Trivial pursuit and human extinction
I was awakened last night by a loud knocking on my door. Fortunately the knocking was not reality but was a dream.
When I “heard the knocking I sat upright in bed with my heart racing and immediately tried to determine if what I had heard was the real world rather than a dream. I assume such things happen to everyone; such things have happened to me before.
I was unable to go back to sleep. Instead my mind led me into contemplations that have resulted in my preparing this posting thus ending my attempt on going back to sleep.
I am retired and have been using my free time for the last several years studying the human condition. I have been trying to comprehend why humans do the absurd things we do and if there is some way to change the direction our civilization is heading. As part of this effort I have been engaged in several of these Internet discussion forums writing my thoughts about our human propensity to self-destruct.
Circumstances this summer have led me into becoming a bricklayer for the first time in my life. I needed to build a small brick wall in my front yard and I have been engrossed in this project for many weeks.
When I look back on my bricklaying efforts I recognize that I have tranquilized myself with trivia. For many weeks I have narrowed the focus of my intellectual interests to the follies of amateur bricklaying. The loud knocking was my unconscious awakening me from my holiday of trivia. My mind was willing to focus upon the trivia just as before it was focused on the important. But a sense of guilt drives my intellectual activity back to more important matters.
Have you experienced the difficulty sometimes of separating dream from reality?
Do you think that such things as hearing a loud knocking is our unconscious sending us a message?
Trivial pursuit and human extinction
Trivial pursuit and human extinction
Have you ever condsidered you might be thinking too much ?
Building a very real brick wall is NOT trivia, thinking yourself to distraction is in my opinion trivial.
Building a very real brick wall is NOT trivia, thinking yourself to distraction is in my opinion trivial.
I thought I knew more than this until I opened my mouth
Trivial pursuit and human extinction
Bruv;691258 wrote: Have you ever condsidered you might be thinking too much ?
Building a very real brick wall is NOT trivia, thinking yourself to distraction is in my opinion trivial.
I think that all humans think constantly. We can often control the direction of our thoughts but I have never been conscious of never thinking. I guess thinking is an essential component of consciousness.
Building a very real brick wall is NOT trivia, thinking yourself to distraction is in my opinion trivial.
I think that all humans think constantly. We can often control the direction of our thoughts but I have never been conscious of never thinking. I guess thinking is an essential component of consciousness.