Thinking Problem

[underdog]

It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now and then to loosen up. Inevitably though, one thought led 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. 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 writings of Plato, Saint Augustine of Hippo, Jesus Christ, and Aristotle. I would return to the office dizzied and confused, asking, "What is it exactly we are doing here?"

 

Things weren't going so great at home either. One evening I had turned off the TV and asked my wife about the meaning of life. She spent that night at her mother's.

 

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 job."

 

This gave me a lot to think about. I came home early after my conversation with the boss. "Honey, " I confessed, "I've been thinking..." "I know you've been thinking," she said, "and I want a divorce!" "But Honey, surely it's not that serious." "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!"

"That's a faulty syllogism," I said impatiently, and she began to cry.

 

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 Clinton's latest book "Family Morals in America". Listening to a PBS station 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. Later, I realized that a Higher Power was looking out for me that night. 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. I never miss a TA meeting. At each meeting we watch a non-educational video; last week it was "Jerry Spinger" talking about the song "I'm bad" by Michael Jackson. Then we share experiences about how we avoided thinking since the last meeting. Life just seemed .. more bland .. without purpose or meaning, somehow, as soon as I stopped thinking, and avoided thoughts about the meaning of life and my future. I still have my job, and things are a lot better at home and the office. Now I stare for hours at the T.V. and receive my daily dose of brainwashing instead of contemplating the mysteries of life. Have you joined Thinker's Anonymous yet?

[WingA]

too much thinking is not good for the brain and beware of your surroundings..

 

peez..

[Emerald]

lol all this 4rm mere thinkin?!... so 2much thought can be dangerous huh?

[Miriam1]

lool that was a great read, it got me thinking haha

[7_steps_2_Heaven]

hmmmmm hmmmmmm......hmm

[SomeAlien]

fortunately for me i was born functionnally retarded. yaaaaayyyy!!! *trips*

[Paragon]

"Have you joined Thinker's Anonymous yet?"

 

Underdog, welcome to the club son. ... You are at the crucial stage of moving from thinking to day-dreaming. I will welcome you to the DreamersClub, Insha-allaah.

 

PS: Its healthy thinking and dreaming. You wont need other people's company, i tell yah.

[underdog]

One evening I had turned off the TV and asked my wife about the meaning of life. She spent that night at her mother's.

"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!"

"That's a faulty syllogism," I said impatiently, and she began to cry.

These two conversations are by FAR the funniest things I've heard in a LONG time

[Rahima]

[Senora]

"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!"

LOL, What an analogy...

 

But anyway, i think me and over 70% of the U.S's population( you know, those who believed Saddam Hussein had something to do with 9/11) are life-long members of this club. And they say a mind is a terrible thing to waste, look at how much easier our lives are now..

[Paragon]

And they say a mind is a terrible thing to waste..

Yep, Princess. But are your lives easier now?

 

Underdog, I once listened a sheikh called 'Mustafa' while he talked of something called 'imaanni'. As I understood it, he was saying, 'imaanni' is the illusionary belief that we can do things without moving at all. For example, its 'imaani' to expect a tea cup lavitate up in the air and fly towards you, cos in thought, thats what you'd like to see happen.

 

I have no evidence showing that people can, with the power of thought and concentration, move things. However, magicians and many others do claim to possess such power. I am no no magician but I was thinking; what if what we mentally recontruct actions that we would have otherwise manually undertaken. That is, say, you are in need of a cup of tea, but because you dont wish to move, you can create an image in the mind with the likeness of that cup of tea.

 

The next step will be convincing the part of the mind that craves for the tea, by making it believe that act of drinking a cup of tea already took place. That way, the only thing that is missing from such a thought will be 'mass and the moisture of the tea. To go beyond this point and deal with it, the brain must mimick senses felt during when the tea is in transition from the mouth to tis destination, the stomach. But because no tea has been drunk, through thought the mind has to make the stomach follow her instructions, while endeavouring to supress any cravings mentally . usually, suppressions of craving can be achieved through the numbing of our senses and judgements. For example, say a girl believes she is overweight and that for her to feel better she must lose weight or atleast believe she had lost weight. She may lose lots of weight and may still not believe she lost any weight. Her mind becomes unsettled and focussed on achieving her intended goal, the feel good factor. The continuation of defying actual truth may lead to becoming anarexic.

 

Belief, however, illusionary, is paramount to the human phsyche. So if we belief what we think, we can 'sometimes' make our actions redundant.

 

..sorry bout the off-topicing!