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title: "Wanton abuse of meaningless truisms"
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date: 2018-01-20
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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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