Could you help me with this?

[starlightpiper]

I've learned that, ultimately, it's best to make your own decisions. Listen to what other people say, but choose what's best for you, not what they think is best.

Oh, and I'm 18.

[Ruu]

Nine times out of ten, old people are way smarter than you.

[Arc Orion]

Okay. perhaps I shouldn't have worded it as I did. I'm trying to say that there is nothing, ever, that is absolutely certain. One day, 1+1 may equal 12, and the world may be entirely flat. Perhaps 1+1 is 12 and we simply have done something wrong that happens to work every single time we've tried it. Let's see... Nothing is for certain. Everything we have ever learned is fully capable of becoming forfeit.

[kizba]

I've learned what it means to have faith.

Two dozen years old.

[KatFreak]

1. I have learned that humor can help you overcome anything. Every negative thing in your life may be pounding down upon you, but if you can manage to lighten your mind with any random ast of silliness, your life just got a little bit better.

2. Never give up. If you are in a situation that makes you desperate for death, then stop, scream until your lungs ache, then cry. By then, you will have vented enough to realize that there are other options. Nothing is worth destroying God's most precious gift to you.

Either option works for me, although I've only been in a position bad enough to use the second one about five times in my life.

I am eighteen.

[Nekra]

Most people think what they have to say is important and matters, most of the time they are wrong.

You know how intelligent the average person is, statistically half the population are dumber then that.

While someone maybe a totaly fucking idiot, the older they are the more experience they have, so chances are old people do have something useful to say, listen and try to apply it to your own life.

i'm 22

[Darkhan]

Ok Arc, lets have fun and prove you wrong by contradiction. If, as you say, nothing is for certain, then that would include "nothing", which means at least one thing is for certain (cause if nothing is certain, then you can't be sure that "nothing is for certain"). We can, by your own position, learn that thing, so it's possible that we can know at least one thing.

Also, 1+1 will never equal 12, because 1 is a label we've given to the concept of singular, while 12 is the label we've given to the concept of a singular thing multiple times. If you really wanna push the issue, how bout this. I'll give you 1+1 dollars and you give me 12. If they're equal, you won't mind.

Hmm... maybe we should move our part of the discussion to the Sciene and Philosophy section.

[elroy]

I've learned that while you were young your parents may have said or done things that made you mad, when you grow older you see it more from their perspective and in the end, while they may have made some mistakes, they genuinely tried the best.

[flyingfox]

[quote="Arc Orion";p="462707"]Nothing is for certain. Everything we have ever learned is fully capable of becoming forfeit.[/quote]
Nothing is for 100% certain. Everything we have ever learned is fully capable of becoming forfeit but that will not prevent it from being useful or functional in relatively either short or long term.

[Arc Orion]

The idea that nothing is for certain is also incertain, in and of itself. There may be something which is for certain, but we cannot test this for a single reason. We have no idea that our perceptions of our surroundings are accurate. And since all concepts and ideas we create are based upon our perceptions, they, in turn, cannot be tested, unless, of course, we are sure that our perceptions are accurate.

Also, remember:
[quote="OniNeko";p="444812"]Arc Orion, is always right.[/quote]

[naval_aviator_2040]

that no matter what the question is, someone will always try to make you second guess your answer. and that someone is usually yourself

[RadicalDreamer]

Always have a witty retort on hand. If the other guy remains pig-headed, spouting rhetoric instead of actually adressing your points, cut him down to size and bring the audience on your side. It doesn't matter if you're wrong or right as long as the other guy sounds dumber than you, unfortunately.

I've never put this little tidbit into practice, myself, but it's still a useful (and very cynical) tactic.

[Dayan Rabalyn]

1: Never be afraid to ask questions, it's much easier to ask and feel like a fool for five minutes than not ask and feel like a fool for the rest of your life.

2: Try and have an open mind. If you try and look at things from both sides you'll have a better understanding of what is going on.


And the old one we all know:

3: Never judge a book by it's cover. This is sometimes very hard to do nowdays, but sometimes (not all the time) you do just have to give people the benefit of the doubt.

20 years old here *sigh*