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RE: Platitudes - 7/3/2013 10:18:57 AM   
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"It is what it is."

What the feck does that mean? Does it mean anything at all? What could the 'it' in that phrase possibly be other than what it *is*?

I've sometimes quoted the line and replied where I've seen it in a given thread, with just the comment "No it isn't" - simply to see if the person who's said it will argue with me. They never have.



I think that's just a variation on the serenity prayer... accept what you cannot change and move on. But I know someone who's saying it all the time and like the word "nice" when something gets overused it becomes rather meaningless.



I'm always suspicious of it being used on the basis of an overly-conservative temperament in relation to a given subject, so: 'this is how X is, X can't be any different and it's delusional/immoral/dangerous to try to make or see X as any different, so accept X as it 'is'.



That's never occurred to me. It's so commonplace now that I'd find it quite normal if during a discussion of the weather and complaining about rain, or the heat, someone might say "it is what it is". Nothing else to add, nothing to be done. It just is, why spend energy on something you can't change.. energy is better spent elsehwhere and so forth.

Interesting.. I'll keep my ears open for that variation.

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RE: Platitudes - 7/3/2013 11:53:55 AM   
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RE: Platitudes - 7/3/2013 11:57:23 AM   
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RE: Platitudes - 7/3/2013 12:54:27 PM   
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RE: Platitudes - 7/3/2013 12:58:39 PM   
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RE: Platitudes - 7/3/2013 1:35:28 PM   
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RE: Platitudes - 7/3/2013 1:54:22 PM   
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The way my mother used it, and I do, is in reference to a personal relationship. If a date says they'll pick you up at 7:00 and doesn't show till 8:30, then how you respond will determine if they keep treating you as unimportant and therefore can be stood up without consequence.

Ah, that makes sense. I was thinking sociologically and historically.

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RE: Platitudes - 7/3/2013 2:00:38 PM   
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"The early worm gets caught".

LOL! I thought I was the only person on Earth who said that.

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RE: Platitudes - 7/3/2013 4:37:14 PM   
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Can physical gestures count as platitudes? I ask because I have a Canadian friend who is able to silence anybody, who is advancing any argument whatsoever and no matter how aggressively, by throwing his hands in the air, palms up, and saying, very loudly and emphatically, 'HEY.'

It's sometimes hours or even days later before you realise the utter meaninglessness of that "Hey.' I've copied the technique - it always works.

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RE: Platitudes - 7/6/2013 6:45:06 AM   
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Some are better than others...my three favorites are:

Never treat someone as a priority if they treat you as an option

How is that working for you?

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I think these three sum up one hell of a lot of wisdom.


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RE: Platitudes - 7/6/2013 6:48:49 AM   
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RE: Platitudes - 7/6/2013 6:58:54 AM   
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RE: Platitudes - 7/6/2013 7:45:45 AM   
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RE: Platitudes - 7/6/2013 8:13:56 AM   
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RE: Platitudes - 7/6/2013 8:15:20 AM   
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RE: Platitudes - 7/6/2013 8:16:23 AM   
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Some are better than others...my three favorites are:

Never treat someone as a priority if they treat you as an option

How is that working for you?

Great slaves are made by great relationships

I think these three sum up one hell of a lot of wisdom.


You just go on.

The full quote:

"You go on. You just go on. There's nothing more to it, and there's no trick to make it easier. You just go on."

"And what do you find on the other side? When you go on?"

"Your life again. What else?"

"Is that a promise?"

"It's an inevitability. No trick. No choice. You just go on."

I have never found any better advice.

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RE: Platitudes - 7/6/2013 8:27:31 AM   
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Two of my least favorite platitudes are somewhat redeemed by the rejoinders I heard later.

God never gives you more than you can handle. But I wish He didn't trust me so much.

God never closes one door without opening another. But it's hell in the hallway.


I am stealing this.

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RE: Platitudes - 7/6/2013 9:07:38 AM   
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RE: Platitudes - 7/6/2013 9:09:31 AM   
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What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.


amen


I've never killed any of the people here so, I guess that means I've made you all stronger? I'm a pretty powerful dude!

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RE: Platitudes - 7/6/2013 9:10:28 AM   
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