What have been your best realisations about life in general?

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No one can make you feel bad about yourself without your approval.

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art is everywhere

this one crappy bachelor apartment i lived had an intercom system that didn't work, i made a little display card, that i mounted on foamboard, so it was raised from the wall like a display tag at an art gallery, i then tagged the piece, non-working intercom, plastic and metal on plaster, unknown artist

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There is something immensely positive about screwing up. It teaches us what NOT to do the next time.

A happy person believes that an eight ounce glass with 4 ounces of liquid in it is half full. A miserable person perceives it as half empty.

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@Phoenix32890,

Phoenix32890 wrote:

There is something immensely positive about screwing up. It teaches us what NOT to do the next time.

At the very least it lets us recognize a mistake when we make it again. Smile

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A happy person believes that an eight ounce glass with 4 ounces of liquid in it is half full. A miserable person perceives it as half empty.

There is a third option. My engineer son says believes the glass is twice as big as it has to be. Smile

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@Foxfyre,

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A happy person believes that an eight ounce glass with 4 ounces of liquid in it is half full. A miserable person perceives it as half empty.

There is a third option. My engineer son says believes the glass is twice as big as it has to be.

And I see it as half a glass of water.

My life realization: what is, is.

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@Roberta,

And that, for me, translates into anothe realization:

Sometimes just calling it like it is is the simplest solution. Smile

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When confronted with the half-empty/half-full question, my first reaction is usually to point out that I'm not thirsty.

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@wandeljw,

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I was always somewhat of a "perfectionist".

The period goes INSIDE the quotation marks, wandel.
Laughing

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My best realization?

With very few exceptions, nobody really cares about what I think or do.

Therefore, I don't need to worry about what they think or do, either.

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@Eva,

Eva wrote:

wandeljw wrote:

I was always somewhat of a "perfectionist".

The period goes INSIDE the quotation marks, wandel.

Yup, that's where it goes.

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@Eva,

Eva wrote:

wandeljw wrote:

I was always somewhat of a "perfectionist".

The period goes INSIDE the quotation marks, wandel.

I was never sure one way or the other. Maybe Roberta can explain the rule, Eva.

EDIT: I typed this before Roberta posted. Thanks, Roberta.

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@wandeljw,

Wandel, Commas and periods go inside the quotation marks. Colons go outside.

I know you didn't ask, but I'm gonna throw this in anyway--because I'm incorrigible. If you're footnoting, the superscript number, asterisk, whatever, goes outside a period or comma and inside a semicolon or colon. Did that make your day?

Now your realizations about life are complete.

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@Roberta,

Thanks, Roberta. Important realizations, indeed. Smile

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That the world revolves around what Frank Harris's Sorbonne professor said it revolved around.

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@spendius,

Revolving can be a very important thing. (Would that qualify as a realization?)

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Hmm.
I haven't put any of mine on here yet so i'll start, they are mainly philosophical since I see myself as being in no position to post any social realisations, being so young and all.
Here goes:

Stuff is stuff. There may be a big unifying theory, but it's important not to let a desire for one cloud your perceptions by giving you 'answers,' remain skeptical.

'A man who desires nothing from things but to understand them easily makes peace with his soul.'

'What we cannot speak of we must pass over in silence'
Humans are logocentric.

From JL: 'all understanding is a form of delusion.'

From Spendius: 'See yourself as a project.'

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@The Pentacle Queen,

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Stuff is stuff. There may be a big unifying theory, but it's important not to let a desire for one cloud your perceptions by giving you 'answers,' remain skeptical.

You're in good company with that Queenie. Goethe, Spengler, Gellner for a start.

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@The Pentacle Queen,

hi, my first post here.

my greatest realisations about life:

That unless you believe anything or have Faith in anything you can never come to have Knowledge of anything

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@boy at the window,

Really, boy at the window?
Would you mind unpacking that a bit?
Are you speaking from a religious standpoint?

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@The Pentacle Queen,

What has been my most profound realization?

Earthworms deserve our respect and consideration!

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