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Sep 30, 20112,304 notes

September 2011

To all Occupy Wall Street Participants, here is your key to victory → reddit.com

powslayer:

wilwheaton:

From Reddit, where the comments are also worth reading:

Guys, listen. Here’s the deal.

I love you guys with every shred of my hard-left leaning heart. But I think you might be doing something wrong. Here is one thing that can help you.

Tomorrow, wear a polo and khakis

Seriously. polos and khakis. Every time you guys DO finally get some fucking press, it’s a scrawny dude with dreads in a ratty t-shirt. You’re going big here, dress it. Tomorrow, Polo shirt and Khakis.

Why? Because you need to get the right-leaning equivalent of me on your side. I’m 35 right now. I understand where the hippy thing comes from. I get it as well as a guy who’s 35 can. My Counterparts do not. They think you are scummy druggies on welfare and when they see on tv a bunch of people who they think are S.D’s on W, they root for the cops to hit you again.

Speaking of the cops, Who do you think they’ll mace first? SD’s on W, or a guy in khakis and a polo? Seriously, it’s fucking cop camouflage. And if they DO come for you. When people at home see PEOPLE THAT LOOK LIKE THEMgetting abused by police… That’s when shit changes.

Seeing protesters get beat up means nothing because protesters get beat up all the time. Therefore, don’t look like a protester! This connects you to the person watching and opens them to your side!

So for serious. Do it. You’re almost about to tip this thing over. Polos and khakis. Cop Camo + target audience = Shave, shower and polos and khakis.

TL;DR: Polo shirt and Khakis = dress code for nyc protests tomorrow.

Do it.

Edit: Going to bed soon, one more thing before I turn it over to all of you.

Please spread this as much as you can. Professionalism will help push this thing over the edge. You have labor pushing you. National Media is starting to wake up to you. You’re almost there. Keep pushing.

Think: Business Casual Friday. Don’t play it up like the Billionaires for healthcare. You’re just a guy, going to work in this big office building here.

Even if you don’t think that you SHOULD be judged on appearances (which I do agree), You have to realize that you ARE. Fight the appearance fight another day. Polos and khakis.

Do it.

fucking send it people

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rosinhabela:

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My name is Kelly Schomburg, I’m the girl with the red hair in these pictures. I was protesting at the Occupy Wall Street march yesterday when I and several other women were sprayed with mace and subsequently arrested. Many have already seen the video, which has been spreading like wildfire over twitter, Facebook, tumblr, and other video feeds, along with hundreds of other photos and videos. This is my recount of what happened.

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Sep 26, 20118,864 notes
#wall street occupation #occupy wall street #nyc #new york city #police #police brutality #protest #peaceful #mace #arrest #women #female #12th street #university pl #5th ave #protestor #nypd
Sep 24, 201150,379 notes
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“Someone Should Start Laughing
I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question:
How are you?
I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question:
What is God?
If you think that the Truth can be known From words,
If you think that the Sun and the Ocean can pass through that tiny opening Called the mouth,
O someone should start laughing!
Someone should start wildly Laughing - Now!”
—Hafiz
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Sep 23, 201118,800 notes
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Scientists Reconstruct Brains’ Visions Into Digital Video In Historic Experiment → gizmodo.com
Sep 23, 201111 notes
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Major Terrorism Drill “Operation Mountain Guardian” In Denver Near Elenin Alignment Dates  → activistpost.com

anti-propaganda:

On Friday September 23, a large scale terrorism drill involving 81 agencies will take place in Denver, Colorado.

The drill, made possible by a FEMA Homeland Security grant, has been dubbed “Operation Mountain Guardian” and will include military personal.

Residents have been warned to expect loud noises and smoke as well as many different emergency and military vehicles.

Operation Mountain Guardian Emergency Exercise (OMG)
Operation Mountain Guardian is a terrorism-based, full-scale emergency exercise scheduled to take place in numerous locations in the Denver metro area on Friday, September 23, 2011.

