Word Meme Dictionary
This is a sample of a new interactive dictionary we're going to post. We'll be putting out the word memes and accepting any and all "definitions or explanations"...but you must keep the meme intact...no changes. Memes may be submitted for the dictionary but it will be unlike a traditional wiki. Please let us know what you think of both the idea and the sample content. We're big girls and our little emotional hearts will not be shattered by criticism :-)...sorry, I live in Portlandia...it's kind of a standard caveat you have to add here.
WORD MEME – a word, statement or phrase providing enlightenment, insight or epiphany
No gods
No masters
No martyrs
No cages
Success: failing enough times to eliminate what does’t work so it’s easier to find what does.
Millennials = waiting for permission and release
Taxes vs charity
It’s never good business to kill your customers.
Intolerance is born of ignor-ance
Curiosity is the cure.
Media = controversy, calamity, carnality
Drumming
Dabs
Dumbing Down
No time to wait, use their weapons against them.
Spend less time on things that are not going in the same direction as you.
There are only two kinds of people: Those who want power over you and those who want you to have power over yourself. We make a thousand choices each day which one we are and an indicator of our choice is our use of the word “should”.
Who decides?
Who pays?
Who benefits?
Knowledge and wisdom are not proportional to the amount of disseminated information.
Freedom or popularity.
Problem, contradiction, exception.
Bureaucracy is a weapon useable by only one faction of politics; the one that wants power over you.
Onerous restrictions are awful. Allowable infringements are worse.
Don’t be tricked into being so honorable you tell the Nazis where the Jews are.
Leaders are not forged by ease.
Arrogance = Ignor-ance
Decorum only serves those who hope to enslave.
Turn no cheek to those who intend harm. Slap back.
The USA is the laughing stock of the world: trigger words, safe spaces, adults carrying stuffed animals and drum circles.
Don’t vote for what you don’t want.
TANFL = there ain’t no free lunch (formerly TANSTAAFL)
SNAFU = situation normal, all fucked up
PDXia = Portlandia
Some achieve everything through force. Others use persuasion and principle. What is your preference?
The wicked witch enticed Hansel and Gretel, not with work and truth but lies and candy….free concerts, free toys, free seminars, free movies, free pools, free art, free books, free food, free shelter, free rides…..
If you don’t trust others, why should I trust you?
EVERYONE wants to take down the tallest poppy when it’s next door and not on stage.
Fashion is an obsession with lying.
If you can’t trust women with power and control, why would you trust them with children?
We grow through blending the recipe of curiosity, observation and contemplation. We are merely gathering the ingredients by sharing our thoughts.
WORD MEME – a word, statement or phrase providing enlightenment, insight or epiphany
No gods
No masters
No martyrs
No cages
Success: failing enough times to eliminate what does’t work so it’s easier to find what does.
Millennials = waiting for permission and release
Taxes vs charity
It’s never good business to kill your customers.
Intolerance is born of ignor-ance
Curiosity is the cure.
Media = controversy, calamity, carnality
Drumming
Dabs
Dumbing Down
No time to wait, use their weapons against them.
Spend less time on things that are not going in the same direction as you.
There are only two kinds of people: Those who want power over you and those who want you to have power over yourself. We make a thousand choices each day which one we are and an indicator of our choice is our use of the word “should”.
Who decides?
Who pays?
Who benefits?
Knowledge and wisdom are not proportional to the amount of disseminated information.
Freedom or popularity.
Problem, contradiction, exception.
Bureaucracy is a weapon useable by only one faction of politics; the one that wants power over you.
Onerous restrictions are awful. Allowable infringements are worse.
Don’t be tricked into being so honorable you tell the Nazis where the Jews are.
Leaders are not forged by ease.
Arrogance = Ignor-ance
Decorum only serves those who hope to enslave.
Turn no cheek to those who intend harm. Slap back.
The USA is the laughing stock of the world: trigger words, safe spaces, adults carrying stuffed animals and drum circles.
Don’t vote for what you don’t want.
TANFL = there ain’t no free lunch (formerly TANSTAAFL)
SNAFU = situation normal, all fucked up
PDXia = Portlandia
Some achieve everything through force. Others use persuasion and principle. What is your preference?
The wicked witch enticed Hansel and Gretel, not with work and truth but lies and candy….free concerts, free toys, free seminars, free movies, free pools, free art, free books, free food, free shelter, free rides…..
If you don’t trust others, why should I trust you?
EVERYONE wants to take down the tallest poppy when it’s next door and not on stage.
Fashion is an obsession with lying.
If you can’t trust women with power and control, why would you trust them with children?
We grow through blending the recipe of curiosity, observation and contemplation. We are merely gathering the ingredients by sharing our thoughts.
Giggle! Giggle! Snicker!
No collection of witty sayings should be compiled without knowing the existence of this resource, because it is what many of us will instantly think of, especially when the topic of Gulch philosophy memes is introduced. I do not know how you would prefer to handle the fact of their existence. Certainly you don't want to unknowingly quote one of them without addressing the fact that they are taken from a copyrighted book. Do you want to allude to them? Get permission from the Heinlein estate to include your favorites? This is up to you.
Just FYI, they are fun to read.
Jan
Macintosh) I like your Gulch contributions.....
Here are a few, for entertainment:
• All men are created unequal.
o "Intermission: Excerpts from the Notebooks of Lazarus Long", p. 243
• It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.
o "Intermission: Excerpts from the Notebooks of Lazarus Long", p. 243
• One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
o "Intermission: Excerpts from the Notebooks of Lazarus Long", p. 243
• Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
o "Intermission: Excerpts from the Notebooks of Lazarus Long", pp. 243-244
• A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
o "Intermission: Excerpts from the Notebooks of Lazarus Long", p. 245
• A zygote is a gamete's way of producing more gametes. This may be the purpose of the universe.
o "Intermission: Excerpts from the Notebooks of Lazarus Long", p. 245
• Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.
o "Intermission: Excerpts from the Notebooks of Lazarus Long", p. 246
• Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let's play that over again, too. Who decides?
o "Intermission: Excerpts from the Notebooks of Lazarus Long", p. 246
• What are the facts? Again and again and again — what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what "the stars foretell," avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable "verdict of history" — what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!
o "Intermission: Excerpts from the Notebooks of Lazarus Long", p. 246
Jan
I suppose it's too late to resist the distortion of the meaning of the word "meme" from its original definition by Richard Dawkins as the brain's software, the building blocks of consciousness and the formation of ideas, in parallel with genes as the building blocks of the physical machinery.
The aphorisms and definitions you want to collect here are actually meme composites, as in Ayn Rand's concept formation theory. The Internet has grabbed and run with the word "meme" to represent any notion or fad or trend or opinion as a whole. Memes have become a kind of meta-meme by the natural process of how things grow, good cells as well as tumors. Let's see who can tell the difference.
kindest regards
Renee Daphne
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