Don’t You Feel It’s A Daffodil Day.

rest in peace, you brilliant little monkey

A quick search of Stephen Hawking quotes because I wanted to read some of the things he had to teach and some of the words he left behind...

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”

“I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

“We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.”

“My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.”

“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.”

“I have no idea. People who boast about their IQ are losers.”

“People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.”

“We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.”

“Not only does God play dice, but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.”

There are so many things I could say about this

The psychological concept of mindfulness is yet another concept that I just… can’t really apply to myself? I feel like you just have to be allistic for it which is Not Good™, for the majority of anti-stress-therapy is based on it.

Anyone here in the community who made some experiences with mindfulness? If so, how tf were you able to align it with being autistic?

The proper attitude towards life on earth

Révérence | dariach_photo

yep that’s how my brain works

me: i’m going to clean my room! i’m going to take a shower! i will wake up early and take care of myself! brain: u know whats fun? rotting.

I want to live in there!

Ma Quan

Emma Nachtigall = I’m a nightingale!

Nachtigall Emma Garten

Still true

movie recs?

I was going to post a different list, but right now it is only films about Afghanistan and by Afghan filmmakers that matter.

by Afghan (& Iranian) filmmakers:

An Apple from Paradise (2010), dir. Homayun Morowat

Black Kite (2017), dir. Tarique Qayumi

The Black Tulip (2010), dir. Sonia Nassery Cole

Chand metre moka'ab eshgh/A Few Cubic Meters of Love (2014), dir. Jamshid Mahmoudi

Hava, Maryam, Ayesha (2019), dir. Sahraa Karimi

Kabuli Kid (2008), dir. Barmak Akram

Khakestar-o-khak/Earth and Ashes (2004), dir. Atiq Rahimi

Namai ba rahis gomhor/A Letter to the President (2017), dir. Roya Sadat

Opium War (2008), dir. Siddiq Barmak

Osama (2003), dir. Siddiq Barmak

Panj é asr/At Five in the Afternoon (2003), dir. Samira Makhmalbaf

Parwareshghah/The Orphanage (2019), dir. Shahrbanoo Sadat

Safar e Ghandehar/Kandahar (2001), dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Syngué sabour, pierre de patience/The Patience Stone (2012), dir. Atiq Rahimi

Utopia (2015), dir. Hassan Nazer

Wolf and Sheep (2016), dir. Shahrbanoo Sadat

Zolykha's Secret (2006), dir. Horace Shansab

by Western directors:

In This World (2002), dir. Michael Winterbottom

Jirga (2018), dir. Benjamin Gilmour

The Kite Runner (2007), dir. Marc Forster

Mina Walking (2015), dir. Yosef Baraki

Documentaries:

16 Days in Afghanistan (2007), dir. Anwar Hajher

Angels Are Made Of Light (2018), dir. James Longley

Frame by Frame (2015), dir. Alexandria Bombach & Mo Scarpelli

Kabul, City in the Wind (2018), dir. Aboozar Amini

Learning to Skateboard in a Warzone (If You're a Girl) (2019), dir. Carol Dysinger

No Burqas Behind Bars (2012), dir. Maryam Ebrahimi & Nima Sarvestani

The Silhouettes (2020), dir. Afsaneh Salari

Taxi to the Dark Side (2007), dir. Alex Gibney*

A Thousand Girls Like Me (2018), dir. Sahra Mani

What Tomorrow Brings (2015), dir. Beth Murphy

- Sahraa Karimi's account of escaping from Kabul

- The women’s film collective Women Make Movies (WMM) based out of New York is streaming nine films that touch upon the lives of Afghan women from their catalogue for free during the month of August.

*This is the only film that I will include that discusses Western intervention in Afghanistan as it is a powerful critique of the topic; and I have consciously excluded most other documentaries that almost exclusively focus on the experiences of Western military soldiers which do not matter in the slightest.