Does anyone else get annoyed at lack of explanations that are hidden in the following phrases. I even see it happening in my favorite Humanist quote .. the one about happiness.
Do we need a campaign on good communication through unambiguous phrases - or do we just blame the poets ? Love is blind
Meat is murder
Silence is golden
Marriage is sacred
Childhood is freedom.
Money Is root of evil
God is Love
Happiness is the only good
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I see all the examples that you cite as being magnificent examples of cognitive failure.
anglophone
Level 9
May 24, 2020
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Plenty more out there, but then we are born with cognative failure. Perhaos this is why some mothers try to teach Beethoven to the babies in their womb.
Don't get 'annoyed'! Don't let them get to you! Some have nothing to offer raher than to grinch watching you getting dazzled by their stupidity! The 'Abbreviation' of life or anything into a sentence is a sign of ingonarce! "There you go!"
PabloNeruda
Level 6
May 22, 2020
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Well, my interpretation or version of these quotes are:
Love is blind: I don't doubt it, love never sees me...
Meat is murder: well, in Nature, animals get eaten and, therefore, killed. But, many times, plants are killed to be eaten as well. If killing an animal is murder toeat, killing a plant as well, they are as much as living creatures as any animal. So, there is really no escaping from killing something to eat. Call it murder is exaggerated and unrealistic. Ok, I'm very crazy but that's the way I see it...
Silence is golden? I say when silence is golden, word is silver. Sometimes, applies perfectly.
Marriage is sacred? Yes!!! That's why I don't go near it, in the least, mine one....
Childhood is freedom? Depends on the point of view.
Money is the root of all evil? No, the attitude towards it is.
God is Love? Well, if there is one or more, I don't know, in case of Mars, the God of War, will it be applicable to him???
Happiness is the only good? For some might be...
Here's my 2 cents of gibberish....
Paddypereira
Level 7
May 22, 2020
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Not gibberish. You have talked in some cases about feelings and to get these feelings communicated perhaps one needs brevity.
@Mcflewster, thank you for your kind words. I was also trying to put some sense of humour in it, the problem is, with written language, it's very easy to be misunderstood. Well, nevertheless your reply was a positive one. Whatever point of view, it can lead to much being discussed.
@Paddypereira Until we get thought transfer by Wifi words is all we have, words is. We will however get our waves crossed instead of our wires crossed.
Just never gave it much thought....too many other things to be annoyed over....like not having influence over so many things that annoy me.
HankSherman
Level 8
May 22, 2020
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I am just dropping off annoyances which are lost causes . Some are really annoying tho especially if they are anti- science.
Often wonder why the lost causes are the hardest to drop....perhaps they are the ones that point to the lack of control, the most..
1 Timothy 6:10 : For the love of money is the root of all of evil
So often misquoted as in the OP
Meat Is Murder: An Illustrated Guide To Cannibal Culture is a book originally published in 1998 by Mikita Brottman The title was taken from the second album released by The Smiths in 1985 it is arguable whether either originated the phrase but both popularised it.
“Silence is golden, speech is silver” Is an ancient Egyptian phrase meaning it is better to say nothing rather than use unwise words.
Thomas Carlyle, translated it into English in 1831 and the second half was soon dropped.
God is love?
LenHazell53
Level 9
May 22, 2020
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Thanks for the research.
No. Just f'ing no! They're all bullshit, including the happiness one. Even plato 400bc said happiness is bullshit (paraphrasing here). He said, scratching an itch makes you happy so if all you want is happiness the man with the most itches is the happiest. If all you want is happy, go visit your local drug dealer. A d the others? Silence is golden for a pedophile; childhood is only free to those with very rich and generous parents;money is the exchange for your labour, greed is the root of evil etc etc.
I don't get annoyed by the lack of explanation, I get annoyed by insipid platitudes.
Cyklone
Level 7
May 22, 2020
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Murder is meat.
If you don't shut up, you could end up as meat, sooner.
Marriage is a subjective state, and therefore like anything subjective, exploitable by churches for profit.
If you are only a kid, everyone is free to use you.
Money is the measure of life. Length = inches, weight = pounds, capacity = pints, the hours I work = dollars. Therefore why are some able to use my life, because they got money for doing nothing.
God does not exist, so it can be anything you want to claim it is.
Good, evil and happiness are absolutes, and like all absolutes they belong in the same box with things that don't exist.
There you are, do you feel better now.
Fernapple
Level 9
May 22, 2020
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Yes
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