Golden Rule

[librarius_qui]

(my) Rule #1:
I never come to LitNet during the week.~


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what are your rules? :)


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[kasie]

So that's where you are!

My Golden Rule:

Engage brain before operating mouth.

I tend to forget it however from time to time - oh, all right, quite often - in which case, Rule no 2 comes into play:

Open mouth before inserting foot.

[Carrolb2]

Unnecessary drama will not be tolerated.

[paisleypost]

Be Susan. Be true to myself.

It's a tough one after a life of trying to please others.

[The Comedian]

"If it ain't funny, keep laughin'; it will be soon enough."

[Amundsen]

Golden rule???

"YOU!! You are not enough clever to discuss with them so shut up!"

[JBI]

4 hours of Mandarin, 2 hours of French, 1 hour of reading - daily, makeup if missed.

[librarius_qui]

"Hang the rules".

(It's Wednesday ,.,)

[librarius_qui]

er .. never mind rule #1.

Lets think again about rule #1

RULE #1, b
Thou shalt never come into LitNet when you're at work!

That's a little better ... :thumbs_up

Tim, the (Roman) klicky, says ":rolleyes~ you've got to be crazy ... :crash: "

er ,., well :blush:

:D

[librarius_qui]

Rule #2

Never go to the Religious Texts forum to speak anything other than about religious text ... :rolleyes:

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[Virgil]

Rule #2

Never go to the Religious Texts forum to speak anything other than about religious text ... :rolleyes:

:crash:

That's one of mine too!!! :D

[NikolaiI]

My first rule is to keep the body pure, which is most easy to follow. Second is to keep the mind and heart pure, which is slightly more difficult but becoming easier. Third is to be cheerful and confident, to be peaceful. Not to always seek my own comfort.

[librarius_qui]

That's one of mine too!!! :D

(However that poll Stargazer proposed was kind'a funny ... :D; but I think she could have proposed it here, in General Chat ...)

[PoeticPassions]

Rules are meant to be broken. Down with rules!!!!

Life is too short.

[librarius_qui]

Rule #3

Think twice BEFORE coming into LitNet, 'cause it's always hard to get out, and I literally spend a lot of time :rolleyes:

[JuniperWoolf]

1. Do not lie, ever, especially to yourself.

[BienvenuJDC]

Girls are a lot of trouble.....but they are a lot of fun too. :rolleyes:
...and I'm talking about girls of any age!! :D

[tailor STATELY]

My Golden Rule: Let the Holy Spirit guide

[zanna]

1. Funny is funny, not is not.
=)
oh yeah, and --
Tech theater is the center of the universe,
but that really goes without saying. ;)

[JBI]

1. Do not lie, ever, especially to yourself.

Unless of course that is a lie, but if you are a liar, you could lie about not lying, therefore to say you do not lie can easily be as true as it is untrue - perhaps then, one could say that you lie to yourself about not lying.

Just a little logic play, take it all in good fun.

[mona amon]

Better to have lent and lost than not to have lent at all. :D

[Nightshade]

Cold pizza is always a good luxury breakfast.
:nod: :D

[maraki16]

my golden rule: not speak much. silence is preferable, unless i have something good to say.
also, never do something just because others do it.
and there are many other golden rules as well......

[The Comedian]

Golden Rule to resolve Issues with Women when What's at Stake is Small but (for some inexplicable reason) Is Highly Emotional: The Key Phrases to be used by Men

Version 1: "You're right. I'm wrong"

Version 2: "After I've thought about it some, I think your way will work better than mine."

Version 3: "I didn't understand what you meant at first, which is why I disagreed with you initially. I'm sorry. But now that I understand it, I like it."

Version 4: "While I really like my idea, I have a lot of faith in you. Let's give your idea a shot first. Who knows, I might learn something!"

IMPORTANT NOTE: These spineless acquiescences are only to be used when the outcome and method over which the dispute originated are unimportant, but the discussion of these trifles has become. . . . *how shall I say this*. . . ."loud and unpleasant." These phrases, when used infrequently, can help to silence the noise and maintain the previous status of the relationship.

