To much talk

[Anonymous 3]

I talk to much. And that is not good.

I have been thinking about this subject and I think there is to much talk in our days. I dont know if it ever was different, but I think it’s very bad now.

Words have power. It is said that “in the beginning was the verb”. Yet people wield this power like a kid wielding a loaded gun… A f*cked up kid in a killing spree.

Everyone has an opinion, based in anecdotal information or no information at all.
The information available is mostly biased, wrong or deceitful. One wonders if we understand correctly anything at all.

The few dealings I had with the press resulted in distorted reports. And the subjects had no importance or controversy, so I wonder what would be reported otherwise.

I was once interviewed for a newspaper as a teacher because of a school project. I said that “a lot of physics was involved in the project”. The paper wrote that the project involved “metaphysics”.
I had a TV interview, and in the rehearsal the reporter placed some very hard questions. To my relief he didnt use these questions during the live interview, he later said that he was just testing me in the rehearsal. I was left wondering what he would do if he was against me…

The only things we can be sure is what we experience personally.
The only persons we can truly know are the ones we deal closely for years.

Yet people say thing without real knowledge of situations. People judge others and call names, without ever knowing them.

And in the personal level things are even worst. People expect to say whatever they want to each other and have no consequence whatsoever.
Women are the worst, they say hurtful things (usually false) and later say they “didn’t mean to”. But words HAVE AN IMPACT, and that is why words are used.

If we where to measure every word we use, as if they could be written in stone forever as a pledge of honor and truth of our character, then we would say little if anything at all.

If we where to react to anything others say to us, as if those words where their final and definite stance towards us, then we would have no connections at all.

So, what we have here is a cognitive dissonance. In one side we value words to much, in the other side they are used with little or no care.

No wonder it is all a mess. Anyone can get to us and claim anything, and with the right setting everyone will accept it and judge you for it.
Women in our lives can say whatever they want with the express intent of hurting and manipulating, and we take it as a truthful expression of our character.
To be a man of your word is a liability in our times. People will take advantage of it and laugh if you expect anything similar from them.

It is time to accept the truth, that is not comfortable, neither is easy:

Words mean nothing today.

Talking to much is just giving people information about us that they will use to their advantage.
The truth that we speak gets buried under thousands of lies.
Anything we ear or read has to be analysed not by its content, but by the intention of its author.

[GeraldParticipant 3626]

Well written… and true. Opinions are unfounded by most.

No longer can we walk away, we must run. Remove the motive power.

[Anonymous 42]

No giving information brothers, keep it to yourself, keep your power to yourself. Keep people in the dark.
#dont tell people s~~~

^^^^^Sounds like the secret to disposing a dead body, just add a boat, deep water, some chain, and an old engine block to complete the recipe, I saw it in Betty Crocker Bad Boys, they have the good bad boy recipes!

[Anonymous 42]

double post, sorry…

[Silverstone the SecondParticipant]

If people talked less and thought more, then the world would be a better place. Simple as that. I like solitude, not talking to these mother f~~~ers can be great. Just get away from it all.

Feminism is a movement where opinions are presented as facts and emotions are presented as evidence.

[DarkRyuParticipant 2354]

I try to live a private life. The only time I reveal personal s~~~ is online where it can’t be traced to my real life. I have no Facebook, I never link to my website or even reveal what state I live in. Any information you give someone in real life is something they can use against you.

[Anonymous 0]

In the business world, people advertise themselves with tools like the “personal commercial,” the “elevator pitch,” and so on. These are pre-planned, polished statements about who you are and what you represent. (Go look up “elevator pitch” at Wikipedia.com for more info.)

Similarly, businesses define themselves with “mission statements” and “value statements.” (Both terms are in Wikipedia as well.)

My point: One doesn’t have to cut off communications with the outside world. Just think hard about how you want to introduce yourself and then prepare a little “personal commercial” or “elevator pitch.” Put your best foot forward, and choose and control what info you want others to know about you. Name, where you’re from, what you do for a living, etc.

Similarly, choose what you *don’t* want to discusss. For example, politics have gotten so polarized that I just tell people I don’t even follow politics anymore. I tell them that I’m from a deep-blue state, so my vote doesn’t matter anyway. So I just don’t worry about it. If *they* want to talk politics, that’s fine with me. But personally I don’t want to go on record and end up p~~~ing off 50% of the people I talk with. So I choose not to talk about it at all.

Anyway, to sum up. I agree totally with the OP: Words and opinions will get you into trouble. But one can get around that. Good communicators think ahead and make deliberate choices about what they want to communicate. They work up things like “personal commercials” and “elevator pitches” so that they can get chatting quickly and easily with other people. And they decide ahead of time what they *don’t* want to talk about as well.

Treat communication like a battle and strategize ahead of time. That will remove most of the dangers. And with time, you’ll find a core group of like-minded people with whom you can be more candid and more open without fear that they’ll use your words against you in some manner.

[RennieParticipant]

That’s why I also got off social media, cause what you say is saved, and who you said it too might come back to haunt you. No giving information brothers, keep it to yourself, keep your power to yourself. Keep people in the dark.
#dont tell people s~~~

I agree with this. Total information blackout. No matter how insignificant it may seem. If someone doesn’t need to know it, they don’t get told. If someone is trusted though. I am willing to be more open with them though.

It’s good OPSEC practice to keep your mouth shut. Loose lips sink ships and all that.

[John DoeParticipant 743]

Anonymous wrote:

Words mean nothing today.

If I could add +100 to this I would.

People say what they want because noone will pop them in the face any more.

Or in simpler terms: No accountability.

If the option is available, without going to jail or losing a needed job, the next time somebody mouths off or insults you just pop them in the face with a jab. But I want to emphasize “if the opportunity is available”.

I have done it before, just out of trying something different, after I was tired of my brother mouthing off to me. Knocked him flat on his 200lb fat ass with a jab and gave him a black eye.

And you know what happened? The world kept spinning, no earth quakes, cities still stood, and I felt better. According to today’s advice “Who would of knew?”

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