What's Your Guiding Philosophical Truism (or Maxim)?

[MrFrankZito]

Here is my own:

"The road to truth is paved with evidence."

Essentially, that is the philosophical maxim by which I live my life, from an intellectual perspective, at least. I might call this notion a "first truth," from which most other truths can be derived.

What's your personal maxim, or first truth?


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[Marquis de Carabas]

Enjoy.

[Hokulele]

"Yes, dear."

[Achán hiNidráne]

"Leave me the %$#@ alone!"

[The Great Hairy One]

"You gunna eat that?"

Sorry, I just can't be serious about this topic. A philosophical maxim is just a personal thought which probably changes over time, and has no minimal impact upon the actual truth of an argument.

Cheers,
TGHO

[Marquis de Carabas]

A philosophical maxim is just a personal thought which probably changes over time, and has no minimal impact upon the actual truth of an argument.

That's a pretty good maxim, actually.

[Z]

Experience for experience's sake.

In other words, good or bad, every experience is useful for gaining wisdom.

Or something like that.

Oh, and 'this, too, shall pass.' IN other words, no matter how bad (or good) things are now, they'll change (sometimes worse, sometimes better).

Oh, and 'more food, please'. You can never go wrong with this one - unless the cook is like my mother-in-law, the only woman I've ever seen who can under-cook a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich.

[c4ts]

"All your base are belong to us."

[MrFrankZito]

Experience for experience's sake.

In other words, good or bad, every experience is useful for gaining wisdom.

Or something like that.

Oh, and 'this, too, shall pass.' IN other words, no matter how bad (or good) things are now, they'll change (sometimes worse, sometimes better).

Oh, and 'more food, please'. You can never go wrong with this one - unless the cook is like my mother-in-law, the only woman I've ever seen who can under-cook a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich.

I definitely agree with the experience one. I agree that life events quite simply are a mass of learning experiences, either seized or missed out on.

[Z]

I definitely agree with the experience one. I agree that life events quite simply are a mass of learning experiences, either seized or missed out on.

Thank you!

Almost everyone I mention that to insists they could be quite happy if they'd never had a bad experience in their life. Nor can anyone (almost) understand why, even when I'm miserable, scared, or otherwise displeased, I'm also happy.

[bruto]

"Everything has two handles."

[Wally]

Stupid people don't know they're stupid.

[tkingdoll]

From Richard Feynman, who got it from Von Neumann:

"I don't have to be responsible for the world"

[CFLarsen]

"Dinner at Maxim's?"

....always worked for me... ;)

But, on a more serious note:

"If you claim evidence of a supernatural, paranormal or religious phenomenon
...
I'm your worst f**king nightmare."

[HarryKeogh]

"Have a good time all the time"...That's my philosophy, Marty.

[chriswl]

I stole this from wise person on another forum:

"If nothing matters then it doesn't matter that nothing matters."

[logical muse]

I don't have one, but a friend of mine often says "You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar".

I always wondered why he needed more flies.

[Bikewer]

"Take what you want, give nothing back!"

Oh, wait, that's the Pirate's code. (We just went to the Renaissance Faire)

[Big Les]

"It's all a load of bollocks, really." - after the great 20th century philosopher Edward Hitler.

[Darat]

Whatever works.

[volatile]

"Be nice."

[volatile]

Or maybe, to nuance it slightly - "Think about what you're doing."

[aggle-rithm]

"Snow goons are bad news."

[PixyMisa]

Even numbered days: "There's treasure everywhere."

Odd numbered days: "Screw you guys!"

[RenaissanceBiker]

"Play nice, be fair, and wear sensible shoes."

[Jorghnassen]

"Kill'em all and let God sort them out."

[Beerina]

"Hell is other people."

I'm absolutely stunned how accurate that is over the decades.

Quoting Calvin (of Calvin & Hobbes):

I wish I were dead! :mad:

No, wait.

That's wrong. :(

I wish everybody else were dead! :mad:

[fuelair]

When in doubt, shoot first.

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

"The road to hell is paved with clever code."

~~ Paul

[Yiab]

I have several, each pertaining to different areas of interest.

