What Discretion Means to Me...

Originally posted by 12dn94dst:
Greetings Everyone!

I was reading e-mail today (big shock) and came across 2 e-mails from 2 different GC regulars asking that I checkout a certain thread on this board. I said to myself "Oh Goodness, what kind of heck has broken loose this time?" I'm not going to call out which thread it was nor will I disclose what the content of the thread was. What I WILL do, however, is ask my interested sisterfriends & brotherfriends of ANY of the NPHC organizations, and my newly initiated (fall 2k and spring 2k+1) NPHC peeps to share what discretion means to them and also how discretion relates to the internet. Those who crossed before fall 2000 may share their opinions as well.

We throw the word "discretion" around quite often, but I just want to know if there's a real understanding of what it means. This is not an attempt to make anyone feel self-conscious or apologetic. Hopefully this exercise will help ALL of us determine what areas we need to work on as interested parties and as members.

I look forward to reading everyone's comments.

Kelli

[This message has been edited by 12dn94dst (edited April 09, 2001).]

In my opinion discretion means being careful or mindful of ones actions, statements and questions. It means carrying one's self in a manner that does not elude to ones intention to obtain a goal. In this particular case the goal would be obtaining membership in a sorority. Discretion is someting that should be practiced if for no other reason but for self protection. There are lots of spiteful, vendictive, venemous individuals in this world and they are not always easily identified. If everyone that was interested in joining a BGLO (or ANY organization for that matter) told everyone they knew about their interest, somewhere along the line someone is bound to "throw salt in the prospectives game" Why take that risk? Say only what is necessary only to whom it is necessary to say it to.
End of Story

And the quotes for the topic are:

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)

Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. (unknown)

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Martin Fraquhar Tupper