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Re: Nothing: Simply Do Nothing

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Post by wrycoder »

seadan83 wrote: post #183
antimemetics wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Simple doesn’t mean it’s easy or without risk

Indeed. I really would want my questions answered. I believe noting that simple is not easy was my point already: "While "simple", that does not equate to abundant nor easy" Which goes to my other point - getting food on your own is hard. Doing so in the winter is even more difficult. Hence, calorie deficits was a serious problem for many.

No argument - simple doesn’t mean easy. When the food runs out, only the the most fit (or ruthless) survive.

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Post by madpen »

eleveriven wrote: post #43
madpen wrote: post #13

Neat! I've been reading How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell and enjoying it. It's a bit political for my liking but overall a good reminder to pause and set aside time to just "be" and shelve the programmed drive to constantly be productive as in economically productive. My therapist recently helped me reframe my drive for being productive as being generative, which I have taken a liking to since it encompasses being cr…

Was it hard to switch perspective?

Yes, it’s definitely an ongoing process for me!

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Post by nullc »

Tade0 wrote: post #186
BeetleB wrote: post #153

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Wait, did you make that? I remember going to that site around 2003-2004!

No no - I wish I was that person though. By "had" I meant I'm a longtime user.

Were you on the mailing list that it tells you about after running it long enough? :P

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Post by NoMoreNicksLeft »

wizzwizz4 wrote: post #174
NoMoreNicksLeft wrote: post #173

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> Tomorrow's famine will be caused by you Possibly. Or maybe it will happen anyway. > (read: those behaving as you describe) That's mostly leftist moralizing on your part.

Maybe it's moralizing, but I don't think it's wrong . I'm using the same model as you, after all, only I'm applying Kantian ethics instead of unconsidered egoism. • If you wish yourself maximal reproductive fitness, then all humanity will be your descendants, and the next few centuries of all human interest is your interest. • The iterated prisoner's dilemma is a classic economic argument, by which Tragedy of the Com…

> Maybe it's moralizing, but I don't think it's wrong.

Religionists never think their religion is wrong. But I don't belong to your cult.

> because I have absolutely no idea what a leftist is.

Leftists never have any idea what a leftist is. But I don't belong to your cult.

Re: Nothing: Simply Do Nothing

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Post by ChiefNotAClue »

LeifCarrotson wrote: post #101
InDubioProRubio wrote: post #98

? Go for a walk. Walking is what our ancestors did, to go into "finding" modus. Find a route to water, find prey, find adversaries to find you and find out. Or at least find the way home. 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 pro…

I like to go for a run or a bike ride. On a walk, you can still carry and even use a phone, listen to a podcast or music, or have a conversation. When you're doing a workout, you might wear a watch, but otherwise it's a time when you can't really get distracted or interrupted by anything, you just move, observe, and think.

On a walk, you can truly take in the details of your surroundings—the kind of details that you would otherwise whizz past on a bike. Two different kinds of paces.

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Post by nativeit »

saghm wrote: post #147
0cf8612b2e1e wrote: post #137

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Most of those names strike me as particularly affluent or benefitting from a rich sponsor. Which does not really contradict the original point that majority of the population were focused on survival.

Yeah, Thoreau in particular didn't really "live off the land" when writing Walden; his mother came to do his laundry for him.

Is your mother doing your laundry somehow disqualifying? I’m not sure I follow your logic.

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Post by dfreire »

331c8c71 wrote: post #140
InDubioProRubio wrote: post #98

? Go for a walk. Walking is what our ancestors did, to go into "finding" modus. Find a route to water, find prey, find adversaries to find you and find out. Or at least find the way home. 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 pro…

Maybe walking will work for me when I am older but it is not intense enough now. Cycling seems to be perfect as the scenery changes much faster and there is more opportunity to challenge myself (;

And… you’re doing something.

Re: Nothing: Simply Do Nothing

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Post by raindropm »

Funny how HN always find a way to be critical on virtually EVERYTHING. :p

I think it's brilliant site, you visit the site or share it with someone, read the text, it make you feel grounded and even spark something inside you that you forget in the busy day.

Walking is cool, but it's definitely different from be still and doing nothing. Sometimes you go to walk, but your mind still racing from all the things that you want to escape, which doesn't help at all, because the point of all this is doing NOTHING, yes, even daydreaming. Your just lightly aware of your mind and self in the now, and that's all, no thought, just like meditation.

Re: Nothing: Simply Do Nothing

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Post by TN1ck »

331c8c71 wrote: post #140
InDubioProRubio wrote: post #98

? Go for a walk. Walking is what our ancestors did, to go into "finding" modus. Find a route to water, find prey, find adversaries to find you and find out. Or at least find the way home. 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 pro…

Maybe walking will work for me when I am older but it is not intense enough now. Cycling seems to be perfect as the scenery changes much faster and there is more opportunity to challenge myself (;

I guess you don’t have any hills/mountains in your area, going up there can be quite intense.
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