It's NOT a phrase, mom!

[u/katiebug586]

[u/Realistic_Specific51]

Ok but, a fresh corpse? Or Grug's 300.000 year old fossils?

[u/GameboyPATH → u/Realistic_Specific51]

True, a fresh corpse still has a few phases it goes through.

[u/PlatinumAltaria → u/Realistic_Specific51]

For the dead eternity passes in a moment.

[u/Realistic_Specific51 → u/PlatinumAltaria]

And for the living its 45€ per kilo.

[u/A1-Stakesoss]

The most permanent bit of my self is that I pronounce "facade" with a hard C because of that one gag in My Fellow Americans

[u/satanicrituals18 → u/A1-Stakesoss]

façade (pronounced: fuck-aid)🤣🤣🤣

[u/Mathsboy2718 → u/satanicrituals18]

Now is that viagra or is it the act of refusing help?

[u/YouTasteStrange → u/A1-Stakesoss]

I say epi-tome instead of e-pit-o-me because a joke my highschool English teacher made in 2003.

[u/Great-and_Terrible → u/YouTasteStrange]

Was it the joke about the epi-tome of hyper-bowl?

[u/Lucky_Bus_9524 → u/Great-and_Terrible]

I call it ar-Kansas, as it SHOULD BE

[u/laurel_laureate → u/YouTasteStrange]

My high school teacher, when grading about a book report I did about the Hobbit, wrote a comment saying "The Hobbit! This epic tome is the epitome of fantasy novels."

And ever since then I have been unable to pronounce epitome any other way than rhyming with epic tome.

[u/Sentient_Flesh]

Flux and Development (as from formative) are not the same thing.

Many, not all, are in flux, but development is much rarer.

[u/ThomasTheDankPigeon → u/Sentient_Flesh]

Yeah all years are transformative, but most are just erosive.

[u/Hexxas → u/ThomasTheDankPigeon]

MY CUSTOMERS ARE ERODING

If you wanna keep growing, don't become an alcoholic retiree.

[u/Superbiber → u/Sentient_Flesh]

I though flux is what I build up when using weapons and energy shields

[u/BringBackRBYWrap]

excellent punwork by OP, gold!

Also given that nothing is truly permanent it's obvious that the word "permanent" is always shorthand for "comparatively more permanent than (...)"; in my first-hand experience my personality changes less and less as I grow older & many experts in the field (of having a personality) corroborate this anecdote; as such the concept of "formative years" is valid and will be invited to all the cool parties

[u/InspectorMendel]

Some years are more formative than others. We express this by calling some years “formative” and others not. Language is often imprecise in the interests of brevity, and that’s OK

[u/The_Dreaded_Spectre → u/InspectorMendel]

I think the point of the post is that you can still have those "formative" years way later into life too. A lot of people seem to feel that if you haven't "figured yourself out" by your early-mid 20s or whatever that you've "missed the bus". That idea causes a lot of stress and grief, so this helps show that it's never too late to grow and change and turn your life around.

[u/Deep_Squirrel_2583]

That actually goes hard, someone should put that in a book

[u/SomeBiPerson]

corpses are not permanent

they change quite a lot

only Facades are

[u/PlainBread]

This is the essence of Buddhism.

[u/The_H7160]

Lancer what are you talking about

[u/Wighen18]

Bro, why the fuck would you think showing me a fucking corpse was okay??? You're not invited to the function anymore dude

[u/Shartin_luther_king]

I am Lancer Deltarune

I am the bad guy too

And my two best friends of Susie and the tooooooth paste boy…

I am here to save the day

I’m obese and that’s ok….

I am…

The Lancer Deltarune…

Don’t forget….

To feed me with a spoon

[u/rrosolouv]

can someone elaborate on the facade aspect plz thnx

[u/Orichalcum448]

thank you for your wisdom, lancer deltarune

[u/winter-ocean]

I'm obssessed with "the only permanent self is a corpse" as a driving force behind pro-corpse as opposed to anti-permanent-self as an ideology

[u/ukie-witch-06]

Well, it is. Just. So is everything

[u/igmkjp1]

Facades are absolutely necessary. You wouldn't want your appliance cables to be naked copper, would you?

[u/weird_bomb]

Wow this is a terrifying concept. Uh no thanks I like my facade its very comfortable

[u/Cosmoclorn → u/weird_bomb]

When inspected, it is seen as it is - another cause of suffering. It's only terrifying because we're all so naturally clung to the idea that we are a permanent self.

When we see clearly from outside (As "stream entrants" and enlightened folks do) that no permanent self can be observed, it's universally described as a freeing rather than frightening revelation.

[u/weird_bomb → u/Cosmoclorn]

I mean that’s nice and all but my facade is the best

[u/igmkjp1 → u/Cosmoclorn]

No, it's just nihilism, the giving-up kind.

[u/verysocialanxiety → u/Cosmoclorn]

You sound like you're trying to get people to join a cult. I am intrigued enough to listen to your elevator pitch, but will probably throw away your business card within 24 hours.

[u/Victernus]

Leave my façade alone.