Day Dreamings

ENFJ: Surprisingly keeps it pretty private, but they want to make you a part of their social circle ASAP

ESFJ: Makes it pretty obvious by their blushing and flirting

ESFP: Pppssshhh… everyone knows they have a crush

ENFP: they’re a giggly little snowman around their crush

INFJ: writes songs about you

ISFP: quietly admires you from afar and stutters when they talk to you

INTJ: stares intensely in your eyes and tries really hard to be nice

INFP: thinks of “accidents” so they run into you or somehow start a conversation, in which they get you to somehow be comfortable enough to reveal your darkest secret and they love you even more

ISTJ: debates, argues, and tolerates you

ISTP: stares at you from afar and occasionally smirks—probably wants to kiss you

INTP: stalks your online profiles

ISFJ: tries to do little favors for you until you finally catch on

ESTJ: just wants to talk about themselves and see if you like that

ESTP: shows off

ENTP: tells you anything you want to hear to like them back

“Among the Iroquois the fierce and sudden power that is thunder took on human form as Hino, guardian of the sky. In many other places, the spirit of thunder is believed to manifest itself as the Thunderbird, often represented as a huge eagle-like beast. This immense mythical creature, whose wings beat to make thunderclaps and whose eyes and beak generate and flash lightning, was credited with awesome powers of creation and destruction, though primarily associated with the rain that brings fertility.

Worshiped as a creator of new life, the Thunderbird was thought to inhabit craggy mountain peaks, from where it surveyed its vast hunting grounds. The Northwest Coast peoples believed it was among the chief gods of the sky, and large enough to swoop down on the ocean and carry off whales in its talons, flying inland to devour them.

People in that region believed Thunderbird was engaged in a continual battle with the malevolent spirits or serpents of the underworld- clashes which caused nature’s most violent phenomena such as earthquakes, floods, and great storms.

In many Plains cultures, the Thunderbird, which was known to the Lakota as Wakinyan, was regarded as a senior deity, second in rank only to the Great Spirit. There was a strong cult associated with personal experience of meeting him and images of the Thunderbird were frequently painted on shields, weapons, clothing, and tents in order to inspire courage. Anything struck by lightning was said to exert a particular spiritual power- to be avoided or venerated, depending on local tradition.”

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Language and Your Brain

For centuries, researchers have studied the brain to find exactly where mechanisms for producing and interpreting language reside. Theories abound on how humans acquire new languages and how our developing brains learn to process languages.