If Looks Could Kill - Graphic Art & Design

The picture shown is an ancestor of jellyfish, which I’ve always thought were beautiful. I love how they’re blacklight-reactive. This isn’t even the wildest of the bunch, you gotta see the slideshow!

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(Riddle of Epicurus)

If God is willing to prevent evil, but is not able to
Then He is not omnipotent.

If He is able, but not willing
Then He is malevolent.

If He is both able and willing
Then whence cometh evil?

If He is neither able nor willing
Then why call Him God?

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…and on a similar note:

Tantum religio potuit suadere malorum.
(To such heights of evil are men driven by religion.)
—LUCRETIUS, DE RERUM NATURA

“It is, after all, wholly man-made. And it does not have the confidence in its own various preachings even to allow coexistence between different faiths.”

Excerpt from ‘God is Not Great’

The article/book nails numerous fascinating and compelling concepts.

Even if you believe in the Jebus, it’s a great read, for surely you are secure in your beliefs. This would only serve to assist you in delving into it further, perhaps cement them.

I dub thee, “Toofy.”

Much like the “Albino Cave Ren”, this beautiful albino alligator is kept in the dark so that her skin does not burn. Her eyes are beautiful, unreal!

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According to this article, arousal is triggered by the subconscious before the brain decodes the desire. In other words, we are not in control of what turns us on, so much as how we react.

Controlling these areas of the brain are “two basic and distinctively operating pathways - one that promotes sexual enthusiasm, another that inhibits it,” likened to a gas pedal and a brake. Everyone drives differently.

Men are not moved by images outside of their own orientation, while women’s test results revealed their desires to be less exclusive.

I get pissed when people suggest that someone can choose to be gay, heterosexual or otherwise. As this article supports, individuals do not determine their own desires so much as whether they repress or pursue it. So, Nyah! ;p

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On the opposite end, there are those that claim asexuality. Now that’s *fucking wild. *fucking being an adjective, rather than a verb, in this context. >;)

Updates on adventures with my Sphynx cat (who looks more like her Cornish Rex predecessors, since she’s sprouted fur), as it is ongoing. Behold, the ironically nicknamed, “Big Sweetie,” aka Aeon.

• She has her very own bedroom complete with window (shown in photos) because she plays so poorly with others
• A recurrence of butt-streamers, she ate a bookmark tassel, no intestinal blockage, just a stinky brown kite-tail that followed her everywhere she went. ;)
• I can now administer glucose tests to cats and dogs, having first-hand experience, since “voluptuous” Buddha-shaped cats are prone to diabetes.
• Lil’ Queen B hissed and growled at everyone in the vet’s office, including 2 small children. ‘Atta girl!
• Aforementioned behavior is actually good for her, as she’s no longer lunging, attacking and boxing, viciously & at random, since she started anti-anxiety treatment through Buspar.

Note: On animals swallowing objects like cassette tape innards, string, etc. - ’tis not wise to tug on their “streamers”, as linear objects can cause injury or slice through internal organs if still winding its way through the digestive tract.

Further, I don’t understand why she allows me to prick her ear to check her glucose. You would think that something glorious was ensuing, as she purrs and delivers muchas smooches to me all the while. Meanwhile, if anyone else so much as looks at her wrong, she’s ready to kill - growling, hissing and pissing.

Should have known, on seeing the exclamation mark (starts on her head and is completed by the dot on her neck) that she would be fucking fierce. It is so expressive of what goes on in her mind. I just wish I could see what it is, the invisible things that scare her so.

Amorphophallus rivieri

• It emits a corpse-like smell when in bloom, to attract flies for pollination.
• The flower contains both male and female flowers that open at differing durations to avoid self-pollination.
• Varying names for this pungent plant: devil’s tongue, voodoo lily, leopard palm, snake palm. Those are the best names ever.

Georgia O’Keefe &/or Robert Mapplethorpe would have dug this flower. ;)

One must pardon the hickboy editorial tone from the source, it’s the info I’m after.

Isolated and tweaked the photo a bit, to better suit my aesthetics. Everything always looks washed out to me, I LOVE saturation, the intensity of color - the more, the better.