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TheScientificMethod
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You cant be be in the moment in 2017 2
#24032620 - 01/23/17 07:10 AM (7 years, 7 days ago) |
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Sometimes I sort of wish that I grew up in the 60s or maybe even right after WWII just so that I could live in a time without all the technology that we have today.
To be clear, I love what technology has given us and it's a good life that we live today, but I don't think that people actually enjoy experience as much anymore. I think that people are too caught up in taking pictures with their phones and the actual meat of experience is take away.
I drove by a sledding hill today that was packed, and almost all the parents there were looking at their phone screen, taking pictures, deleting pictures, retaking pictures, and not just enjoying the act of being with their kids. It's like in this world an experience doesn't count unless you take a picture of it.
I'm certainly not immune to this, and I wonder how my own life would be different growing up in a different time where that didn't matter.
Whenever I trip this rings as especially true. I find that it's impossible to take a picture of something and have it turn out the same way I saw it when I was under the psychedelic's influence, so I don't even bother. It's like I check my phone/camera at the door and just say, "Well, for the next six hours, it's just about being here and not about showing it later." It's one of my favorite things about tripping. I don't worry about the future; I only feel in the moment.
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The people in the 60s wish they lived in the 20s and so on and so on....
Nothing is great as it seems when you look into the past and then actually live it.
Sounds like a personal problem to me. I have no problem living in the moment and leaving my technology at home and not letting it distract me. Instead of writing about it...do something about it.
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TheScientificMethod
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I don't hate that perspective.
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I kind of get the point, but I wish I had a decent cam back in the 80's when I was in my 20's. There are so many people, places, things, and myself I wish I had pics of. Some of us had to drop off the film at a place and wait a week or two to get the pics back, and sometimes they got lost, forever! Or the pics and/or film turned out bad. I think people are in the moment, they just embellish it with tech.
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I wouldn't say you can't be in the moment, but yes nowadays there is a plethora of distractions to pull you away from truly being present in the current space and time. The key to a healthy fulfilling life is balance, and sadly I feel most people are being pulled away from this natural ebb and flow of life. I'm a big advocator of the simpler is better. declutter your life, declutter your mind.
If I where to live in any other time I would go further back then the 60's, back to when the world was still mostly uncharted and a mystery, when people left on an adventure they where truly traveling into the unknown and had no idea of what lay ahead. The romance for true adventure is strong in this one.
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Re: You cant be be in the moment in 2017 [Re: SpaceDawg]
#24032695 - 01/23/17 08:17 AM (7 years, 7 days ago) |
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I actually feel as though I am living in the best time. Fuck that adventure shit with no modern tech, meds etc...
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Re: You cant be be in the moment in 2017 [Re: tyrannicalrex]
#24032734 - 01/23/17 08:51 AM (7 years, 7 days ago) |
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Born too early to explore the world... born too late to explore the Universe... born just in time to take LSD-25
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I struggle with the idea technology is just an addiction, I have learned a lot from the many addictions I have had but in the end I think I would have been better off if I had never started.
I struggle because most of the information I have comes straight out the retard terminal. I'm gonna make a change soon I just need to bide my time.
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Re: You cant be be in the moment in 2017 [Re: czech]
#24032930 - 01/23/17 10:26 AM (7 years, 7 days ago) |
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It's not pictures that take people out of the moment but media. It's trying to take photos for Facebook and instagram and friends and wondering what they'll think about it and uploaded it and the "getting a quick look" at someone else's photos. People are always thinking of something else. Which is basically the definition of not being in the moment.
That being said I use technology all the time to take me out of the moment of things I fucking hate. And it's not like I grew up with a gameboy and cell phone in hand, I had to be in the moment of things I hated constantly and up until very recently, this past year, when I got a smartphone I still did. And it helps alot when I'm sitting in my cube and otherwise hating the dull annoying pointless mediocrity of my life.
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Re: You cant be be in the moment in 2017 [Re: Tiamo]
#24032980 - 01/23/17 10:57 AM (7 years, 7 days ago) |
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Quote:
Tiamo said: Born too early to explore the world... born too late to explore the Universe... born just in time to take LSD-25
I think you mixed up the "early" and "late" in there
Very serene thread OP
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Re: You cant be be in the moment in 2017 [Re: Sheekle]
#24033035 - 01/23/17 11:25 AM (7 years, 7 days ago) |
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I have only had 2 touch screen phones and they were 100 buck ones from walmart. Don't really care about "social media".
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TheScientificMethod
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Re: You cant be be in the moment in 2017 [Re: tyrannicalrex]
#24033093 - 01/23/17 12:10 PM (7 years, 7 days ago) |
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I recently deleted my FB account for awhile just to take a break from the social media world. It's been nice, but I find that I'm just on Shroomery more often as a substitute, but not as often as I was on FB. I would like to remove more of these distractions from my life soon. I'm moving to a new town today, starting a new job tomorrow, andfeeling like this is a good time to change things like my reliance on technology. It's not that I want these things totally out of my life; I just wish that I could more easily take them off my mind. I also wish that society would make these changes, but then again that's just me imposing my wishes on others.
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