It seems to me that many people jog happily along with little or no change to their circumstances. Its only when something upsetting happens that they begin to think.
Usually some unacceptable incident or issue causes a rage and then out of that comes some kind of thoughts and rationality, towards solving a problem or making the situation better.
There are also events which are good news and these also inspire new thoughts and ideas.
I know we can all add into a conversation the usual standard things that keep the chatter flowing, and generally these don't cause us to think. They are usually on hand and can be dispensed easily.
So what gets your old brain cells really working for their wages? Is it fury or good fortune? What is it that you know makes you a different thinking person thereafter? Cheeseburger and chips or Confucius?
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What causes you to think?
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My son was starting his GCSE's with plans to go to uni. My sister asked me - who are you going to talk to when he's gone?
I thought - and thought and - as soon as he finished his last GCSE I left my conversation-less, living in a rut husband and started living.
It was hard, very hard at times, and I don't just mean financially. But my life is now far more interesting than it was then and I'm still thinking.
I don't think I had realy been thinking for years before that - not properly.
I thought - and thought and - as soon as he finished his last GCSE I left my conversation-less, living in a rut husband and started living.
It was hard, very hard at times, and I don't just mean financially. But my life is now far more interesting than it was then and I'm still thinking.
I don't think I had realy been thinking for years before that - not properly.
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I am always learning and it actually hurts my brain........ sometimes I would love not to think. I started reading a book "The Power of Now" - its all about living in the moment. I read the first chapter .......I'll think about it
He dies at the end corrie :wink:
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I am always learning and it actually hurts my brain
He dies at the end corrie :wink:
How bizarre Woohoo :shock: :shock: :shock: I have no idea how he wrote the next book he wrote then - thats incredible
:lol: 
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What makes me think?
I believe it's my cerebral cortex
I believe it's my cerebral cortex
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What makes me think?
Complicated sums like 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/5
Complicated sums like 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/5
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I've not had an incident close enough to me that has caused me to think and then become a different thinking person thereafter, however I do get lost in thought, enough that I get engrossed in my thinking to the exclusion of those around me. They can say something to me and I don't hear it, so in that sense I guess my brain is working, but thinking about it now it's seldom on important matters, an example would be cake mix.
We don't cook in our house, but I was fortunate to be round the sister in laws house when she was making a cake, it was even more fortunate that I won the coveted bowl and spoon she had used for the mixture as her kids were out. Now I've loved cake mix since I was a kid, wouldn't give you tuppence for the cake but the mix...heaven, finger in, face in, anything to get every last bit. I've never understood why anyone would want to take a sweet, smooth, soft foodstuff that helter skelters round the mouth with flavour and turn it into a dry, dull thing like a cake, anyways thats what got me thinking.
I know you can buy cake and dry cake mix in the shops, but they dont sell a wet mix, one that you could just rip open and eat. Could it be done? was I the only person who liked it enough to buy it as a sweet treat? How big a spoon and bowl would I need if it took off?....and a whole list of other thoughts that were deep enough that I was glad when I went to bed and forgot it, cos it just kept pinging around in my head and wouldn't go away, even though I knew I was in La La Land again.
Probably not along the lines you were thinking about, but in short, yes at times I do think and think very deeply, unfortunately those thoughts are, on reflection, mostly shite.
We don't cook in our house, but I was fortunate to be round the sister in laws house when she was making a cake, it was even more fortunate that I won the coveted bowl and spoon she had used for the mixture as her kids were out. Now I've loved cake mix since I was a kid, wouldn't give you tuppence for the cake but the mix...heaven, finger in, face in, anything to get every last bit. I've never understood why anyone would want to take a sweet, smooth, soft foodstuff that helter skelters round the mouth with flavour and turn it into a dry, dull thing like a cake, anyways thats what got me thinking.
I know you can buy cake and dry cake mix in the shops, but they dont sell a wet mix, one that you could just rip open and eat. Could it be done? was I the only person who liked it enough to buy it as a sweet treat? How big a spoon and bowl would I need if it took off?....and a whole list of other thoughts that were deep enough that I was glad when I went to bed and forgot it, cos it just kept pinging around in my head and wouldn't go away, even though I knew I was in La La Land again.
Probably not along the lines you were thinking about, but in short, yes at times I do think and think very deeply, unfortunately those thoughts are, on reflection, mostly shite.
Well davej's post got me thinking ...about cake mixes and I too love the mix or did before I became diabetic ..sigh!
In particular it reminded me of my mothers cut-n-cum again cake ....what a great name for a swingers cake
Back to the op ...I sometimes find myself noticing how a comment from others around me illustrates that they have a totally different take on life or an issue to me. That then leads me to question my view and maybe even change my outlook after that introspection.
In particular it reminded me of my mothers cut-n-cum again cake ....what a great name for a swingers cake
Back to the op ...I sometimes find myself noticing how a comment from others around me illustrates that they have a totally different take on life or an issue to me. That then leads me to question my view and maybe even change my outlook after that introspection.
Thanks for the input folks.
What I get now and then is insights into things. And I feel that I have thought about them and understand them. So I get a sense of having done something to achieve it.
Some of these are generated through rage and others when I just happen to be in a carefree mood. So is it necessity or indulgence which brings on thinking?
I would not want to be in a job where I was always under pressure, to come up with new ideas etc. But people work in advertising and design and that is everything to them.
Do swingers need to think?