Ontologically: "As far as I've seen, nothing is absolute."
Epistemologically: "Nothing works without assumptions."
Inter-personally: "Make yourself heard and do no harm." (sort of the opposite of "Speak softly and carry a big stick.")
Socially: "People are people."
Mathematically: "The identity function is your friend and never, ever forget the Chinese Remainder Theorem."

There are probably more, but that's all I can think of right now.

[catbasket]

"Snow goons are bad news."
Am not!

[gentlehorse]

I am not the progenitor solipsist.

[toddjh]

Epistemologically: "Nothing works without assumptions."

Mine is "The universe doesn't lie." That is, we can obtain useful, reliable information about reality through a systematic and rigorous examination of our observations of it. We're not being tricked and we're not imagining it all. The universe, when squeezed in the vice of science, will bleed truth.

[Kilgore Trout]

"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Love is the law, love under will." Actually, it isn't, but I'm currently reading a biography of the Beast.

[Darth Rotor]

"Life is too short to be miserable."

DR

[Piscivore]

"I don't have to be responsible for the world"

Somebody for f[rule 8]'s sake tell them that, because they sure as hell seem to think so, in my case.

[triadboy]

It may not be long....but it's plenty thin enough.

[Jon.]

It's in my sig: In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.

[volatile]

I'm also a fan of Artaud / Deleuze - "The body is not an organism"

[dglas]

Philosophies are tools; not Truths.

[D'rok]

Crom, count the dead!

[fuelair]

"Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Love is the law, love under will." Actually, it isn't, but I'm currently reading a biography of the Beast.
I'm sure Alistair thanks you, as do his minions!:D

[Mobyseven]

Experience for experience's sake.

In other words, good or bad, every experience is useful for gaining wisdom.

Corollary: You need not make a mistake yourself to learn from the experience.

Explanation:

Human beings, as someone (possibly Douglas Adams) once said, are unique not only in their ability to learn from the mistakes of others, but also their complete disinclination to do so.

One need not kill a man to learn that it probably isn't a good idea.

[Darth Rotor]

Philosophies are tools; not Truths.
Philosophers are tools, not Truthers. ;)

DR

[MrFrankZito]

I also love the following quote from RENT:

Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.

N-o-t-h-i-n-g is a bigger waste of energy than regret.

[Tricky]

"Real things leave evidence."

[Fronzel]

Don't suck.

[Beleth]

Never attribute to malice what can reasonably be attributed to ignorance.

[Kilgore Trout]

I'm sure Alistair thanks you, as do his minions!:D
Jimmy Page and Kenneth Anger? They're probably still not on speaking terms, so I won't hold my breath for a joint thank-you card. Perhaps cards sent separately, though.

[strathmeyer]

"Son, you live in a country that doesn't value kindness, hard work, or intelligence, but rewards people for lying, cheating, and back-stabbing. Take advantage of that."

[calebprime]

"Hell is other people."



that's a good one.

another:
adapted from Piggy: "Don't try to be happy."

but the most recent New Yorker was the jackpot: A Roz Chast cartoon:

Title: Coming-of-Age Novels

panel 1: Book title: Tell Me Something I Don't Know.
caption: Claude realizes, once again, that he is flawed.
picture: Claude (Brisketson?) tilts head, looks a little worried.

panel 2: Book title: So What?
caption: Mindy sees that she has many issues, almost none of which can be resolved.
picture: Mindy sits in chair.

panel 3: Book title: Oh, Well
caption: Hank gains some insight into things, but it doesn't really matter.
picture: Hank at train station, at the Valhalla stop.

thank heaven for R. Chast

[PrincessIneffabelle]

I find these useful:


"When in doubt, follow the money trail"

"I can't control other people, I can only control how I react to them"

"When you get right down to it, everything is temporary"

"Bad situations are almost always fixable"

"Being a good parent is not a competition and there are no medals"

"Other people's name-calling and bullying doesn't mean that there's something wrong with the victim, what it really shows is that there's something very wrong with the person doing it" -- This is much better than the "they're just jealous" crap my parents told me!

