I hate small talk. I wanna talk about atoms, robots, bugs, aliens, sex, magic, human insides and morbid experiments, the meaning of life and faraway galaxies...your childhood, your flaws, your emotions, your favorite scents, what keeps you up at night, your fears. I like people with depth who speak with emotion from a twisted mind. I don't want to know "what's up".
#personalnonsense
I wouldn't necessary file this under "nonsense"... It makes perfect sense.
ReplyDeleteIn that order? ;)
ReplyDelete...with the right glass of wine, under a clear starry sky and a pitfire...
ReplyDeleteSo convert "what's up?" into one of those subjects, and if they play along, they're worth the conversation. A lot of people are conditioned, but only a few are actually shallow. Call it conversation with a hammer: take a whack and see if it rings or shatters.
ReplyDeleteWell! All i can say is to wish you "good luck"... because today to find people with who to have a conversation like this is like finding a diamond in the sand... I personally didn't find and i think today trend is small talk and talking about nonsenses and to make noise... :)
ReplyDeletedaniel rosca Oh look, a diamond! You see, it's already happened! :)
ReplyDeleteFlorin Munteanu no wine for me...maybe champagne ;)
ReplyDeleteSmall talk is OK if it is nanobots, or tiny critters...
ReplyDeleteSometimes I am told I am am a bit too 'deep', so do tend to keep to myself... or bringing up a subject brought up a few minutes earlier since the current discussion less appealing. Better to be unpredictable, all the more interesting
Interesting Sam Collett
ReplyDeleteNanobots talk = small talk :)
But then again you have a creative mind.
On a different note - what's your opinion on the DeepMind-NHS health data-sharing deal?
Personally, I would prefer the NHS to be kept in the public, rather than private sector, but things are changing, not necessarily for the better.
ReplyDeleteHowever, it could be a boon for 'big data' analysis, to find trends and patterns to help NHS organisations provide better healthcare or tackle diseases, if it is in concert with other data sets, like pollution, deprivation, crime, education etc. Health is complex and I believe bad health is mostly poor education and an under-appreciation of a service that is free at point of service. It is better to target resources, rather than focus on just a few areas of the country (like London), leading to even higher 'health gaps'
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ReplyDeleteAlright John Lewis ;)
ReplyDeleteTo be perfectly honest, my biggest issue with small-talk is that, while I have interests in a million little things, I don't have sufficient depth of knowledge on most of them, which make it difficult to support a meaningful conversation most of the time. Even worse, I lack the capacity to recall useful facts and stats about the things that I am passionate about, so I normally end up just keeping my thoughts and observations to myself. Also, as an Introvert, I don't exactly give myself many opportunities to have deep discussions of any sort, anyway. (Unless, 'm behind a keyboard, that is. That affords me the ability to have time to compose my thoughts before I share them, which does help boost my confidence, if nothing else.)
ReplyDeleteIs OK to be an introvert Marc Jansen .
ReplyDeleteSmall talk? Ok. I'll bite. I saw something on my feed recently that asked the question, " is social media dead"? I'm wondering if it is. We started with Twitter or FB, then wanted something more, but then we became info overloaded by either posts on everything going on in the world or just finding out your FB "friends" have really strange opinions. Between both I feel like doing this is too much of bother. But then again - I'm still here.
ReplyDeleteAliens as in extraterrestrials? 👽
ReplyDeleteWhat are your thoughts regarding the possibility of an intelligent underwater civilization developing somewhere out there? I take the position that it is possible for an underwater intelligence to develop a rudimentary civilization with writing and an alphabet but it would never advance to the level human beings on Earth have achieved simply because they would never discover fire. And no fire means certain discoveries and inventions would never happen. Underwater beings would always be at the mercy of their environment. Written communication would be limited to writings scratched on a cave wall because how would they develop paper and ink?
Thank you very much for your posts! 👍
Oh, I totally agree, Corina Marinescu. It just makes it quite difficult to have those deep and meaningful discussions with people I don't already know - even if I want to.... ;-)
ReplyDeleteSome people scoff at the MBTI, but I've found it to be a pretty useful way to explain why the world operates the way it does. I'm falling squarely in the INFJ camp these days, and that does provide a plausible explanation for why I've always felt that no one else sees things quite the way I do. (INFJ's make up less than 1% of the population, and the majority are female.) It also makes me something of an enigma to everyone else, and I am slowly coming to the realization that I am really quite OK with that.
