Correctional Update for previous post.

The stink-cloud effect shall be hereby known as the active/inactive gas-cloud theorem.

Something I've developed.

I've been having issues with myself for a while--you know, that typical "trying to find myself" crap that always crops up somewhere--and I sort of dug up something about what about ourselves determines most of our actions. This is by no means a complete, or even accurate, be-all end-all observation. It might not even apply. But I find it interesting. Oh, and I would also like to state, in big bold letters, that if you take offense to this, you're a dufus, and you need to get a grip. Who am I to judge you? These are just thoughts. You don't need to read this, so for all those who are touchy... go away.

A couple of things steer us along our courses. All of the factors are relative to ourselves; the levels of these factors are arbitrarily determined by us, ourselves. Standards, morality, directionational situation (invented), and the stink-cloud property (again, invented.) I've invented some terms for a reason: to create groups of things that make sense and relate together. You'll see what I mean.

Morality is the most well-known of the qualities. Is what I might do right or wrong? Stumbling blocks come when determining what exactly IS right or wrong--that whole grey area thing makes decisions difficult. But most people have a good grip on it.

Standards were what I was originally thinking about. Our standards help us choose what we do after we decide right and wrong. For example, my standards compel me to chew with my mouth closed and close doors, and sway me from cutting down random trees and doing drugs. None of these these are really wrong or right, they just are. But they have a profound effect on who we are, because there is no limit to the variability in standards. I can kill a deer, but I can't even handle thinking about accidentally hitting a cat with my car. I would never become a vegetarian. I swear, but I don't mean it. I can lie very well when necessary, but I hate doing it. Our standards deliver the type of person we are beyond good and bad, i.e. quality and shady.

So what the hell is directionational situation? Goals and resources. Ex: I want ice cream. I don't have any gas. What do I do? Will I decide it's too hard to achieve? Or will I pool my resources and figure something out, like if I have a hose, will I syphon out gas from my brother's car? Or if I have a neighbor that I don't like, but he lives close and I really want ice cream, will I ask him to drive me? Our situation and our motivation plays a large part in our behaviour.

And the stink-cloud effect. SO ridiculous. Basically, it's how we relate to the people around us, our empathy, our apathy, and how we let them affect us. Think of ourselves as stink-clouds, and depending on what kind of stink we are, we mix with certain types of other stinks, and possibly take on some of their stink. Or maybe we're so stinky that we only exude our own scent upon others. Or maybe we're an inert gas, like argon, and we don't do shit. That's the stink-cloud effect. Our outward personality, like outgoing, friendly, nice, mean, curt... etc.

I've pretty much run out of things to say. That's what I was thinking about.