Do you find people to be predictable? To be honest, I find the most predictable of people to be the ones that call others out on their predictability. No, perhaps that is not it. Perhaps it is that these people are the ones that annoy me most, and so I would like to belittle them and say, hah, you mister are more predictable than us all! But that is probably not it. I want to belittle them because I think them too self-assured for their own good, they think that they can track the predictabilities themselves, and separate the wheat from the chaff so to speak. How mindblowingly all-knowing they must be, to be able to call us out on our own predictable patterns *sarcasm*. Who are they, to call anyone else "predictable"? As if they are any less predictable. As if they have not ever had a predictable day themselves. As if the predictable person's predictability is a surprise-- get this, a surprise. It should not be. Me, I do not think people "predictable". But I am beyond being surprised. They just do, or they don't do. Predictable or not? You decide. P.S. I don't know
People are predictable in the same way they are reliable. If someone does something over and over again then it is predictable that they will do it again, because that is what they've shown us to be like on a repeated number of occasions. To say someone is predictable is to say you either know the person quite well or you know what their like or their type of personality that you've experiences before. My parents are predictable because I've been living with them 19 years of my life. I know when they'll get angry at one another, or what they'll complain about, it is because I've seen a thousand times. And to be honest, your own predictability of telling people they are predictable could come the backlash of being called predictable yourself. Do not mistake continued observations to be the same as omni knowledgable of a person. You can never truly never know all about people.
There is a predictability in people, but even though an action may be predictable, each person has a unique way of being predictable.
This is an insightful observation, or would be, except the stimulus for this thread was not a person calling me predictable. It was you calling Makaze predictable that stimulated me into action. That was, I think I will be open, foolish of you. But I would be irked by anyone else calling another predictable, don't mistake it for loyalty. It's just exactly that that irked me: your observations are right, and you contradicted them. You can't possibly know him so well so as to claim him predictable with absolute conviction. It was a shallow decision. I do however realise that you did not say, "You're predictable," but "You're becoming predictable." Still... Next question: Do you consider yourself predictable? I do not know if it warrants another thread.
When I said 'your' I meant in a general way to encompass anyone, I didn't mean to say you in particular, Laria. What's so bad about saying someone is predictable, really? It's not like I said dumb, egotistical, self centered, little twat, ****er, *******, ****, **** faced, uncaring, manipulative prick. Now I would've understood someone being infuriated by any of those terms, but predictable? That I find puzzling. The world is full of contradictions. I've contradicted myself before, you've contradicted yourself at some point, he's contradicted himself before, politicians contradict their points time and time again. It doesn't make my statement any less wrong, or any less right. Just makes it a statement, I didn't tell you to believe in it, force you to listen to it: yet you feel the need to call me foolish and shallow, to insult my opinion for no real reason. Funny to think that you seem to believe 'predictable' as a negative term. Predictability in itself is used in science and maybe on numerous occasions to predict the chance of something happening, for example, the reliability or predictability of a psychological study. If a study has high reliability then it means it is likely that the results will happen again, because we predict that it will happen again and again the same way. The use of predictions in maths helps us in predicting patterns or algorithms that are too complex for mental maths can get you through. Predictability is not something we can escape from, it is a part of our thinking, off our behaviour, really a part of how we learn new things and discover the world. I'm sure that I'm predictable at times, and with certain actions and phrases. I use 'to be honest' regularly when typing, I do things that are predictable, will get annoyed by things easily and predictably. But I'd like to say over time I can be fairly unpredictable, even to myself, some things I do now I would never have predicted I would ever do in my life.
That is funny, because I would rather be hated than boring. You are completely missing her point. It is not finding me predictable that she felt was wrong, because everyone is predictable. It was stating it outright in the context that you did that was shallow. Why did you remark upon it when you found what I said negative, while you have opted not to say it when I say something you like that is equally 'predictable'? You implied that it was negative by speaking the way you did, and what LARiA found shallow or arrogant was your proclamation of my predictability, not your findings. She fully understands the concept of predictability, that it exists in everything and is not negative in nature. However, she found you saying it under the circumstances that you did as shallow and arrogant. Now that it is pointed out, you speak wisdom, but why did you say it originally? Because it was true? There are many truths that you choose not to speak. This was you attempting to call my action boring because you did not like it. Or that is how I took it; both your post and her response.
