http://thoughtcatalog.com/janet-bloomfield/2014/08/5-legal-rights-women-have-that-men-dont/

Stages of Deterioration in the Human Body

The Moment Of Death:
1. The heart stops.
2. The skin gets tight and ashen in color.
3. All the muscles relax.
4. The bladder and bowels empty. 
5. The body temperature begins to drop 1 1/2 degrees Fahrenheit per hour.

After 30 minutes:
6. The skin gets purple and waxy.
7. The lips, fingernails, and toenails fade to a pale color.
8. Blood pools at the bottom of the body.
9. The hands and feet turn blue.
10. The eyes sink into the skull.

After 4 hours:
11. Rigor mortis has set in.
12. The purpling of the skin and the pooling of the blood continue.
13. Rigor continues to tighten muscles for another 24 hours or so.

After 12 hours:
14. The body is in full rigor mortis.

After 24 hours:
15. The body is now the temperature of the surrounding environment.
16. In males, the semen dies.
17. The head and neck are now a greenish-blue color.
18. The greenish-blue color spreads to the rest of the body.
19. There is a pervasive smell of rotting meat.

After 3 days:
20. The gas in the body tissues forms large blisters on the skin.
21. The whole body begins to bloat and swell grotesquely.
22. Fluids leak from the mouth, nose, vagina, and rectum.

After 3 weeks:
23. The skin, hair, and nails are so loose they can easily be pulled off the corpse.
24. The skin bursts open on many places on the body.
25. Decomposition will continue until the body is nothing but skelital remains, a process that can take a month or so in hot climates, and two months or more in cold climates.

Through crimson stars and silent stars and tumbling nebulas like oceans set on fire, through empires of glass and civilizations of pure thought and a whole terrible wonderful universe of impossibilities. You see these eyes? They're old eyes. And one thing I can tell you, Alex - monsters are real.

I won't lie, I'm sick and fucking tired of people fishing for excuses to hit children, especially the tired old saw that "Kids don't have any respect for adults these days. I got an ass whooping and I turned out fine!"

You are LITERALLY DEFENDING YOUR RIGHT TO HURT CHILDREN.

So, this is my masterpost about all the studies, articles, videos and the like that show mountains of evidence proving that hitting your child is a STUPID THING TO DO.

The American Academy of Pediatrics and The American Psychological Association oppose striking a child or adolescent for any reason.
(http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/101/4/723.full)

35 developed nations have banned corporal punishment at home.
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/16/us-states-legal-to-hit-kids_n_5829732.html)

Children who were physically punished were more likely to endorse hitting as a means of resolving their conflicts with peers and siblings.
(http://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/04/spanking.aspx)

As 5-year-olds, the children who had been spanked were more likely than the nonspanked to be defiant, demand immediate satisfaction of their wants and needs, become frustrated easily, have temper tantrums and lash out physically against other people or animals.
(http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1983895,00.html)

2- to 4-year-olds who were spanked scored 5 points lower on the IQ test than those not spanked. For children ages 5 to 9, the spanked ones scored on average 2.8 points lower than their unspanked counterparts.
(http://www.livescience.com/7895-children-spanked-iqs.html)

Participants who experienced physical punishment were 59 percent more likely to have alcohol dependence, 41 percent more like to have depression and 24 percent more likely to have panic disorder, compared with those who received no physical punishments.
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/02/spanking-children-linked-to-mental-health-disorders_n_1643422.html)

Injury Prevention & Control : Division of Violence Prevention
(http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/acestudy/)

Violence – a family tradition | Robbyn Peters Bennett | TEDxBellingham
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLMJHdySgE8)

Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason
(http://www.alfiekohn.org/unconditional-parenting-dvd/)

Spanking Kids Can Make Them More Aggressive Later
(https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/Pages/Spanking-Kids-Can-Make-Them-More-Aggressive-Later.aspx)

Spanking Linked to Mental Illness
(https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/Pages/Spanking-Linked-to-Mental-Illness.aspx)

The scientific evidence against spanking, timeouts, and sleep training
(http://qz.com/310622/the-scientific-evidence-against-spanking-timeouts-and-sleep-training/)

How Spanking Harms the Brain
(https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-me-in-we/201202/how-spanking-harms-the-brain)

Ending Corporal Punishment: Why you should never spank a child
(http://mobile.philly.com/blogs/?wss=/philly/blogs/birth-breath-death/&id=257392161)

The Science Of Spanking: What Happens To Spanked Kids When They Grow Up?
(http://www.upworthy.com/the-science-of-spanking-what-happens-to-spanked-kids-when-they-grow-up)

Circle of Security Animation
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wpz8m0BFM8)

Neglect In Childhood Leaves Marks On Brain
(http://www.iflscience.com/brain/neglect-childhood-leaves-marks-brain)

