http://www.acceity.org/2009/01/nothing-to-say/ A Southwest Wisconsin Blog Mon, 10 Oct 2011 04:00:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.acceity.org/2009/01/nothing-to-say/comment-page-1/#comment-45 Harry Truman Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:24:50 +0000 http://www.acceity.org/?p=369#comment-45 I think my problem is saying things when nothing needs to be said. Small talk in general. I've wasted a lot of time talking about irrelevant, pointless things just to be polite, so I choose my words wisely, which makes me not talk as much as other people. I think my problem is saying things when nothing needs to be said. Small talk in general. I’ve wasted a lot of time talking about irrelevant, pointless things just to be polite, so I choose my words wisely, which makes me not talk as much as other people.

]]> http://www.acceity.org/2009/01/nothing-to-say/comment-page-1/#comment-44 Eric Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:32:50 +0000 http://www.acceity.org/?p=369#comment-44 I might have to disagree with people always having something to say. There have been moments when I can just stare at a spot and not even think at all, then I would shake my head and wonder what kind of trance I put myself in. During a conversation would be harder though, unless one were not paying attention at all, then he or she would be in that trance state. I believe having nothing to say or a lot to say is a habit based on how other people have judged what one has said. As one may have noticed, kids may say things that are not proper at all since they have not been conditioned by other people to think about what they say first. Quick learners have a knack for saying just the right thing while other who are not so quick get older while still not thinking about what they say. I think I might be in the middle somewhere, but more towards the latter. People judge what one says and as the mind gets conditioned by the social world, one judges what he or she will say based on what others have already judged. The people that one is around might not even judge "correctly" what is relevant or not; this is where we get the fool who talks a lot because he or she talked with other fools who thought what he or she said was important, or the genius who talked to fools, but is quieted by them as they deemed his words unimportant. This reminds me of an Albert Einstein quote: "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thoughts in clear form." It is amazing how society conditions one's mind, almost ensnares it. I might have to disagree with people always having something to say. There have been moments when I can just stare at a spot and not even think at all, then I would shake my head and wonder what kind of trance I put myself in. During a conversation would be harder though, unless one were not paying attention at all, then he or she would be in that trance state. I believe having nothing to say or a lot to say is a habit based on how other people have judged what one has said. As one may have noticed, kids may say things that are not proper at all since they have not been conditioned by other people to think about what they say first. Quick learners have a knack for saying just the right thing while other who are not so quick get older while still not thinking about what they say. I think I might be in the middle somewhere, but more towards the latter. People judge what one says and as the mind gets conditioned by the social world, one judges what he or she will say based on what others have already judged. The people that one is around might not even judge “correctly” what is relevant or not; this is where we get the fool who talks a lot because he or she talked with other fools who thought what he or she said was important, or the genius who talked to fools, but is quieted by them as they deemed his words unimportant. This reminds me of an Albert Einstein quote: “Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thoughts in clear form.” It is amazing how society conditions one’s mind, almost ensnares it.

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