Nonsense Quotes

acd said:
I had to Google it lol. Supposedly, it should be understood in reverse. "If you eat your cake then you no longer have it." Or, you can't have it all.
I still think it's stupid.
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Ohhhhh. I feel so dumb right now. I get it. Jesus I'm so blonde.

But still, wtf, what are we gonna do, not eat the cake thats meant to be eaten... just so we will still have it... what, to look at? :tearsofjoy: Tf kinda logic is that? Haha I still hate it too.
 
acd said:
I had to Google it lol. Supposedly, it should be understood in reverse. "If you eat your cake then you no longer have it." Or, you can't have it all.
I still think it's stupid.
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I always understood it as having something and not wanting to use / lose it just yet.. sort of hoarding it.. saving it. But also wanting to consume it... now.

You can't have your cake.. and eat it too.
 
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I used to get an individual cake slice and just keep it in the fridge and not eat it, because I strangely craved it more when there was none in the house than when there was a bit in the fridge. It eventually became known to my wife’s frustration (and occasional theft) as my “Lookin’ on cake.”

And no, you cannot have your lookin’ on cake and eat it too.


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Sloe Djinn said:
I used to get an individual cake slice and just keep it in the fridge and not eat it, because I strangely craved it more when there was none in the house than when there was a bit in the fridge, though I’d never eat it. It eventually became known to my wife’s frustration (and occasional theft) as my “Lookin’ on cake.”

And no, you cannot have your lookin’ on cake and eat it too.
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All quotes that say something like "Without experience, we cannot learn." It's such bullshit.

As if we are passive recipients of experience rather than active participants in the process of learning. As if learn by "accumulating experiences" rather than creatively interpreting all kinds of information that comes out way.
 
Aaron Thyne said:
All quotes that say something like "Without experience, we cannot learn." It's such bullshit.

As if we are passive recipients of experience rather than active participants in the process of learning. As if learn by "accumulating experiences" rather than creatively interpreting all kinds of information that comes out way.
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That's true, but to actually experience something yourself is a lot deeper than reading about it, no?
 
April said:
But still, wtf, what are we gonna do, not eat the cake thats meant to be eaten... just so we will still have it... what, to look at? :tearsofjoy: Tf kinda logic is that? Haha I still hate it too.
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Exactly!
Maybe there are two schools of thought on cake; those who say it should be eaten and those who prefer lookin' lol.
 
acd said:
I agree. That was my impression when I first saw it.

But I could see how it could be used to justify being awful. It depends on the individual's interpretation.
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I always read this and I see it as self justification for "I do what I want." I'm not sure I'm accurate. Usually dumb behavior is how I read it. I think I have more of a problem with dumb behavior than bad behavior. This is starting to become a weird tangent soapbox.

Deleted member 16771 said:
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Ha. First thought too, then I wondered if the translation screwed it up. Then I remembered how I talk and realized it's probably fine. I sometimes start in the middle and work my way to the start and finish of a thought. Stupid Ni.

Point of the thread.
The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small. Woody Allen.

I find this funny because I know too many people in real life that act like this. I thinks it's clever and terrible.
 
Deleted member 16771 said:
I think people are very often enamoured so much with the sources of proverbs and quotes, or their simple fame, that they often regard them as some kind of infallible truisms.

This is problematic because it can serve to entrench both the erroneous thinking of the quote itself as well as a lack of critical thinking more generally.

Are there any quotes that you guys just roll your eyes at when they're posted because you know on some level that it's a trite little spoonful of bullshit? Post them here!


I'll start with this one:
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This sophistry right here is probably a perfect example:

1) It's fucking EINSTEIN
2) Seems rational on the surface

But... it teaches the errors that failure is accountable to method, and that there is a deterministic 1:1 relationship between causes and effects.

Sometimes the probability of obtaining a certain outcome following a certain method is less than 100%. In fact, this is overwhelmingly the case most of the time.

Instead, we might say that 'doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results' is unusually referred to as 'determination' or 'grit'.
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Lol yeah I get what you're saying. Determination or grit is required for some types of outcome and failing is part of the process which is the reason for doing something over and over expecting desired results. In that aspect insanity would be a misnomer. I can see insanity being used for description if such process cannot equal to the outcome of desired result remaining Unacheavable even through repetition and determination. But yet is still attempted on repeat in blind hope with lack of awareness that desired result can not be achieved..
 
I see there is another instance above where my phone corrected to "Wyote" lmao... @Wyote did you hex my phone?! Lolol

*** hmm... I accidentally just edited the post and now its gone lol. Oh well fml***
 
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Sloe Djinn said:
I used to get an individual cake slice and just keep it in the fridge and not eat it, because I strangely craved it more when there was none in the house than when there was a bit in the fridge. It eventually became known to my wife’s frustration (and occasional theft) as my “Lookin’ on cake.”
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My immediate thought when I read this was: hey, this makes a lot of heckin' sense. I should try this!

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I've always liked various Southernisms. Some of them are hilarious. Some of them make no friggin' sense.

“His face looks like 10 miles of dirt road"

um, what?
 
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