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Quaker peace activists

ICE (Gestapo) rounding up human beings

Early Quakers welcomed Native Americans

Quaker Friends, we all deserve to feel safe from harm, no matter where we are. But this week, the Trump administration ramped up immigration raids nationwide, putting families and community members at risk of separation. Download posters to show solidarity with immigrants today.

One simple way we can show solidarity with immigrants is to promote messages of love, dignity, and welcome for all. To help do that, we have new posters ready to use. Take them to protests, vigils, and other events and display them at home, school, workplace, congregation, and other spaces. Download the posters.

GAZA: Help Palestinians return home to Rafah

(Kerri Kennedy, everyaction.com) Just days after the ceasefire deal, many displaced Palestinians began returning to their homes. Last week, our team in Gaza entered the city of Rafah, determined to help people make the difficult trek.

To assist, AFSC (American Friends Service Committee) provided support to a private company in removing rubble. Now, some streets that were blocked have been reopened. Watch the video.

TAKE ACTION by telling Congress: Protect our planet, not corporate profits! Pres. Trump has issued executive orders that reverse progress to address climate change. Now Congress is considering more policies that will enrich fossil fuel companies at the expense of our air, land, and water. Instead of sacrificing our environment for the benefit of corporations, the U.S. must invest in clean energy and move away from fossil fuels. Join AFSC in calling on Congress to prioritize the health of our people and the planet.

AFSC STATEMENT: We must oppose Trump's efforts to silence and criminalize activists. Earlier this week, the Trump administration issued an executive order attempting to criminalize and silence people protesting Israel’s genocide in Gaza, the West Bank, and Palestine.

The order calls for the deportation of American students involved in protests and instructs the U.S. Justice Department to aggressively prosecute pro-Palestinian sympathizers and activists.

As a Quaker organization that has worked for decades to support peace and justice in Palestine and around the world, we strongly oppose this order. Read the statement.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Exposing war profiteers. In this video, AFSC Archivist Don Davis talks about an insidious U.S. weapon used during the U.S. War on Vietnam.

“Bomblets” were filled with steel balls surrounding explosives that were then dropped over vast areas of the Buddhist country of Vietnam, causing extensive civilian deaths. In Vietnam, AFSC staff treated bomblet victims in Quang Ngai. In the U.S., the NARMIC program worked to expose the companies that produce these weapons of war. Watch the video.

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Women sowing our wild oats?

Marsha, what are you doing dressed like that? What if Greg sees you or you see him with Mom?

Wild Oats mag (adults only)

Many of us love the idea, or perhaps casually entertain the notion, that the choices we make in life will somehow not a play a factor down the road. It's inconvenient for us to think about because it might put the brakes on whatever desires we want to act on in the moment. Let's consider the tradeoffs.

I learned the hard way that life, though unfair at times, is a giant investment firm that rewards us according to our actions. This is my take: Whoring around is not ideal. There, I said it. It's not ideal. Bam, deal with it. It should be avoided at all costs.

I'm not thinking what I'm thinking, am I? For mature audiences only (buzzday.info)

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Hi, I'm wholesome Marsha Brady.

I see the lust in your eyes. Want to get freaky? Why sowing your wild oats is a terrible mental, emotional, and physical investment you will regret all the days of your life except maybe the days you're doing it, and don't think the Judge ain't seeing you do it neither because what if he is, then who's going to regret it?

I understand that in our youth, say, between ages 16 and 25 or thereabouts (maybe 13-31 for some) we're at our physical peak, raging with hormones, desiring to have a blast in life before settling and turning ourselves in to start serving a long marriage sentence with family and kids around our mid 20s or early 30s.

Listen, isn't it time to start dating conservative?

I'm not a prude. I'm all for having a blast since our youth is really short and life only offers a one-way ticket to that other thing (nonlife). However, I suggest that whoring around should not be part of the package called a fun life.

Being loose sexually isn't all it's cracked up to be, at least not in the end. All it ever leaves behind is -- well, sure, along with some great memories -- is regret and feeling dirty. Yeah, sure, it feels great in the moment while doing what the body desires, but when its all said and done, we're left holding the short end of the stick. Hear me out.

