Big brain energy

bastian_5 , 7 months ago

If you think you’re useless you probably ARE being taken advantage of.

gramathy , 7 months ago

Jokes on them, I pretend to be useful to everyone else but I’m not

Hegar , 7 months ago

This is one of the insights of the Daoist text the Zhuangzi. He talks a lot about the usefulness of uselessness in avoiding misery and exploitation.

"Enough!” said Woodworker Shi. “Say no more about it. It’s waste wood! Make a boat from it and it will sink; make a coffin from it and it will rot; make a utensil from it and it will break; make a gate from it and it will run sap; make a pillar from it and insects will infest it. You can’t make lumbar from such a tree; it’s useless! That is why it has lived to such an age.”

After Woodworker Shi returned home, the altar oak appeared to him in a dream. “What were you comparing me to? Did you mean to compare me to those lovely trees, like the sour cherry and pear, the tangerine and pomelo – fruit bearing trees that are ripped apart once their fruit ripens? Disgraced by all that ripping, their limbs split and their branches torn, they find only bitterness in life and end by dying before their natural years are up. They bring it on themselves, being torn up by the common crowd. It is thus for all types of things.

the_artic_one , 7 months ago

Reigen knows what’s up.

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AnUnusualRelic , 7 months ago

Politicians: hold my finely aged cognac.

rockerface , 7 months ago

Where I’m working it’s called “managing expectations”

lowleveldata , 7 months ago

yes, yes… Could you just sign here for me real quick? There is nothing you can lose anyway right?

brown567 , 7 months ago

You can always be a patsy =)

dipshit , 7 months ago

My mantra.

SuckMyWang , 7 months ago

Good advice. Thanks for being useful

mo_lave , 7 months ago

muda muda muda

Kolanaki , 7 months ago

“Hey Kolanaki, I need a door stop.”

“Okay… 😥”