The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world to People Twitter@sh.itjust.works · 7 months ago"Thought-Terminating Cliches"lemmy.worldimagemessage-square161fedilinkarrow-up11.14Karrow-down122
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minus-squareQueen HawlSera@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up82·7 months agoThought Terminating Cliches can be useful because it is not productive to worry about things over which you have no power.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up45arrow-down1·7 months agoNot YOLO, though, which is often used to stop thinking about the consequences of choosing to do something stupid.
minus-squareTubularTittyFrog@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·7 months agolike if you encounter a bear in the woods. or a man.
minus-squarebionicjoey@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 months agoBut does it shit in the woods? Or is that a different kind of cliche?
minus-squareKillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoif a bear falls in the woods, and nobody is there to witness it, does it make a sound?
minus-squareKillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agothe question of our times.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoIt’s specifically good when you’re ruminating.
Thought Terminating Cliches can be useful because it is not productive to worry about things over which you have no power.
Not YOLO, though, which is often used to stop thinking about the consequences of choosing to do something stupid.
like if you encounter a bear in the woods. or a man.
But does it shit in the woods? Or is that a different kind of cliche?
if a bear falls in the woods, and nobody is there to witness it, does it make a sound?
And does it shit a pope?
the question of our times.
It’s specifically good when you’re ruminating.
That’s fair