Absolutely not! Boredom (to me) is the resulting condition when I simply don't know what to do. It's just at times like this that asking others - as you've done - is awesome therapy.

But no, I was just on a roll for different things to do that involve engaging the world and living outside of computers and TV.

True happiness and contentment is not, having what we want, it's wanting what we have. A life to experience.

So boredom is confussion, indecision, a mental disability?

I loved your responce but because of the amount of alternatives available one must try to understand that it is not the world waiting for them that is the problem it is that you are waiting for the world.
Perhaps boredom is a fear of some sort? inadequecy?

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Where does NEED come into this?
What are the similarities between contentment and happiness for surly they are different beasts to train or set free.

I like your responce alot, recognition of what you have is often to know what you dont need or want.
Knowing your self requirements means not having to be overwhelmed by not knowing the requirements the rest of the world has of you.

Escaping boredom is the only legitimate reason to do anything.

That sounds good, but it doesn't put bread on the table.

Escaping boredom is the only legitimate reason to do anything.

That sounds good, but it doesn't put bread on the table.

Starving is boring after a few days. :bigsmile:

Boredom is decadence?

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Yeh so why not go outside and smell the roses and bird watch,
Hunger keeps you busy,
Hunger keeps you interested.
Hunger makes you interesting?
Hunger makes you boring?
Is hunger predictable?

Is boredom only predicatble when it is a want not a need?
Is not a predicatble want greed?

Perhaps boredom is the result of decadence rather than decadence itself. But only in boredom are we really faced with a choice that does not seemed forced upon us. I suppose in hunger there are instincts that eventually take over and perhaps boredom is a hunger for action...but sometimes there is nothing in the fridge and I just sit here and let myself be bored to nearly to death.

Boredom seems mundane and unimportant yet in my view, the existentialists were really talking about boredom when they describef that existential moment of angst, anxiety, dread and ennui.

Maybe boredom is decadent but I don't want to feel ashamed. Shame is an even less legitimate and less free reason to do something than boredom. I want to have nothing to do. I want to have nothing pressing on me. No job. No commitments. I want no fears to run from and no superego to reprimand me for my sloth. I want to be truly bored...and then decide what to do and do it.

I am bored tonight,
It does not assist me,

So thought i would open a thread on boredom.

I do not always think it is activity based, you can have much to do and still be bored.

So what to do if one has boredom?

Is it a need to try harder or try something different?
(I dont see how becuase tomorrow i will probably be here and not bored)
(i have many interests and just 'cant be bothered')
Is it the need to rest or is it the need to be lazy?

Insert interseting question here, i am even to bored to find any.

Boredom the cure of the affliction? the affliction of the cure?

Do you think over stimulation can lead to the disinterest? rise then fall?
(could it be physical?)

How can you stay interested all the time?

Perhaps boredom is the result of decadence rather than decadence itself. But only in boredom are we really faced with a choice that does not seemed forced upon us. I suppose in hunger there are instincts that eventually take over and perhaps boredom is a hunger for action...but sometimes there is nothing in the fridge and I just sit here and let myself be bored to nearly to death.

Boredom seems mundane and unimportant yet in my view, the existentialists were really talking about boredom when they describef that existential moment of angst, anxiety, dread and ennui.

Maybe boredom is decadent but I don't want to feel ashamed. Shame is an even less legitimate and less free reason to do something than boredom. I want to have nothing to do. I want to have nothing pressing on me. No job. No commitments. I want no fears to run from and no superego to reprimand me for my sloth. I want to be truly bored...and then decide what to do and do it.

Hello Sun, by far the best thing to do is get off your duff and find another flesh and blood human being and actually engage in communication after first giving them a sincere compliment. If you do that often enough, you will never be bored again. Never! If everyone did that, boredom would no longer exist.

William

Ought not boredom be forbidden?
Ought not evolution be enforced?

No, that's a very bad idea. To paraphrase Patrick Henry "Give me Boredom or give me death!"

The right to slack should be added to the universal declaration of human rights.

and to paraphrase Rousseau: No one will be truly free until we are all bored!

I rarely feel true boredom. I'm usually have something I have to do or I am worried about something. Sometimes I feel paralyzed into an apathetic state but such spells of paralysis should not be confused with the divine state of true boredom.

So boredom is confussion, indecision, a mental disability?

I loved your responce but because of the amount of alternatives available one must try to understand that it is not the world waiting for them that is the problem it is that you are waiting for the world.
Perhaps boredom is a fear of some sort? inadequecy?

I wouldn't say that boredom is a mental disability or inadequacy; confusion, perhaps. I'd say that boredom is that state of indolence where there simply isn't anything pressing enough, on our wants or needs to motivate us towards action. It's almost a state of mental numbing, where we want to do something, but nothing rises to the level of action required to act.

We all feel it at times and I don't think there's anything unusual or aberrant about it. It's probably the time where we most need to find something new to do, force our selves to get up and act, but simultaneously the very time its the hardest.

Something NEW to do, yes i agree.
Change.
Evolve.
This lends to the fear aspect as most are afraid of change and evolution.

I don't think most are afraid of change. Most are afraid of being weeded out for making the wrong kind of change. Since Darwin's "survival of the fittest" evolution has had terroristic connotations. It isn't change because its right or change because its good beautiful or true it's change or else you will die.
Anyway, my point is when talking about people being afraid to evolve the opposite could be just as true - people evolve because they are afraid.

Again fear of inadequecy, fear of failure, fear of expression.

I would like to say people evolve becuase they are brave but you raise an interesting thought,
fear is the one thing we cannot live without.
So maybe to be truly safe is to be truly bored?