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Close-to-complete Ideology and Religion Shit List

  • Taoism: Shit happens.
  • Confucianism: Confucius say, "Shit happens."
  • Buddhism: If shit happens, it isn't really shit.
  • Zen Buddhism: Shit is, and is not.
  • Zen Buddhism #2: What is the sound of shit happening?
  • Hinduism: This shit has happened before.
  • Islam: If shit happens, it is the will of Allah.
  • Islam #2: If shit happens, kill the person responsible.
  • Islam #3: If shit happens, blame Israel.
  • Catholicism: If shit happens, you deserve it.
  • Protestantism: Let shit happen to someone else.
  • Presbyterian: This shit was bound to happen.
  • Episcopalian: It's not so bad if shit happens, as long as you serve the right wine with it.
  • Methodist: It's not so bad if shit happens, as long as you serve grape juice with it.
  • Congregationalist: Shit that happens to one person is just as good as shit that happens to another.
  • Unitarian: Shit that happens to one person is just as bad as shit that happens to another.
  • Lutheran: If shit happens, don't talk about it.
  • Fundamentalism: If shit happens, you will go to hell, unless you are born again. (Amen!)
  • Fundamentalism #2: If shit happens to a televangelist, it's okay.
  • Fundamentalism #3: Shit must be born again.
  • Judaism: Why does this shit always happen to us?
  • Calvinism: Shit happens because you don't work.
  • Seventh Day Adventism: No shit shall happen on Saturday.
  • Creationism: God made all shit.
  • Secular Humanism: Shit evolves.
  • Christian Science: When shit happens, don't call a doctor - pray!
  • Christian Science #2: Shit happening is all in your mind.
  • Unitarianism: Come let us reason together about this shit.
  • Quakers: Let us not fight over this shit.
  • Utopianism: This shit does not stink.
  • Darwinism: This shit was once food.
  • Capitalism: That's MY shit.
  • Communism: It's everybody's shit.
  • Feminism: Men are shit.
  • Chauvinism: We may be shit, but you can't live without us...
  • Commercialism: Let's package this shit.
  • Impressionism: From a distance, shit looks like a garden.
  • Idolism: Let's bronze this shit.
  • Existentialism: Shit doesn't happen; shit IS.
  • Existentialism #2: What is shit, anyway?
  • Stoicism: This shit is good for me.
  • Hedonism: There is nothing like a good shit happening!
  • Mormonism: God sent us this shit.
  • Mormonism #2: This shit is going to happen again.
  • Wiccan: An it harm none, let shit happen.
  • Scientology: If shit happens, see "Dianetics", p.157.
  • Jehovah's Witnesses: >Knock< >Knock< Shit happens.
  • Jehovah's Witnesses #2: May we have a moment of your time to show you some of our shit?
  • Jehovah's Witnesses #3: Shit has been prophesied and is imminent; only the righteous shall survive its happening.
  • Moonies: Only really happy shit happens.
  • Hare Krishna: Shit happens, rama rama.
  • Rastafarianism: Let's smoke this shit!
  • Zoroastrianism: Shit happens half on the time.
  • Church of SubGenius: BoB shits.
  • Practical: Deal with shit one day at a time.
  • Agnostic: Shit might have happened; then again, maybe not.
  • Agnostic #2: Did someone shit?
  • Agnostic #3: What is this shit?
  • Satanism: SNEPPAH TIHS.
  • Atheism: What shit?
  • Atheism #2: I can't believe this shit!
  • Nihilism: No shit.
  • Narcisism: I am the shit!
     
  • And of course we must add...Alcoholics Anonymous:  Shit happens-one day at a time!

 

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a variant of the above:

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SHIT HAPPENS

                         in various world religions
                        ---------------------------- 

 
Taoism:         Shit happens.
                If you can shit, it isn't shit.
                Shit happens, so flow with it.

Hare Krishna:   Shit Happens, Rama Rama Ding Ding.
                She-it happens, She-it happens, happens, happens,
                 she-it, she-it...  (Repeat until you become one with she-it)
                Please this flower and buy our shit.

Confucianism:   Confucious say, "Shit happens".
                Confucious says, "If shit has to happen, let it happen
                 PROPERLY."

