Monday
Dec092019

I’M AGAINST THE EXPRESSION “JUST SAYIN”

I recalled "just sayin" when what I was thinking was validated by what happened. So, just sayin is like giving advice and then repeating the advice indirectly with this phrase and reminding the other person that you were right. So many problems with the attitude that "just sayin" seems to promote. Foremost,  it fools you into thinkin that you can predict the future and that this is helpful. Next, it reinforces the idea that it is helpful to give advice. Also, it makes it harder for you to realize that all of this is like an insult for the other person as you are acting like you know better and don't believe that they will figure it out without your advice. (You are hopefully well intentioned with your "just sayin" but it is still like an insult for the other person). It seems that homo sapiens, sapiens needs to, decide for and take responsibility, for themselves. We have the ability to choose and apparently need to use this ability.

What do you think?

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