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Life is not like a box of chocolates
December 11, 2017 at 7:35 am
Everything has a positive and negative side.
It's all about perspective.
Even negative situations have a positive side.
Positive situations have a negative side as well.
It's all about perspective.
If we only look at the bright side of life we will always be happy.
Life is not like a box of chocolates where we either have a good one or a bad one or a average one.
Life is like jumping off a cliff except we choose how deep the cliff is.
Life is only worse as much as we let it.
Life is only as much as unfair as we let it.
So, no, life isn't like a box of chocolates, life is like jumping off a cliff.
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RE: Life is not like a box of chocolates
December 11, 2017 at 7:40 am
No shit. "Life is like a box of chocolates" is meant for an idiot, Forrest Gump, who is grasping the world with his limited intelligence.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Life is not like a box of chocolates
December 11, 2017 at 7:40 am
Said the rape victim! New age bullshit!
God thinks it's fun to confuse primates. Larsen's God!
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RE: Life is not like a box of chocolates
December 11, 2017 at 7:52 am
Life is like waiting at a train station when the train never comes . . . and then occasionally people who are waiting for the same train go up to you and poke you.
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RE: Life is not like a box of chocolates
December 11, 2017 at 7:59 am
Personally, I don't fuck with anti-gumpist cliff jumping philosophies.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: Life is not like a box of chocolates
December 11, 2017 at 8:22 am
(December 11, 2017 at 7:35 am)pool the matey Wrote: Everything has a positive and negative side.
It's all about perspective.
Even negative situations have a positive side.
Positive situations have a negative side as well.
It's all about perspective.
If we only look at the bright side of life we will always be happy.
Life is not like a box of chocolates where we either have a good one or a bad one or a average one.
Life is like jumping off a cliff except we choose how deep the cliff is.
Life is only worse as much as we let it.
Life is only as much as unfair as we let it.
So, no, life isn't like a box of chocolates, life is like jumping off a cliff.
Oh phooy, to say others cant affect you is bull, if that were the case slavery would not have existed. German Jews of WW2 most certainly were affected beyond their control.
Thee above is an over simplistic view on a very messy species. Long term in our planet's 4 billion year history, our planet, our sun, our solar system does not give a shit about humans, and sometimes bad things happen to good people, and sometimes good things happen to bad people.
Some humans have it better than others, some have it worse, yes, but your post is a very gross oversimplification of our species social interactions long term.
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RE: Life is not like a box of chocolates
December 11, 2017 at 8:41 am
Life is like a box of hand grenades.
With the pins out.
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RE: Life is not like a box of chocolates
December 11, 2017 at 8:47 am
Life is like a shit sandwich - the more bread you have, the less shit you'll have to eat.
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‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: Life is not like a box of chocolates
December 11, 2017 at 8:48 am
(December 11, 2017 at 8:41 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Life is like a box of hand grenades.
With the pins out.
That would be more accurate. Some grenades don't go off until old age, but they can go off in the uterus, in childhood.
The "grenade" can be disease, famine, crime, natural disaster, war or old age, but that pin always gets pulled at some point.
Rich and poor, famous or not, friend or foe, death gets everyone at some point.
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RE: Life is not like a box of chocolates
December 11, 2017 at 9:42 am
(December 11, 2017 at 7:40 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: No shit. "Life is like a box of chocolates" is meant for an idiot, Forrest Gump, who is grasping the world with his limited intelligence.
Its a bad metaphor anyway. Every box of chocolates I've ever had has had a description of what each chocolate is on the lid.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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