Trite sayings that people think are profound.
 

OK, so as a netizen, a man about town of the world wide web, I encounter daily an absolute torrent of bull****. Much of it seems to come in the form of snippets, quotes, soundbites, excerpts from interviews and the like, usually attributed (often incorrectly, and never with a source), to some luminary figure or someone masquerading as a luminary figure.

This crap gets posted all over forums and Facebook as if its the greatest thing, and usually its either obvious bull**** worded strangely, or, as is more common, its some kind of bull**** personal bias formed into a piece of "life advice" so blatantly self serving that it borders on delusion.

Strangely enough, however, people never think about this at all.

I mean, when you take into account the context or practicality of most of these things they just fall apart. Take this for example: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/au...monroe_3.html/

Marylin Monroe is one of the most common figures i see in this brand of fauxlosophy, but reading through those quotes not one of them really jumps out at me as profound or particularly worldly. They just seem to betray a set of strange personal tensions between desire, and personal stability (or seeming lack thereof).

Am I alone in this? Does anyone else cringe at the sight of yet another shoehorned in piece of cod philosophy being touted? For every one of these I see that makes a good point (Usually the ones attributed to actual academics or scholars) there are six more.(Usually attributed to actors and musicians) that could be torn apart by a reasonably academic twelve year old.

I have a strict policy against forwarding that sort of crap whenever it comes to my inbox. More often I will reply with a link to Snopes or whatever debunks the crap they have sent me and ask politely not to send me any more.

I'm pretty much the same in that respect. Especially because a lot of those things are like, fake resignation letters and whatnot.

I think that people who go around actively putting down other people as pseudo-philosophical or pseudo-intellectual are turds. If I see someone on Facebook quote Marilyn Monroe, I'm going to assume that they simply like the quote, not that they're trying to pass on some arcane bit of profound insight or wisdom.

LOL. Why do I feel like Bernard Marx at a love in?

I'm not going to shoot someone down on Facebook just for posting crap. That's pretty much what it's for. But if they send me the latest drivel in an email along with an obligation to forward it to ten other people then I'm going to politely ask them not to do it again.


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So are you any about the quote or the forwarding request?

That ****ing Bob Marley quote every **** has in their facebook info.

My reaction, dependent on whether the quote is intended as humourous or not, is usually to assume they're being preachy. If the quote is "herpaderpaderp" then obviously its not being psuedo-intellectual, but when its some sort of wierd "motivational statement" except full of logical holes and totally inapplicable to real life, I tend to just assume that they're trying to put it forth as a personal philosophy.

Which quote is that?

"Truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just have to find the ones worth suffering for"

Thats my guess. I see that *EVERYWHERE*.

I've never seen that before.

^Just saw that one this am. It holds some value, but lofty thoughts are just that. I friggin hate the ones about "Friends are..." or "A strong woman is..." jebus jumpin on a pogo stick would you get some self esteem already.

I've seen that Kurt Cobain "I'd rather be hated for what I am, than loved for what I'm not" quote on a lot of profiles, but this was more common in the Myspace days when I was a teenager.

I clearly don't spend enough time on Facebook. I've really been missing out on all these trite sayings.

Is there a point to this besides sounding incredibly pretentious?

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What? No. No. No. No no no.

Now I've got this meta inception thing going on.

This is the best response ever to the quote that I'm sure you're alluding to:

Pissed Off Pontification: If You Can’t Handle Me At My Worst Then Get The Hell Out Of Here « Mr. Philosopher: The Ignant Intellectual

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It really is.

...oh my god. This has to become a meme. Photoshopping famous quotes onto pictures of the people they would be least applicable to.

Trite sayings that people think are profound:

this kinda stuff is just off the charts with gayness

https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net...2b&oe=5CA76FBF

I dunno how I managed to make it to a thread from 2012 cuz this is definitely not the one I had in mind to bump

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It’s off the charts with happiness?

What’s wrong with that?

It is what it is.

Good god that's like my Dad's ****ing slogan. It's constantly his response when I try to tell him about anything I have gripes with. At it's core it's makes sense as it's saying how most of the **** that happens to you is out of your hands, but he constantly uses it to mean "don't complain about anything because ultimately nothing you do can nor ever will change the thing that makes you upset". What an irritatingly nihilistic point of view.

Nihilistic? More like lazy.

Eh the two usually go hand-in-hand.

As a cashier in a store without labelled or numbered isles, I'm required to ask the customers if they've found everything they were looking for so that in the event that they can't find something I can show them where it is. The most common response I get is: "I wasn't looking for anything," as they then scurry well over 50$ - $150 worth of totally arbitrary home decor and bath and body supplies onto the counter. My internal monologue responds with: "So let me get this straight: I'm the guy behind the register ringing you up, I work here, and I can't afford a #5 meal on the McDonald's menu across the parking lot for my lunch break, but you're going to arbitrarily spend like $150 on totally useless and unnecessary home decor? Thanks, *******..."

Is the customer or your inner monologue the trite one that one of you thinks is profound?

I usually do this too. The thing is, I just wanna mind my own business and figure out on my own what I wanna buy. If I need help, I'm asking for it. Not you fault of course, since it's store policy and well meaning either way.

"Everything happens for a reason".

I really wish people who shut the fuck up with this one.

Especially when it refers to something else than basic cause and effect.
Which is usually the case.

So "nothing happens for a reason" would be a better saying.

Yeah, usually people say it to mean that there's some greater cosmic purpose behind everything that happens. Which is not only dumb, but pretty disgusting when you consider the myriad senseless, horrific things that fall under the umbrella of "everything".

Next time people say that just say, "Like child rape!"


One that bothers me is the "You know you're doing good when you got haters!" To which my response is "That's why pedophiles are on top of the world."

What annoys me the most is when people say things that you know is complete bull**** coming from them. The "I think freely" joker meme bull****. You can't consider yourself the pinnacle of individuality when you're such a cliche.

True, honesty is total bull****. The universe definitely cares about you and everything's going to work out swimmingly...but only if you're grateful!