[logischer]

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
Dune

Is your (philospophy) real when it costs you nothing and carries no risk? Is your (philosophy) real when you fatten upon it? Is your (philosophy) real when you commit atrocities in its name?
Dune

溫故而知新，可以為師矣。
Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher.
學而不思則罔，思而不學則殆。
To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.
Confucius

To see the right and not to do it is cowardice.
Confucius

[Paul C. Anagnostopoulos]

N-o-t-h-i-n-g is a bigger waste of energy than regret.
And regret includes holding grudges.

~~ Paul

[SoBitter]

You only live once.

And

Success requires no apologies.

[Mobyseven]

And regret includes holding grudges.

~~ Paul

Don't hold your grudges. Settle them as soon as they're lukewarm.

[D'rok]

Success requires no apologies.


Dunno about that one. How's it different from "the end justifies the means"?

[Yiab]

You only live once.

...unless you're amnesic.

Success requires no apologies.

Doesn't that depend highly on what it is at which you succeeded?

[ImaginalDisc]

"Always proactively untwist octogonal hippopoptomus pants." The more obscure a maxim is, the more leeway it gives you.

[Lord Muck oGentry]

I'd never thought about it in quite that way. And should have kept quiet if I had.

[SoBitter]

Dunno about that one. How's it different from "the end justifies the means"?

I guess it can be interpreted in that way, but I don't take it to mean that if you're successful you can't be held accountable for anything. I take it to mean that you shouldn't be ashamed or feel obligated by being successful. I can't get into details, but in my work environment, there is a sense that if you are very successful you are doing something shady. Basically because everyone I work with sucks at their job. So, I don't apologize for being successful.

It's from the book "Think and Grow Rich".

[Kahalachan]

Here's a Kahalachan favorite. "Objective truth unifies us, Subjective truth individualizes us."

All woo beliefs are subjective, so it makes people feel special and distinguished. Same with subjective truths like "I love my son" or "This movie is great"

Math or science is objective, so it brings people together to agree on something. "This person has 5 fingers" is true for anyone who can count.

So with this I always try to remember what manner of truth something is and how to treat it.

[calebprime]

Here's a Kahalachan favorite. "Objective truth unifies us, Subjective truth individualizes us."

All woo beliefs are subjective, so it makes people feel special and distinguished. Same with subjective truths like "I love my son" or "This movie is great"

Math or science is objective, so it brings people together to agree on something. "This person has 5 fingers" is true for anyone who can count.

So with this I always try to remember what manner of truth something is and how to treat it.

interesting, but some subjective sentiments are so widely shared that they tend to create solidarity--"I love my son".

You might as well say "I like sex" or "It hurts when I bang my head against the wall."

Those are things we all can share, warmly.

[slingblade]

Murphy's Law. That's mine.

[MrFrankZito]

And regret includes holding grudges.

~~ Paul

Agreed. The past is the past, and fretting over what's already taken place is the pinnacle of unreason.

[kellyb]

"It is what it is."

[baskett_case]

"Do the opposite of whatever your mother would do (or has done)."

My maxim has lead me to: a tattoo, premarital sex and college. All were enormously rewarding and fantastic experiences.

[Z]

I just thought of one... I mean, just right now. Please tell me what you think.

"Never put more eggs in your basket, than you can comfortably wear on your face."

[RenaissanceBiker]

"Do the opposite of whatever your mother would do (or has done)."

My maxim has lead me to: a tattoo, premarital sex and college. All were enormously rewarding and fantastic experiences.

You may not know your mother as well as you think.

[baskett_case]

You may not know your mother as well as you think.

:scared: ...... :wackybiglaugh:

[Fordama]

"Don't live your life by a single rule."

[Kevin_Lowe]

I still can't go past Bill and Ted's commandments. Be excellent to each other, and party on.

[calebprime]

another good maxim from Bill and Ted.

"We're not worthy!"

[Kevin_Lowe]

another good maxim from Bill and Ted.

"We're not worthy!"

Heathen. Those are the words of the false prophets, Wayne and Garth.

Bill and Ted front up to God, Death and Satan alike. Wayne and Garth cower in front of Alice Cooper. Who are you going to follow?