Buddhism:       If shit happens, it isn't really shit.
                If shit happens, it isn't really happening TO anyone.
                Shit will happen again to you next time.

Zen:            What is the sound of shit happening?

7th Day Adventism:
                Shit happens on Saturdays.

Hinduism:       I've seen this shit before.
                This shit is not a religion, it is the way of life.
                This shit happening IS you.

Protestantism:  If shit happens, it happens to someone else.
                If shit happens, praise the lord for it!

Calvinism:      Shit happens because you don't work hard enough.

Episcopalianism:
                If shit happens, hold a procession.

Lutheranism:    Shit happens, but as long as you're sorry, it's OK.

Anglicanism:    It's true, shit does happen -- but only to Lutherans.
                                                           
Catholicism:    If shit happens, you deserved it.
                You were born shit, you are shit, and you will die shit.

Charismatic Catholicism:
                Shit is happening because you deserve it, but we love you
                 anyway.

Judaism:        Why does shit always happen to US?
                Why does shit always happen just before closing the deal?

Reform Judaism: Got any laxatives?

Islam:          If this shit happens, it is the will of Allah.
                If shit happens, take a hostage.
                We don't take any shit.

Nation of Islam:
                Don't take no shit!

New Age:        That's not shit, it's feldspar.
                A firm shit does not happen to me.
                This isn't shit if I really believe it's chocolate.
                I create my own shit.
                If shit happens, honor it and share it.
                Sheeeeeeeeeeit!
                Were all part of the same shit.
                For $300, we can help you get in touch with your inner shit.

Wicca:          If shit happened once, it will happen twice more.
                The Goddess makes shit happen.

Jehovah's Witnesses:
                No shit happens until Armaggedon.
                There is only a limited amount of good shit.
                Knock Knock, "Shit Happens."
                Here, we insist you take our shit.
                Shit happens door to door.

Secular Humanism:
                Shit evolves.

Darwinism:      Survival of the shittiest.

Christian Science:
                When shit happens, don't call a doctor--pray.
                Shit doesn't happen and I am not up to my eyeballs in it.
                Our shit will take care of itself.
                Shit in in your mind.

Atheism:        I don't believe this shit.
                It looks and smells like shit, so I'm damned if I'm going
                 to taste it.
                Shit doesn't happen. Shit is dead.
                No shit!


Religion from an Atheist's point of view:
                I haven't smelt, seen, touched, or tasted it. But it's
                 shit.

Agnosticism:    It looks and smells like shit, but I haven't tasted it, so
                 I'm not sure whether its shit or not.
                What is this shit?!
                How can we KNOW if shit happens?
                You can't prove any of this shit

Rastafarianism: Let's smoke this shit!
                Hey, this is good shit, mon.

Mormonism:      If shit happens, shun it.
                Crap happens (you can't say shit in Utah)
                Hey, there's more shit over here!
                Our shit is better than your shit.
                Shit happens again & again & again ...

Energizer Bunny:
                Shit happens and keeps going and going and going and...

Baptist:        You are shitting all wrong, and you'll be punished for it.
                We'll wash the shit right off you.

Southern Baptist:
                Shit will happen.  Praise the lord.

Iraqi Baathist: Oh shit!

Voodoo:         Shit doesn't just happen -- somebody dumped it on you.
                Let's stick some pins in this shit!
                This shit's gonna get you

Televangelism:  Your tax-deductible donation could make this shit stop
                 happening.

Unitarianism:   What is this Shit?
                We affirm the right for shit to happen.
                Go ahead, shit anywhere you want.
                It's not the shit that matters.  It's the process.

Orthodox:       St. Sergius found his faith in deep shit.

Greek Orthodox: Shit happens, usually in three's.

EST:            I am at cause that shit will not happen.
                You're responsible for all the shit that happens.

Fundamentalism: There's no shit in the Bible.
                Shit happens, but don't publish it.

Twelve Step:    Shit happens one day at a time.

Amish:          Shit is good for the soil.
                This modern shit is worthless.

Shintoism:      You inherit the shit of your ancestors.

Moonies:        Only happy shit really happens.

Stoicism:       This shit is good for me.

Zoroastrianism: Shit happens half the time.

