Do you ever rehearse what you are going to say? If so, what sorts of situations do you tend to do this for? Difficult phone calls? High pressure parties? Break-up conversations? Job interviews? Public speaking?
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Do you ever rehearse what you are going to say? If so, what sorts of situations do you tend to do this for? Difficult phone calls? High pressure parties? Break-up conversations? Job interviews? Public speaking?
sometimes. usually for breakup situations but for some reason it never comes out as i rehearsed.
Not in that exact sense, but I tend to run arguments and even full-fledged debates through my mind when I'm not using it for anything else, just formulating opinions and see how they translate and hold up in more concrete verbal form. I don't really do it to prepare for specific events where I'll be sharing those opinions, although I occasionally end up using shreds or particularly versatile or catchy phrases if a situation does end up asking for it. Most of the time I'll have forgotten, but the process does make it easier to come up with alternative phrasings of a similar angle.
I don't think I'd consider myself better prepared for having a single one-sided speech readied with zero on-the-spot adaptability. A lot of my interest in language and conversation stems from the communication of logic, and since the reasoning required to deal with a situation can change around completely at a single word or observation, my grasp of language will need to be equally versatile.
I remember doing it... same as raza did. But then I grown tired of debates and conversations.
It feels like everything has been said already. Same as with clothes. It feels like all possible forms and combinations have been created. Now is only colors and patterns left to explore.
Wow! You are so into debates, you even debate yourself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raza
I think that kind of feeling stems mostly from a lack of imagination. That's not unique or even specific to you; as humans we just tend to judge everything from a frame of reference built around what we've already seen, but looking back people that thought they'd reached the peak were always wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by OliX
Quite. In fact, they're generally the debates most worth having. The rest of you are useful for that self-image-through-social-reflection thing our minds do, but fuck if you say much of anything useful.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ajax Knucklebones
I'm aware that in future there will be new debates and new topics to talk about but it still feels empty around here. I have feeling that you can empathize with that feeling too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raza
Somewhat. 'Debate' sections and topics do tend to be dreadfully repetitive, and even if my own opinion doesn't fall into the spectrum that's always well-represented I will have heard it a dozen times before. It's not abortion rights, elections or even the pedo debate that occasionally make me realise new things about myself and where I stand in the world though; it's all the far more open ended subjects and questions on everyday thoughts that seem to have all the unexpected angles with their own validity to them.
Color and patterns are metaphor to topics and points.Quote:
It feels like everything has been said already. Same as with clothes. It feels like all possible forms and combinations have been created. Now is only colors and patterns left to explore.
As for the topic, rehearsing something is just sort of self mimicry. And what's mimicry else than a tool of evolution.
not really...................I do talk to myself a lot though
I do if it is important. Then I forget what I wrote down or the situation I was preparing for crops up before I am ready, like the time that my parents told me I should stop being Goth and reviewing porn in case one day I should somehow desire to join the ranks of the apathetic sheep by pulling the wool over my eyes. So instead I just exploded and my dad said I was mentally unstable. Of course I am going to be piss angry that you told me to change my fucking lifestyle, idiot! I had been dreading that conversation for months, though. So, all the rage that I kept bottled up just came out. Still, it was nothing compared to what I could have said. I could have verbally flayed his lifestyle, but I held my tongue. I love my parents, but... for fuck's sake... I'd rather be dead than adhere to the ridiculous social normative. I told them that, too. I think that they finally realized I was serious, though. So, that's good. Haven't gotten that talk, yet.
But... things would have gone more smoothly if I had written down an awesome rebuttal because I definitely anticipated such a question.
if I have a play or a monologue!
Awesome.Quote:
Originally Posted by OliX
('Awesome' is a metaphor for 'I don't see it.')
I don't blame you.
I blame the economy.
and i blame michael bay:
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a67...3roses/BAY.jpg
I dunno who that is, but yay for kittens.
he was playing jenga until michael bay came along and added about 90% too much lightning bolts, explosions and fires to it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raza
indeed!Quote:
Originally Posted by Raza
(Cat pass up the op to second a kittenic diversion post.)
I occasionally rehearse what I have to say if it's something important, but then I throw out the script. The rehearsal is to help me make sure I have all of my thoughts in order and that they make sense.
Your first paragraph actually describes really well what I do. My interest in language and conversation stems more from the communication of feelings and ideas than logic, though. While I am hardly an opponent of logic, I am just a little wary of it, as many totally wrong things can be logically argued, and as many questions don't necessarily have a logical, yes/no type answer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Raza
I don't rehearse before, but I always kick myself for thinking of something wittier to say afterwards.
All the time. It's embarrassing when someone catches you doing it, though.
no, but maybe I should. I am the queen of inappropriate sometimes.
Only when I'm calling in sick to work, and I'm not sick.
I do sometimes, then I open my mouth and something completely different comes out.
If they can be logically argued, how do you know they're wrong?Quote:
Originally Posted by batzilla
Epically when they have logic that backs their side up, logic that is as flawless as what your using