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Metalcat

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Re: Do you have a motto/guiding principle? For your life, family, guild whatever
« Reply #50 on: September 06, 2020, 04:42:05 PM »
If it's not broken, break it.

Every belief is based on thousands of underlying assumptions. Challenge all of them.

If you are the smartest person in the room, you should find a better room.

It's much more powerful to find out how you are wrong than to prove that you are right.

It's no one's responsibility to make sure that your life is good. That's entirely on you.

Make someone's day less awful every chance you get.

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Re: Do you have a motto/guiding principle? For your life, family, guild whatever
« Reply #51 on: September 06, 2020, 05:13:30 PM »
This thread makes me feel like I would have a guild, if I had just made better life choices.

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Re: Do you have a motto/guiding principle? For your life, family, guild whatever
« Reply #52 on: September 06, 2020, 05:35:35 PM »
Take care of yourself. Take care of your shipmates. Take care of your ship.

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Re: Do you have a motto/guiding principle? For your life, family, guild whatever
« Reply #53 on: September 12, 2020, 08:16:05 AM »
Never give up, Never Surrender

FTFY.

Everything I know about life I learned from Galaxy Quest.

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That is a surprisingly under-rated movie.

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Re: Do you have a motto/guiding principle? For your life, family, guild whatever
« Reply #54 on: September 12, 2020, 12:43:10 PM »
Never give up, Never Surrender

FTFY.

Everything I know about life I learned from Galaxy Quest.

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That is a surprisingly under-rated movie.

Is it though?
I thought everyone loved Galaxy Quest?

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Re: Do you have a motto/guiding principle? For your life, family, guild whatever
« Reply #55 on: September 12, 2020, 01:39:19 PM »
It is universally loved by nerds, as far as I know, though the younger nerd generations (ie,<30 or so) might not have enough Star Trek background knowledge to appreciate it. As I'm lame and in my 40s and have kids, and no longer attend Dungeons and Dragons convention type events, I have no idea if people still like it. But I bet they do.

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Re: Do you have a motto/guiding principle? For your life, family, guild whatever
« Reply #56 on: September 13, 2020, 12:06:32 AM »
Every time my teenager goes out I say something along the lines of:

'Be Smart, Be safe, Be respectful'. 


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Re: Do you have a motto/guiding principle? For your life, family, guild whatever
« Reply #57 on: September 13, 2020, 01:37:41 AM »
Mine's in my siggy line. Still doing it.

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Re: Do you have a motto/guiding principle? For your life, family, guild whatever
« Reply #58 on: September 14, 2020, 01:46:26 PM »
1. Get busy living or get busy dying.  From Shawshank, I love its simplicity and also to philosophize about what it means to be living how I want. 

2. Don't be a dick.  Essentially an extension of the Golden/Platinum Rule but it can be boiled down pretty quickly!  Can't always know other's preferences but don't act with malice, be as aware of your surroundings as you can, and humility is generally good.

3. Be grateful, you're living better than any king ever did prior to the 20th Century.
(variant) Be grateful, of the 108,000,000,000+ humans to have ever lived your life by virtually any measure is in a pretty high percentile.

4.  It's highly unlikely that when someone is on their death bed they will complain that they received too many hugs from you. 

5.  The higher a proportion of your life is spent with quality people, the better your quality of life. 
(variant)  Don't waste your precious life on people who do not matter.

There are some assumptions built in but they work for my life.

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Re: Do you have a motto/guiding principle? For your life, family, guild whatever
« Reply #59 on: September 15, 2020, 07:50:57 AM »
Make my dog proud.

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