[Molinaro]

The one choice that can never be taken away from you is your ability to choose how you face the current situation. Do you choose honesty, honor, valour, kindness, understanding, generosity, truth, justice and the Canadian way.. you know polite.

[Dr Adequate]

(1) "If it looks like a duck, and it walks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, then pending further evidence, it is reasonable to act on the theory that it is a duck."

(2) "Love one another."

Ethics is easier to explain than epistemology.

[thrombus29]

From the Butthole Surfers.

It's better to regret something you have done than something you haven't done.

And I forgot who said it first.

"When in trouble, when in doubt
run in circles, scream and shout"

[qayak]

It is easier to ask forgiveness than it is to ask permission.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

[arthwollipot]

There is no such thing as an uninteresting subject, only an uninterested person.

That one from someone named Chesterfield, I think.

And:

Rule 1: All rules have exceptions, including this one.

That one was me.

[autumn1971]

All rules have exceptions, except this one.

I assume that what I term Sensation or Experience or Observation has at least a little bit of relation to what actually Is, and if it doesn't, then I'll still get a more truely profound feeling by looking at the imaginary picture constructed from the experiences of billions of (possible) minds, than I will worshipping the imagination of a few.

[calebprime]

Heathen. Those are the words of the false prophets, Wayne and Garth.

Bill and Ted front up to God, Death and Satan alike. Wayne and Garth cower in front of Alice Cooper. Who are you going to follow?

I'm not worthy! Heck, sometimes I'm not even adequate.

[swifty]

The best advice/thing my dad has told me in times of need is:

You can only do what you can do.

In some situations, this may seem like an apathetic view, however, he always used to tell me this in times of worry. Like I would be struggling with a Maths Assignment or something of a similar nature. It really used to help me and to this day is the only real mental cue I use when I am struggling or worrying about something I cannot change.

[swifty]

I'd also like to state that [from Sobitter's sig]

"A woman who aborts a baby because she was raped is as bad as the rapist." -bigfig

is the most disgusting, foolish statement I have ever read...

If a terrorist gives you a bomb and it explodes and kills 100's of people, are you as bad as the terrorist merely because you were the tool for his wrong doing?

[toddjh]

If a terrorist gives you a bomb and it explodes and kills 100's of people, are you as bad as the terrorist merely because you were the tool for his wrong doing?

If you have the opportunity to stop it, but instead make a conscious decision to let it go off? Then yes.

I actually think the pro-lifer position against aborting pregnancies resulting from rape is perfectly internally consistent. In fact, I find the wishy-washy middle ground position that abortion is wrong except in cases of rape to be downright baffling.

If you believe an early fetus is a person with legal rights (I personally don't, but they do), then no, I don't think the fact that you've been victimized justifies murdering someone who is just as innocent as you are. Two wrongs don't make a right. Within the pro-life framework, I think it's reasonable to say that the fetus's right not to be killed is stronger than your right to minimize the aftereffects of being raped.

[Taffer]

"Enjoy yourself" would have to be my personal, practical, one.

"No a posteriori knowledge is certain, not even this statement" is my strict, philosophical, stance.

[swifty]

"If you have the opportunity to stop it, but instead make a conscious decision to let it go off? Then yes."

Can you clarify this? Are you implying that victims of rape can stop themselves being raped?

Either way, I know someone who was in this situation and did have an abortion. So the culprit not only caused much emotional damage, but he also created this much bigger problem. I do not think it is fair on a child to be brought up from such an event. Can you imagine being brought up and if you found out you were not wanted? You were but the anger, hatred and evil misdoings of someone else... That child should not be put in such a situation.

Also, it would completely ruin the life of my friend. Her life would change so dramatically, it is not bad enough the mental damage which occurred to her because of this event, her life should not be "ruined" and changed so dramatically because of this event...

I don't believe there is anything wrong with abortions at all. In the animal kingdom, young die all the time and we are really animals.... It is simply that the idea is bad to most people, it isnt a very nice idea at all so people are like "this is horrible, do not kill people" and cannot cope with the idea of such a thing happening.

If those people however put themselves in the victims shoes, maybe they could understand things a little bit better and show some sort of sympathy and understanding.