What I get now and then is insights into things. And I feel that I have thought about them and understand them. So I get a sense of having done something to achieve it.
Some of these are generated through rage and others when I just happen to be in a carefree mood. So is it necessity or indulgence which brings on thinking?
I would not want to be in a job where I was always under pressure, to come up with new ideas etc. But people work in advertising and design and that is everything to them.
Do swingers need to think?
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What makes me think?
Complicated sums like 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/5
1/2 + 1/4 + 1/5 = 19/20
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I've not had an incident close enough to me that has caused me to think and then become a different thinking person thereafter, however I do get lost in thought, enough that I get engrossed in my thinking to the exclusion of those around me. They can say something to me and I don't hear it, so in that sense I guess my brain is working, but thinking about it now it's seldom on important matters, an example would be cake mix.
We don't cook in our house, but I was fortunate to be round the sister in laws house when she was making a cake, it was even more fortunate that I won the coveted bowl and spoon she had used for the mixture as her kids were out. Now I've loved cake mix since I was a kid, wouldn't give you tuppence for the cake but the mix...heaven, finger in, face in, anything to get every last bit. I've never understood why anyone would want to take a sweet, smooth, soft foodstuff that helter skelters round the mouth with flavour and turn it into a dry, dull thing like a cake, anyways thats what got me thinking.
I know you can buy cake and dry cake mix in the shops, but they dont sell a wet mix, one that you could just rip open and eat. Could it be done? was I the only person who liked it enough to buy it as a sweet treat? How big a spoon and bowl would I need if it took off?....and a whole list of other thoughts that were deep enough that I was glad when I went to bed and forgot it, cos it just kept pinging around in my head and wouldn't go away, even though I knew I was in La La Land again.
Probably not along the lines you were thinking about, but in short, yes at times I do think and think very deeply, unfortunately those thoughts are, on reflection, mostly shite.
I would imagine they don't do it because of the raw egg.
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So what gets your old brain cells really working for their wages? Is it fury or good fortune? What is it that you know makes you a different thinking person thereafter? Cheeseburger and chips or Confucius?
When somebody tells me fibs, has a hidden agenda and generally when things just don't stack up.
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So what gets your old brain cells really working for their wages? Is it fury or good fortune? What is it that you know makes you a different thinking person thereafter? Cheeseburger and chips or Confucius?
When somebody tells me fibs, has a hidden agenda and generally when things just don't stack up.
I take it from the above you have met my kids..
Yep I brushed my teeth... (fibs)
Dad...you know I love you.....(hidden agenda)
I never touched it Dad it just fell off.....(dont stack up)
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All sorts of stuff. Sometimes it's a throwaway remark, sometimes a philosophical debate.
I love thinking but I think some people can over-think - sometimes you have to go off gut instinct and be spontaneous.
But thinking rocks.
I love thinking but I think some people can over-think - sometimes you have to go off gut instinct and be spontaneous.
But thinking rocks.
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i think about things way too much which is why i haven't slept for most of my life. i think of such stupid things when i should be going to sleep. i can also be watching a film and some will happen/be said and off my mind goes. it may still look to others as though i'm watching the film but i have no idea what is happening. i also go off on tangents in my thoughts too. i start off thinking one thing and end up somewhere totally different sometimes with no idea of what i was thinking about originally.
as for cake mix. i like it too.
davej, i have the perfect cake mix! a chocolate mix and tastes great raw or cooked and is never dry as cake. as the mix contains no raw eggs i'm sure it could be marketed in some way!
whips
I have a similar problem. I also think far too much and drift off at tangents, but that's not why I miss films - that's because I'm asleep :roll: My son talks at tangents too. You have to listen carefully to what he's saying because his point at the end is nothing like where he started but it is all logical. For a 6-year old he thinks far too much too and has to verbalise it. A habit we may have to curb. Thinking = good, but get to the point quicker or lose your audience.
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So what gets your old brain cells really working for their wages? Is it fury or good fortune? What is it that you know makes you a different thinking person thereafter? Cheeseburger and chips or Confucius?
When somebody tells me fibs, has a hidden agenda and generally when things just don't stack up.
what like tins of beans with crooked edges..............
Several times I have convinced myself that I have thought something out and it seems good to me. But then I meet other people who have thought quite differently about the same thing, and in their own way are quite right also. That different perspectives can seem apart but are in fact doing something very similar, even if both sides can't see it. That they are mostly in accordance but can only see the minor differences as major problems, which is enough to convince each other that they have a real argument.
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Several times I have convinced myself that I have thought something out and it seems good to me. But then I meet other people who have thought quite differently about the same thing, and in their own way are quite right also. That different perspectives can seem apart but are in fact doing something very similar, even if both sides can't see it. That they are mostly in accordance but can only see the minor differences as major problems, which is enough to convince each other that they have a real argument.
I completely understand what you are saying you could be talking about my husband and I. We have been together and for 30 years but wondered why we always seemed to get into heated discussions when sometimes only discussing minor issues that we know we agree on but always seem to disagree when discussed. when we analysised it we found we start at a point then what happens he goes in a semicircle right and I go in a semicircle left. We go off in different ways as we both think and explain things differently but end up joining at the top of the circle and then realising we both agree.
Does that make sense?
We put it down to thought processes and the way we explain ourselves to each other. After 30 you would think one of us would just be agreeable but if you have two strong minds and personalities together that is when this cycle seems to happen. It also keep debate lively in our house and communication open.
