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One that comes to mind for me: "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger" is not always true. Maybe even only half the time! Are there any phrases you tend to hear and shake your head at?
"Trust me."
Most of the time those two words can be correctly replaced with "I believe you to be an irrational eager to swallow any crap smeared on its filthy snout."
(People who deserve your trust typically don't evoke it.)
Oh this one gets me too.. Why not tell me why to trust you? Then I can decide for myself if I should.
Because if you need reasons, then you don't trust them. And they can take your refusal to do/believe what you're told to do/believe as a personal attack, you know? It's emotive manipulation.
So many people spend more time telling people to “just trust me” or “I’ll explain later” than they would if they just shared the information.
"Oftentimes"
Damn, why that?
it's usually just replacing "often".
"just sayin' "
Yes. Yes you did. You just said.
"honestly.."
Wait, you weren't being honest before now? I catch myself saying this and it ignites that inner cringe.
Whatever doesn't kill you only prolongs the inevitable!
some people I work with got to saying “1000%” when asked “would it be possible to…?”. Are you gonna give them 10 of everything they ask for??
"Collectivist society" and "Individualist society"
"You miss every shot you don't take!" or similar. It's useless, makes no sense, and is disrespectful to yourself and others.
Which is why I love saying it to pricks at work.
life is beautiful.
no, it's not. it's an ugly, parasitic process that accelerates resource consumption merely for its own pointless existence. the heat death of the universe will come all that faster only because of the presence of life.
and, for sure, humankind is the pinnacle of this selfish and greedy outcome of biological evolution.
That's fair.
Life is beautiful. That it even managed to exist, let alone evolve is fascinating, wonderous, fantastical. That certain species mucked things up isn't life's fault.