Bahaism:        Why do you keep shitting on us?

Mysticism:      This is really weird shit.

Paganism:       Shit happens for a variety of reasons.

Rajhneesh:      Give us your shit and put on this orange shit.

Rosicrucianism: What is this AMORC shit?

Satanism:       We hope bad shit happens to all of you.
                We will make your shit happen.

Witchcraft:     Mix this shit together and it will happen

Scientology:    All this happens to be shit.
                If you leave us, bad shit will happen to you.

Shamanism:      Whoaa...Holy Shit!

Sikhism:        Leave our shit alone

Sureshism:      You are all pieces of shit.

Dianetics:      "Why does shit happen?" (p. 157)

 

and here's some more shit:

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SHIT HAPPENS

                            in other various ways       
                           -----------------------


Yuppie Shit:    It's my shit!  All mine!  Isn't it beautiful?

An Employer:    Shit happens, and rolls down hill.

An Employee:    I've done my shit, so can I take the day off?
                This shit's not part of my contract.

Environmentalism:
                Shit is biodegradable.

Heisenbergism:  Shit happened, we just don't know where.

Quantum Shittydynamics:
                Shit happens only in well-defined quantities.

Einsteinism:    Shit is Relative.

Reaction to Seeing your Mother-in-law:
                Relatives are Shit.

Washington:     I cannot tell a lie--shit happened.

Lincoln:        Four score and seven shits ago...

Nixon:          Shit didn't happen, and if it did I din't know anything
                 about it.

Reagan:         Well, I do believe that shit happened. I was just taking a nap.

Quayle:         Whye doe peopl treate mee lik shite?

Clinton:        I didn't inhale this shit.
                I tried this shit before and I didn't like it so....

Bush:           Read my lips: no more shit!
                Wouldn't be prudent to shit at this juncture.
                This looks like foreign shit. Let Baker handle it.

Perot:          I'm sorry if I dropped you guys in this piece of shit.

McCarthyism:    Are you now, or have you ever been, shit?

Martin Luther King:
                Black shit and white shit CAN coexist...

Julius Caesar:  I came, I saw, I shitted. (Veni, Vidi, Shitty)

John Paul Jones:
                I have not yet begun to shit.

James Tiberius Kirk:
                ... to boldly shit where no one has shit before!

Computer Science:
                There's a bug somewhere in this shitttttttttttttttttttttttttt

Macintosh:      (Enough said)

UNIX/C:         A core dump... Shit!

IBM/DOS:        It's shit, but at least it's compatible.

Communism:      It's everybody's shit.

Marxism:        The rich shit exploits the poor shit, but deep down all shit
                 is alike.
                Dictatorship of the shit.

Capitalism:     Shit happens, and it'll cost you!
                If you're gonna sell that shit, at least make a profit.

Cannibalism:    Don't eat the shit.

Vegetarianism:  If it happens to shit, don't eat it.

Hedonism:       There's nothing quite like a good shit.

Stoicism:       This shit is good for me.

Existentialism: Shit doesn't happen; shit is.
                Shit happening is absurd.

Realism:        I think I need to take a shit.

Denialism:      What shit?

Purism:         If shit has to happen, let ONLY shit happen.

Procrastinationism:
                I'll take care of this shit ... tomorrow.

Avoidanceism:   With all this happening, I think I'll go shit.

Repressionism:  I'll hold this shit in forever.

Fatalism:       Oh shit, it's going to happen!

Surrealism:     Fish!

Moilanenism:    Smells like shit of finnish fish.

Nihilism:       Let's blow this shit up!

Fetishism:      I love when shit happens.

Masochism:      Do shit to me!

Sadism:         I will shit on you!

Freudianism:    Shit is a phallic symbol.

 

and some more still:

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SHIT HAPPENS

                        according to the Philospohers
                       -------------------------------

Thales:         Earth, Air, Fire, and Shit

Epicurus:       If shit happens, enjoy it.

Socrates:       What is shit?  Why is shit?

Aristotle:      The essence of shittyness...

Descartes:      I think, so why am I in this shit?
                I shit, therefore I am.

Leibniz (as interpreted by Voltaire):
                The best of all possible shit in this world made for shit.

