Club analysis

Part I

I thought I recognized some dudes from talking in line, turned around and did like a hand shake thing and a smile or whatever. They looked kind of surprised but reciprocated. Then I realized they weren't the same guys. My face recognition wasn't really tuned in exactly yet. (Again this is party-like environment.)

It's interesting how much positive energy there is locked away in a set of people selected at random.

Even though I've known the JW's (former religion) were wrong about how people were created for many years, I think some of their philosophy about the human race is still getting rinsed out of my brain. It's rinsing that can only be accomplished through experience.

Because... they consider all people who aren't members of the religion to be sort of creepy and degenerate, with some potential to "get better" but in a lost state.

They would consider stuff going on in the clubs totally off the hook bad.

But I see it in a totally different light. Just people trying to enjoy life, one brief little flash of existence called life. There are so many barriers to people having fun. Clothing, inhibitions, stupid social tendencies. In the club, people are trying to break down a lot of walls, and it isn't easy, but the environment works pretty well.

Western religion tends to claim that joy will be in another life and not this one. To me, assuming they are incorrect (and that seems to be the case), then the lie they are propagating is truly evil. They are robbing people of their lives for the sake of preserving an afterlife that doesn't exist.

Anyway, I can't hate on religion too much. Part of my thing is just being naturally shy, a tendency that has nothing to do with ideology. A tendency that I'm breaking down piece by piece.




Part II


Some girl once said that the world sends back what you project out. Technically it doesn't. If you smile at a toaster, it doesn't really care. If you smile at a saber tooth cat, it might decide to kill you and eat you.

However the girl was just thinking about people. And, for the most part, people are apparently wired to return some emotions that are projected to them. It's a pretty good principle.




Part III


Key point is that people do *not* reflect back so much in terms of semantics and words. Only emotion. They naturally come into or out of sync with a cascade of nonverbal cues that come from all over a person's body. The last thing they consider is words. That's why the clubs just blast the music enough to cancel out the words completely, as if to say they truly don't matter.

It's a bit strange to me, because my nature is to largely not care at all about nonverbal cues (either out of me or from others). I'm naturally more tuned to the actual words, the message, stripped from all the over stuff, like writing (without smilies).

So it's strange, but it's making more sense over time.

What is dancing really - it's an amplified cascade of nonverbal cues.