The Second Apocalypse
Miscellaneous Chatter => General Misc. => Topic started by: EkyannusIII on May 08, 2013, 03:18:30 pm
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Sinners praise in others the virtues they find least threatening to themselves.
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The fanatic contracts all value into a singular point; because of this he exceeds all men in his pragmatism.
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Sinners praise in others the virtues they find least threatening to themselves.
Indeed, this is why it is most profitable (and flattering) to dispense the label of sinner.
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Callan, I'm going to marry (restaurant term for combine foodstuff of the same type, strangely enough) Epigrafts & Aphallisums with this thread, if that's alright with you (considering you are 100% of the aphorisms in that thread) - it would a move from the Writing subforum on old SA to Misc. here...
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The dirtier you are, the cleaner they'll learn to call you.
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It's easy to give understanding when it doesn't involve giving any resources
*Grinding my teeth about someone I know who, having been burnt in a relationship, seems to be reposting on facebook some crap mens rights pictures. Funny how you can exploit people precisely because they were exploited*
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Two in the pinker, one in the stinker
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+1. Please italicize ;).
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Because I lean, I am more significant - the irony is I have to stop in order to make a significant point!
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Bitterness - It's the catalyst as to why we end up doing or condoning things that, given a better deal in life, we wouldn't have done or condoned.
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I've been thinking up entires for Encyclopaedia Ex Nihilo (http://secondapocalypse.forumer.com/encyclopaedia-ex-nihilo-t1265069.html) and since definitions are aphoristic in nature and cultivating easy metaphors and analogies is an excellent reflex to develop as an aspiring writer I thought to create this thread.
Please, pollute it with all the heuristic expression you can muster :D!
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I'm not sure what you mean?
That said:
It is not indiginity that chaffes and guts - it's when one carries the burden of indignity alone. When indignity becomes community, it becomes so wholey. This is why one aught always buy slaves in pairs.
Speaking of:
Wholey Vs Holy: Determined by whether ones frame eclipses anothers.
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I hope my communication doesn't suffer so much as to cloud such a concise title :(...
Epigraphs & Aphorisms
Graft? Phallus?
Otherwise, metaphors and analogies are linguistic heuristics? Thus, heuristic expression?
Anyhow, regardless, you done right, Callan. I wish I had half the talent for general observation. I've abstained from people-watching most of my life, an altogether noble pursuit for the aspiring writer. EDIT: Grammar le suck. People-watching seems to enhance writing.
Keep 'em coming.
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Just work on your bitterness, Mike! Soon enough you will see in people new things to have a grudge against! lol! Or atleast, have an agenda when looking...
Oh, an accountant near my daughters school has new inspirational sayings on a board outside. The latest is 'Shallow people believe in luck. Strong people believe in cause and effect'
Just thought that'd give a sour chuckle here at SA!
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That's not bad. I like visual public spaces like that, though I often find that in context quotes are even better.
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- Men will describe not just facts but also embeded in their description the way they relate to the fact. Other men will not believe those facts, not because of the fact, but for a feeling of being forced to adopt the other mans gestalt on how he relates to the fact. But they also resist attempting to say the fact in their own words, making a self proprietry out of a willful ignorance. Never mind such dimensions as where the fact might not be the case.
Now say it for yourself...
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Okay, a little long, that one...
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- People often treat AFAICT as A FACT.
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- The phrase "Actually I was just thinking that about you." is rather like I am rubber, you are glue - what bounces off me sticks to you. The reflex to rebound, to not hold onto and consider, is more a reflection ('scuse the pun) of closed mindedness. New ideas bounce off and leaves no impression? Yet the phrase is so effective, even as it absolutely screams it's lack of consideration of the speaker. In the end, the ears of an audience are more rubber than anything.
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- The phrase 'If you'd told me 3 years ago I'd be doing this, I wouldn't have believed you!' shows how adrift we are from our own agendas. Actually no, it doesn't - the lack of this phrase is what shows how far adrift we are from our own agendas. The phrase is a clutching grasp at a return to original intent, and even at that, is more than its absence is.
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- Why attribute yourself as not understanding, when you can say the other person doesn't make much sense?
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- In terms of the social, it's draw to and the structure of the internet, these days if a child called out the emperor is actually naked, he'd get thread banned.
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I'm thinking of rpg.net in regard to this. My god has the moderating there become intellectually dishonest (probably starting from how dealing with all the posters there is wearysome, so they start taking mental shortcuts in moderating. But then they treat the shortcut as if its just correct)
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Lol, fallacies abound. Good show, Callan. I'm working on some but I never feel confident.
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Perhaps think of it as an ornate conversation starter (rather than trying to make something so good it's a conversation ender)?
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- A truely open mind would openly consider it is not open minded. This is indeed stupid and redundant! Precisely why nature keeps trying to press for efficiency and simply have us BE open minded, without reflection on whether we are - and all the permutations of belief that begets. A darwinistic saw against wisdom. And also an explanation of why it seems stupid and redundant - it's how far nature has clawed her way 'in'. Or 'as'.
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- Ignorance of complexity makes for the greatest of complexities.
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Lawyer: The mercenary philosopher.
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If you can taste the salt on your cheek, you are not entirely blind to yourself. But it is only a taste. And only if you cry.
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Poetry is when you have alot to talk about, but not alot to say
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When I was young and foolish, I thought a piece of writing was finished when I could think of nothing else to add. Now I realise it is finished when I can think of nothing else to remove.
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Just about every religion has a rule that approximates to "Don't be a dick". How the rule is actually interpreted by the religion's followers, however, is usually something more like "Hey, you see those guys over there? They're being dicks. You should totally go slaughter them all."
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"Don't be a dick" - a phrase of advice which, after much soul searching and struggle, is spoken by those who have managed to put the bulk of their activities into their own cognitive blindspot. Allowing them to say it with a face straight rather than one with a nagging sense of self applicability.
See also; Keep your friends close and your emotions closer.
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those who have managed to put the bulk of their activities into their own cognitive blindspot
So... that'd be absolutely everybody then? ;)
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
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Their nature means one forgets that there are, and they are, blindspots that are behind other blindspots.
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those who have managed to put the bulk of their activities into their own cognitive blindspot
So... that'd be absolutely everybody then? ;)
All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.
This will go wonderfully as my facebook status. I know someone how says this constantly.
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To the extent that forgiveness resembles indifference, a plethora of judgement systems explode into being.
"Indifferent!? Indifferent!? Who can be indifferent to THAT!!??"
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Whence men leave the world of the emperic and measurable, so to do their aspirations become the very horizon, their desire the earth and other mens difference transgression. Even as they their precious, amidst its machinery, lends no such room for such bloody mindedness.
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Comedians often have a straight man for the contrast. A comedian is a person who tries to be straight man and fails, but is succesful at appearing to have decided to do that.
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Only those who dip their toes into the unknown have felt the chill of ignorance.
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There's something about Katy Perry painting nail polish on an elephants toenail that make me very, very angry
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A man who ponders a beer fridge in a bottleshop is a man who ponders himself
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Highschool was there to give you enough unpleasant encounters that you will work hard latter in life so as to gain some kind of revenge
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When someone tells you to do what you want, there is no way to disobey their orders. You are commanded.