[Gertrude]

"Le véritable voyage de découverte ne consiste pas à chercher de nouveaux paysages, mais à avoir de nouveaux yeux."
- Marcel Proust

(The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.)

[toddjh]

"If you have the opportunity to stop it, but instead make a conscious decision to let it go off? Then yes."

Can you clarify this? Are you implying that victims of rape can stop themselves being raped?

No, I was just responding to your hypothetical. I don't think your hypothetical maps very well to the rape situation, so my response doesn't necessarily fit very well either. Take it for what it's worth.

Either way, I know someone who was in this situation and did have an abortion. So the culprit not only caused much emotional damage, but he also created this much bigger problem.

And I sympathize. I'm not opposed to abortion myself, so I'm just playing devil's advocate.

I do not think it is fair on a child to be brought up from such an event. Can you imagine being brought up and if you found out you were not wanted? You were but the anger, hatred and evil misdoings of someone else... That child should not be put in such a situation.

Of course no one should be put in that situation, and of course it's not fair. But that doesn't mean that murder is the solution. And that's what abortion is to the pro-lifers.

Also, it would completely ruin the life of my friend. Her life would change so dramatically, it is not bad enough the mental damage which occurred to her because of this event, her life should not be "ruined" and changed so dramatically because of this event...

But it's okay to not just ruin the child's life, but in fact end it completely? I'm sorry, but I just can't accept that. Given a choice between dealing with some emotional baggage and being killed, I'll take the baggage.

I don't believe there is anything wrong with abortions at all. In the animal kingdom, young die all the time and we are really animals....

This is known as the "is-ought" problem, or the appeal to nature: something happens in the natural world, so therefore it must not be bad. I don't believe that. Horrible things happen in nature all the time, but that doesn't mean we have to, or should, just accept them. To turn your point around, I could argue equally well that, in the animal kingdom, rape happens all the time, and we are really animals...

If something is bad, we should try to stop it, regardless of how common it is, or whether it's "natural."

If those people however put themselves in the victims shoes, maybe they could understand things a little bit better and show some sort of sympathy and understanding.

To a pro-lifer, an aborted baby is also a victim -- a victim of murder. And I believe murder is worse than rape, so I can't fault them for thinking that the baby's right to live takes precedence in that instance.

[swifty]

No, I was just responding to your hypothetical. I don't think your hypothetical maps very well to the rape situation, so my response doesn't necessarily fit very well either. Take it for what it's worth.



And I sympathize. I'm not opposed to abortion myself, so I'm just playing devil's advocate.



Of course no one should be put in that situation, and of course it's not fair. But that doesn't mean that murder is the solution. And that's what abortion is to the pro-lifers.



But it's okay to not just ruin the child's life, but in fact end it completely? I'm sorry, but I just can't accept that. Given a choice between dealing with some emotional baggage and being killed, I'll take the baggage.



This is known as the "is-ought" problem, or the appeal to nature: something happens in the natural world, so therefore it must not be bad. I don't believe that. Horrible things happen in nature all the time, but that doesn't mean we have to, or should, just accept them. To turn your point around, I could argue equally well that, in the animal kingdom, rape happens all the time, and we are really animals...

If something is bad, we should try to stop it, regardless of how common it is, or whether it's "natural."



To a pro-lifer, an aborted baby is also a victim -- a victim of murder. And I believe murder is worse than rape, so I can't fault them for thinking that the baby's right to live takes precedence in that instance.


Unfortunately I'm in quite a rush sorry so I will be brief in this.

The animal thing, I agree is a bit of a bad point by me. I was merely trying to explain that some people disagree with abortion purely because it "sounds bad" to them and they do not like being confronted with such hard to deal with ideas.

I suppose I agree with you to a point in which you say "But it's okay to not just ruin the child's life, but in fact end it completely? I'm sorry, but I just can't accept that. Given a choice between dealing with some emotional baggage and being killed, I'll take the baggage."


However, this implys we are killing a person here instead of just an embryo. By this logic, I should be shunned and to have stones cast upon me for masturbation as potentially I am killing life [or not allowing for what could be life to become life]. When a woman menstruates and that egg is disposed, there goes a baby! [rather big dramatisation for emphasise].