The First Real-Time Study of Parents Spanking Their Kids
(http://healthland.time.com/2011/06/28/would-you-record-yourself-spanking-your-kids/)

How Child Abuse Primes the Brain for Future Mental Illness
(http://healthland.time.com/2012/02/15/how-child-abuse-primes-the-brain-for-future-mental-illness/)

Childhood abuse hurts the brain
(http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/2003/05.22/01-brain.html)

Social Justice for Children: To End Child Abuse and Violence Against Children
(http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/pub/departments/childrensstudies/conference/pdf/Straus_transcription_8_16_12.pdf)

How child abuse and neglect damage the brain
(http://www.snapnetwork.org/psych_effects/how_abuse_andneglect.htm)

Why Spanking Doesn’t Work
(http://healthland.time.com/2012/02/06/why-spanking-doesnt-work/)

Some things hugs can’t fix: Parental warmth does not remove anxiety that follows punishment
(http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/03/150316165949.htm)

Two Universities 50-year Spanking Study over 150k Children: Turns out Spanking is ineffective.
(http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2016/04/27/50-year-study-finds-spanking-doesnt-work/) )https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5xin1GErsVTaE1LQjFRczBBc0E/view)



“RESULTS: Forty-four percent of the mothers reported spanking their children during the week prior to the study and they spanked them an average of 2.1 times that week. The more spanking at the start of the period, the higher the level of ASB 2 years later. The change is unlikely to be owing to the child’s tendency toward ASB or to confounding with demographic characteristics or with parental deficiency in other key aspects of socialization because those variables were statistically controlled. CONCLUSIONS: When parents use corporal punishment to reduce ASB, the long-term effect tends to be the opposite. The findings suggest that if parents replace corporal punishment by nonviolent modes of discipline, it could reduce the risk of ASB among children and reduce the level of violence in American society.”

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** ASB stands for antisocial behavior which is deviant, disobetiant and destructive behaviors - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/9265876/

“ The more children are spanked, the more likely they are to defy their parents and to experience increased anti-social behavior, aggression, mental health problems and cognitive difficulties, according to a new meta-analysis of 50 years of research on spanking by experts at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Michigan.”

- https://news.utexas.edu/2016/04/25/risks-of-harm-from-spanking-confirmed-by-researchers

“The use of physical punishment to discipline children has been linked to a range of mental health problems and is strongly opposed by the American Academy of Pediatrics.”

- https://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/pages/Spanking-Linked-to-Mental-Illness.aspx

"According to research, people who suffered corporal punishment as children are more likely to engage in violence with their adult romantic partners."

- https://spr.confex.com/spr/spr2017/webprogram/Paper25446.html

STOP HURTING CHILDREN.

The power in words is given to them by the people who give them power. Nothing else.

When I die, I want a closed casket funeral.
Halfway through the ceremony, I want them to start playing 'Pop Goes the Weasel' at increasingly louder intervals until everyone is sitting there in horrified, expectant silence, waiting to see if I pop out of the casket.
Because I can.

What is 'Social Justice'?

Justice is a legal concept. Defining it in a legal sense is a simple matter, we need only look at what is written within the body of the law itself and ask “Do the rights, privileges and duties outlined here apply equally to every individual?” The legal definition of justice is straightforward. The idea of “Social Justice” however takes this concept out of its original legal context and attempts to apply it in an area for which it was not designed: society in general. While legal justice is easily defined as the equal application of the law (whatever that law may be) Social Justice is a sort of phantom for which no clear objective definition truly exists. The most dangerous type of idea is a vaguely defined one; for it is never known what may ultimately lie behind it, and in addition to this, it may be adapted and exploited for all sorts of purposes. There is safety in specificity. But while we may not know precisely what Social Justice is, we understand what it seeks to accomplish in principle. Its premise is the notion that there is some species of “injustice” within the private actions of individuals in the civil society that must be rectified by state  laws and policies.

To put it another way, it is about the state regulating morality within the civil society. But the use of the word “morality” (in the phrase “regulating morality”) is extremely unappealing from an aesthetic standpoint. Therefore the word “justice” is borrowed from its legal context and applied metaphorically here to the civil society. The government getting involved in a matter of “justice” sounds far more appropriate than the government getting involved in a matter “morality”. Unfortunately, it is this case a distinction without a difference.

“The world is indeed comic,
but the joke is on mankind.”
–    H.P. Lovecraft

Don't say another Goddamn word. Up until now, I've been polite. If you say anything else - word one - I will kill myself. And when my tainted spirit finds its destination, I will topple the master of that dark place. From my black throne, I will lash together a machine of bone and blood, and fueled by my hatred for you. This fear engine will bore a hole between this world and that one. When it begins, you will hear the sound of children screaming - as though from a great distance. A smoking orb of nothing will grow above your bed, and from it will emerge a thousand starving crows. As I slip through the widening maw in my new form, you will catch only a glimpse of my radiance before you are incinerated. Then as tears of bubbling pitch stream down my face, my dark work will begin. I will open one of my six mouths, and I will sing the song that ends the Earth.

