Snippets of wisdom (cliché and humour too)

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.

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

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?;)

So cliche

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.

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

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