September 27, 2016

September 27, 2016

Written by Maximus Peperkamp, M.S. Verbal Engineer

Dear Reader,

I am convinced that we can have scientific spoken communication. I am not talking about improving spoken communication. I am only interested in what really works. Only SVB is scientific communication which works.

Our Noxious Verbal Behavior (NVB) has kept us ignorant about many things which have been known for years. It is disastrous what most human beings do is mainly decided by NVB, by unscientific behavior.

As long as we are not clear about what is spoken communication and what it is not we keep accepting as normal something which is abnormal. This is why NVB in which we are stressed, frustrated, anxious and defensive is more common than SVB in which we are happy and at ease.

We don’t have a well-defined theoretical understanding of our spoken communication. When we talk our sound has an effect on the listener. The speaker’s sound induces positive or negative affect in the listener.

How can we possible have a positive relationship if our sound induces negative feelings in the listener? It is impossible and to expect it to be possible is self-defeating. All our relationship problems are maintained by NVB in which the forceful voice of the speaker assaults the ears of the listener in an harsh attempt to dominate and oppress that listener. 

NVB occurs in hostile environments. As long as human beings continue to be impacted by stimuli which they perceive as threatening, they will produce NVB. Only if we create the environments in which listeners are affected by stimuli, by sounds of speakers, which they perceive as positive, will they be able to produce SVB. Once we agree on this point of view nothing stops us anymore from consistently engaging in SVB.

September 26, 2016

September 26, 2016 

Written by Maximus Peperkamp, M.S. Verbal Engineer

Dear Reader,

After exploring the SVB/NVB distinction you agree with me that SVB sets you free, but that NVB imprisons you and forces you to be what you are not and don’t want to be. I introduce you to this distinction with these words and I stimulate you to verify if what I say is true. 

In SVB we learn without any struggle or effort and we realize that struggle and effort is always part of NVB. Stated differently, being scientific about our spoken communication requires us to be peaceful and at ease. Stress, anxiety, anger, fear and frustration prevent us from being scientific about our communication and perpetuate the pre-scientific notion that inside of us there is a behavior-controlling self.

If science is the way to free ourselves from problems and negative emotions then we want that science. Mankind’s general lack of interest in and disdain for science is because it hasn’t really helped us with our emotional turmoil. SVB delivers us from all our troubles and it allows us to make sense out of the many difficulties that we have experienced. 

As we find our real voice, we notice we are happy. We feel happy, but don’t try to be happy; we are relaxed, but we don’t try to relax; we feel peaceful, but we don’t try to be peaceful. We were always trying in vain to be this and that as we remained involved in and conditioned by NVB. 

SVB never confronts NVB as the two are incompatible. SVB and NVB only make sense to the extent that we are able to acknowledge both; NVB is part of our phylogenetic conditioning,  that is, we are born with it, but SVB is determined ontogenetically and culturally. In other words, SVB is a learned behavior. Different cultures and different countries have different rates of SVB and NVB. Due to the existing environmental circumstances SVB was able to begin in the Netherlands.

September 25, 2016

September 25, 2016

Written by Maximus Peperkamp, M.S. Verbal Engineer

Dear Reader,

As most of us are more familiar with Noxious Verbal Behavior (NVB) than with Sound Verbal Behavior (SVB), we think we can say whatever we want to as our freedom of speech is guaranteed by the constitution. However, speech, as any other behavior, is lawful and determined. 

There is a difference between man-made laws and scientific laws. The speaker who engages in SVB produces a pleasant sound to the listener, but the speaker who engages in NVB produces an aversive sound which, in one way or another, will make the listener want to move away. 

These processes occur regardless of whether we take note of them or not. If we can control the conditions in which the speaker produces SVB, we can predict what will happen in the future. How we talk and what we say is the result of specifiable conditions; aversive conditions set the stage for NVB and appetitive conditions set the stage for SVB. 

Those who know and those who don’t know are both affected by these conditions. Our exploration of the SVB/NVB distinction helps us come to terms with the fact that there is no inner self which determines our behavior. Fear of losing our identity as a free agent dissolves in SVB.

In SVB we recognize that we are influencing each other and that we are influenced by each other. Indeed, we are each other’s environment. Once we know the difference between SVB and NVB, we know how often we are coerced by each other to behave in any particular way. In SVB there is no forcefulness; in SVB we mutually reinforce each other.

September 24, 2016

September 24, 2016 

Written by Maximus Peperkamp, M.S. Verbal Engineer

Dear Reader,

As long as we continue with our Noxious Verbal Behavior (NVB), we will not be able to use any of our scientific findings wisely. No matter how much we have advanced in our sciences of nature, we have remained biased in our science of human nature due to NVB. In NVB, the sound of the speaker is experienced by the listener as an aversive stimulus.

In NVB the speaker dominates the listener, who, for hierarchical reasons, is often not even allowed to be a speaker. Speech in which there is no turn-taking is like science without peer-review. Scientific speech has to be Sound Verbal Behavior (SVB) and cannot be NVB.

Order in the field of human affairs has not been achieved as it could not be achieved by NVB. Once science addresses how we actually talk with one another, we can no longer avoid noticing the astounding fact that most of spoken communication is unscientific and unrealistic.

Once we engage in SVB we will have an entirely different, more joyful conception of human interaction. After we have acknowledged the immense difference between SVB and NVB we realize that science is the ongoing conversation which we now have finally identified as SVB.

With NVB the application of the scientific method to our current problems was impossible and went nowhere as we were ignorant about and in denial of the lawful relations between what we say and how we sound. In NVB what we say is always contradicted by how we say it.  

We lack the practical technology to change our behavior as long as we haven’t recognized the difference between SVB and NVB. In SVB we don’t create order as an outcome, but we experience it right away and we maintain it; in NVB, not the process, but only the outcome matters.  

September 23, 2016

September 23, 2016 

Written by Maximus Peperkamp, M.S. Verbal Engineer

Dear Reader,

Order in the field of human affairs can only be obtained with Sound Verbal Behavior (SVB). Disorder is created and maintained by Noxious Verbal Behavior (NVB). Many so-called mental disorders are a product of NVB and can be solved by SVB. Stated differently, NVB should be considered as the problem behavior which can be replaced by SVB.

NVB is not a problem to be solved, but it is a behavior which needs to be stopped. Moreover, NVB is mechanical and unconscious, while SVB is alive and conscious. Those with NVB can’t laugh and make everyone serious. These are important distinctions as our world is in great peril.

We can no longer afford not to know about the difference between SVB and NVB. I know it and therefore I have the responsibility to educate others. Once you know about it you share that responsibility and you will view the SVB/NVB distinction as a scientific matter.

Many people will benefit from the discoveries which have already been made each time we change the way in which we talk. SVB will allow for different applications of scientific findings than NVB. In NVB only those who dominate are benefitted, but in SVB everyone is benefitted.

During SVB nobody is dominating anyone. This is not some idealistic philosophy, but a matter of applying science to spoken communication. We need to bring our understanding about human nature on par with our sciences and can only advance towards this goal by engaging in SVB.

Behavior is not observed objectively as long as we don’t restore the role of auditory stimuli in our interactions. Moreover, we will only be able to understand what spoken communication is when we experience what SVB is. Unless we pay more attention to what we experience while we speak, we will neither be listening to ourselves nor to each other.