WARNING: When used to excess, these statements will suck your backbone of its marrow, leaving you a lesser person and jeopardize your standing with the female in question. Use with extreme caution.

[Scheherazade]

Golden Rule to resolve issues with Men (doesn't matter whether the issue at hand is big or small because they will make a big deal out of it regardless, trying to prove their... erm... "superiority"):

Version 1 (and the only version): "Oh, I think you are right! I feel so silly that I didn't think of it myself. Don't know where I would have been without you!" (Of course we all know where she would have been: a peaceful and mess-free place.)

Having said that, please proceed to do as you have planned because *again* we all know that your idea is the more practical, efficient and reasonable one, anyway. And do not worry that he will notice and ask you questions... He's - if he hasn't fallen asleep - already too engrossed in the football/basketball/cricket/ boxing match on TV or in the book he is reading(that is, of course, if he happens to like reading). He only needs to hear the above words and is not really that interested in what the outcome is.

[Nightshade]

Golden Rule to resolve issues with Men (doesn't matter whether the issue at hand is big or small because they will make a big deal out of it regardless, trying to prove their... erm... "superiority"):

Version 1 (and the only version): "Oh, I think you are right! I feel so silly that I didn't think of it myself. Don't know where I would have been without you!" (Of course we all know where she would have been: a peaceful and mess-free place.)

Having said that, please proceed to do as you have planned because *again* we all know that your idea is more practical, efficient and reasonable one, anyway. And do not worry that he will notice and ask you questions... He's - if he hasn't fallen asleep - already too engrossed in the football/basketball/cricket/ boxing match on TV or in the book he is reading(that is, of course, if he happens to like reading). He only needs to hear the above words and is not really that interested in what the outcome is.
:lol:
*wipes away tear * scher you need to read Belinda, seriously! well just a specific bit . ( am rereading it again ) and it just hit me.

O, I married my Lord Delacour, knowing him to be a fool, and believing that, for this reason, I should find no trouble in governing him. But what a fatal mistake!-a fool, of all animals in the creation, is the most difficult to govern. We set out in the fashionable world with a mutual desire to be as extravagant as possible. Strange, that with this similarity of taste we could never agree!--strange, that this similarity of taste was the cause of our perpetual quarrels! During the first year of our marriage, I had always the upper hand in these disputes, and the last word; and I was content. Stubborn as the brute was, I thought I should in time break him in. From the specimens you have seen, you may guess that I was even then a tolerable proficient in the dear art of tormenting. I had almost gained my point, just broken my lord's heart, when one fair morning I unluckily told his man Champfort that he knew no more how to cut hair than a sheep-shearer. Champfort, who is conceit personified, took mortal offence at this; and the devil, who is always at hand to turn anger into malice, put it into Champfort's head to put it into my lord's head, that the world thought--'My lady governed him.' My lord took fire. They say the torpedo, the coldest of cold creatures, sometimes gives out a spark--I suppose when electrified with anger. The next time that innocent I insisted upon my Lord Delacour's doing or not doing--I forget which--the most reasonable thing in the world, my lord turns short round, and answers--'My Lady Delacour, I am not a man to be governed by a wife.'--And from that time to this the words, 'I am not a man to be governed by a wife,' have been written in his obstinate face, as all the world who can read the human countenance may see. My dear, I laugh; but even in the midst of laughter there is sadness. But you don't know what it is--I hope you never may--to have an obstinate fool for a bosom friend.