Thoreau:        I wanted to live deliberately ... to suck all the shit out
                 of life.

Sartre:         Shit is meaningless!
                What is shit, anyway?

 

and even more (plenty of shit to go around):

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SHIT HAPPENS

                           in various professions
                          ------------------------

Mathematician:  Shit happening is just a special case...

Statistician:   There is an 83.7% chance that shit will happen. Maybe.

Physicist:      To within experimental error, this is shit.

Engineer:       I hope this shit holds together.

Chemist:        I hope this shit doesn't blow up.
                Gee, what'll happen if I mix this and ... SHIT!!!!

Biologist:      Is this shit alive?

Economist:      I hope no one figures out that I don't really understand
                 this shit.

Beurocrat:      I'm sorry, but we can't do this shit until you fill out form
                 XJ-314159 to make an appointment with our Assistant Sub-Deputy
                 Manager to obtain form ZN-271828...

CEO:            (1980's) I've got all the shit I want.
                (1990's) Oooh, SHIT!

Lawyer:         For a sufficient fee, I can get you out of ANY shit.

Doctor:         Take two shits and call me in the morning.
                Yes, it's definitely a case of shit. $99.95, please...
                Shit, where's this organ supposed to go?

Psychologist:   Shit is in your mind.
                Everything that happens is shit; some of it is just repressing
                 its subconscious shittiness.

Programmer:     It's shit, but at least it compiles.

Social Scientist:
                Let's pretend that shit doesn't happen...

Politician:     It's shit, but it'll get me elected.
                If you elect me, there will never again be shit.
                Shit is bad for the economy.

Waitress:       You want fries with that shit?

Musician:       This shit is out of tune.

Dean:           Let's see how much shit the faculty'll take.

Accountant:     Why doesn't this shit add up?

Linguist:       What I'm doing is a bunch of feces tauri.
                 (For non-Latin-speakers: feces tauri=the excrement of a bull)

Quality Control Inspector:
                This shit ain't good enough.

IRS Auditor:    I'll make 'em squirm for putting this shit on their tax forms.

Farmer:         I get subsidies for my shit.

Union leader:   Give us more shit or we'll strike.

Mafia boss:     Rub the shit out.

NYC Cab Driver: Damn, looks like I hit that shit...

 

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Overcoming Victimhood: Stoicism, Anti-Stoicism and Le Fils (pp. 1-14)  
Authors:  (Damian Cox, Bond University)
Abstract:
In this chapter I use a film by the Belgian filmmakers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne,
Le Fils1 (2002), to explore the difference between Stoic and Anti-Stoic approaches to
overcoming victimhood. The Stoic approach to overcoming victimhood emphasizes the
inner-strength and resourcefulness of victims. It sets up an ideal of Stoic independence in
which a person responds to becoming a victim by marshalling inner resources to
overcome destructive and painful emotions. An Anti-Stoic approach to overcoming
victimhood rejects such an appeal to independence and acknowledges that victims do not
generally possess the inner resources needed to eliminate destructive and painful
emotions. According to Anti-Stoicism, overcoming victimhood is a risky affair; it
requires both courage and luck. I use Le Fils to argue that the Anti-Stoic approach to
overcoming victimhood is both more realistic and more valuable than the Stoic approach. 

victimhood in the conventional sense is merely an example. many of us are victims and sometimes the bully is another person, and sometimes it's the universe/"god".

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35 minutes ago, Pax said:

On the other hand, I don't like the idea of universal victimhood either because it's another way of saying "everyone has problems". Well no shit, but Starbucks running out of your favorite mocha is hardly comparable to being handicapped.

that's why i didn't say "all of us" or even "most of us".

 

34 minutes ago, Pax said:

It's Jack Nicholson. I wanted it to look like he's in a straight jacket, :lol:

i was actually referring to the other pic (before you replaced it with nicholson).

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I have to do more reading but I had a different take on Stoicism. I thought it mean keeping yourself together, keeping emotions under control in the face of adversity.  Instead of letting the situation dictate to you, you dictate to it.  

I am looking for a philosophy that will help me make my mind a fortress. I was given bad advice growing up to be open & sensitive and people have used that to manipulate and even hurt me for no other reason than their own sadistic delight.  I don't want people to be able to infect me w their negativity. I want to be impervious to their provocations.  

