"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger": True or false?

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"What doesn't kill you makes you stronger": True or false?

by MandyPerfumeGirl on Sun May 15, 2011 2:47 pm

Hi all,

I used to believe that this was true, but I don't believe that's necessarily the case anymore. I think going through hard times and traumas can make a person stronger, but I also think that, with other people, it can really break their soul beyond repair.

What do you think?

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Re: "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger": True or false?

by CeCe on Sun May 15, 2011 2:56 pm

To a degree..it's our experiences & how we react to them that make us who we are. Some people are crushed & can't recover. They cling to the past their entire life while others are able to overcome & become a better person for it.

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Re: "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger": True or false?

by Shale on Sun May 15, 2011 3:16 pm

Fredrick Nietzsche was spouting some Germanic platitude when he came up with that one. It is a good axiom to make you dust yourself off and continue on life's course,

But never forget that:

What doesn't kill you ... still sucks.

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Re: "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger": True or false?

by Alan Smithee on Sun May 15, 2011 4:44 pm

MandyPerfumeGirl wrote:Hi all,

I used to believe that this was true, but I don't believe that's necessarily the case anymore. I think going through hard times and traumas can make a person stronger, but I also think that, with other people, it can really break their soul beyond repair.
What do you think?

Then it "killed" them. Sometimes you eat the bear. Sometimes the bear eats you.

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Re: "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger": True or false?

by Shale on Sun May 15, 2011 4:55 pm

alan smithee wrote: ...Sometimes you eat the bear. Sometimes the bear eats you.

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Re: "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger": True or false?

by Supernova on Sun May 15, 2011 7:00 pm

If the saying is true then before long we're going to be damn near invincible.

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Re: "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger": True or false?

by TSJFan4Ever on Sun May 15, 2011 9:23 pm

CeCe wrote:To a degree..it's our experiences & how we react to them that make us who we are. Some people are crushed & can't recover. They cling to the past their entire life while others are able to overcome & become a better person for it.

ITA with this so I guess the saying is true. Your experiences can shut you down and "kill" you, or you can find a way to rise above them and become stronger. I think that parts of you can be "killed" off, without the whole person shutting down, though. You might close yourself off to one area of your life, but not others, like love, if you've been burned.

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Re: "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger": True or false?

by Chris on Mon May 16, 2011 7:17 am

I agree for the most part.

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Re: "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger": True or false?

by RedBedroom on Mon May 16, 2011 8:33 pm

I agree to a point. But not all of the things we go through ulitmately make us stronger. I am a glass half full type of person, so I always try to look for the life lesson in the bad stuff. But sometimes, it is more freeing to just say, "That sucked, glad it's over."

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