The exercise will involve first responders from 81 different agencies**, will be conducted at ten separate locations and will include loud noises, simulated weapons, smoke, emergency vehicles and other equipment that will be audible and visible throughout the day.

*******
The exercise has been designed as a learning event for regional first responders to test their capabilities in a scenario that will involve a terrorist-driven catastrophic situation.

Exercise play will occur at the four primary sites and DIA. Catholic Charities and Sports Authority Field at Mile High will participate in an administrative fashion to test student/teacher processing activities.

Sky Ridge Medical Center, Denver Health Medical Center, and University of Colorado Hospital will participate for the purpose of testing medical surge capabilities and communicating within Incident Command.

The fact that most major terror attacks have coincided with “drills” used to confuse and distract first responders not privy to the inside plan has been heavily documented, with the 7/7 attacks in London and 9/11 attacks in New York City being prime examples.

Due to how close this drill is with a documented Elenin alignment date (whether or not you think Elenin will cause destruction or not, the alignment is confirmed by NASA) speculation has run rampant over whether or not this drill will either go live to distract from the 27th or be used to plan for the disaster that will be caused on that day.’

Sep 23, 201111 notes
#denver #colorado #terrorism #drill #fema #homeland #security #operation #mountain #guardian #terror #attack #false #flag #elenin #comet #nasa
Speed-of-light experiments give baffling result at Cern → bbc.co.uk

anti-propaganda:

Puzzling results from Cern, home of the LHC, have confounded physicists - because it appears subatomic particles have exceeded the speed of light.

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On Sept 23, Friday Red Cosmic Skywalker is THE WORLDWIDE DIDGERIDOO MEDITATION (Sunset).“Four times a year people all over the world take part in this didgeridoo sound healing meditation wherever they are, on the equinoxes and solstices at local sunset times. It is like a wave of healing sound following the sunset around the globe four times a year…Everyone is invited to participate. You do not need to be able to play a didgeridoo at all. You can just drum or play flute or guitar or any other musical instrument. Or you can sing or chant or hum. Or you can simply listen to didgeridoo or other music. Or you can do any combination of these…” Learn more at: http://www.didjshop.com/shop1/didgeridoo_meditation.html

Sep 22, 2011
Sep 22, 2011245,956 notes

thinksquad:

Justice is the righting of wrongs. This is, however, not what happens today. People think justice is another word for revenge, a way to get back at people who have wronged them.

Justice is about repairing damage, revenge is about causing more damage.

How they came to mean the same thing is beyond me. What I do know is that you cannot right a wrong with a wrong. It is not justice, and it is not justifiable.


-Anarchei

Sep 22, 2011159 notes
#Justice
“Ballistics evidence used to convict Davis has since been debunked. Another witness has since emerged as a plausible suspect in the murder. Three jurors on the case now say that if they knew then what they know now, they would not have voted to convict. Davis was quite possibly innocent, but that was hardly the point. As expressed by the popular Twitter hash-tag, the problem was quite simply that there was #TooMuchDoubt.” —The state of Georgia executed Troy Davis at 11:08 p.m. A few quick thoughts on how it happened, why it matters, and where we go from here. (via motherjones)
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Wilcock Imminent Disclosure Updates(will continue to be updated at bottom of article.) → divinecosmos.com

