Another way to say "you talk too much"

[Buddy]

In another thread, one forum member was replying to another with a suggestion about having an "aim". The link was given to the cassiopaea glossary entry for "aim", so I went there to check it out (for the first time).

I've included a sample below.

What was so funny about this was imagining a teacher with a serious expression, and in all earnestness and speaking quickly, trying to tell someone that I know very well, that "yes, it's ok" but in a way that showed how excited the teacher really was about this particular student working on this 'problem'.

It made my day. I can't stop laughing!


[quote author=http://glossary.cassiopaea.com/glossary.php?id=91&lsel=A]

Question: I think my worst fault is talking too much. Would trying not to talk so much be a good task?

Answer: For you this is a very good aim. You spoil every-thing with your talking. This talk even hinders your business. When you talk much, your words have no weight. Try to over-come this. Many blessings will flow to you if you succeed. Truly, this is a very good task. But it is a big thing, not small. I promise you, if you achieve this, even if I am not here, I will know about your achievement, and will send help so that you will know what to do next.
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[Al Today]

Yee Haw Buddy. You made me look into the mirror. Many times my brain runs faster than my mouth, I then get confused, and end up "looking" like an idiot from not being able to explain what I meant or even forgetting what the point was in the first place. I call that my "sometimers" kicking in, I don't do that all the time, but some of the time...

Thanks for the embarrassing "tickle"... :D

 

[Laura]

I promise you, if you achieve this, even if I am not here, I will know about your achievement, and will send help so that you will know what to do next.

You are right, that's really funny! It sounds like Gurdjieff was saying that it's not likely that a person who talks too much will EVER figure out how not to! It would be a miracle!

 

[Buddy]

I promise you, if you achieve this, even if I am not here, I will know about your achievement, and will send help so that you will know what to do next.

You are right, that's really funny! It sounds like Gurdjieff was saying that it's not likely that a person who talks too much will EVER figure out how not to! It would be a miracle!

Oh, stop it! You're killin' me...lol

 

[Saman]

I promise you, if you achieve this, even if I am not here, I will know about your achievement, and will send help so that you will know what to do next.

You are right, that's really funny! It sounds like Gurdjieff was saying that it's not likely that a person who talks too much will EVER figure out how not to! It would be a miracle!

Hmm, well I think that someone who talks too much might learn not do so when they eventually, that is perhaps after many mini-time loops/incarnations, reach the point in their lesson profile to be capable of seeing that most of what they might want to say in a given moment is just predominately meaningless/useless imaginary speculation, for the most part. Then they might actually see that keeping quiet for a long time is the most externally considerate thing they can do!

 

[Gimpy]

I promise you, if you achieve this, even if I am not here, I will know about your achievement, and will send help so that you will know what to do next.

You are right, that's really funny! It sounds like Gurdjieff was saying that it's not likely that a person who talks too much will EVER figure out how not to! It would be a miracle!

Hmm, well I think that someone who talks too much might learn not do so when they eventually, that is perhaps after many mini-time loops/incarnations, reach the point in their lesson profile to be capable of seeing that most of what they might want to say in a given moment is just predominately meaningless/useless imaginary speculation, for the most part. Then they might actually see that keeping quiet for a long time is the most externally considerate thing they can do!

;)

 

[Laura]

Funny, too, that the people it is most likely to apply to will never get it... guess that's why Gurdjieff said what he did.

 

[Nienna]

Funny, too, that the people it is most likely to apply to will never get it... guess that's why Gurdjieff said what he did.

Yep!

 

[Alejo]

Funny, too, that the people it is most likely to apply to will never get it... guess that's why Gurdjieff said what he did.

LMAO , oh god , this just stroke me !

Yee Haw Buddy. You made me look into the mirror. Many times my brain runs faster than my mouth, I then get confused, and end up "looking" like an idiot from not being able to explain what I meant or even forgetting what the point was in the first place. I call that my "sometimers" kicking in, I don't do that all the time, but some of the time...

Thanks for the embarrassing "tickle"... [/quote

LOL , i felt exactly the same!!

 

[Al Today]

Geeze, I must be one of those. I guess I need a miracle because I do not get the humor there...

I promise you, if you achieve this, even if I am not here, I will know about your achievement, and will send help so that you will know what to do next.

You are right, that's really funny! It sounds like Gurdjieff was saying that it's not likely that a person who talks too much will EVER figure out how not to! It would be a miracle!

 

[bedower]

[quote author=Al Today today] I guess I need a miracle because I do not get the humor there...
[/quote]

That makes two of us, Al.

Shall we go and quietly stand in a corner somewhere? (Not together, obviously!)

 

[Al Today]

Well bedower, all one can do is continue on and look for a miracle...

 

[Saman]

Speaking of miracles, I think I understand! G is simply being sarcastic. He is saying that it is so unlikely that people who talk too much will ever stop, that if they do, the whole Universe will be in awe and thus the "vibration" of this awe will then resonant through the Universe, informing him, wherever his consciousness may be, through Fifth Density to all densities and dimensions in existence, or perhaps maybe say, through all of "time's" densities and all its dimensional "slots" within it.

Actually, never mind about the likelihood of understanding. I am again getting way too imaginative/speculative here! :D

 

[Buddy]

Speaking of miracles, I think I understand! G is simply being sarcastic. He is saying that it is so unlikely that people who talk too much will ever stop, that if they do, the whole Universe will be in awe and thus the "vibration" of this awe will then resonant through the Universe, informing him, wherever his consciousness may be, through Fifth Density to all densities and dimensions in existence, or perhaps maybe say, through all of "time's" densities and all its dimensional "slots" within it.

Actually, never mind about the likelihood of understanding. I am again getting way too imaginative/speculative here! :D

Close enough I think! In fact, G may have really meant nothing of the sort. If I may direct attention to the original post, the humor that I saw was based on an unexpected way of viewing G's answer if he had been talking to someone I know very well who talks way too much. In such a case, it would not be your understanding that is off, it would be "me" (or perhaps me laughing at myself).
The mere possibility that G 'could' have been thinking along those lines was enough to set it all off for anyone who might know such a person, OSIT.
:D


-edit for clarity: In other words, I don't think you were getting way too imaginative/speculative!

 

[Peam]

It sounds like Gurdjieff was describing the old proverb:
‘Empty vessels make the most sound.’

I think the penny has finally dropped!
At first I was thinking Gurdjieff meant that if the bloke was able to stop his constant chatter it indicated he was making conscious efforts in the work, and so help would arrive in the form of ‘when the student is ready the teacher will appear’.

But I think Gurdjieff was really saying that it was so almost impossible for an incessant talker to stop, that if they did stop it must indicate they were ill and appropriate help would arrive in the form of an ambulance!