"I at first flattered myself that my lord's was not an inveterate, incurable malady: but from his obvious weakness, I might have seen that there was no hope; for cases of obstinacy are always dangerous in proportion to the weakness of the patient. My lord's case was desperate. Kill or cure was my humane or prudent maxim. I determined to try the poison of jealousy, by way of an alterative. I had long kept it in petto as my ultimate remedy. I fixed upon a proper subject--a man with whom I thought that I could coquette to all eternity, without any danger to myself--a certain Colonel Lawless, as empty a coxcomb as you would wish to see. The world, said I to myself, can never be so absurd as to suspect Lady Delacour with such a man as this, though her lord may, and will; for nothing is too absurd for him to believe. Half my theory proved just; that is saying a great deal for any theory. My lord swallowed the remedy that I had prepared for him with an avidity and a bonhommie which it did me good to behold; my remedy operated beyond my most sanguine expectations. The poor man was cured of his obstinacy, and became stark mad with jealousy. Then indeed I had some hopes of him; for a madman can be managed, a fool cannot. In a month's time I made him quite docile. With a face longer than the weeping philosopher's, he came to me one morning, and assured me, 'he would do every thing I pleased, provided I would consult my own honour and his, and give up Colonel Lawless.'

"'Give up!'--I could hardly forbear laughing at the expression. I replied, 'that as long as my lord treated me with becoming respect, I had never in thought or deed given him just cause of complaint; but that I was not a woman to be insulted, or to be kept, as I had hitherto been, in leading-strings by a husband.' My lord, flattered as I meant he should be with the idea that it was possible he should be suspected of keeping a wife in leading-strings, fell to making protestations--'He hoped his future conduct would prove,' &c. Upon this hint, I gave the reins to my imagination, and full drive I went into a fresh career of extravagance: if I were checked, it was an insult, and I began directly to talk of leading-strings. This ridiculous game I played successfully enough for some time, till at length, though naturally rather slow at calculation, he actually discovered, that if we lived at the rate of twenty thousand a-year, and had only ten thousand a-year to spend, we should in due time have nothing left. This notable discovery he communicated to me one morning, after a long preamble. When he had finished prosing, I agreed that it was demonstrably just that he should retrench his expenses; but that it was equally unjust and impossible that I could make any reformation in my civil list: that economy was a word which I had never heard of in my life till I married his lordship; that, upon second recollection, it was true I had heard of such a thing as national economy, and that it would be a very pretty, though rather hackneyed topic of declamation for a maiden speech in the House of Lords. I therefore advised him to reserve all he had to say upon the subject for the noble lord upon the woolsack; nay, I very graciously added, that upon this condition I would go to the house myself to give his arguments and eloquence a fair hearing, and that I would do my best to keep myself awake. This was all mighty playful and witty; but it happened that my Lord Delacour, who never had any great taste for wit, could not this unlucky morning at all relish it. Of course I grew angry, and reminded him, with an indelicacy which his want of generosity justified, that an heiress, who had brought a hundred thousand pounds into his family, had some right to amuse herself, and that it was not my fault if elegant amusements were more expensive than others.

[The Comedian]

Golden Rule to resolve issues with Men (doesn't matter whether the issue at hand is big or small because they will make a big deal out of it regardless, trying to prove their... erm... "superiority"):

Version 1 (and the only version): "Oh, I think you are right! I feel so silly that I didn't think of it myself. Don't know where I would have been without you!" (Of course we all know where she would have been: a peaceful and mess-free place.)

Having said that, please proceed to do as you have planned because *again* we all know that your idea is the more practical, efficient and reasonable one, anyway. And do not worry that he will notice and ask you questions... He's - if he hasn't fallen asleep - already too engrossed in the football/basketball/cricket/ boxing match on TV or in the book he is reading(that is, of course, if he happens to like reading). He only needs to hear the above words and is not really that interested in what the outcome is.

:lol: I'll add Scher that this only works, if we are given FULL credit for any positive outcome and the idea that spawned the positive outcome from the above stated tactic. Any unforeseen negative outcomes will be resolutely blamed on the female, regardless of the idea's origin. ;)

[JuniperWoolf]

Unless of course that is a lie, but if you are a liar, you could lie about not lying, therefore to say you do not lie can easily be as true as it is untrue - perhaps then, one could say that you lie to yourself about not lying.

