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Re: Weird things philosophers do in their spare time! [Re: ]
    #2319492 - 02/09/04 08:21 PM (19 years, 11 months ago)

I just thought of something. What exactly is "spare time" for a philosopher? I mean, philosopher isn't exactly a day job (unless you're a university professor), so I would think all time is spare time for a philosopher. But if it's all "spare" then there isn't really any spare time at all, because it's all regular time. And a philosopher's regular time should be spent thinking.

Thus I would venture to say a philosopher thinks all the time and therefore has no spare time.


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Re: Weird things philosophers do in their spare time! [Re: Zero7a1]
    #2319496 - 02/09/04 08:23 PM (19 years, 11 months ago)

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Re: Weird things philosophers do in their spare time! [Re: ]
    #2319500 - 02/09/04 08:24 PM (19 years, 11 months ago)

Well, I act differently with different types of music. If it's rock, I'll sing along and do the whole lead singer thing. If it's techno, I'll dance to it like I'm at a rave.


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Re: Weird things philosophers do in their spare time! [Re: MrGrib]
    #2319505 - 02/09/04 08:26 PM (19 years, 11 months ago)

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Re: Weird things philosophers do in their spare time! [Re: silversoul7]
    #2319514 - 02/09/04 08:28 PM (19 years, 11 months ago)

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Re: Weird things philosophers do in their spare time! [Re: ]
    #2319527 - 02/09/04 08:31 PM (19 years, 11 months ago)

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I did this for hours and hours and hours. I did it a lot when I was an elected official.



If I were an elected official, I'd check the room for hidden cameras before doing something like that. I can just imagine the smear campaign an opponent could do if they caught something like that on video.


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Re: Weird things philosophers do in their spare time! [Re: silversoul7]
    #2319534 - 02/09/04 08:35 PM (19 years, 11 months ago)

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Re: Weird things philosophers do in their spare time! [Re: ]
    #2319578 - 02/09/04 08:56 PM (19 years, 11 months ago)

I'm not a philosopher, and I don't know if I do anything as weird as you guys do (:grin:), but something I do that is probably annoying is I like to figure out if someone is ADHD, and if so, are they VG or AH.  :rolleyes:

People think I'm obsessed about ADHD, and I probably am.  I have it, and so do all my kids.  I've studied it a lot, and the main reason I started trying to figure out life is because of ADHD.

People with ADHD are really smart, but they can "appear" fucked up.  Why does someone who is so smart get classified as fucked up?  Why are these people so smart?  Why, if you are so smart, do you appear fucked up?

These are questions I ask myself and often times the things I am studying about life come back to ADHD and the different disorders of the brain that inherently belong to really smart people.


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Re: Weird things philosophers do in their spare time! [Re: ]
    #2319583 - 02/09/04 08:59 PM (19 years, 11 months ago)

Something else I do a lot


stare at my hands and wiggle my fingers


say out loud "The sound of my voice"


play out future conversations that I will have with people (in my head)

play guitar and pretend that I am playing for an audience


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Re: Weird things philosophers do in their spare time! [Re: SpecialEd]
    #2319605 - 02/09/04 09:04 PM (19 years, 11 months ago)

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Re: Weird things philosophers do in their spare time! [Re: SpecialEd]
    #2319615 - 02/09/04 09:06 PM (19 years, 11 months ago)

Oh god, I always play out future, or potential conversations I'll have with people in my head! Not only conversations, but entire interactions.


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Re: Weird things philosophers do in their spare time! [Re: Frog]
    #2319621 - 02/09/04 09:08 PM (19 years, 11 months ago)

do you think i have ADD, or ADHD? What are the signs, for you, that you look for in an individual?


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Re: Weird things philosophers do in their spare time! [Re: NiamhNyx]
    #2319624 - 02/09/04 09:09 PM (19 years, 11 months ago)

the funny thing is the conversations never go the way I want them to.


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Re: Weird things philosophers do in their spare time! [Re: Zero7a1]
    #2319688 - 02/09/04 09:31 PM (19 years, 11 months ago)

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Zero7a1 said:
do you think i have ADD, or ADHD? What are the signs, for you, that you look for in an individual?




