Comments | harihane: Time to do this right.

harihane

Time to do this right.

Jan 26, 2004 21:49

The entire existence of this journal I have used it as a means of sharing my current events, and occasionally feelings and thoughts. When in actuality, if anyone really wanted to know, they could speak to me directly, and perhaps would do so. So instead, it's time for me to post for myself, log some actual thoughts. Some me time, so if you want ( Read more... )

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tsukiinoue January 26 2004, 21:01:14 UTC

I just love you for posting such words of wisdom -weeps- It's fairly evident that I have absolutely nothing intelligent to say yet felt I should make a comment on one of your entries. I can't remember who you are on Gaia anymore....

Just callin em like I see em harihane January 27 2004, 00:25:35 UTC

I'm Harihane on gaia =P

alousybum January 26 2004, 21:21:55 UTC

a few reactions...i dont think pretenses of courtesy are usually false, though perhaps they suggest things that arent true...like, enough people care about bein courteous, but yeah, they probly dont honestly care about the things they might pretend to for the sake of courtesy. cant blame em on some levels, but yeah, some people try too hard ( ... )

harihane January 27 2004, 00:28:19 UTC

Heh I knew you wouldn't pass up the op to dish out some cents, not that I'm sayin that's a bad thing.

You have a lot of good point, and by false pretenses, even if they do not wish ill, it seems more courtesy is more out of habit than sincerity, but hell, that's customs for ya.

alousybum January 27 2004, 19:08:02 UTC

werd. i rarely do pass up such an opportunitah, its one of the things i think da LJ is worth keepin up with for.
n' you said it, thems customs for ya. still dunno if i agree exactly tho. maybe if we wasnt speakin in such generalities i'd know what i think...

BTW, i can work tuesdays after 3:30 from now on, i dropped my physics lab. call me before ya add me in there, but i'd be fine with workin most any tuesday. might even prefer it over fridy. whatev tho. spose i'll just call if i'm bored, if nothin else.

I dunno... harihane January 27 2004, 19:40:33 UTC

linda and thuan are already damn near fighting over hours as is, if you wanna switch, you'd have to talk to those two.

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Stop being so cynical you whiny bitch! ecnerwal January 27 2004, 07:32:28 UTC

People commmunicate. Communication is difficult when there is nothing relevant to be mutually interested in or for one party to gather information. Not all instances of human communication have a necessity for acquiring answers, but communication is still neccesary; we are people, we talk ...
Thus, "How are you?", "How about that weather?", and "Hellify." were created. Something beyond a greeting where communication could be sustained and people could show respect and appreciation of each other. I think courtesy is essential to human interaction.
A world of blunt information gathering and answer-finding would be a nightmare.
Getting down to brass tax is all fine and gravy when necessity is present, but don't diss courtesy.

I for one, am a strong advocate of being indirect and sneaky. That doesn't mean I'm a bad person.

Re: Stop being so cynical you whiny bitch! harihane January 27 2004, 19:39:05 UTC

Hmm, allow me to point out a few keywords...

"I think courtesy is essential to human interaction.
A world of blunt information gathering and answer-finding would be a nightmare."

Key words of that sentence: 'I think'

I just think we as a society put way too much effort into stupid formalities with total strangers when the entire thing is, at least for myself, at it's core, nothing but that, formalities, no sincerety behind them.

I am cynical, cold, and whatnot, and I for one, honestly don't give a crap how a random stranger is doing, or that they 'have a nice day', yet it is 'professional courtesy' to do so, and therefore the view of my higher-ups would suffer.

I prefer not to talk to people I don't know, and I get annoyed when they do talk to me.

This is me, and I am not gonna stop being me any time soon.

Re: Stop being so cynical you whiny bitch! alousybum January 27 2004, 20:00:15 UTC

yeah, it would be nice if it was easier to be left alone when thats yer intention. but my guess is the people who use that kinda "professional courtesy" with you don't view you as a "random stranger", and actually do care somewhat how you are. now according to all the unspoken rules you seem to be sick of (and i dont blame ya), if you're feelin shitty ya cant exactly just say that...but hey, if ya wanna say to hell with pretenses, there's a good place to start i spose.

Holy shit I didn't realize it was that easy. ecnerwal January 28 2004, 06:39:10 UTC

Hell. Fuck everyone I don't know. Fuck everyone that has the nerve to try to initiate a conversation with me. None of them deserve my respect or the grace of me opening my mouth. All I need from them is their cooperation when I need something from them.
Trying to be nice in a harmless way is not good enough for me, damnit. I don't have time for the few seconds such gestures take, I need to get to my next savepoint.

Justin, your one of my best friends and I love you TO DEATH, but people with such an outlook disgust me. You've seemed pissed off the last few days, and I'm sorry if my loud delusional weedfests have escalated your frustrations.

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