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ReplyDeleteYou sound very interesting Corina Marinescu ;)
ReplyDeleteAll very good topics, although it wasn't until your feed that I've gotten all that much exposure of the human insides.Thanks for that. Not sure what to think about the morbid experiments though ;) Sounds like the beginning of a horror movie. Then again. I like those.
ReplyDeleteI suppose we all yearn for that kind of exchange, but it's rare to find someone to really share with. Somehow I have a feeling that you'll make at least a few such contacts.
ReplyDeleteIndeed and agreed. Biggest frustration in interactions: the absence of substantive conversation. Let's explore ideas together, not be limited to exchanging frivolities about the latest pop topic (though those have their place).
ReplyDeleteMe too. :) Wanna talk? Chat me up. I'm an INTP which already mean that I have similar interests.
ReplyDeleteVery nice picture. Very nice.
ReplyDeleteDanny Quizon that's an interesting idea, after all we do not know all the species on this planet :)
ReplyDeleteChris Roberts
ReplyDeleteLooks to me that you've changed your look...you made me wonder for a second ;)
Corina Marinescu More than somewhat. Someday I'll get around to taking a decent profile pic - dropped quite a bit and have become a touch obsessed with the gym. Makes a difference - even when engaging people on such topics as atoms and robots and bugs and... well, my most interesting conversation recently was 4 hours with a group of friends, a documentary film maker, and a NASA scientist. Not sure many science stones were left unturned.
ReplyDeletevery meaningful way to live life
ReplyDeleteThe only acceptable way to live life.
ReplyDeleteVery well.
ReplyDeleteI can relate to that, Corina Marinescu .
you have a very attractive mind, Corina.. :) Not to mention, your everything-else.. :)
ReplyDeleteDanny Quizon Interesting question…
ReplyDeleteFirstly, it is worth to remember that the intellect and consciousness are not essential for life and survival. Also, Earth is mostly planet of microorganisms. They existed billions of years before the appearance of eukaryotes and microorganisms will survive after their destruction (our also).
If, however, somewhere formed an underwater civilization, it is plausible that it will be able to utilize other sources of energy. For example a magma heat or thermal and chemical energy from geothermal chimneys. Even if on such planet there were not any land, I'm very convinced, that there will be some floating organisms – forming floating islands (or something like that). Surely evolution will also produce some flying organisms. This may constitute inspiration and starting point for the colonization of "dry" environments. Becouse challenges creates inventions…
Then, you might enjoy this "little" quote :)
ReplyDelete"It's like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall. Smash! And all that ink spread. And in the middle, it's dense, isn't it? And as it gets out on the edge, the little droplets get finer and finer and make more complicated patterns, see? So in the same way, there was a big bang at the beginning of things and it spread. And you and I, sitting here in this room, as complicated human beings, are way, way out on the fringe of that bang. We are the complicated little patterns on the end of it. Very interesting. But so we define ourselves as being only that. If you think that you are only inside your skin, you define yourself as one very complicated little curlique, way out on the edge of that explosion. Way out in space, and way out in time. Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off, and don't feel that we're still the big bang. But you are. Depends how you define yourself. You are actually-if this is the way things started, if there was a big bang in the beginning- you're not something that's a result of the big bang. You're not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process. You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are. When I meet you, I see not just what you define yourself as-Mr so-and- so, Ms so-and-so, Mrs so-and-so I see every one of you as the primordial energy of the universe coming on at me in this particular way. I know I'm that, too. But we've learned to define ourselves as separate from it."
~ Alan Watts
João Ferreira Wow! Great!
ReplyDeleteI also think, that all existing beings are processes.
From which book you cited this quote?
Smalltalk is just a cover for fear of connection.
ReplyDeleteBellissima ragazza! Con grandi sogni, mi piaci tu, ma ancora di più mi piace la tua mente!
ReplyDeleteMariusz Rozpędek They are from Alan Watts' live lectures. If I am not mistaken, his daughter tried to document these lectures on tape. You should be able to find almost all of them on YouTube.
ReplyDeleteJoão Ferreira Thanks! :-)
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