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27 May 2017, 7:19 pm

#1. We don't know the truth of reality, therefore, we don't know if we're ever right

As Socrates said, "All I know is that I know nothing".

We have opinions, perceptions, we see through human eyes, we make sense of the things in a human brain.

If we ever think we are "right", then we might be enlightened to think our "rightness" is based on our particular views, perceptions, beliefs, attitudes, upbringing ...

We see this in philosophy, where the philosophical "realists" contrast with the philosophical "anti-realists".

The"realists" argue that reality-is-real, that our senses and mind can find an approximation of reality, while the anti-realists argue that reality-is-not-real, reality does not exist without experience, thus, this approximation is simply a construct of the mind.

Thus, we don't know the truth of reality, and we don't know if it exists without experience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_realism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-realism

#2. Life is journey, not a race.

When you are at a low point in your life, this is wisdom to cheer you up.

I was delayed most of my life. Called stupid. Made fun of. I always wanted to be smart like other people. I felt like a failure often.

At low points in my life, my dad said to me, "life is a journey, not a race".



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27 May 2017, 10:18 pm

Probably the best take away from my own life, kind of in line with Neibur's serenity prayer:

Accept the things you can't change about yourself, modify the things you can change that are out keeping with best practices in the world you live in, and work to fill in or adapt the difference between what you can't change and can knowing that it's an endeavor that'll bring greater ease in life but that it may never be fully complete or even completeable.

And the other bit I said earlier - if it hurts and your doing it voluntarily stop doing it! :)


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28 May 2017, 12:41 am

techstepgenr8tion wrote:
Probably the best take away from my own life, kind of in line with Neibur's serenity prayer:

Accept the things you can't change about yourself, modify the things you can change that are out keeping with best practices in the world you live in, and work to fill in or adapt the difference between what you can't change and can knowing that it's an endeavor that'll bring greater ease in life but that it may never be fully complete or even completeable.

And the other bit I said earlier - if it hurts and your doing it voluntarily stop doing it! :)

Yeah, that's a good one.

I have seen it stated on the general forum as "accept you have autism and move on".



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01 Jun 2017, 1:35 am

Pay your taxes.



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01 Jun 2017, 2:33 am

Don't eat yellow snow.


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01 Jun 2017, 8:18 am

http://m.wikihow.com/Understand-the-Four-Noble-Truths


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01 Jun 2017, 10:01 am

Always shower at home, so nobody can make fun of your weenie.


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