Thought-Terminating Cliché

My all time favorite: "you'll understand when you will be X" At the beginning, I really took it at face value, and patiently waited until I was X. Older. In a relationship. Having my own business. I was very naive, I though people shared experience and knew something about life. Every time I ended up being disappointed when reaching the point X actually prove the other side was full of crap. I didn't understand that it was only a way…

I've been nebulously plagued by various such phrases and noticed them individually and sporadically; this article seems to have provided a basis for an over-arching concept which may help me to consolidate the way that I think about them, making it easier to recognise the underlying dynamic and corresponding fault in communication integrity, and thus navigate it coherently. I much appreciate this.

> An example of the cliché in use provided by Chaz Bufe is "the admonition given to Catholic schoolchildren to recite the Hail Mary or rosary to ward off 'impure thoughts'. The use of repetitive chanting by the Hare Krishnas serves the same thought-stopping purpose." Neither of these examples have much relevance to thought-terminating cliches, whose purpose is to "stop an argument from proceeding further," because neither of these examples involves an argument. Rather, they both have a meditative purpose…

My teens love internet memes, some of which are commonly used to close a conversation. I’ve heard from my teens that in highschool the term ‘simp’ [0] is often used to shut down conversations; To the point of stopping boy/girl relations in the School class as every attempted interaction by a boy to a girl is shouted down by the other boys with a loud collective delclarion of ‘SIMP!’ 0. https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/simp/