I feel like “fuck it we ball” applies too. At least that’s how I use it.
Thought fuck we terminate
Or the Klingon “Today is a good day to die.”
Instead of saying, “We’re all going to die, why even bother?”, they go, “We’re all going to die, let’s speedrun this bitch!”
I think it originally comes from a native American saying.
chąą nihí jooł
Terminathought
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Who gives a shit.
Shit happens.
I dont wanna know.
End of.
That’s another good one.
At the end of the day, you never know.
Not gonna lie, my passion is caveat nuances, but your mileage may vary. Rinse and repeat.
At the end of the day it’s night
With the help of your donation, we can put a stop to this.
Let’s circle back
That’s just corporate speak for No.
Put that one in the parking lot
Triggerred
It’s what it’s.
Say it real fast. Don’t enunciate.
Awful, added to my vocabulary
Looks like OP needs some thouhgt termination itself. It do be like that.
“live and let live” is an ironic one we hear in vegan circles a lot.
Nothing you can do about it
They don’t think it be like it is, but it do.
But it McDo
I think there are some wise uses for “it is what it is” and YOLO, but that is mostly internal dialogue stuff. In conversation it feels way different.
What does it mean to short circuit cognitive dissonance?
Believe A is true. And believe B is true. Also believe A and B cannot both be true at the same time. That is cognitive dissonance.
In this case it is “short circuited” aka bypassed by saying something dismissive. Doing so suggests there is nothing that can be done about the circumstances behind the dissonant ideas, so it’s not worth thinking about.
Short circuit - bypass or impede
Cognitive dissonance - conflict from holding two conflicting beliefs simultaneously
So it’s a way to either prevent or stop mental frustration due to conflict between two beliefs.
For example, X needs to be fixed, but fixing it will take too much effort. “It is what it is,” so we’ll just accept it being broken as a given and work around it. If you didn’t short-circuit the line of thinking, you’d spend a ton of time on something that can’t reasonably be fixed.
I feel like “it is what it is” is too often shit on.
I had a boss from whom I learned about staying calm and keeping steady course.
His favorite saying was “it is what it is” and it was always in the context of simply recognizing the reality for what it is, instead of hoping or wishing it was something else or lamenting over how it should have gone a different way. Then, from the point of accepting that “it is what it is” we would focus on how to get to where we wanted to be.
Sure it can be used dismissively, but I feel like people always just dismiss it as a cliche when it’s actually usually a very good philosophy.
when it’s actually usually a very good philosophy.
Yeah, in an environment or situation where you literally have no agency.
But most times it’s used in any sort of meaningful conversation about society for instance… then it’s meant as a “thought-stopper”.
I had a boss who used to say the same thing. He was telling us “We didn’t set this dumpster on fire, but somehow it’s our job to handle it. No point bitching, so roll your sleeves up and get to it.” I’ve started saying the same thing for the same reason.
Yeah, I have a voice in my head saying that. Not long ago I realised just doing stuff that needs to be done is much faster and less draining tgan figuring out how to get someone else to do it.
It’s what it’s
I agree with this. I use the phrase essentially as “this is the reality” to either set a baseline, or just a different way to say c’est la vie. It frustrates me when people say it’s always a dismissive phrase, because when I am dissmice with it I’m not doing so in a negative way. There’s something to be said about letting little inconveniences lie and fade away.
There’s something to be said about letting little inconveniences lie and fade away.
I absolutely agree. But to go a step further, there is a lot to be said for accepting things as they are. It’s even a core tenant of buddhism.
“Though-terminating” is not necessarily a negative thing.
Like how your boos used it: stop the train of anger and reframe the problem in a more constructive way.
It’s still terminating a thought, it just wasn’t a productive thought and needed terminating.
Good point, I didn’t really consider that it could be used in a good way.
Although, in my defense, they are using the term cliche which usually has negative connotations.
I mean even cliches are cliche right?
So many people just don’t like negative connotation things because they just don’t like their answer.
Arguing semantics is literally arguing about the definition of a word which is absolutely pivotal when determining stances on things. Arguing semantics is one of the most important things you can do when arguing. There is nothing negative about it.
Agree to disagree. It literally means you’ve gotten so far along in your debate that you’ve found that rhetorical lynch pin of an argument. It’s where the true disagreement lies. And too many people also think there AREN’T black and white scenarios when you get to them. More often than not, it’s because you’ve joined it down to A or B. There is NO other option.
You either think it’s okay to destroy an embryo or fetus because you’re more important than a long what if, or you think it’s the same as murdering an 18 year old in cole blood.
You can slowly deprogram some people from those lynchpin scenarios. But it isn’t going to happen when you find it.
People are not run on pure logic. More often than not they run on what they were born with reinforced through nurture. They need time to strong thoughts and opinions they’ve held because they’re strong for a reason.
i have a love hate relationship with that term.
It’s very valuable in a certain sense, but it’s also incredibly soul sucking if you live your entire life to that concept.
I agree, but I prefer “you have to play the ball as it lies”. It’s a similar sentiment, but more active so it doesn’t lend itself as much to defeatist readings. We can’t change reality, this is the situation we find ourselves in, but yes, we will find a path forward regardless.
maybe they couldn’t stop thinking about it but I’m built different
Well I’m just sayin