Survival Tips…

[AutoliteParticipant]

I thought that this guy makes a very interesting point. The survival tips for prison are really no different than the survival tips for life itself. I suspect that this is no secret to most of us here…

[Branched offParticipant 10933]

Its a good tip for sure. I think you either have to be very strong inside or very paranoid to manage it though.

We can talk when we feel we want to share some human contact or want to let people know we are successful or capable. It takes a lot of strength to say “I am enough in myself” and I think it only comes when are sure in yourself that you have achieved good things in life.

If that inner strength is not there, one has to just make do with plain old paranoia -you fear you may get hurt.

I find it is wise to not tell any female all that much because the more they know the more they can extract from you are use you.

A woman is like fire -fun to play with, can warm you through and cook your food, needs constant feeding, can burn you and consume all you own

[AutoliteParticipant]

Branched off wrote:

We can talk when we feel we want to share some human contact or want to let people know we are successful or capable.

“Keep your mouth shut” is perhaps the best possible ‘life advice’ ever. I know that I don’t practice it near enough myself but I intend to try much harder in the future. I have never regretted keeping quiet but I have very often many times regretted speaking my mind. I just wish that someone had clued me into this gem when I was a younger man rather than having to have figured it out all on my own.

Keeping your opinions to yourself may seem to create the impression that you’re timid or weak but I have found that speaking your mind extremely rarely works to your advantage. Far more often than not, people will just play it against you…

[The Black ScorpionParticipant 2146]

The talkers are the ones who seem to cause all the problems in life.

From the loud mouths at work to the nosey neighbours next door to the attention whores in restaurants to the snitches in prison.

The more a person talks the less I want to deal with them.

The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover that it was not fish you were after. - Henry David Thoreau

[AutoliteParticipant]

Branched off wrote:

I find it is wise to not tell any female all that much because the more they know the more they can extract from you and use you.

Very true! However perhaps we should assume this to be the universal case with all human interaction (male or female). It just seems to be human nature for most people to use what they know about you to phuck you over. Acknowledging this simple fact shouldn’t be considered “paranoia” at all…

[HermitParticipant]

Autolite wrote:

I have never regretted keeping quiet but I have very often many times regretted speaking my mind.

It is ALWAYS better to be slow to speak and quick to listen. I also need to keep my mouth shut more often than I do. Fortunately, I was much worse in the past and while I sometimes still say too much, I’m getting better at saying nothing.

I remember when I first learned that I needed to say much less and began practicing this, coworkers would try to antagonize me and when I would just stand there and stare at them, they say, “Nothing? You mean I can’t even get a rise out of you?” It was a great feeling to regain my power through silence and not give them any power by succumbing to their attempts at soliciting a response.

The evil in women’s hearts leaves them no moral bounds as to inhibit them from descending to the lowest levels of darkness to acquire their self entitled desires.

[AutoliteParticipant]

The Black Scorpion wrote:

The talkers are the ones who seem to cause all the problems in life.

Perhaps we could pause for a moment and just consider all the grief and hassles that we can avoid in life just by ‘shutting the phuck-up’…

[AutoliteParticipant]

Hermit wrote:

I also need to keep my mouth shut more often than I do. Fortunately, I was much worse in the past and while I sometimes still say too much, I’m getting better at saying nothing.

I used to say “Say as little as possible to as few people as possible as seldom as possible and always avoid eye contact”. I only just wish that I was a little better at practicing what I preached… 😀

[AutoliteParticipant]

Hermit wrote:

I remember when I first learned that I needed to say much less and began practicing this, coworkers would try to antagonize me and when I would just stand there and stare at them, they say, “Nothing?

I had my boss once ask me “Does nothing ever bother you”? I just remained silent in response.

Of course there were countless things that really p1ssed me off about work. I just knew better than to engage my immediate supervisor on the subject… 🙂

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