Funny thing about ADHD is this:

Everyone exhibits ADHD behaviors now and then.  But ADHD people just exhibit them more often. 

Losing things, forgetting what you went into a room for, procrastinating, being argumentative, being hyper, and the list goes on, and on, and on, depending on how ADHD you are, and depending on what type of ADHD you have, and whether you have the "H", of course.

I don't know you well enough to say whether you are ADHD.  There is one symptom you display that could just be "you", but could be a sign of ADHD, and that is that you are sort of "oppositional". 

Some people, maybe a lot of people, who have ADHD are oppositional.  Will argue about anything.  Will take an opposing viewpoint just for the fuck of it.  :grin: 

Again, this could just be "you".  I don't really know you well enough.  But that's what I do.  I take things I see in someone, and I start adding them up.  I'm usually right.  Also, I haven't really read all your posts, I'm just going by gut instinct based on times when you have responded to stuff I've written on Christianity.

In my opinion, probably most of the people on this forum have ADHD.  No, I don't think the "whole world" has it, but there are some pretty smart people here.  I have found that the smarter a person is, the more likely it is that he/she will have ADHD.  It's nature's way of balancing things out.


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Re: Weird things philosophers do in their spare time! [Re: Frog]
    #2319710 - 02/09/04 09:41 PM (19 years, 11 months ago)

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Re: Weird things philosophers do in their spare time! [Re: ]
    #2319738 - 02/09/04 09:51 PM (19 years, 11 months ago)

Sometimes i think it seems im being oppositional to you, when it may only be a few ideas. Ummm... I cant keep track of my thoughts? They just float along, like an endless process of self correction of logical errors in my brain.

But i sometimes i like my thoughts, i really dont know what happens when i post something. I just post what i think, my teachers always said i never listened. I think because i didnt agree with their ideas they always thought i was being a smart ass, or whatever. Hey, im just here learnin! trying to understand things for myself, i dont want to believe someone else just cause they say so, i want to know why they know what they know, and how it applies to other things of simmilar validity. If i cant get some kind of "ground" i feel lost, and my goes in circles, and i lose attention. and start doing things like "dum didee dum, gum tastes good with rum, i like to run, have no fun, be a hun and give me a hug"



Its easier for me, and much more comfortin, when people are down to earth, and can accept mistakes. Cause as soon as im able to understand my mistakes, the quicker i learn. The longer someone makes me feel bad for not understanding or sizing me up, the increasingly harder it becomes for me to stay on track and remember what i was trying to remember and learn.

This has been a big problem for me ehre and everywhere, too much input, some people its hard to just stay consistant in one thing they are doing. Like my art teacher, he was projecting arrogance, so my attention focused to his attitude instead of what he was "trying" to teach. He didnt even give me an answer, which gave me more reason to think he didnt know JACK.

O i got a story about jack, let me know if you want to hear about it sometime.

:nut: this crazy stuff would be crazy to make it like a picture


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Re: Weird things philosophers do in their spare time! [Re: trendal]
    #2319740 - 02/09/04 09:51 PM (19 years, 11 months ago)

You know...just in case the water-heater explodes it's good to know why it exploded

Some poor sap was killed in his kitchen a month back when his blender exploded and the flying glass cut his jugular. How weird is that?

Note: If he had been drinking a beer instead of some wussy protein shake, well...


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Re: Weird things philosophers do in their spare time! [Re: Zero7a1]
    #2319747 - 02/09/04 09:54 PM (19 years, 11 months ago)

Well, see, based on what you just wrote, I would say you may be ADHD. Also, did you take the Asperger's test that I posted a while back? Try this, and let me know the results:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aqtest.html

You can PM me if you don't want to post your results publicly. And, of course, you don't have to take it.


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Re: Weird things philosophers do in their spare time! [Re: ]
    #2319757 - 02/09/04 09:57 PM (19 years, 11 months ago)

I was telling myself jokes.

What if it was one you already heard? Do you ruin the punchline and tick yourself off?


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Re: Weird things philosophers do in their spare time! [Re: Zero7a1]
    #2319761 - 02/09/04 09:59 PM (19 years, 11 months ago)

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