I havent nearly had time to clear my head and check my logic here but I hope it prompts you with something you can either counter-argue, agree with or simply disprove.

[Kevin_Lowe]

Can the fun thread please not turn into another abortion thread?

[calebprime]

Hitler did it.:D

[toddjh]

My guiding philosophical truism is that all threads turn into abortion threads.

[pgwenthold]

(1) "If it looks like a duck, and it walks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, then pending further evidence, it is reasonable to act on the theory that it is a duck."


Or, as Dana Carvey as Ross Perot says, "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it might just be a spastic monkey with flat feet."

One from me:

Sometimes, s*** happens for no reason at all. Like when you trip over a crack in the sidewalk, or miss a step on the stairs.

[RandFan]

Don’t You Eat The Yellow Snow --Frank Zappa

[Don't] get your philosophy from a bumper sticker --Green Day

[Piscivore]

"Kill all the Humans"

"Bite My Shiny Metal Ass"

[Calee]

Not sure if this is a maxim, or just advice, but:

"Never fry bacon in the nude"

Just trust me on this one.

[Caius Textor]

The one in my sig.

And also "Food must be hot, drinks must be cold".

Both by the same author.

[Piscivore]

And also "Food must be hot, drinks must be cold".

I can have no respect for a man who disregards sashimi and coffee in the same breath.

[RandFan]

[Don't] get your philosophy from a bumper sticker --Green Day:rolleyes:

Then again, maybe I'm a bit guilty. :D

[skeptifem]

you never really know anyone.


sort of negetive, but true i think. everyone has their secrets.

[kedo1981]

Don't let the fact you don't know what you're doing, stop you!

[Z]

Don't let the fact you don't know what you're doing, stop you!

Gee, I hear the same thing from my wife all the time...

[PrincessIneffabelle]

Don't let the fact you don't know what you're doing, stop you!


Oh, jeez, would it kill you to actually read the instructions first??

:p

[Caius Textor]

I can have no respect for a man who disregards sashimi and coffee in the same breath.

I never dismissed coffee. ;)

And I don´t eat anyhting that comes out of the water (fish, shelfish, anything), let alone raw.

[RandFan]

And I don´t eat anyhting that comes out of the water (fish, shelfish, anything), let alone raw.Mmmmm.......

Lobster, Crab, Scallops, Shrimp, Salmon, Shark, Tuna... I could go on all day. I just love fish and shell fish. And I love Sushi.

[NeoRicen]

Don't fear god,
Don't worry about death;
What is good is easy to get, and
What is terrible is easy to endure

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrapharmakos

[latent aaaack]

This is a quote that has come back to me more often than most others after coming across it, by Spinoza. For the purposes of this thread I choose this quote as my personal maxim:

"I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them."

added: Because it conveys well how unsatisfactory tempermental emotions are compared to reason.

[Caius Textor]

Lobster, Crab, Scallops, Shrimp, Salmon, Shark, Tuna... I could go on all day. I just love fish and shell fish. And I love Sushi.

I am yet to try lobster, but I´m pretty sure it won´t hit the favorites. And I SHOULDN´T eat any kind of seafood simply because it would be a waste; even though my palate is quite good otherwise, I can´t tell the difference between shrimp and salmon. So there is no reason to give me something I can´t appreciate.

I will make one exception: whenever I´m in Japan, I´ll eat Fugu.

[Z]

Don't bother to try lobster, then. Lobster is a very delicate and lovely flavor and texture, and it's too light a taste for my own palate. I prefer the brisker flavor of crab to lobster.

About the lightest flavors of seafood I prefer are scallops and flatfish, specifically flounder.

I've tried a lot of different seafoods, including octopus, squid, and shark, but my personal preferences are clams (deep-fried and served with tangy cocktail sauce), shrimp (broiled in a lemon and garlic butter sauce), and crab (REAL crab, preferably something from Maine, with plenty of butter for dipping).

But it don't mean a thing without a couple of wedges of lemon and some hush puppies or cheddar garlic biscuits on the side!

[Caius Textor]

hush puppies or cheddar garlic biscuits on the side!

