On Jul 10, 3:33 am, "pol.science kid" <[email protected]> wrote:
> hey..thinking is not bad.......now i confess it harms my grades..but it
> doesnt matter much...if i go even two days without thinking(like being
> sorrounded by friends day and night!!)... I feel i am disappearing...its
> like i have to be with myself all the time.. my friends think i am weird coz
> when i go away..i go away completely..switch off my fone ... off the
> grid...And i will tell you a plus side.. i never ever get bored...you'd
> think at my age a kid cant stay without the internet and the cell fone.. but
> i can live days on end without them..thats why even my parents think i am
> strange...some suggest i might be going into some sort of depression... but
> i disagree...a detatchment i feel...but its not depresing in any way.. its
> liberating rather...think for me is being with my Self..which i am
> exploring..having only rtecently begun.. have to do a lot of Unlearning
> first..its like begining afresh...
>
> On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 7:55 PM, DarkwaterBlight
> <[email protected]>wrote:
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> > I was just thinking...
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> > It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now and
> > then to loosen up. Inevitably though, one thought would lead to
> > another, and soon I was more than just a social thinker. I began to
> > think alone --"to relax," I told myself -- but I knew it wasn't true.
> > Thinking became more and more important to me, and finally I was
> > thinking all the time.
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> > I began to think on the job. I knew that thinking and employment don't
> > mix, but I couldn't stop myself. I began to avoid friends at
> > lunchtime so I could read Thoreau and Kafka. I would return to the
> > office dizzied and confused, asking, "What is it exactly we are doing
> > here?"
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> > Things weren't going so great at home either. One evening I turned off
> > the TV and asked my wife about the meaning of life. She spent that
> > night at her mother's.
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> > I soon had a reputation as a heavy thinker. One day the boss called me
> > in. He said, "Skippy, I like you, and it hurts me to say this, but
> > your thinking has become a real problem. If you don't stop thinking on
> > the job, you'll have to find another one." This gave me a lot to
> > think about.
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> > I came home early after my conversation with the boss. "Honey," I
> > confessed, "I've been thinking..."
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> > "I know you've been thinking," she said, "and I want a divorce!"
>
> > "But Honey, surely it's not that serious."
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> > "It is serious," she said, lower lip aquiver. "You think as much as
> > college professors, and college professors don't make any money, so if
> > you keep on thinking we won't have any money!"
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> > "That's a faulty syllogism," I said impatiently, and she began to
> > cry.
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> > I'd had enough. "I'm going to the library," I snarled as I stomped out
> > the door. I headed for the library, in the mood for some Nietzsche,
> > with NPR on the radio. I roared into the parking lot and ran up to the
> > big glass doors... they didn't open. The library was closed. To this
> > day, I believe that a Higher Power was looking out for me that night.
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> > As I sank to the ground clawing at the unfeeling glass, whimpering for
> > Zarathustra, a poster caught my eye. "Friend, is heavy thinking
> > ruining your life?" it asked. You probably recognize that line. It
> > comes from the standard Thinker's Anonymous poster. Which is why I am
> > what I am today: a recovering thinker.
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> > I never miss a TA meeting. At each meeting we watch a non-educational
> > video; last week it was "Porky's." Then we share experiences about how
> > we avoided thinking since the last meeting. I still have my job, and
> > things are a lot better at home.
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> > Life just seemed ... easier, somehow, as soon as I stopped thinking.
> > Soon, I'll be able to vote.
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> > Anynomous
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