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Ah yes, raw dogging.
This kind of linguistic innovation is called a “dysphemism”, apparently. The Wikipedia entry for “dysphemism” was quite enlightening. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/17/style/rawdog-flights-term...
Along similar lines, I built Sit ( https://sit.sonnet.io ) a couple of years ago, and so far we’ve generated months of blissful un-productivity (my main metric). (I use it as a meditation timer.) For sitting and doing nothing as a group activity, I made Sit Together: https://untested.sonnet.io/Sit.%2C+(together)+devlog+002+–+S...
Unfortunately for you, resting leads to increased productivity. Sucker!
If you gamify doing nothing, is doing nothing actually the same as actively playing the game?
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Experimentally, increasing oxygen doesn't reduce how often people yawn. We still don't know why people (or various mammals) yawn.
your body doesn't regulate its functions based on diminishing o2 levels, but raising co2 levels
That reminds me of a specific (de)motivational video of one of my favorite comedians Masood Boomgaard, which specifically covers the rat race that prevails in todays workplace culture. While it's meant to be funny, it actually touches some deeper philosophical truths. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8An2SxNFvmU [Do Nothing - a message of motivation from Self-help Singh- (un) motivational speaker and life coach]
What philosophical truths? I've known people that 'do nothing'. The modern day equivalent of that is the pot head. It's a lot easier to do nothing when you're stoned. The other alternative is the basement dweller kid of a well to do couple that just spends his day playing video games. Due to his parent's hard work (or luck), he can probably afford to do so for the rest of his life. But still seems depressing to me to…
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Dysphemism isn't an innovation, it's been around a long time. It simply means the opposite of a euphemism. Where a euphemism is a nicer way of saying something, a dysphemism is a worse or derogatory way of saying something. E.g. Referring to your car as a "banger"
"Banger" is a good thing, I think it comes from "head banging" at concerts.
I'm dissatisfied with "Nothing". I need "Noting+" for 5.99 eur per month. Or give me at least couple advertisements to look at.
All senses get stimulated, a moving mind in a moving body. The great outdoors, fresh air, i shite being Scottish.
If you have a problem you need to solve, but don't know how, just walk up to a overview point and look down on the problem every day.
I'm dissatisfied with "Nothing". I need "Noting+" for 5.99 eur per month. Or give me at least couple advertisements to look at.
- Share you highest score with friends.
- Set a reminder
- a “don’t break the chain” calendar in the background
There's this movement to reintroduce millenial traditions of mindfulness into our lives under the guise of modern secularism. I am not convinced that removing its original context is as wise as it's purported. So many old traditions focus on lineage for a reason, and it is something we're too quick to do away with in society.
Most meditation practices come along with a warning, that doing this type of work can lead to results that you need proper preparation for. At the very least you need proper intentionality, and doing them incorrectly can lead to neuroticism and in some cases breakdowns and dissociation.
Good luck with all your nothings.