Snippets of wisdom (cliché and humour too)

realitykeeper · 26-11-2016 7:34pm #1

Please post your short snippet of wisdom here. Preferably something you have learned from personal experience. To start things off, here is my abreviated contribution:

Think long term and big picture.

paralysed · 26-11-2016 7:39pm

realitykeeper wrote: »

Please post your short snippet of wisdom here. Preferably something you have learned from personal experience. To start things off, here is my abreviated contribution:

Think long term and big picture.

That's not wisdom - that's a cliche, the opposite of which could be argued for just as strongly.

Give me something good, perhaps with an example, and then I'll give you something good.

realitykeeper · 27-11-2016 7:19pm

paralysed wrote: »

That's not wisdom - that's a cliche, the opposite of which could be argued for just as strongly.

Give me something good, perhaps with an example, and then I'll give you something good.

Ok it is a cliche. I have no wisdom to offer. Snippets of wisdom from others welcome.

Joe1919 · 27-11-2016 8:17pm

realitykeeper wrote: »

.... I have no wisdom to offer....

I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.

Socrates in Plato's Apology

Torakx · 28-11-2016 7:57pm

A couple of thoughts..
Not sure if it would be considered wisdom, but it is information I have gained from experience...

On romantic relationships:
If they tell you they are crazy or troublesome, believe them.

If you can't love yourself, you certainly can't love another.

Too many orgasms ruin the long term relationship via lack of oxytocin bonding chemicals.
The male is driven to move on without this connection.

On friendships:
If you don't ever test your friendships, they will test you eventually beyond your limits.

The friendship test; share some great news that raises your social status. Your friends will be happy; your enemies will seethe with a silent/masked rage.

On surviving long term depression:
Learn how your body works in relation to food and liquids. Your body is a complex machine, read/write the manual!!!
Dietary/health needs and exercise will fix 90% of cases. The other 10% is probably from living with too many assholes around you.

Study existential philosophy to create more options and thought patterns, for processing trauma and negative thoughts.

On creating your destiny:
Learn how you function. Where you are weak, where you are strong.
Your destination is often unconsciously chosen to amend the past.
Once you are aware of the past and it's effect on your emotional needs, you can create your own meaning as you please.
Leverage your strengths in the direction of whatever gives you joy and whatever will always have meaning to you.

Pick several destinies and aim beyond all of them at the same time

Be an opportunist.

On giving up addictions:
Most if not all addictions are a result of attachment, either emotionally or chemically(dopamine).
Oxytocin combines with dopamine in the blood and helps relieve addiction to dopamine responses and stimulus.
Therefore, to have a good chance of giving up an addiction to a person, object or substance, try upping your oxytocin.
You get this from viewing kind acts, viewing hugs. Getting hugs and human or animal contact.
Seeing kind acts etc etc
The chemical is also created in the body after eating certain foods.
I've used dark chocolate and cashew nuts to quit tobacco, drugs and short term relationships.

Amerika · 29-11-2016 9:38pm

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke

I introduced this quote to my youngest daughter yesterday while helping her with a homework assignment answering an essay question on whether rebellion was justified since slavery was the law of the land in the early US 1800’s.

paralysed · 30-11-2016 1:14am

Amerika wrote: »

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke

I introduced this quote to my youngest daughter yesterday while helping her with a homework assignment answering an essay question on whether rebellion was justified since slavery was the law of the land in the early US 1800’s.

Did she not notice the gender bias of it?!

paralysed · 30-11-2016 1:17am

Joe1919 wrote: »

Socrates in Plato's Apology

Socrates would need a good hiding from me. Sounds like he had too much time to think about trivial things and play with words.

I do hope he came up with better than that.

jopax · 30-11-2016 8:59am

Loved your post torakx, very funny & true, made me laugh.

Amerika · 30-11-2016 3:08pm

paralysed wrote: »

Did she not notice the gender bias of it?!

No. We have taught our daughters from very early ages that the word ‘man’ in phrases often equates to ‘mankind.’

Peregrinus · 01-12-2016 1:18am

Amerika wrote: »

No. We have taught our daughters from very early ages that the word ‘man’ in phrases often equates to ‘mankind.’

Hopefully you've also taught your daughters that the word "mankind" nearly always equates to "humanity".

