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+title:	"Wanton abuse of meaningless truisms"
+date:	2018-01-20
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+  ![](/img/1*kV4-rHsyoDl4ursB1CG72Q.jpeg)Rule 38 from my life code is ‘*Philosophising never actually helped anybody*.’
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+This is an attempt to combat my unfortunate tendency to react to emotional situations with positive philosophy.
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+Such a reaction, while my trademark, is…not all that helpful. Sympathy and other emotionally ‘active’ reactions would be a damn sight better, I think.
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+Philosophical musing has its place. That place *isn’t* helping people.
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+Just because a fact about life is painfully true, doesn’t make it useful to be reminded of in that moment. Sure, it helps me a fair bit. But I’m not exactly *typical *in my emotional processing*. *(If there is such a thing)
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+That actually brings to mind a tangential but related point. I vaguely remember reading that men and women react to life issues in different manners.
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+Men instinctually look for solutions, while women want to be listened to.
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+Anecdotally, this has proven true repeatedly. It goes a long way to explain the difficulty in resolving (heterosexual) relationship issues.
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+I’m not entirely sure what my point is…I’m philosophically musing about… philosophical musing. Further, it’s important to recognise when musing is relevant, and when it isn’t.
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+In summary… emotions are damned tricky
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+…
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+That’s a meaningless truism in and of itself isn’t it. Damn!
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