How painful and bad is boredom?

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REAL boredom, the kind that remorselessly eats away at your brain.

Is it as bad as famine or war?

Or should all the bored people just stop whining about it?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

the worst part for me is that i have things i could and should be doing other than posting to threads about discovering stalkers via the internet, but sitting in front of this computer at work just SUCKS me into ILX.

― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 27 January 2004 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

"It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so
much doing nothing, really doing nothing." --Gertrude Stein.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I think ILX actually increases my net boredom. Because I get so used to having instant response and instant entertainment at the click of a button that I've forgotten the other ways I used to have of entertaining myself, and don't really bother with them.

― the river fleet, Wednesday, 28 January 2004 00:18 (twenty-two years ago)

The solution is to find people to play RISK and drink BEER with!

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 00:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually don't get bored that often. Restless, yeah, but that's more of a physical impulse.

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 00:20 (twenty-two years ago)

"The word boredom barely existed even a century ago" Jmes Gleick

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

"Maybe boredom is a backwash within another mental state, the one called mania" - Gleick again.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 00:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"boring boring boring" - Adam L.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.emptybottle.org/images/youngones.jpg

BORED!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I've charged up a bunch of music and clothes recently to combat boredom. Maybe i'll be sorry, who knows!

― Sean (Sean), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

WHat I used to call boredom I now prefer to think of as lethargy or laziness. I never have NOTHING to do, and really, thats the only way boredom in its true sense could surely exist.

I'm more like the theThe song: I got too much energy to switch off my mind/but not enough to get myself organised....

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 01:02 (twenty-two years ago)

the John Cage / Zen suggestion: when you find an activity boring, do it for twice as long, and keep doubling the time until that activity becomes fascinatingly interesting.

― Pious Twin (abennett), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

My favourite teacher used to say "Only boring people can be bored."
He was wrong, but it's a good motto to try to live up to.

― Huck Everlasting (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

kate otm

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm pretty ADD'd-out, so boredom is a BAD thing for me, to the point where i have to try to ANYTHING to entertain myself.

― Huggy Dork (Kingfish), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 16:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm frequently bored at work. But I can entertain myself for hours. And for the love of socks, I'm not talking about spanking the proverbial monkey.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

You could though, if you wanted to. I wouldn't mind.

― Huck Everlasting (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Only boring people can be bored

Fuuuuck, this makes me the dullest person on earth at the moment then.

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

ditto. i feel like i'm in a waking coma.

is there such a thing? i could look it up, but i'm too bored...

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 16:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Shall we start a "things to do when you're bored and snowed in" thread, then?

― The River Kate (kate), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

how fitting that today's word of the day is...
hebetude \HEB-uh-tood-; -tyood\, noun:
Mental dullness or sluggishness.

― Felcher (Felcher), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

All those books and dvds out there and youall get bored????? HOWWWWW? I wish had time to be bored sometimes.

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

All those books and dvds out there and youall get bored????? HOWWWWW?

There are times when I am pondering my archives -- books, DVDs and CDs -- at home and can think of nothing to watch, read or listen to even in the depths of boredom.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

luhluhluhluhluhluhlibrary!

― Felcher (Felcher), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Stuck ... in ... office... can't .... read .... books.... or ...watch....dvds....[slumps]

― Anna (Anna), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 17:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Thank you, Anna!! Seriously, wtf -- don't you people have boring day jobs?

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

im filing as we speak

― Felcher (Felcher), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Jeanne and Anna -- yes I'm in an office, but I'm not bored cos of the interweb.

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 17:04 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm so bored that i finally put a load of pictures online.

maybe i'll be so bored tomorrow that i'll label them.

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 28 January 2004 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

eight months pass...

*groan*

― adam. (nordicskilla), Monday, 11 October 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

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