of.
Formal education or not, you’ll find that he or she is a product of continuous self-education.
If you’re interested in learning something new, this article is for you. Broken down by subject and/or category, here are several top-notch self-education resources I have bookmarked online over the past few years.
Note that some of the sources overlap between various subjects of education. Therefore, each has been placed under a specific subject based on the majority focus of the source’s content.
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the whole “old testament is the wrathful god!!!! new testament is the loving god!!!” thing christians do is so wild to me because like…..christianity introduced the concept of eternal damnation.
and if anything says “unhinged and in need of a severe chill out session and also a reality check,” it’s the entire concept of being tormented in hell for the rest of time.
Once, a rich man lost all that he had. To support his family, he became a day laborer, working hard from dawn until dusk. One day, Elijah appeared to him disguised as an Arab and told him that he was destined to be blessed with a gift of seven prosperous years. “Do you want them now or at the end of your life?” Elijah asked him. “I will ask my wife for advice,” the man replied. … “Ask for them now,” his wife said, “for if we ask for them at the end of our lives, we will know that we have but seven years to live.” … That day, his children uncovered a chest of gold coins while they were digging in their yard. “Let us use this gift wisely,” advised his wife. And so they shared their good fortune generously with those less fortunate. At the end of seven years, Elijah returned to take back his gift. … [The man’s wife advised], “Tell him that if he can find another couple who have used such a gift more wisely than we have, he can have his treasure back.” And though Elijah traveled from one end of the earth to the other, he failed to find two more generous people. And so he never reclaimed his gift, and the couple lived to a ripe old age, opening their hands to all in need until the day they died.
Midrash Zuta Ruth 4:11 (via yidquotes)
Hey. It’s Pride Month!
Over the next 30 days, we are actively encouraging you to share your LGBTQ+ pride with all of Tumblr. You deserve to be proud of who you are 365 days a year, but these next 30 days, we’re going all out. There’s no wrong way to do it. Upload an illustration. Write a poem. Make a GIF. Take a selfie and slap a Pride sticker on it. Maybe send a sticker to a friend. These precious babies are in your app right now:
Do one thing, do 100 things—whatever feels right. Just tag it with #TumblrPride so other people can find it. And, hey, if you can’t do any of these things, know that we still support you. You have every reason to feel proud this month, even if you aren’t ready to show it. <3
We’ll also be signal boosting other influential LGBTQ+ voices all month long. We’ve secured some really amazing people for Answer Time and Issue Time:
6/23—Gavin Grimm, 17 year old activist fighting for the equality of transgender students, held on Action (@action).
6/29—Becca McCharen, queer fashion designer and founder of fashion label Chromat (@chromat).
6/30—Trans Rights & Community, focusing on urgent issues that affect trans people, like violence, access to health care, and unemployment, held on Action (@action).
Have a safe and beautiful Pride Month, Tumblr.
Man begins in dust and ends in dust"— meanwhile it’s good to drink some vodka.
Yiddish proverb (via yidquotes)
Shagged a soldier, already? Get intimate with an immigrant!
Amen.
31 days of Mental Health Month have come and just about gone. Tumblr, thank you for sharing your stories. Thank you for reading the stories of your peers. Without you—all of you—Post it Forward would not be the beautiful, caring community it is today.
Though we reblogged a lot of the art that was created this month, we wanted to end on a particular high note and highlight just a few more pieces in a special post.
There was no shortage of inspo:
Some of it was simple, but just as helpful and nice to look at:
We’re proud to showcase some valid as heck pets:
One person, Fatin (@nfzsketchbook), even made a zine about what it’s like to focus on self-care while battling a mental illness:
You can check out her full post—and more pages from her zine—here.
Mental Health Month may have been limited to, well, May, but it doesn’t mean our efforts stop in June. Post it Forward is always here as your hub for sharing stories and finding a support system with others who might be going through the same things you are. So keep sharing if you can, keep reading, and keep up all of the amazing work we’ve seen so far. And please always remember, there are resources out there if things ever get too hard. <3
Take care of yourself, Tumblr. You deserve it.
The hardest things for human being to do is to know themselves and to change themselves.
Alfred Adler (via fyp-psychology)
Representative Carrie Meek, 1980
From the Florida Memory, with the following caption: Representative Carrie Meek’s shirt reads: “A women’s place is in the House and the Senate.” Meek wore this prophetic T-shirt in the Florida House chamber in 1980, where she served from 1978 to 1983. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman elected to the Florida Senate. Meek later served in the United States Congress (1992-2001). Prior to her career in politics, she taught at Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach and Florida A&M University in Tallahassee.
A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.
Zen Shin Talks (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
We are all equal in the voting booth - follow me on instagram for more
A married couple went to the hospital to have their baby delivered. Upon their arrival, the doctor said he had invented a new machine that would transfer a portion of the mother's labor pain to the baby's father. He asked if they were willing to try it out. They were both very much in favor of it. The doctor set the pain transfer to 10% for starters, explaining that even 10% was probably more pain than the father had ever experienced before. However, as the labor progressed, the husband felt fine and asked the doctor to go ahead and kick it up a notch. The doctor then adjusted the machine to 20% pain transfer. The husband was still feeling fine. The doctor checked the husband's blood pressure and was amazed at how well he was doing. At this point, they decided to try for 50%. The husband continued to feel quite well. Since the pain transfer was obviously helping out the wife considerably, the husband encouraged the doctor to transfer ALL the pain to him. The wife delivered a healthy baby with virtually no pain. She and her husband were ecstatic. When they got home, the mailman was dead on the porch.
OH MY GOD I HAVE BEEN READING THIS FOR MONTHS NOW I GET IT
Not Cheesin
Everyone loves someone who has had an abortion!
![School Vs. Work [Via @anemonelost]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/74d147ca1168fdb083e2e45e430a1402/tumblr_oqtucnpyGK1s04h2ho1_500.png)
School vs. Work [Via @anemonelost]
「さて、どうしたものか」
Aishwarya Rai, The Mistress of Spices, 2005.
Share with us what you wish people knew about CF, and we can help spread the awareness.
#justsaying
Roger Waters of Pink Floyd began his American tour with this
~Just a reminder~
Stay hydrated, stay safe.
Down the alley
Spring forth