As a matter of interest, what do you teach your sons?;)

realitykeeper · 01-12-2016 5:52am

Peregrinus wrote: »

Hopefully you've also taught your daughters that the word "mankind" nearly always equates to "humanity".

As a matter of interest, what do you teach your sons?;)

It is wise to stay on topic Peregrinus. Focus!

paralysed · 01-12-2016 1:49pm

realitykeeper wrote: »

I have no wisdom to offer.

You mean from your whole bloody life, you've nothing to offer? Nothing what so ever, even for the sake of your own thread!?

Good God, people are so vacuous!

Amerika · 01-12-2016 4:15pm

Peregrinus wrote: »

Hopefully you've also taught your daughters that the word "mankind" nearly always equates to "humanity".

As a matter of interest, what do you teach your sons?;)

Humanity is a quality.

Four daughters, no sons. My snippet of wisdom on that fact is... 'Proof there is a God and he's got a wicked sense of humor.'

realitykeeper · 01-12-2016 10:49pm

paralysed wrote: »

You mean from your whole bloody life, you've nothing to offer? Nothing what so ever, even for the sake of your own thread!?

Good God, people are so vacuous!

I think you misunderstand the purpose of the thread. It is to offer wisdom. Anything else is just fluff. We don`t want any fluff paralysed.

So this is another bit of wisdom: Over analysis leads to paralysis.

paralysed · 01-12-2016 11:30pm

realitykeeper wrote: »

So is another bit of wisdom: Over analysis leads to paralysis.

That's sort of what inspired my username!

Torakx · 17-12-2016 1:50pm

So cliche

Black Swan · 17-12-2016 10:40pm

No one is value-free (paraphrased from Max Weber 1922 edition of Economy and Society).

paralysed · 21-12-2016 1:05am

realitykeeper wrote: »

I think you misunderstand the purpose of the thread. It is to offer wisdom.

That doesn't answer my question.

Black Swan · 24-12-2016 7:11am

When it rains, it pours. Fatalistic cliche.

Torakx · 24-12-2016 3:42pm

Black Swan wrote: »

When it rains, it pours. Fatalistic cliche.

I always love how perspective can make all the difference in the world.
Something I would never really have taken to heart without Nietzsche.

And as the first drops of rain in weeks danced across the small pools surface, the little fish seemed to say to it's fellow strandeds "when it rains, it pours".

As a snippet of wisdom; perspective is everything.

Black Swan · 27-12-2016 12:38am

"If (persons) define situations as real, they are real in their consequences” (WI Thomas Theorem 1928). Pertains to interpretations and how people structure their realities, be such realities rational or irrational.

oneilla · 06-01-2017 12:57am

Can't offer quotes but recently I've come across with Ernest Becker -and "terror management theory" - who reckoned that humans were motivated by a fear of death and that culture deals with this problem for without culture humans would be paralysed with their fear of dying.

I've been thinking about it for a long time and fear he's correct.

Plato was probably right by saying "you are what you do" - many people's opening conversation starter is 'what do you do'. http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/coping-ancient-philosophers-tips-on-how-to-keep-your-resolutions-1.2898271

Peregrinus · 06-01-2017 1:38am

oneilla wrote: »

Can't offer quotes but recently I've come across with Ernest Becker -and "terror management theory" - who reckoned that humans were motivated by a fear of death and that culture deals with this problem for without culture humans would be paralysed with their fear of dying.

I've been thinking about it for a long time and fear he's correct.

Why does this cause you to fear?

Black Swan · 19-05-2018 2:01pm

"Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life." (Immanuel Kant)

Fathom · 27-07-2018 3:08am

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted" (Albert Einstein). Also reminds me of Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man.

Black Swan · 20-08-2018 9:22pm

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” (Albert Einstein)

Black Swan · 23-08-2018 7:49am

"Truth isn't truth" (Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump's lawyer, August 2018). :pac: :eek:

Fathom · 24-08-2018 2:39am

Black Swan wrote: »

"Truth isn't truth" (Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump's lawyer, August 2018). :pac: :eek:

Consider the source quoted.

Fathom · 15-09-2018 5:23pm

Jacques Derrida: "To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend."

Brid Hegarty · 26-12-2021 1:04pm

Never leave the living room with the remote control in your hand. Because if you misplace it then when you are looking for it later you will only be looking for it in places within the living room!