That sounds more like me. :D
I like meat. And things that go with meat. I´m not proud of being picky about food, my brain is to blame.

[Jimbo07]

I've tried a lot of different seafoods, including octopus, squid, and shark, but my personal preferences are clams (deep-fried and served with tangy cocktail sauce), shrimp (broiled in a lemon and garlic butter sauce), and crab (REAL crab, preferably something from Maine, with plenty of butter for dipping).


Ah ha! So you're the one who's going to be sweeping our oceans clean of seafood in the next fifty years!

:D

...

My Maxim: I'm too dumb to remember any one maxim for any great length of time...

[arthwollipot]

But it don't mean a thing without a couple of wedges of lemon and some hush puppies or cheddar garlic biscuits on the side!

You eat shoes with your seafood?

[bruto]

You eat shoes with your seafood?

Of course, especially with sole.

[Elizabeth I]

Mind your own business. (I think that's the definition of Paradise - a place where NOBODY tries to run other people's lives.)

[VanillaCone]

"True morality means never intentionally hurting yourself or anyone else."

[triadboy]

I will make one exception: whenever I´m in Japan, I´ll eat Fugu.

Isn't that the gambling food? (Blowfish?)

[Piscivore]

Ah ha! So you're the one who's going to be sweeping our oceans clean of seafood in the next fifty years!

:D

Excuse me? Hello... :w2:

[Z]

Sorry, Pisci, the truth has been exposed. You're just a second-rate fish-eater, pal.



:D

[Meri]

"At least there's no zombie apocalypse."

Hey, it's surprising how much better everything looks if you compare it to the living dead destroying civilization.

[cyborg]

I like this one as far as quoting the famous goes:

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:

http://www.artofeurope.com/shakespeare/sha9.htm

[arthwollipot]

Hey, it's surprising how much better everything looks if you compare it to the living dead destroying civilization.

I think I've found a new email sig. Or at least a new Guiding Philosophical Truism (or Maxim).

[trvlr2]

The great truths are:

1.Life ain't fair, just is.

2. Everybody is naked under their clothes.

3. Nobody gets out of here ,alive!

(Revealed at the bottom of a wine bottle in 1982)(Tea leaves, My A**!)

[bruto]

I once got this one in a fortune cookie (cribbed from Horace Walpole):

"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy for those who think."

The other day, I got this apt one:

"Keep your goals away from the trolls."

[Piscivore]

"At least there's no zombie apocalypse."

Hey, it's surprising how much better everything looks if you compare it to the living dead destroying civilization.

Unless you're into that sort of thing. :)

[Z]

I still think a zombie-drag queen movie would be cool as anything.

"You gotta WORK---"

"uuurggh!"

"WORK it girl!"

"uuuuuurrghhh!!!"

Yeah, classic stuff.

"Braaaaiinnns..... and puuuummpsssss...."

[Meri]

I think I've found a new email sig. Or at least a new Guiding Philosophical Truism (or Maxim).

And the zombieist philosophical movement begins.

I still think a zombie-drag queen movie would be cool as anything.

"You gotta WORK---"

"uuurggh!"

"WORK it girl!"

"uuuuuurrghhh!!!"

Yeah, classic stuff.

"Braaaaiinnns..... and puuuummpsssss...."

Still? Did I miss a zombie-movie discussion?

Also, I thought zombies liked brains and IKEA furniture. I don't remember shoes being a major concern of the undead (except for vampires, of course).

[kbm99]

I like to try to live my life by the simple country wisdom I got from my dad many times as a kid. "What the hell are you doing in the bathroom day and night? Why don't you get out of there and give someone else a chance?"

Actually, come to think of it, that wasn't my dad, that was Mel Brooks.

Oh well.

[Jon.]

If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down.

[slingblade]

If it's yellow, let it mellow. If it's brown, flush it down.

If it's black, put it back; if it's grey, throw it away. :D


But mine is this one:

You kids get outta my yard!

[Gnu Ordure]

qayak said :

It is easier to ask forgiveness than it is to ask permission.


which reminded me of an old emo philips joke :

When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.


not sure if that's a maxim for life, though..