How to get better at shutting up?

[Secret Agent MGTOWParticipant 22540]

Laughing at people when they say stupid stuff works. It also helps lower your blood pressure. So in two ways it’s stress relief, you can be yourself, and you are helping keep your BP lower. Now even better because you are probably raising their BP and stress levels at the same time.

Women want everything, but want responsibility and accountability for nothing.

[Anonymous 54]

Secret Agent MGTOW wrote:

See my screen name and avatar.

I like it Secret Agent Man.I can hang with liberals to the staunchest conservitives. Its sets you free!!!

[It’sallbsParticipant]

My trouble is if someone is a stupid Berkshire Hunt I tend to tell them so.

http://www.leavemeansleave.eu

[MorpheusParticipant 2177]

I wrote this in other forum subject also, maybe yesterday. Change the topic of discussion as smoothly as possible. Keeping quiet will only make them poke you more.

[narrow road travelerParticipant 1680]

onmyway wrote:

Hi brothers.
I have certain things I never want to talk to anyone about. Things like money, politics and religion. I don’t want anyone to know my money situation or my (to PC bitches) “extreme” politic viewpoints. Around certain people it’s easy to shut up, however some people have a way to get to me.
They make me feel secure, or make me so p~~~ed off I can’t hold back.

Do you guys have any advice on how to get better at shutting up? My slip-ups until now haven’t caused any problems except me feeling unnecessarily drained afterwards (which to me is enough of a reason to not talk about these things), but I’m afraid I will say something to someone that will come back to bite me later, professionally for example.

Thank you.

You, my brother are a ‘hunter’. You like many of us continually observe. Then strike when the iron is hot .

From what I gather, you’re asking when to objectively strike. The answer is to know what forrest you’re hunting in.

Comprehend the forest you’re in, adapt, then move according to the rules you comprehend.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. --Sun Tsu

[HitmanParticipant]

chew a lot of gum.
then wait till the other person is through.
ask them to repeat it because you were thinking of something else.
it REALLY works.
ask them to repeat what they said.
enjoy the show.
oh,
and close your mouth.

[Anonymous 7]

Juehue wrote:

Just wondering if there were any alcohol involved when you slipped up

Usually. 🙂

[BigvernParticipant 1983]

Morpheus wrote:

Keeping quiet will only make them poke you more.

THAT’S the BEAUTY Of Going Monk, Solaire. Let them POKE ME,……just TRY IT!!

"What made you think, there'd be a livin' in sheep?, Eat, Work, Eat Work and Sleep" - Mark Knopfler.

[Can’t Stump TrumpParticipant]

PistolPete wrote:

I advise to wait–then use the Socratic method on them

Good advice, but we know what happened to Socrates . . .

Women are better at multitasking? Fucking up several things at once is not multitasking.

[narrow road travelerParticipant 1680]

Can’t Stump Trump wrote:

PistolPete wrote:

I advise to wait–then use the Socratic method on them

Good advice, but we know what happened to Socrates . . .

Murdering s~~~ bags bullied Socrates into drinking hemlock.

Truth should never be stifled because your opponent will murder you if you don’t comply.

Jesus the Messiah of Nazareth spoke truth too.

Murderers murdered him too, truth didn’t stop being truth.

Read about the current events of the era. The people that had a hand in murdering Jesus got their earned end.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. --Sun Tsu

[FrostByteParticipant 19005]

onmyway wrote:

Do you guys have any advice on how to get better at shutting up?

Speak Minimal Truths without explanations.
Then you can say enough to be engaged in conversation, but not enough to give up your footing.

Do you support Trump?
It’s too soon to tell how he is doing.

Are you dating?
I don’t have enough time be an effective companion.

Is that your girl friend?
We arrived together.

Do you like…..?
I haven’t investigated it enough to have an opinion.

Why Aren’t you married?
I haven’t found someone I want to marry.

If you rescue a damsel in distress, all you will get is a distressed damsel.

[Capslok SpelczechParticipant 108]

True story here, the OP’s question actually came up during a job interview…and it was asked of me by a woman.

I’m at a point in my life where I don’t go out of my way to MAKE people dislike me…but I don’t really give a damn if they do. So, not really needing this particular job, I gave her the whole log, with the bark still on it: “Why would you let anybody else have that much control over you? You are the only person who gets a vote in what you say or do. Other people should never have that much agency over you. In the long run, self-restraint is a much more important quality than self-esteem. Self-restraint can be strengthened through practice, just like you would work out a weak muscle in the gym.”

The look on her face pretty much told me that if she casts the deciding vote, I’m not getting that job, but I’m too f****** old to pull my punches. And yes, I realize that telling a woman that her s*** is weak and all about self-restraint is not going to go over well in any universe. I just wish I had a picture of the face she made.

One of the most compelling archetypes in fiction is the individual against the institution, like Randle Patrick McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Cool Hand Luke, and Andy Dufresne in Shawshank. In fact, if I remember correctly, in the short story by S. King, the warden’s major bitch with Andy is that he walks around looking like he is somehow unaffected by the place. I think that one of the most infuriating things that you can do to people who wield power over you, or who think they wield power, is to act completely unaffected by it.

Pretty damn academic, but I guess that’s what led me to MGTOW in the first place.

"Higgins: Magnum, feed the lads, would you? There are steaks in the freezer. [Magnum makes an excited face] Very well, you can have one too."

[CarnageParticipant 22113]

Just say NO.

I have that problem too.

Not giving a f~~~ and saying NO ALL THE TIME WORKS.

To those following me, be careful, I just farted. Men those beans are killers.

[LonestarParticipant 333]

onmyway wrote:

Do you guys have any advice on how to get better at shutting up?

In my younger days I wanted to be right, no matter the cost. Now, I value peace. I know I cant change the s~~~-storm that’s going on now. My goal is just to keep as little from hitting me as possible.

It is fun once in a while to pull that pin on the grenade and roll it into a group of oh-so-deserving individuals. Ya gotta be strategic about it.

So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains and we never even know we have the key. Eagles

[JVBParticipant]

Smile and simply say…..”ok next week.”

It’s off the wall and they usually think they are the ones that missed something.

Peace is > piece.

[ObserverParticipant 209]

Don’t take the bait. If possible, avoid such interactions to begin with. If you must, just smile and nod, it works wonders.

[Anonymous 8]

This quote has served me well in situations where it is necessary to filter my true opinions.

Just try to direct the conversation to FORD (family, occupation, recreation, dreams) and not RAPE (religion, abortion, politics, economics).

[OldBillParticipant]

onmyway wrote:

Do you guys have any advice on how to get better at shutting up?

You get better at keeping quiet the same way you get to Carnegie Hall: Practice, practice, practice.

Do not date. Do not impregnate. Do not co-habitate. Above all, do not marry. Reclaim and never again surrender your personal sovereignty.

[OldschoolParticipant 2481]

Information is power (I must have heard that somewhere) the more you open your mouth and give information the more that person has ammunition to hurt you one day.

Get a vasectomy.

[BuckFitchesParticipant 993]

it’s all in your head. Find other things to think about -other projects to focus on. Stay busy

"Fish can’t climb trees and women can’t be trusted." -Buck Fitches

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