communicating while upset – double negative elimination approach

I feel like I have just stumbled upon a pearl of self-wisdom as far as communication is concerned… this came up because I was really stressed out today about something I felt the need to resolve but hadn’t yet dealt with. In the meantime, I still had to communicate with those whom I care about and who were completely uninvolved in the situation causing the stress sooo – here is the wisdom I discovered… if I am in a bad mood, or am stressed about something, it becomes exponentially difficult for me to communicate anything positive semantically. It’s not that I have to make everything negative, but to actually phrase something positively is damn near impossible. welcome to the beauty of the DOUBLE NEGATIVE ELIMINATION 🙂 I am on the quest to find on the internet, or, if I really want to make a programming project for myself (yeah right …. add it to the list of things to do that is about 10 miles long), for a positive to double-negative language translator for use in case of bad-mood communication. I think this can be the key. lets start with some facts here…

• my moods can be volatile
• I have a tendency to be a ‘glass half empty’ person by default
• I am rebellious by nature to the extreme
• my rebellious nature deters me from exposing my plans to others
• I am my own worst critic
• faking emotion in real personal relationships is not something I practice, no matter how much it would behoove me to do so

If I am feeling pissy and someone asks me to confirm something in the positive I JUST CAN’T FREAKING DO IT. or,…. not without hating it – that hate would not go undetected and would make my sincerity seem doubtful. but, the same thing could have been phrased in the negative semantics, enabling me to respond with additional negatives, equating a positive meaning and come across as PERFECTLY SINCERE and actually be GENUINE. let’s have an example…. based on my negative nature, this procedure should apply regardless, but for the sake of argument lets say that I feel like shit. I’m stressed about who-knows-what and it sucks, bad.

• someone asks “do you want” + [insert positive thing here – something to which I would normally answer yes]? – to get a yes response here I have to jump out of the negativeland box and fly over to positiveworld, prying a “yes” from my nailed-closed-mouth in that domain
  • I am faced with a tough task… all I can think about is hate, rage, despair, angst, but have to verbally convey something to the contrary
  • see above policy on being fake
  • take note of rebellious nature
• alternatively, pose the question in the negative “would it be totally horrible if” + [insert positive thing here – something to which I would normally answer yes]? – prefacing the positive with a negative will enable me to say no to counter the negative preface thereby answering yes
  • now, since I want to answer yes but speaking positive words is punishable by death in negativeland where I am currently thriving, I save my ego from the wrath of the dark monsters by applying double negative elimination (they can’t do math and logic over there so this fools them)
  • this has an added benefit of providing aggression release and energy transfer for whatever the hell is bothering me anyway
  • my ‘yes’ response can be phrased something like “no, that totally wouldn’t be horrible at all” – look at that – the beauty and joy of multiple negativity in the name of conveying the positive
• skeptics of this system will say that the negative tone is more confusing – they will argue that liking something is not equivalent to not disliking it – I disagree
• why do people assume that liking something is complete?
• perhaps this fear of negativity stems from the fact that two positives can never make a negative, yet multiple negatives can, in the right multiple, create positives or at least increase probability of positives
• I propose that the difference is lessened by the addition of confirming extensions – in the flavor of adding the “at all” at the end. (no, that totally wouldn’t be horrible at all)
  • something being horrible a little bit = mostly liking something
  • only liking something a little bit = something mostly being horrible
  • something totally is horrible = something not liked at all
  • something is not totally horrible -> it can be liked to some degree
  • something totally not horrible at all -> probably pleasant

Consider the above my outline for a semantic translator to facilitate future communication using double negative elimination.