Showing posts with label rules. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rules. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Thursday, April 08, 2010
Most people will do almost anything to avoid cognitive dissonance.
Yes, you too.
Rule # 16.
Rule # 16.
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philosophy,
psychology,
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Monday, April 05, 2010
Anything obligatory is rarely worthwhile.
Rule # 15.
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psychology,
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Friday, August 14, 2009
A cardinal mistake is taking your own limits as the limits of the world.
Rule # 14.
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Friday, July 18, 2008
Nothing and no one is anything.
"Is" is a verbal construct bearing no witness to reality.
[For bonus points you can spot the logical fallacy in that last sentence.]
Rule # 13.
[For bonus points you can spot the logical fallacy in that last sentence.]
Rule # 13.
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psychology,
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It is what you think it is. It isn't what you think it is.
Both of these are true. Dualisms aren't.
Rule # 12.
Rule # 12.
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psychology,
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Sunday, July 13, 2008
Never fall in love with your plan.
Rule # 11.
A subset of the - ubiquitous in the Marine Corps - quote "No plan survives initial contact with the enemy." Which Google tells me should actually be:
Regardless. Applies to everything. Plans don't mean anything.
A subset of the - ubiquitous in the Marine Corps - quote "No plan survives initial contact with the enemy." Which Google tells me should actually be:
“Therefore no plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force.”- from Prussian Field Marshall Helmuth von Moltke in the mid-nineteenth century.
Regardless. Applies to everything. Plans don't mean anything.
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philosophy,
psychology,
rules,
thoughts
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Complaining comes from weakness.
Always. Rule # 10.
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psychology,
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Sunday, January 27, 2008
We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.*
[There will, of course, be consequences.]
Rule # 9.
*From Illusions, by Richard Bach.
Rule # 9.
*From Illusions, by Richard Bach.
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philosophy,
psychology,
rules,
thoughts
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Everyone dies alone.*
Rule # 8.
*Stolen from Whedon.
*Stolen from Whedon.
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The world is your rorschach test.
Rule # 7.
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Reality is a multiple choice question.
Rule # 6.
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
It's all relative.
Rule # 5.
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Monday, January 14, 2008
Stop trying to hold on to things that aren't there anymore.
Rule # 4.
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philosophy,
psychology,
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Sunday, January 13, 2008
Your belief systems are how you bullshit yourself into thinking you know what's going on.
Be they political, religious, psychological or philosophical.
Belief systems are all B.S.
Rule # 3.
Belief systems are all B.S.
Rule # 3.
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psychology,
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Saturday, January 12, 2008
Believe nothing... consider everything.
Rule # 2.
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psychology,
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008
You don't screw over the people you claim to care about.
Rule # 1.
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psychology,
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