UPDATE MONDAY 9/19: FULFORD SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT There is a lot of new information in Fulford’s latest entry at benjaminfulford.net. I will just share a short excerpt that is most relevant to issues we’ve already been discussing here: 
http://benjaminfulford.net/2011/09/19/obama-authorizes-stationing-of-japanese-troops-on-us-soil/
 Meanwhile, 87 nations have now agreed to participate in the launch of the new financial system, according to three highly placed White Dragon agents. In addition, both the US and Russian military and law enforcement apparati have agreed to support the new financial system, accordingto the agents. There were disinformation reports out that a European financial meeting this last weekend was a follow-up to the Monaco meeting. This is not true. The meeting in Europe was held by members of the old cabal who were trying to somehow keep their fiat currencies from imploding. Any serious financial journalist or expert though, must have been appalled by US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner telling the Europeans to “increase leverage,” in order to solve their economic crisis. This is like telling an underwater gambling addict to start doubling his bets. The fact of the matter is the Europeans know the Greeks and other Mediterranean countries were mooching off their hard working Northern cousins and they must now stop it. A new Mediterranean currency is what they really need. However, there have been serious developments in the move towards a new financial system. Soon all financial trading programs or “platforms” will the shut down for an indeterminate period of time. The aim of this shut-down is to totally clean out and revamp the system. The amount of time needed to clean up the mess is not known. The tentative date for this shut down has been set at November 11, 2011 (2011/11/11) but as with many dates that have come and gone, the financial cabal will do everything in its power to prevent that from happening. [END FULFORD EXCERPT] 
A WORD ON FORGIVENESS
 A small percentage of commenters on this article have expressed such massive hatred and distrust of anyone in government or military that they feel they are witnessing some sort of insidious plot to fool everyone yet again. No forgiveness. No mercy. They’re all demons, demons, demons. With all due respect, this is genocidal thinking. We all have to live here on this planet. Together. We need to work this out. If we demonize people as “reptilian shapeshifters”, then we’re just repeating the same old patterns. Historically, every time we’ve come in contact with a new and different culture, we are told they are horrific monsters who must be destroyed. Meditate on that for a bit and you will immediately recall many different examples. 
PRECIOUS BEYOND MEASURE
 Each human life is precious beyond measure. The people in these occult groups have grown up in a culture of total abuse. It is abuse on a level you cannot even imagine. If a regular adult ran through a typical “training session” they would literally die of a heart attack or stroke from fear. If you try to escape, your own “family” will torture or kill you. The beliefs and philosophies are forced on you whether you like them or not.  THERE WOULD BE A MASS EXODUS
 It is a widely-overlooked fact that the most significant Illuminati whistleblower ever to come forward, Svali, said there would be a mass exodus out of this group if / when people knew they could escape. I will give you a link to all of her writings, which were originally on suite101.com, got taken down, and have now been restored. I must warn you, however, that this material is extremely disturbing. You cannot go back to your former life after you do this. Reading this rocked my world, and I had to move through a serious grief process that required my full attention for several weeks. There are very graphic descriptions of abuse. Suffice it to say that there is no limit to the degree of malevolence that has been thought of and enacted upon these people by their own “family”. If you do decide to read it, I recommend starting at the bottom, doing only a little at a time and balancing it with positive, uplifting spiritual material of your own choosing:
http://www.suite101.com/articles.cfm/ritual_abuse
  THINK ABOUT IT
 What most people in these negative groups don’t realize is that love is a much, much tougher and more difficult discipline than the left-handed path. We are going to have literally hundreds of thousands, if not millions of very heavily traumatized people who will need extensive therapy, rehabilitation and compassion in order to re-integrate themselves after being freed from an unimaginable prison of abuse. Granted — there will be those who will still want to harm others. We have a justice system for people who commit crimes and it will be used. Extensively. However, I will be at the front of the line for those who advocate compassion and forgiveness for people who were born into a system that tortured them in unimaginable ways, and gave them not even a shred of hope to ever escape. Svali reveals that the main incentive to advance in this group is that as you reach higher levels, you are no longer required to hurt as many people, and fewer people are permitted to hurt you. There is a massive youth movement within this group to use what they have to help humanity, rather than enslave it. Truthfully, once the older members are either arrested or die out, it’s a completely new game. I intend to help them change if I am invited to. I ask you to seriously step back and consider what you define as “love”, and whether you do really understand what we mean when we say we are all One.