You guys are well read. Any suggestions as to readings that might bolster me?  

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Victim the only advice I can give is to resist being labeled or trying to make yourself fit some "ism". All this does is shackle you. I've found the best defense for me is to constantly practice critical thinking and to constantly self-evaluate. It has saved me from being the victim of bullshit on more than one occasion. 

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“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

- Sun Tzu

That's my humble advice. 

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4 hours ago, Victimorthecrime said:

I have to do more reading but I had a different take on Stoicism. I thought it mean keeping yourself together, keeping emotions under control in the face of adversity.  Instead of letting the situation dictate to you, you dictate to it.  

from what i gathered, it's about controlling your emotions, not the situation. it's about changing your preferences and therefor your emotions and responses to situations rather than changing the situations themselves. it's sort of of like being indifferent to life's occurrences and situations, almost like an observer trying to not be affected by the outside world as much as possible.

 

4 hours ago, Victimorthecrime said:

You guys are well read. Any suggestions as to readings that might bolster me?  

i'm not that well read in many areas. sometimes i just skim thru pages to get the gist of of a topic/idea or philosophy. the official forum encyclopedia is lala ;)

in any case, i thought you were doing well and had your shit together, more or less. what about that est stuff?

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Two problems, one old, one new.  The new is work troubles. They are changing things - what workers do & who they report to.  At least I have a job but I am not happy about the changes at all.  It's a big deal to me and I am trying wrap my head around it. 

The old problem is that I have always been overly sensitive and this has made me an easy target for bullies & cheap shot artists.  Being sensitive has its advantages  - I sense things that other guys are oblivious to. So I don't want to be insensitive. I just want to damp it down a bit.  

But you're right - I was doing good.  Then this came along and knee capped me.  Story of my life.  

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the work thing seems bad but doesn't sound that new. i remember you've had issues with certain aspects of your job for some time now, but it appears to be getting worse. hope it works out tho.

as to the other matter, can't you avoid these bullies? unless of course they're coworkers, relatives or neighbors....

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I don't like changes at work either, I hear you. Maybe it takes some time to adjust and become confident with the new routine?

One thing I have been working on over the years is trying to maintain good boundaries. I like that I am sensitive, but I also need to be mindful. 

I hope the weekend brings you some time to relax and recharge.

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19 hours ago, Victimorthecrime said:

I am looking for a philosophy that will help me make my mind a fortress.

I don't know of a philosophy like that, but I do quite like this quote from 'The Four Agreements' by Don Miguel Ruiz;

“Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world.  Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you.  What they say, what they do, and the opinions they give are according to the agreements that they have in their own minds.”

So often when people are being mean it is a reflection of their own insecurities.

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On Saturday, December 10, 2016 at 10:02 PM, jazz said:

I don't know of a philosophy like that, but I do quite like this quote from 'The Four Agreements' by Don Miguel Ruiz;

“Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world.  Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you.  What they say, what they do, and the opinions they give are according to the agreements that they have in their own minds.”

So often when people are being mean it is a reflection of their own insecurities.

isn't it funny how insecure bullies/assholes/bitches/tormentors/insensitive people/etc usually end up having more or less great lives (winners), while insecure victims/nice guys/sensitive people etc usually end up more or less miserable (losers)!

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i propose it's something else entirely that determines success and failure, and that attitude is a side effect of certain attributes (that come from nature, nurture and circumstances) that successful people possess and failures do not (or vice versa). the universe simply has it out for some people but not for others. some people are born unlucky and remain miserable their entire lives while others have things served to them on a silver platter their whole lives. there's no use fighting it either, as that would be futile.

i remember you posed a similar question in the past:

 

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23 minutes ago, Victimorthecrime said:

But I am specifically asking about the "bullies assholes tormentors..." part of it. Were these guys always that way or did they become that way after becoming "winners". 

they probably got that way after becoming "winners". 'power corrupts' sort of thing.

people talk about such people being insecure etc, but i ask you this: how many such people end up in support forums, therapy, support groups etc? the only thing that changes for these people is their victims (they bully different people during their younger years than their older years. well, usually anyway).

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