Just a little logic play, take it all in good fun.
lol That's pretty much what my psych professor told me. He said something along the lines of "but you do lie to yourself, every day. We all do, we can't help it. If we were to constantly admit the truth, we would be unable to function in society."
I TRY not to lie, very hard.

Golden rule #2:
Question absolutely everything.

[librarius_qui]

Golden rule #2:
Question absolutely everything.

Lets go, I have a question for you: WHY not to lie? ... :crash:

(You don't have to answer, if you don't wish to ... But, well, you said about questioning everything, then I'm questioning your rule #1 :rolleyes: )

[backline]

1) Never eat more than you can lift!

[Mathor]

as of now "litnet only from 10pm-2am, and only if i'm doing well in my math work"

[librarius_qui]

(never to fall in love (again), or always to fall in love (for the first time, or at the first sight, clue, breath, word ..)? ... this is quite a question :rolleyes: )

[JuniperWoolf]

Lets go, I have a question for you: WHY not to lie? ... :crash:

(You don't have to answer, if you don't wish to ... But, well, you said about questioning everything, then I'm questioning your rule #1 :rolleyes: )

I used to lie all the time. I'd make up stories to try to seem more interesting, or I'd lie to people about having to do something so they'd leave me alone. It made me lose my sense of self, and I started to feel like I was nothing after a while. That's why I try not to lie to other people, and why lying to myself is worse. If you want to know who you truly are, you have to be brutally honest with yourself.

[librarius_qui]

I used to lie all the time. I'd make up stories to try to seem more interesting, or I'd lie to people about having to do something so they'd leave me alone. It made me lose my sense of self, and I started to feel like I was nothing after a while. That's why I try not to lie to other people, and why lying to myself is worse. If you want to know who you truly are, you have to be brutally honest with yourself.

then your rules #1 and #2 work well together ... :)

[Scheherazade]

If it is too good to be true, probably it is not true.

[BienvenuJDC]

At all costs.....be genuine!!!!

[Tournesol]

WILDNESS IS NOT A PREREQUISITE FOR FUN! [something I tell my students]

[The Comedian]

When a co-worker asks you: "I have some of my daughter's old comic books laying around. She'll never want them. Would you like them?" -- Always say "Yes". Always!

[Nightshade]

Do not be over ambitious!

:rolleyes:

[NikolaiI]

Focus.

[BienvenuJDC]

Don't ever get distracted, and always finish what you

[librarius_qui]

In LitNet, when you feel bad about something, try to say so in a way so as not to damage so much.

I'm in GREAT need of applying this rule.~

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lq+

[billl]

Unless of course that is a lie, but if you are a liar, you could lie about not lying, therefore to say you do not lie can easily be as true as it is untrue - perhaps then, one could say that you lie to yourself about not lying.

Just a little logic play, take it all in good fun.

Rule about lying:
Try to be the sort of person who, when asked,
"If I were to ask you if you were a liar, would you say 'NO'?"
responds "YES."

(BONUS logic play :))

[The Comedian]

Golden Rule #2.3765098715

Go fishing more often: If you don't fish, go. If you fish all the time, go more frequently.

NOTE: You do not have to fish or enjoy eating fish to reap the benefits of "goin' fishin' ".

[imthefoolonthehill]

WILDNESS IS NOT A PREREQUISITE FOR FUN! [something I tell my students]

no, but wildness is a subsection of fun.

[Nightshade]

DO NOT GET ANNOYED!
:flare:
:angel:
:D
:rolleyes:

[librarius_qui]

ALWAYS COME TO LITNET ON WEEKENDS!

Wooohoo! It's weekend! :) :) :) :thumbs_up :)


lq~

[Scheherazade]

When you have a grievance against Mods, deal with it via PMs. Posting about it in the threads will do nothing but earn you infraction points.

[kilted exile]

Spend more time at the lake

[NikolaiI]

Don't eat after 2-3 hours before sleep.