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Being Bored Is Good

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Re: Being Bored Is Good

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Post by filoleg »

Hoasi wrote: post #95
filoleg wrote: post #46

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>if you are meditating or thinking about work, are you bored? You are doing those things to escape boredom. The idea isn’t to stay in a perpetual state of boredom. The point is to induce boredom, so that it pushes you towards doing things you wouldn’t normally do, in order to escape it.

> The point is to induce boredom Still doesn't sound like a great idea.

Seems to work for a lot of people, including me.

"Inducing boredom" doesn't mean "sit down in your apartment like you normally would, but force yourself to do nothing and get bored just because." I always understood it as "put yourself in an environment with limited options, so that you would feel more encouraged to do something productive/creative that you always wanted to do (but couldn't due to all the outside distraction/overstimulation) in order to escape boredom."

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Post by nsporillo »

freeflight wrote: post #194
natalyarostova wrote: post #52

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Raising a productive, kind, and compassionate human being is very hard, and very much an achievement. You reduce it uncharitably by claiming it's simply 'birthing.'

> You reduce it uncharitably by claiming it's simply 'birthing.' Isn't that exactly what it has become? Right now we are struggling with a massive environmental catastrophe, which is largely caused by overconsumption. One of the best ways to fight that is to simply have fewer consumers [0], yet somehow that's something barely anybody even dares to talk about because we can't take from people the "freedom" to keep bir…

It might be controversial to mention, but isn't there an underlying feeling of "us versus them"?

Consider the movie Idiocracy, where the high-IQ couple decided to put off children until they were unable to conceive - contrasted with a trashy man who had dozens of children with many different women.

Do you want the world you live in 20 years from now to be one with people like you or unlike you? Regardless it reduces to people being selfish, but I dont think it's inherently wrong to want to raise children into upstanding citizens.

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Post by PavlovsCat »

erikpukinskis wrote: post #191
PavlovsCat wrote: post #133

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I agree with you both.. and offer as common ground an example of pure vocal bliss, yet in a song enabled by technology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7OYsGAp_QY

I was sure you were going to link to this: https://youtu.be/Y6ljFaKRTrI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3WgfOVRr7U

> If I hear one more person who comes up to me and complains about "computer music has no soul" then I will go furious, you know. 'Cause of course the computer is just a tool. And if there is no soul in computer music then it's because nobody put it there and that's not the computer's role. It's the role of the songwriter. He puts down his soul in the song if he wants to. A guitar will never write a song and a computer will never write a song. These are just tools.

-- Björk

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Post by spacegod »

cyberferret wrote: post #185
spacegod wrote: post #170

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As a millennial/gen z music person, the problem is that your son is a guitarist. Guitar rock is dead. Foo Fighters, Qotsa,tool offshoot bands are all too 2000's. Sample and synth based rock is alive. We can simply sample any guitar lines and warp them to fit the beat. No need to hire a guitarist. Rock has moved on. It moved on in 2000 following the releases of Radiohead's Kid A, The Flaming Lips' The Soft Bulletin, O…

> Lastly your kid is not deeper than the other kids lyrically. Get off of your high horse and stop leading your kid towards a path to hell. Did you deduce that from looking at his Instagram feed that I posted above? A feed that pretty much contains NONE of his original material and only covers of current songs? That you didn't recognise that pretty much shows your total and complete lack of knowledge of the music ind…

I deduced it from your statement you lying faggot

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Post by [deleted] »

BowBun wrote: post #99
soverance wrote: post #47

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> For a majority of people, their greatest and most satisfying achievement will be their children. This sentiment is grossly nauseating, to me. Having children is not an achievement. It may be satisfying and fulfilling, but it is in no way an "achievement". If your greatest contribution to the world is birthing a child, you have failed as a person.

I just feel like I have to come to this poor comment's defense. Yes raising children is hard, but we've been doing it successfully for all of humanity. Our entire evolution has geared us towards having and raising children. To another responder's comment: "To many, their children are their greatest achievements". True, but a majority of people will not achieve anything great. A kid is like a participation trophy for…

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Re: Being Bored Is Good

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Post by erikpukinskis »

BowBun wrote: post #99
soverance wrote: post #47

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> For a majority of people, their greatest and most satisfying achievement will be their children. This sentiment is grossly nauseating, to me. Having children is not an achievement. It may be satisfying and fulfilling, but it is in no way an "achievement". If your greatest contribution to the world is birthing a child, you have failed as a person.

I just feel like I have to come to this poor comment's defense. Yes raising children is hard, but we've been doing it successfully for all of humanity. Our entire evolution has geared us towards having and raising children. To another responder's comment: "To many, their children are their greatest achievements". True, but a majority of people will not achieve anything great. A kid is like a participation trophy for…

> A kid is like a participation trophy for life.

I think you’re the one in this thread with the holier-than-thou rhetoric. You and the other commenter are the ones trying to minimize the work of childcare. Don’t make like it’s the other way around.

Re: Being Bored Is Good

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Post by str33t_punk »

This is why a quit weed. Weed makes being bored fun. So all the motivation that being bored typically gives you goes away and you are content to do nothing. However it is healthy to be bored, and you need this push in order to accomplish things
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