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Thursday, May 12, 2005

Friendship Quotient

I have a theory.
- I believe that the amount of friendship one has is fixed a certain amount. Some people are born with more, some people less. But for convienience sake, let's say the average person has a friendship quotient (FQ) of zero.
- In this case, we take the strengthening of current bonds and the making of new friends as a positive increase in FQ and the weakening of bonds or hatred/anger/dislike, etc as a negative change in FQ.
- Although a person's FQ may vary from instantaneous moment to another, (eg. small quarrel with best friend), but in general, the amount of FQ over a period of time should remain some what constant, or in the average person, zero. This means that when a person has made a new friend (increase in FQ), he may offend someonesoon or perhaps, distance himself from another friend. (As in, since you spent some time with you new friend, you have less time to spend with some other firned, causing a weakening of the friendship bond.)
- Another way to illustrate this is how people bunch up together against people they dislike/hate. Eg. When you hate a person greatly, a large amount of negative FQ is generated. As a balancing effect, such people with such large amounts of negative FQ tend to stay together and form a united opposition against the asshole being hated. The new friendship bonds formed between the haters compensate for the loss of FQ formed by the the bad realtionship with the hated. Get what I mean ? This explains gang-bangs against a particular person and the strong friendship between those people. In literary terms, they are "bound by hatred".
- Why do ostracisms occur ? The reason is simple when you use the theory of FQ to explain. For some reason (I'm still thinking of a theory to rationalise that), your subconsciousness decides that the time better spent on strengthening a bond with others than that one person. Thus, ostracism occurs so that more time can be spent building up on present bonds. The negative FQ from not making a friend is compensated with the strengthening of current ones.
Flaws in the theory
- However, the theory does not explain why a person with a small group of friends is more closely bonded to them then a guy with a large group. Theoretically, the FQ produced should be some what the same, so the bond should be equally strong despite the growth of the social circle. One cause of this flaw may be the fixed number of hours per day we have, I guess...
- Feel free to comment on my theory and make improvements. Take sometime to reflect. Maybe you might be able to see where FQ applies in your life !

"Too many people have 6/6 vision but are blind to reality. Why is it often the blind who see with the greatest clarity?"
~quote by me~

6 Comments:

Blogger fangfang said...

hmmms. interesting theory! yea i agree with anna; blog more! =)

10:28 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i laugh at the irony. Basing a frendship on hate? How paradoxical =)

9:39 PM  
Blogger xkcwlx said...

Negative cohesion.

Read Ben Walsh on Hitler's rise to power =)

10:37 PM  
Blogger Anna See said...

hey.good attempt to study human social behaviour.but.perhaps FQ is dependent on too many factors? not just emotions like hatred or anger.wad bout e environment they are in.some environment (peer presuure etc)'forces' one to ostracize others too.interesting entry tho =)

11:30 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

interesting. also can look at KMT and CCP the first united front

12:26 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

i agree with da bond by hatred part.. it's when pple get together n gossip n ostracize that they bond together..

4:32 PM  

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