UPDATE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2011
 Nineteen years ago today, I stopped using all intoxicating substances… and never went back. I don’t miss it. In much the same way, it would appear that a worldwide “addiction” is finally breaking — and we won’t miss it either. The negative elite have hit bottom. What happens from here is anyone’s guess, but let us all hope for a quick surrender so that more lives are not lost. Unfortunately, their tendency has been NOT to surrender, and we cannot expect they will. Additional destruction may be required. There is evidence suggesting they are still planning further moves, as I will discuss. 
IT WAS NOT A NUCLEAR ATTACK
 I am happy to report that the highest-level intelligence sources we have on this subject have now informed us that NO radioactivity was detected in either of the destroyed areas. What they DID find is now considered a baffling mystery. I acknowledge in advance that this seems difficult to believe. They have now concluded that both bases were destroyed by an instantaneous twenty-fold increase in air pressure. Let me spell it out for you in plain terms. There is nothing left in either of these areas. Everything in them has been crushed to tiny particles of rubble. There is no point in ever trying to access them again or redevelop. The damage is total. No one knows how such an event is even possible. There is no record of any attack like this ever having been done before within the insider world. Fulford’s sources seem very clear about who did this and why it was done. Nonetheless, this attack does not resemble any known terrestrial technology — regardless of how classified it may be.  THIS MAY HAVE BEEN ET-ASSISTED

Therefore, this may have been an ET-assisted attack — consistent with the China’s October Surprise series I’ve been documenting here. It may be that a massive quantity of air was “portaled” into either base. Portal technology does exist, but it certainly has never before been used like this — and it’s not even clear how it could be done. It is also possible that some unknown technology was used to expand the size of the air molecules within the bases by a factor of twenty. Russian “scalar” technology can make things get much hotter or much colder, and can create destructive impulses, but there is no record of anything like this ever having been achieved.  PERSONNEL MAY HAVE BEEN SPARED

If ETs were responsible, and used advanced portal technology, it may also be that at least some, if not all of the personnel in these facilities were moved to a safe area before the attack was conducted. If this is the case, none of them have been able to or allowed to make contact as of yet. 
VERY SIGNIFICANT DREAMS COMING IN 
 I had lamented yesterday that the full scenario of how this 2012 shift will happen is still not clear. This morning, one of our staff had a very intense dream. In this dream, the Roman Empire was still around, and had not ended. (This staff person had not read the whole article and was not aware of Fulford saying that the “Illuminati” is just a continuation of the Roman Empire.) In this dream, some people had now achieved an Ascended state — and were putting these folks on trial. This very same morning, I had a highly unusual dream where a spiritual healer worked on my head, and as he did so, an “iris” opened up on the top of my head. It looked like an advanced extraterrestrial device. As the iris opened, brilliant white light burst out. I felt a very powerful electrical sensation that went about three inches into my head, and I also had a unique experience of every vertebrae in my neck getting a spontaneous chiropractic realignment. 
THIS MAY BE HOW IT HAPPENS
 The SFI book does give a variety of compelling data points suggesting people will be able to Ascend into the next level of human evolution while here on earth. However, these dreams seem to be hinting that this process could occur while others are still here in their former human forms. It is interesting that I asked for clarification and this was the answer!  

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Universoul Mind: Consciousness → universoul.tumblr.com

universoul:

My experience is, that there is but a single consciousness, a single spirit, which is (in) everything.

This spirit is basically fractal which means that every single part of it, to the tiniest bit is a scaled copy of the original whole. Every single little bit-of-a-bit, every atom, every quark, every quantum, every part of it IS this consciousness. Possessing each aspect of it. Separated from all other parts of it, only by it’s existence in time. 

There is but one moment. Time is experienced only by every bit’s existence relative to the other bits.

You could also say, there is but one being. God, if you wish, moving at infinite speed relative to it’s original initial moment of self-experience, seperated from it’s initial existence only by it’s relative distance from that initial moment of self-experience. Creating, as it were, seperate copies of itself merely by re-experiencing itself anew each single moment. Experiencing itself as being apart from itself by it’s constant re-creation in a position a split moment away from it’s initial position.

