favourite quotes

[Tiwaking!]

State what you believe the person's position is, ask them to verify or clarify, then state what the other people's position is. Try to get them to understand the reasons between the two, and suggest ways he or she could try and work on the problem. If it's not an issue that can be compromised on, then make sure you discuss why it's not something that can be resolved through compromise, and try to help the person realize why their behavior needs to change

[Xsannz]

State what you believe the person's position is, ask them to verify or clarify, then state what the other people's position is. Try to get them to understand the reasons between the two, and suggest ways he or she could try and work on the problem. If it's not an issue that can be compromised on, then make sure you discuss why it's not something that can be resolved through compromise, and try to help the person realize why their behavior needs to change

Just get both parties drunk ... the following actions may occur, all of which valid solutions:

1: Kill each other
2: Fall asleep - no arguments
3: suddenly forget what the hell was going on and just agree the other is correct while trying to do shots out of the waitresses navel.


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To keep with the quotes:

Si vis pacem, para bellum is a Latin adage translated as, "If you want peace, prepare for war"

[Tiwaking!]

This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. Existence is random, has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it too long, no meaning save what we choose to impose

[Tiwaking!]

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane

[Tiwaking!]

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be

[Tiwaking!]

Gamified Apps are not Games

[Kayne]

Gamified Apps are not Games

I got really excited and thought you wrote a whole thread about your life.

Why would the idea of that excite me

[Tiwaking!]

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack

[Tiwaking!]

The first time you do something, it's science. The second time, it's engineering. The third time, it's just being a technician

[Tiwaking!]

The Underdocumenter will go to any length to avoid being shackled by management's foolish requirement to write text about that function. The droll ones will create functions like queryDatabase, then add a comment that says, "Queries database."

[Tiwaking!]

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also

[Tiwaking!]

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex

[Tiwaking!]

The mela is a 400-year-old tradition which was started by the Tiwa king in 1729, to promote goodwill among the people

[Tiwaking!]

I cant see why South Africa is called a rainbow nation since no rainbow has black in it

[Tiwaking!]

You can fail at what you dont want, so you might as well take a chance at doing what you love

[Tiwaking!]

anomie
1.
Alienation or social instability caused by erosion of standards and values.

Anomie is a "condition in which society provides little moral guidance to individuals"

[Tiwaking!]

Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

[Tiwaking!]

zeth006 -> smedley • 2 months ago
If you can't participate in a discussion like an adult, then the problem is you.

[Tiwaking!]

Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut? Probably millions of Americans got up this morning with a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a donut. No wonder they are sick and fouled up

[Tiwaking!]

The first among equals is a Latin phrase describing the most senior person of a group sharing the same rank or office

[Tiwaking!]

those who seek peace will always deceive to keep the waters calm

[Tiwaking!]

Limited expectations yield only limited results

[Tiwaking!]

There are individuals with certain skills and high intellectual level ... but high IQ does not guarantee exceptional ability in any human activity. Even geniuses need to exercise their brilliance to become standouts in their activity of choice, like any other human been on the planet Earth.

[Tiwaking!]

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win

[Tiwaking!]

Marxism exploits a basic flaw in human nature: The desire to blame others for your troubles