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everybody is on an ongoing journey for satisfaction
this generates healthy and unhealthy psychological manifestations
a hedonist introspection is a method that consist of linking causes to effects
life is unfair but it doesn't owe you anything
locate morbid escapes from reality to redirect life into actions

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Saturday, 12 April 2003 23:50 (twenty-two years ago)

do you follow a similar method?
do you keep a journal?
can you tell what worked so far?

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 13 April 2003 00:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Another one bites the dust he he

i should have just said "let's talk about introspection" and see how it goes from there.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 13 April 2003 03:49 (twenty-two years ago)

"locate morbid escapes from reality to redirect life into actions."

You stole that from Oprah, didn't you, bitch?

― jewelly (jewelly), Sunday, 13 April 2003 04:01 (twenty-two years ago)

i don't claim it's original to say introspection can get morbid and be responsible for individual and social angst.
shoot some cultural references of this to be found in litterature, music etc.

but what would be the exact opposite of this?
also shoot some cultural references if you must

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 13 April 2003 05:11 (twenty-two years ago)

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/39027000/jpg/_39027407_abfab-bbc-203index.jpg

― Chris P (Chris P), Sunday, 13 April 2003 05:27 (twenty-two years ago)

the thing about introspection is that it's so short.
it basically starts "let's think about me." and quickly progresses to "let's think about what i have to do; let's think about why i am resistant to doing what i have to do; let's think about my failings in other ways; let's think about the point of life (or its absence); let's wonder why we're going to college in the first place; let's wonder about death. end."

i just think a lot about how vast everything is, and how many bits it would take to describe the entire universe. think about how minutely detailed all things are. you an write fifty volumes on cities that have been dead and gone for more than three thousand years; think about how many volumes someone could write about Los Angeles or NYC in an attempt to be comprehensive--detailing the places therein, the people therein, the life each person leads, significant (and insignificant) actions that have occurred--what's underneath the couch of the guy next door?

things that bring this to my mind: the history channel and driving. the history channel is very... specific. i've watched epic marathons about the JFK assassination and the Hell's Angels, but those documentaries have barely scratched the surface. i wonder about culture. when i drive i wonder where everyone else is going, what they're like, what they're listening to on the radio and if they're happy.

i think i smoke too much pot, though. maybe i'd think less if i stopped. i kind of like living in such an infinite state of wonder though.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 13 April 2003 05:27 (twenty-two years ago)

congradulations Chris
your reference is morbid *and* radious!

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 13 April 2003 05:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Ian, you rock! I had to give it up. I'm disappointed that alcohol, while fun, is really an inadequate replacement. I wish I could toke and get high like I used to. I miss the drug culture; I miss the friends I made. At a certain point though I had to turn away. But you're prolly younger than my old ass! So enjoy!! RoX0r!!

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Sunday, 13 April 2003 06:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, I'm still in the peak of my cannabis enjoying years--a mere eighteen. I wonder how sharply my consumption will increase or decrease when I head off to college next year--decrease because I won't have a dealer/friends at first? Increase because there will simply be more in the environment? I have no idea.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 13 April 2003 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

My money's on it increasing.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 13 April 2003 17:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm with Sundar

Have fun at college there

― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 13 April 2003 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, Ian, for me it increased my first semester and then it sort of levelled off and now it's down to like nothing. I'll still get good and drunk from time to time but the whole pot-smoking thing, in some ways, became LESS appealing to me because it's so prevalent. In high school pot was like the Holy Grail and we were always on a mad quest for it. Once I had it around me all the time I was like "eh, whatever." But I think too much even without it and I'm in a state of "infinite wonder" (read: confusion) all the time anyway.

― jewelly (jewelly), Sunday, 13 April 2003 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Freshman in college is the classic Point of Peak Pot-use.

― Aaron A., Sunday, 13 April 2003 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)

i think i smoke too much pot, though. maybe i'd think less if i stopped.

Nooo! I'm so disappointed. I don't smoke pot or drink very much, yet I'm morbidly introspective! I was just having an "If this is sobriety give me drugs" mood.

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 13 April 2003 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)

The less I think, especially about myself, the happier I am. Too much introspection is a really really bad thing.

I find that having a job cures me of the more harmful aspects of introspection. I need to spend more time living life, and less time thinking about it, because thinking about it only makes you realise how pointless it all is.

I know this isn't true for everyone, and the vast majority of humans probably *could* do to spend more time thinking about themselves and the effects of their actions. But I think it's fundamentally something that should be engaged in moderation.

― kate, Monday, 14 April 2003 07:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Years of alcohol abuse and playing ISS have fucked my concentration to such an extent that introspection is now no longer an option. Instead I concern myself with crazed ponderances about how we percieve motion if the instant of now is a freeze-frame, and other such bollocks.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 14 April 2003 08:21 (twenty-two years ago)

five years pass...

Grandfather watches the grandfather clock
And the phone hasn't rang for so long
And the time flies by like a vulture in the sky
Suddenly he breaks into song

I'm waiting by the phone
Waiting for you to call me up and tell me I'm not alone
I'm waiting by the phone
Waiting for you to call me up and tell me I'm not alone

Hello, speak up, is there somebody there?
These hang-ups are getting me down
In a world frozen over with over-exposure
Let's talk it over, let's go out and paint the town

I'm waiting by the phone
Waiting for you to call me up and tell me I'm not alone

Cause I want somebody to shove
I need somebody to shove
I want somebody to shove me

You're a dream for insomniacs,
prize in the Cracker Jacks
All the difference in the world is just a call away

And I'm waiting by the phone
Waiting for you to call me up and tell me I'm not alone
Yes I'm waiting by the phone
I'm waiting for you to call me up
and tell me I'm not alone

Cause I want somebody to shove
I need somebody to shove
I want somebody to shove me
Yes I want somebody to shove
I need somebody to shove
I want somebody to shove me

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 02:25 (seventeen years ago)

Introspection:

Case for- making megalomaniac bosses stop and think about their behaviour has to be good.

Case against: Roger Waters solo albums

― Bob Six, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 06:36 (seventeen years ago)

bob 666

― jergïns, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 06:40 (seventeen years ago)

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