Another way of putting it: There was, in the first moment of existence of consciousness a realization that ‘it’ existed. To reflect on it’s existence, to experience itself as being other than itself, it created a copy of itself, allowing it to experience itself as a seperate being. This process repeated itself at an increasing speed, thereby creating a distance from the self. Creating, as it were, the Universe by, splitting itself into ever decreasing tiny parts of itself, still possessing every aspect of itself, it’s consciousness.

Now imagine an infinite amount of these beings, these ‘units of consciousness’, these ‘particles’ as it were, being sent out into the ever growing Universe, ever expanding space in which these units multiply infinitely, distancing themselves from the original ‘consciousness’, until each seprate infinitely tiny part is so far distanced from the initial consciousness, so tiny, that it’s existence seems totally unconnected to this initial moment of consciousness, just instances of awareness so minute that no idea of having existed as anything is left. Just this infinitely tiny ‘coming into conscious existence’ and splitting itself again. Clusters of these tiny consciousnesses together ‘remember’ more of the basic one-ness by forming a tiny ‘body’, a slightly bigger fractal piece of this whole. Creating matter, by re-grouping, by forming greater parts which together again form greater parts, etc. Sent out initially, but returning eventually, as these ‘particles ’ are attracted to each other, returning to the ‘source’ merely by uniting, slowing the process of expanding, recreating a tiny semblance of the unity which initially existed. As this process is just one moment, there is actually no break of unity as such. Merely the idea of separateness. As these units of consciousness are just reinvented, re-experienced moments of the experience of coming into existence. Bits of ‘Spirit’, of ‘consciousness’, attracted to each other, creating energy, creating patterns of energy, creating matter, creating elements and atoms, planets, cells, plants, animals, all inhabited by these bits of consciousness, possessing a self, connected to everything by their basic oneness in design and consciousness.

ALL clusters of this consciousness, ALL re-groupings of this energy: waves, patterns, particles, spirits, beings, and fields are merely temporal aspects of this initial conscious being; not one of them different from the other. Not one of them higher, or lower, except in relative size and position. All is god, all is consciousness. All beings, entities, angels, demons, gods are divine and eternal aspects of conscious experience of Self. Love brings them together to form a greater unit, fear breaks them apart into separate entities. This ‘being-ness’ that we as humans experience is merely a symbol for our idea of a separate identity. We are all consciousness creating itself by acknowledging itself.

I can’t see any ‘hierarchy’ in this. Therefore no need for worship. We honor this Unity by living Love. I Love all of you for being me. —Dervish (天龍)

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Sep 19, 2011
Every Black Hole May Hold a Hidden Universe → newscientist.com

violent-buddhist:

We could be living inside a black hole. This head-spinning idea is one cosmologist’s conclusion based on a modification of Einstein’s equations of general relativity that changes our picture of what happens at the core of a black hole.

In an analysis of the motion of particles entering a black hole, published in March, Nikodem Poplawski of Indiana University in Bloomington showed that inside each black hole there could exist another universe (Physics Letters B, DOI: 10.1016/j.physletb.2010.03.029). “Maybe the huge black holes at the centre of the Milky Way and other galaxies are bridges to different universes,” Poplawski says. If that is correct - and it’s a big “if” - there is nothing to rule out our universe itself being inside a black hole.

In Einstein’s general relativity (GR), the insides of black holes are “singularities” - regions where the density of matter reaches infinity. Whether the singularity is an actual point of infinite density or just a mathematical inadequacy of GR is unclear, as the equations of GR break down inside black holes. Either way, the modified version of Einstein’s equations used by Poplawski does away with the singularity altogether.