Maybe we never catch an STI that harms us physically, but mentally and emotionally a promiscuous lifestyle carries a heavy price, a boatload of baggage like heartbreak, infidelity (cheating), distrust, and a lack of intimacy.

Sensitives should think twice about carnal fun.

Once we finish sowing our wild oats and decide it's time for a sweet harvest, I'm saying we will not be reaping oatmilk or drinking the cream of the crop. We will mostly likely be forced to settle for the bottom of the barrel -- rejects, washed up single moms who no one really desires for marriage or a serious relationship as they once did when they were in their prime.

What could be worse than a man in his 40s or 50s with a beer gut who looks like he's carrying twins, balding with a dead-end job? For guys who decide to get a younger woman in her prime to settle down versus a decade or more older, don't think for a second that it's a win just because she's a decade younger. Don't think that she's somehow not from the bottom of the barrel neither.

The cute face she has and the fit body do not play a role in her character, not at all. She won't have a problem being sneaky, blowing a younger stud off behind your back and lying to your face about it with no shame about it at all; not to mention that she deep down desires a physically young looking, fun stud rather than dealing with your E.D. old arse anyways.

Fun now, tears later

Bad tattoo ideas that make it worse

As a self-righteous Christian now, I wish I had had a mentor leading me, teaching me the ways of Lord G and his Word when I was young, in high school or college, so I could be an obedient sheep and not stray or be too black of a sheep murmuring about how everything sucks when we don't get what we want when we want it.

It would have saved me from getting into fun things I had no business getting into like pleasure and relations and drugs and drink and what not.

Like I said in the beginning, our actions are always followed by results, truth and consequences, whether we like it or not. We may not feel the effects right now and right here, in most cases, you know, not all, but most. But believe you me that that vicious dog will catch up to us down the road, years later, and put a mean bite on our rear ends. Eventually it ain't going to be hahaha no more like it once was in the beforetime, the salad days of our youth, when we were having fun.

Conclusion

Don't: Drug-Impaired Driving | NHTSA

The seeds and choices we make and sow or sow and make today will be the harvest of our tomorrows just as surely as the leaf follows the tree, the sun the moon, and the milkshake the cow. Make no mistake. We will bear it all alone or with our spouse, or maybe our friends, and of course our family and companions, and maybe even our workmates and possibly strangers.

Drug-Impaired Driving | NHTSA

We're solely responsible for our life, in addition to all the people around influencing us. In the end, it pays to live and do right by others and by ourselves and not live a sexually loose lifestyle. Not to be too heavy, but take it from me because I partied like The Dickens and had a good old time and am now miserable every day full of regret and shame and punishment by the Judge and forced to write moralizing diatribes to save others from the great heck hole that awaits anyone who dares to even dream of thinking of beginning to ponder doing anything bad. Don't be bad.

Or don't say I didn't tell you so. I could get all preachy and find some Bible quotes that don't really relate directly but you know you shouldn't be doing nothing your granny wouldn't do because they knew how to live back in the good old days unlike now when everything's all loosey goosey and who knows what's going to happen. Take heed, folks, you heard it from me. Word to the wise, guys, don't pee it all away or, alack and alas, the grime reefer awaits with his hand on a jay puffing away like there's no tomorrow and you'll be singing that hippie anthem "Hey hey live for today, sha la la la..." More

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Heavy metal vs. mental illness (video)

Heavy metal or mental illness?

You call yourself a meditator with that racket?

(Wyatt's Metal) It's 2025, and there is one kind of music that is not going away. Rather than fading, it spreads. Why? The fanbase. Misfits like metal? Mental patients are moved? Animals like the beat and melody of music? Let's take a deep dive into the effects heavy metal (with all its genres like death metal, symphonic metal, extreme metal, speed metal, black metal, etc.) music can have on mental health.

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Science of feelings: date gives the ick

"Ugh, eww, and ick! I'm out. H to the NO!" women used to say. But ick is everywhere now.

