| | Speaking in variables.
"When someone says something to you, and you know that that thing which
you heard could be socially crippling to someone else, should you keep
in what you heard or should you tell the person targeted?"
This is what we call a roundabout statement. Usually, it is intended to
be understood only by those in the know, or sometimes it can be used to
indirectly answer questions. True, it makes sense, but basically, it's
passive, boring-ass blogging. Therefore, let me redesign the above
statement to be more readable.
"My friend just told me something really bad about a close pal of mine.
Man was it rotten! I'm torn between keeping it a secret or letting my
close friend know. What do you think I should do?"
This is the exact same statement. It is easier to read and is more
inviting. Agreed? Good, knew you would. I despise it when people "speak
in variables." It's like they want to get your answer without asking
you the question. It rips away your vote of confidence in them because
it's like "dude i can't actually tell you anything because i don't trust that you'll answer right if i do." Yuck. SO, here's another juicy example:
"If you are a very close friend of someone, and that someone starts to do something that is more or less societally unacceptable, would you still support that friend or would you try to make him or her change, or would you just disown that friend"
Once you hear someone say that, you've got like 10 things running through your head.
-"who the hell is this someone? YOU???"
-"what the hell is this societally unnaceptable crap?"
-"are you hiding something?"
-"you really thought this one out didn't you."
-"how am I supposed to know?"
-"it depends what you mean..."
-and four more things.
Now, let's say that someone is your close friend Bob. He just asked you the very same question, except here's how he said it:
"Chris, man, my friend Jill just smoked a joint last night. I don't know what to do... i think she's cool and all but i'm just not sure how to handle this."
And... bingo. I can answer this question a little more accurately than
before. You know why? Yeah you guessed it... ALL THE VARIABLES HAVE
VALUES!! Now, let's really look at this mathematically (you can go do
something else now if you like, but this is interesting to me). We're
going to refer to the pre-Bob form.
"If Z a very close friend of X, and X starts to
do activity Y that is more or less BAD, the solution is A, B, or C" >>> F(X,Y,Z)=A or B or C.
if you're given X, Y, and Z, you can pretty much know the answer. So:
Z = Chris
X = Jill
Y = smoke a joint
and the answer would clearly be B (arbitrarily chosen). clearly you're
wondering why Z would be anyone other than yourself. The answer
is: knowing the questioner speaks in variables, he or she may or
may not want you to answer the problem using someone else's thinking.
but if you still have X, Y, and Z as variables, well you pretty much
have no freaking clue what the hell the answer is. In speaking, even 1
variable left undefined can pretty much make it impossible to answer a
question (or know that is going on).
SO to all of you people out there who "speak in variables" (X), you
need to go do something (Y) to yourself with a sharp object (Z). And
call me when you get back, I love our little visits. Ta ta!
x = leafers
y = fornicate
z = iron stick
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