I never realized there was a term to describe the low-effort phrases that people often use to get other people to shut up.
A thought-terminating cliché (also known as a semantic stop-sign, a thought-stopper, bumper sticker logic, or cliché thinking) is a form of loaded language—often passing as folk wisdom—intended to end an argument and quell cognitive dissonance with a cliché rather than a point.[1][2] Some such clichés are not inherently terminating, and only becomes so when used to intentionally dismiss, dissent, or justify fallacies.[3]
The term was popularized by Robert Jay Lifton in his 1961 book Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism, who referred to the use of the cliché, along with “loading the language”, as “the language of non-thought”.[4]
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Let’s not forget the grand daddy of them all: The Lord works in mysterious ways.
It’s God’s fault unless the devil did it. Those idiots have an excuse for literally everything.
The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills.
Anyways.
Damn that’s crazy
There’s someone for everyone.
The irony of it is that calling something a though-terminating cliche has itself become a thought-terminating cliche.
It is what it is
I use this one myself, but only as a statement of a fact that i cant change, not to just dismiss thing us dint want to deal with.
For example: a co-worker complaining about something going wrong on a project and at some point i have to say ‘it is what it is’ (or something of similar effect) and say that as much as that sucks, its out of our control and we need to deal with finding a solution because bitching aint gunna make the problem un-fuck itself.
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
They don’t think it be like it is,
But it do.
it ain’t what it should be
Ain’t that the truth
Things always happen for a reason.
Of all of them, I hate this one the most by far
Jesus has a plan for you.
Isn’t that fecker dead?
☝️🤓 no, He ascended into Heaven after resurrecting, so He didn’t die.
Community note: this claim lacks empirical evidence 🤓
My source is the bible!
Note: I am explaining the lore, not sharing what I believe to be fact!
Community note: source is highly contested, rife with disagreement on interpretation, and generally agreed to be unfalsifiable
I’m always confused about that one. Isn’t there a time limit on how long after dying you can cast resurrect? Also, did he cast it on himself? Is that even allowed? I’m not really an expert on D&D.
He wouldn’t give you anything that you can’t handle
It’s what it’s.
'Tis what 'tis.
'Tain’t what 'tain’t.
Ain’t my taint.
It’s not what it isn’t.
Itn’t what it itn’t
N’tn’t w’tn’t
T’aint what it t’aint
I hate you for putting this poison out into the land.
I prefer the 2Pac variant, which I sing.
“That’s just the waayy it iss”
2Pac variant? Put some respect on Bruce Hornsby’s name!
Way she goes.
.:|;:
tl;dr
yup.
Cool story bro
That’s nice, honey
Ok boomer
Cute.
So brave
That’s what she said.
It do be like that
They don’t think it be like it is, but it do
Just saw one yesterday. Told a guy that’s not how it works and he quoted something about, effectively, thinking outside the box.
So it goes. C’est la Vie (Such is life).
Kann man nix machen.
I should have thought of that one, I know way more German than French.
Just missing a “tja”.
Steckste nich din.
stecksde nich drin
没办法 (méi bànfǎ) - roughly translated means “Nothing can be done change it”.
Shouganai.
Nothing can be done. Change it!
不得不这样。人口太多呀。 -_-
I liked to respond with examples of how British Government, amongst others, always use having too small a population as an excuse for the same things. Chuck in some examples of bigger or smaller countries having a crack to show it’s just selfish government reguritation.
A current favorite here in the US: Make America Great Again.
can’t terminate thought if you didn’t have it
I’ve come across some scientific research that may give us some hope for them.
“The brain is an evolutionary marvel. […] But what of all the organisms that lack this precious organ?”
Their slogan should be:
No thought, just parrot what’s taught.
I don’t understand what you mean, but it sounds like you hate 'merica!
like that smoked brisket tho
At the end of day …
…it gets dark.
I was in Iceland in the summertime.
Can NOT confirm the dark part.
It’s the best part of living where I am.
I’m not athlete but I enjoy going for a 10k run on the longest day - I’ll see the last glimmer of evening light at 2am or so, and see the first rays of the sun and hour later or so. It’s a wonderful feeling.
Well there you have it.
“welp!” <slaps knees>
What can you do.