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http://divinecosmos.com/start-here/davids-blog/975-undergroundbases → divinecosmos.com


Sep 18, 2011
Update: Wall Street People's Occupation has begun, Camping plans drawn  → examiner.com

http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2011/09/17/watch-live-50000-gathered-in-nyc-poised-to-clash-with-police-in-the-occupy-wall-street-protests-68661/

Sep 18, 2011
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commondense:

People forget that even doctors have moral scruples and that certain patients’ confessions are hard even for even a doctor to swallow. Yet the patient does not feel himself accepted unless the very worst in him is accepted too. No one can bring this about by mere words; it comes only through reflection, and through the doctor’s attitude towards himself and his own dark side. If the doctor wants to guide another or even accompany him a step of the way, he must feel with that person’s psyche. He never feels it when he passes judgment. Whether he puts his judgments into words or keeps them to himself makes not the slightest difference. To take the opposite position and to agree with the patient off-hand is also of no use. Feeling comes only comes through unprejudiced objectivity. This sounds almost like a scientific precept and it could be confused with a purely intellectual abstract attitude of mind. But what I mean is something quite different. It is a human quality, a kind of deep respect for the facts, for the man who suffers from them, and for the riddle of such a man’s life. The truly religious person has this attitude. He knows that God has brought all sorts of strange and inconceivable things to pass and seeks in the most curious ways to enter a man’s heart. He therefore senses in everything the unseen presence of the divine will. This is what I mean by unprejudiced objectivity. It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor, who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption. We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. I am the oppressor of the person I condemn, not his friend and fellow sufferer. I do not in the least need to say that we must never pass judgment when we desire to help and improve, but if the doctor wishes to help a human being, he must be able to accept him as he is. And he can do this in reality only when he has already seen and accepted himself as he is. Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life, it requires the greatest art to be simple, and so acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the test of one’s whole outlook on life. That I feed the beggar, that I forgive in insult, that I love my enemy in the name of Christ, all these are undoubtedly great virtues. What I do unto the least of my brethren, that I do unto Christ. But what if I discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most impudent of all offenders, the very fiend himself, that these are within me. And that I myself stand in need of the arms of my own kindness, that I myself am the enemy must be loved what then? Then as a rule„ the whole truth of Christianity is reversed, there is no more long talk of love and long suffering, we say to the brother within us, “Raka!” and condemn and rage against ourselves. We hide him from the world, we deny ever having met this least among the lowly in ourselves, and had it been God himself who drear near to us in this despicable form, we should have denied him a thousand times before a single cock had crowed.

—Carl Jung, Lecture delivered to a clergy in Switzerland

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Sep 12, 2011
Potentially habitable "Super-Earth" is among 50 newly discovered exoplanets → space.com

weareallstarstuff:

More than 50 new alien planets — including one so-called super-Earth that could potentially support life — have been discovered by an exoplanet-hunting telescope from the European Southern Observatory (ESO).

The newfound haul of alien planets includes 16 super-Earths, which are potentially rocky worlds that are more massive than our planet. One in particular - called HD 85512 b - has captured astronomers’ attention because it orbits at the edge of its star’s habitable zone, suggesting conditions could be ripe to support life.

Sep 12, 2011119 notes
#Exoplanet #Astronomy #Space Exploration #HD 85512 b
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Hospital Patients Can Now Choose Their Own Visitors

stfuconservatives:

dammitjean:

usagov:

Patients in Medicare- and Medicaid-participating hospitals now have the right to choose their own visitors during a hospital stay, regardless of whether or not the visitors are family members.

According to new guidance from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, hospitals can’t discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.

Patients will also be allowed to name a person of their choice, including a same-sex partner, to make medical decisions on their behalf if they are medically unable to do so.

The new guidance updates the Conditions of Participation, which are standards that apply to all Medicare- and Medicaid-participating hospitals, critical access hospitals, and patients in those hospitals even if they aren’t on Medicaid or Medicare.

Hospitals will need to have written policies that explain visitation rights, as well as clear guidance on when hospitals may restrict access based on reasonable clinical needs.

Learn more about the new visitation rights guidance.

This is far too sensible. It’ll never work.

Please please please go through. This would benefit same-sex couples as well as people in long-term relationships who are not married (and/or choose not to be).

ETA: It also just make sense in general. Why is it that only immediate family can visit? I live pretty far away from most of my family; I’d want to have close friends visit me if I were in the hospital with a serious condition.

Sep 12, 2011447 notes
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