"If I wanted to kill myself I could climb to his ego and jump to his IQ"

"God is a mechanic, and the universe is his machine. We are all but parts in this machine -- not cogs, no, not something as vital as that. If we are lucky, we are paint flecks on a screw holding in the bracket that helps support one end of a cog. And God, like all mechanics, worries only about maintaining his machine. He does not care for the well-being of flecks of paint, nor screws, nor even cogs. When a small, trivial part breaks, he does not mend, tailor, carefully groom and re-forge it. He simply replaces it. He replaces it so the machine might continue to run, with new parts, with new paint and he discards the old and the broken with nary a thought. The machine runs on. Tended by a God who does not care. Not out of cruelty, or spite, but simply because it is not his job. That is God. And these are his angels."

~Robert Brockway

Because I can.

Every piece of me is as old as the universe

‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ teaches children that if you eat too much, you become beautiful.

Questions about hell

1. Why is faith not only important, but perhaps the deciding factor about who winds up in heaven or hell?

Whenever I’m asked what I’d do if I meet Jesus when I die, I say I would then have enough evidence to become a believer. Apparently, though, that would be too late. If a creator god exists, why would she create so many evidence-based humans if she wants us to make faith-based decisions?

2. Why do the last 30 seconds of life matter so much?

If an Adolph Hitler repented on his deathbed for his role in the Holocaust and accepted Jesus, some say he would go to heaven. I think it would be more reasonable (though what’s reason got to do with it?) for a person to be judged on his or her lifetime actions rather than on an end-of-life belief.

3. If we have free will on earth, will we have free will in heaven?

If so, might we sin and go from heaven to hell? If not, will we be heavenly robots? If God can make us sinless in heaven, why didn’t he create us sinless on earth? So many ifs, so few answers.

4. What moral purpose does eternal torture serve?

We want to rehabilitate evildoers with the hope that they will learn from past mistakes. Even in capital punishment cases we try to execute as painlessly as possible. Why would a purportedly all good and compassionate God burn people for eternity?

5. What happens to people who died before Jesus was born — or didn’t hear of Jesus?

If they can still go to heaven, how does Jesus matter? If they are all condemned to hell, how is God merciful?

6. If we want people to go to heaven, shouldn’t we be committing infanticide?

Wouldn’t it be a blessing to baptize newborn babies and then kill them? Or perhaps encourage abortions, since presumably all fetuses go to heaven?

7. How much more deserving is the worst person in heaven than the best person in hell?

Our earthly binary divisions are usually quite arbitrary. People may vote when they are 18 and buy alcohol when they are 21, but they are not permitted to do so the day before. We recognize such rules for what they are — distinctions without a real difference. Not so when it comes to the cutoff between an eternity of bliss and an eternity of torture.

8. How could heaven be a happy place?

Can you be blissfully happy in heaven knowing that some of your loved ones are being tortured in hell? And what do you do for an eternity in heaven without getting bored?

9. Why did God torture his son?

Couldn’t He come up with a less bloodthirsty way to allow us into heaven than by torturing and killing his innocent son to make up for an alleged Original Sin of an alleged first couple? We praise God for an action that we would incarcerate any human for perpetrating. God seems inhumane, but I suppose that’s because God isn’t human.

10. Wouldn’t a loving God who wants us all to go to heaven make it unambiguously clear how to get there?

Christians, let alone those of other faiths and none, disagree about what to believe or do. Faith? Good works? Some believe we were predestined for heaven or hell before birth, and there’s absolutely nothing we can do to change it. Others say we are all given the gift of faith to accept Jesus as savior and thus go to heaven, but that some people refuse the gift. I didn’t refuse a gift I was never given. A gift is different from a belief in a gift.

Curiosity killed the cat

Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought him back.

Blood is thicker than water

The blood of the covenant is thicker that the water of the womb.

Jack of all trades, master of none

Jack of all trades, master of none but still better than a master of one.

Seeed

I am a pentagendered aromantic quadcore demisexual trans-ginger bigendered heteremollusk 4 wheel drive fat positive demi-ethnic tumblrsexual otherfictionkin with multiple headmates (Johnny Depp, Inuyasha, the moon Pluto, and block of quartz with a frowny face carved in it). I also have self diagnosed assburgers, OCD, PTSD, ADHD, HDTV, CBN, CNN, NFL, MSNBC, NBA, and cancer.