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More aphorisms of your own-

 
 
Reply Fri 3 Dec, 2010 07:05 pm
here's some to get you started:

"Competitiveness is ashamed of honesty"

"a feeling expressed is a feeling freed from"

“If you are afraid of love, then your fear will only ever turn into despair”
 
Joshua Davis
 
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Reply Fri 3 Dec, 2010 07:45 pm
@existential potential,

"For a person whose primary concern is ideas, time will always be more valuable than money."

http://zenphilosophy.org
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Render
 
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Reply Fri 3 Dec, 2010 07:56 pm
@existential potential,
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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HexHammer
 
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Reply Sat 4 Dec, 2010 01:43 am
@existential potential,
existential potential wrote:

here's some to get you started:

"Competitiveness is ashamed of honesty"

"a feeling expressed is a feeling freed from"

“If you are afraid of love, then your fear will only ever turn into despair”
Words of a drunken philosopher makes poor wisdom.

Competetiveness can have honor, but are easily destroyed when medals and money comes to play.

One/we expresses our feelings when we are not shy, desperate or overly emotonal, being in love or angry ..maybe to compliment a posetive or negative situation.

Few are afraid of love, and only mentally ill may have their feelings turn into despair.
existential potential
 
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Reply Sat 4 Dec, 2010 04:51 am
@HexHammer,
I said honesty, not honour, you fool.

"few are afraid of love"- your point?

"and only mentally ill may have their feelings turn into despair"- despair is not a feeling exclusive to "mental illness", anyone can experience despair, regardless of whether they are mentally ill.

can you try to avoid making oafish and uninformed responses please?
HexHammer
 
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Reply Sat 4 Dec, 2010 05:35 am
@existential potential,
existential potential wrote:

I said honesty, not honour, you fool.

"few are afraid of love"- your point?

"and only mentally ill may have their feelings turn into despair"- despair is not a feeling exclusive to "mental illness", anyone can experience despair, regardless of whether they are mentally ill.

can you try to avoid making oafish and uninformed responses please?
You don't have a ******* clue about what I'm saying, please pick up u'r marbles.
existential potential
 
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Reply Sat 4 Dec, 2010 05:51 am
@HexHammer,
Honesty and honour are two different things, but you don't seem to understand this. Honesty is about being truthful and sincere, honour about having respect, or when something is a privilege.

even if your claim that "few are afraid of love" is true, it doesn't undermine what I said, it doesn't refute it at all.

where do you get the idea that despair is something only a "mentally ill" person can experience? this simply isn't true. you might as well be saying "if you ever experience hopelessness, your mentally ill", which obviously isn't true, becuase we all do experience these feelings from time to time.

you right, I don't know what your talking about, because you don't make any sense.

HexHammer
 
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Reply Sat 4 Dec, 2010 06:02 am
@existential potential,
existential potential wrote:

Honesty and honour are two different things, but you don't seem to understand this. Honesty is about being truthful and sincere, honour about having respect, or when something is a privilege.

even if your claim that "few are afraid of love" is true, it doesn't undermine what I said, it doesn't refute it at all.

where do you get the idea that despair is something only a "mentally ill" person can experience? this simply isn't true. you might as well be saying "if you ever experience hopelessness, your mentally ill", which obviously isn't true, becuase we all do experience these feelings from time to time.

you right, I don't know what your talking about, because you don't make any sense.
You have a very narrow and liniar interpetation of the words.

To be honest, one usually must have honor, else be in an immense pressurized situation where oppotunism is the motivating factor.

Mentailly sound people usually doesn't despair because they know despair will do no good, and usually only worsen the situation. Besides mentially sound people will try to find a solution instead of giving into despair.
existential potential
 
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Reply Sat 4 Dec, 2010 06:26 am
@HexHammer,
I never mentioned honour, its was honesty I was talking about, honour at no point comes into this, it was your mistake to bring it up.

despair can be experienced by both "mentally sound" and "mentally ill" people.

I don't want to get into a discussion on this thread, I'd rather people just share their aphorisms, thats the point of this thread.
HexHammer
 
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Reply Sat 4 Dec, 2010 06:32 am
@existential potential,
existential potential wrote:

I never mentioned honour, its was honesty I was talking about, honour at no point comes into this, it was your mistake to bring it up.

despair can be experienced by both "mentally sound" and "mentally ill" people.

I don't want to get into a discussion on this thread, I'd rather people just share their aphorisms, thats the point of this thread.
Nor did I say that you did. Some eat oranges, other squeeze them and drink the juice.
wayne
 
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Reply Mon 6 Dec, 2010 03:02 am
A refridgerator is a good place to keep your meat.
existential potential
 
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Reply Sun 19 Dec, 2010 09:36 am
"Resentful people are at odds with others, as opposed to witty people, in whom others are at odds with them"
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mickalos
 
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Reply Sun 19 Dec, 2010 10:39 am
Anything that can be said with an aphorism isn't worth saying
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Fil Albuquerque
 
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Reply Sun 19 Dec, 2010 10:44 am
@HexHammer,
Quote:
Some eat oranges, other squeeze them and drink the juice.

...that kind of "profound" insight say´s everything about your IQ...
...a dwarf brain in a pretentious mind is just so fun to look at... Mr. Green
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existential potential
 
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Reply Wed 22 Dec, 2010 03:08 pm
"We can only ever act out of character to those whom we know"
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Dasein
 
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Reply Wed 22 Dec, 2010 05:25 pm
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
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Dasein
 
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Reply Wed 22 Dec, 2010 05:31 pm
You can be who you are in a world of machines,
but you can't be a machine and know who you are.
~ William Bales
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djjd62
 
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Reply Wed 22 Dec, 2010 05:32 pm
@wayne,
wayne wrote:

A refridgerator is a good place to keep your meat.


don't let your meat loaf
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JPLosman0711
 
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Reply Thu 23 Dec, 2010 09:30 am
I am a constant state of uncertain certainty.
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JPLosman0711
 
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Reply Thu 23 Dec, 2010 09:40 am
@existential potential,
here's some to get you started:

"Competitiveness is ashamed of honesty"

"a feeling expressed is a feeling freed from"

“If you are afraid of love, then your fear will only ever turn into despair”


Love these!! Especially the first two......so true.
 

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