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Did your date give you 'the ick'? Here's the science behind the feeling

The food was top-notch, the atmosphere was cozy, and my date aimed to entertain. I love a good personal story, so I invited him to relate one that he'd referenced in his profile. Good fodder for a first date, I thought.

At one point in the story, as he recounted it, a goat butted its head into an outdoor toilet that he happened to be using, shoving the door open.

That's sick, Barry! Get out!!

"ME-EH-EHH!!" said my date, braying like a goat and thrusting his neck in a reenactment that seemed just a little too accurate.

Something inside me recoiled. Any trace of romantic or sexual interest I had in this man disappeared in that moment.

• The key to flirting? It's not about you (Life Kit)

You could say I got "the ick" — that feeling of disgust when someone you're dating does this one thing that you just can't get past. The term was used on Ally McBeal in the 1990s and then popularized more recently on the reality show Love Island and on Nobody Wants This.

Eews and icks

Ick, he said he listens to heavy metal garbage.

What gives me the ick and what gives you the ick can be worlds apart. From wearing acrylic nails to laughing too loud to using a Borat voice in the middle of a make-out session, a little internet searching will reveal a whole universe of "icks."

There's an idea in psychology that all emotions, from fear to disgust, were evolutionarily advantageous traits. But is the ick really serving us now?

One theory posits that disgust evolved to protect humans from pathogens that make us sick. And that kind of makes intuitive sense: If a piece of fruit or meat smells disgusting, you probably won't want to eat it.

But Professor of Psychology Josh Rottman, who studies disgust at Franklin & Marshall College, says disgust isn't just a biological function; it's a product of our socialization. And that means if you get the ick on a date, it might be time for some self-examination.

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Prof. Rottman spoke with It's Been a Minute host Brittany Luse about the psychology of disgust and the case for pushing past the ick when it comes to choosing a partner. Here are four takeaways from their conversation:

1. Little kids don't feel disgust — and that tells us something

Maybe innocence means not having disgust yet.

"Unlike many emotions that emerge within the first year of life or so, it seems like disgust doesn't really robustly come online until around 5, 6 years of age," Prof. Rottman says. (Think about the toddler who has no qualms about eating a stale Cheerio off the floor.)

If disgust were all about keeping us healthy, he says, researchers would see it in younger children. Instead, kids start experiencing disgust around the same time they start thinking about "cooties" — and who's in the "in" group and "out" group on the playground.

2. Disgust is more gut reaction than conscious thought process

If you're at the movies and you see your date pick her nose before reaching for your hand, you don't think, "This behavior is indicative of poor hygiene and lack of consideration." You just flinch and pull your hand away. This revulsion response happens almost instantly; it comes without any thought, says Prof. Rottman. And he says once you feel disgusted by something, it can be really difficult to overcome that feeling.

As host Luse of It's Been a Minute puts it, it's just "this tiny bit of disgust that you just can't look past or get over."

3. Disgust is related to social norms — often ugly ones

"I think a lot of the specific icks that people have are reflections of social norms that we might want to challenge," says Prof. Rottman.

For instance, actress Millie Bobby Brown has said her "biggest ick" is when a man holds an umbrella, because "there's something about it that just feels really pathetic."

Prof. Rottman says Brown's ick might be an "aversion to the norm violation against masculinity."

And research shows that the consequences of disgust can get a lot worse than getting rejected on a date.

Mr. Prejudice, 1943 (US bigotry)

Prof. Rottman says that disgust may have served an evolutionary purpose in that it could help your reputation to distance yourself from people who your group considered undesirable. "I think disgust has evolved as a way to really embody a lot of xenophobia and bigotry," he says.

"There's a lot of good evidence that genocides and a lot of horrific things that have happened in society have been correlated in some way with disgust," Prof. Rottman says.

Tables turn on racist/implicitly biased Karen

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For example, Nazi propaganda used terms like "parasites" and "lice" to describe Jewish people. Disgust has been leveraged throughout history to create the feeling that certain people are "impure" or less than human.

"The ick is probably a much more minor version of that," Rottman says.

4. It's worth trying to get past the ick

Why can't I find my one and only perfect prince?

