Plz share your finest memetic creatures that want to be in my Zoo of Useful Tautologies.
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Plz share your finest memetic creatures that want to be in my Zoo of Useful Tautologies.
good is good & bad is bad not the other way around
this meta one
evolution, expressed as a tautology:
you're in the process of making your future old friends right now
"The only time you can save is the time you haven't yet saved."
the tautology at the center of my Non-Naive Trust Dance framework and one of the first tautologies that caused me to realize how useful tautologies can be I've often expressed it as "you can't trust what you can't trust"; same truth, words are words
calvinists hate this one weird trick
vote with your feet
you are at your own learning edge, already and always
implied is "not what you think you care about or what you think you should care about or what someone else thinks you should care about"
that one is really a whole class of tautology Healing from trauma amounts to learning that it is okay to know what you know, and feel what you feel. — Bessel van der Kolk ...in a sense, it must be okay, because it's so!
in order for X to happen, the conditions for X to happen must happen
this isn't quite a tautology, but (for what I mean by the words) it's as true as 1+0=1, like it's sort of a definition of zero and plus