# Generalisations/Memes you hate? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 20, 2017, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generalisations-memes-you-hate/796795 "2017-09-20T10:42:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Tzigone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Tzigone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tzigone)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generalisations-memes-you-hate/796795/101 "2017-10-05T22:33:21Z")
“God never gives you more than you can handle.” I admit I’m an atheist, but that’d be stupid anyway. Just look at the people who commit suicide. Though I’m sure that some will say that’s them _choosing_ not to handle it, rather than not being able. So look at how many people get murdered. That’s not even counting all the other things that I guess you should be able to handle (job loss, illness, etc.) that can lead to ending up with you being homeless. But hey, it’s just something else you can handle. Or how about the close cousin “God gives special needs children to special people” (or some variant thereof)? So wrong. While I haven’t seen any recent numbers, in older studies I read, children with disabilities were much more likely to be abused than children without. Due, in no small part, I’m sure, to how stressful caring for them can be (just as I’m pretty sure we’ve discussed other stressors like poverty and the correlation to child abuse previously). And, of course, teachers are more likely to do so, as well. And people with certain types of disabilities are less able to know when to tell and be able to tell when it happens. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generalisations-memes-you-hate/796795/102 "2017-10-06T05:10:32Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > Wow…not to derail the thread, but what kind of slug? Sorry. Don’t know. > [@Tzigone](#): > > “God never gives you more than you can handle.” Yeah. Pretty much any saying or “meme” with _“God”_ in it. Fucking stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generalisations-memes-you-hate/796795/103 "2017-10-06T12:52:35Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > USMC motto, “Pain is weakness leaving the body” - I guess you are strongest right after you’ve had burns over 100% of your body, or surgery without anesthetic… That’s a saying, not a motto. Their motto was Semper Fi as of last check. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generalisations-memes-you-hate/796795/104 "2017-10-06T16:16:46Z")
> [@Tzigone](#): > > “God never gives you more than you can handle.” I admit I’m an atheist, but that’d be stupid anyway. There’s a growing outcry within the Christian community against this aphorism, which is increasingly recognized as a misquote of Scripture (which has to do with temptation to sin, not ability to endure suffering.) Obviously, someone who is engulfed in flames in a burning house is being given “more than he can handle.” ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generalisations-memes-you-hate/796795/105 "2017-10-06T16:18:19Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > That’s a saying, not a motto. Their motto was Semper Fi as of last check. OK, I stand corrected. But yes - if pain is weakness leaving the body, we would all be Superman after a few months in a torture chamber. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generalisations-memes-you-hate/796795/106 "2017-10-06T16:37:16Z")
Well yes. But the context of the saying matters: “Pain from frequent hard physical workouts is weakness leaving the body.” Which is a reformulation of “No pain, no gain.” which again is totally in the context of exercising, not headbanging, house fires, or torture. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/generalisations-memes-you-hate/796795.md?page=5)