Prof. Rottman says that while it's difficult to completely shake a feeling of disgust about another person's particular behavior, getting the ick doesn't have to be a deal breaker.

And, he adds, there's good reason not to give it too much weight in dating: "I think…these feelings of ickiness are not going to be great signals of whether someone's going to be good for us and a good partner."

He shared that he even gets the ick from his partner from time to time — when she walks around barefoot in the garden, developing big calluses on her feet. "I think I can realize that…she's great in so many other ways, that that shouldn't be something to drive me away," Prof. Rottman says. (The professor said he got his wife's permission before sharing this story.)

As host Luse suggested to Prof. Rottman, perhaps "love is persevering against the ick."

So next time you get the ick, consider whether that says more about you than the other person.

And Luse says on It's Been a Minute, maybe "it's a you problem."

The triple plandemic ick at the coffee shop

• This story was adapted from an episode of It's Been a Minute, NPR's podcast about what's going on in culture and why it doesn't happen by accident. Listen to the original episode here.
• Corey Antonio Rose, B.A. Parker, Barton Girdwood, Liam McBain, and Jasmine Romero contributed to this story. Lead photo: munandme/Getty Images/iStockphoto
• Andrea Muraskin, Brittany Luse, Shots: Health News from NPR, Feb. 2, 2025; Ashley Wells, CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

'Blue Eyes in Saffron Robes' (film)

Blue Eyes in Saffron Robes | full documentary | Theravada Buddhism

There are nuns and sisters, too! 

(Dhamma Source) Radharc stumbled upon a group of Americans and Europeans living as Theravada Buddhist monks deep in the rain forest near the borders between the Golden Triangle countries of Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia.

Country: Isan/Siam. Date: 4/10/79. Duration: 26.45 mins. Director: DUNN, Fr. Joe. Support this documentary at: radharc.ie/product/ref-no-0136-blue-eyes-in-saffron-robes. Dhamma Source is a free archive and directory of Buddhist media focused mainly on [Early] Theravada Buddhism [as recorded in the Pali language canon]. May all beings be at peace; may all beings be free from suffering.

• The Buddha really had blue eyes? and Jesus was neither blond, Nordic, nor anything like most paintings of him? Is that why depictions of Muhammad are forbidden?

The Buddha's Blue Eyes - Wisdom Eyes, Meaning, Buddhist Symbols, Images from Nepal

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The Blue-Eyed Buddha

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All blue-eyed people come from a shared common ancestor

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(VERIFY) April 28, 2023: All blue-eyed people share a specific genetic trait (mutation) that leads scientists to believe that all blue-eyed people share an ancestor from 6,000 to 10,000 years ago. Read more: verifythis.com/article/ne...

How'd blond hair, blue eyes spread to Europe?

(Celtic History Decoded) Look at this map that shows the countries with the most people with blue eyes in the world. Now look at this map that shows the countries with the most people with naturally blond hair in the world. As we can see, there is a strong overlap in Scandinavia and the northeast of Europe.

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CHAPTERS

• 0:00 Intro
• 0:36 True Origins of Blue Eyes
• 2:46 Origins of Blond/Blonde Hair
• 4:21 How Did Blond Hair & Blue Eyes Spread to Europe?
• 5:30 What About the Indo-Europeans? Yamnaya
• 6:56 Bell Beakers
• 7:17 Corded Ware Culture
• 8:18 Vote for Video Topics
• 8:34 Attractiveness Theory
• 9:09 Adaptive Advantage?
• 9:34 Vikings

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Countries like Sweden, Finland, Norway, Estonia, as well as Iceland (which was settled by Nordics known as the Norse), have the highest levels of people with blond hair and blue eyes in the world.

Why is this though, and when did this phenomenon of blond hair and blue eyes first develop, and how did it spread to Europe? Let’s start by looking at the origins of blue eyes and blond hair.

First up is blue eyes. I often see people on the internet quoting outdated information on the origin of blue eyes. This is because the initial research came from a team from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2008 who identified the genes involved in blue eye color developing in humans. #blueyes #blondehair #ancestry

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• The Genetics of Blond Hair | Science | AAAS
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