When being stupid is smart
Man dude, it seems to me that you have alot of free time, but unlike me, you use it to it’s fullest potential. — kemuksigak
Props for the truly spoken word. It’s just a lowly youtube comment, but it has a clarity and truth to it I can’t deny.
Of course, you also have to watch the video.
I’ve hit the jackpot.
I’ve dreamed of this website for years. It existed in my head but I never knew it was real.
Oh, and never call me feisty.
You need a year and a passion for neuro-linguistic programming.
To drag the impossible dream from its warm cozy nook in your mind and into stark unyielding reality… well, I don’t know.
This story is enticing, because it touches on the promise that you can be superman.
I really want him to succeed because it has implications for me 
I’ll be following his progress.
I think I’m slowly coming to the realization that when I’m mired in overwhelming or dire circumstances and call out “God, help!!”, He does help.
But it seems when God steps in, he seems more interested in transforming me than the impending doom.
Again, this research isn’t surprising; it should be obvious. But if you don’t know the pressures and the temptations, it’s easy to misunderstand.
“This gaming problem is a result of the society we live in today,” Mr Bakker told BBC News. “Eighty per cent of the young people we see have been bullied at school and feel isolated. Many of the symptoms they have can be solved by going back to good old fashioned communication.”
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“I liked gaming because people couldn’t see me, they accepted me as my online character – I could be good at something and feel part of a group.” [Emphasis mine]
Those are terrible things to say, terrible things to feel – not wanting to be seen, grasping at the chance to be good at something, anything.
The word that sums up the article for me is the first word of the headline: Compulsive. It means you feel you have to, you need to, you must.
People gotta eat. If there’s no good food around, people will eat the bad stuff. And you don’t need any further explanation for it than, “People gotta eat.”
And the end of the road for the Yugo.
A man drives into a mechanic’s and says, “I’d like a new mirror for my Yugo”.
The mechanic looks at the man, looks at the car, “How many miles on it? I’m sure we can reach a deal.”
Make it simple. Make it cheap. Make it work for a definition of work that is good enough. These are virtues, sometimes misapplied virtues, but virtues nonetheless.
In a world of ballooning complexity sometimes I miss the quick and dirty answer.
Whoda thunk it?
Thank you, University of Maryland, for giving us the answers we already knew. We knew this before, but now we can all say, “This is true. They did a study.” and win our arguments.
Sarcasm aside, there’s food for thought in this. Some notable quotes from the article:
TV doesn’t really seem to satisfy people over the long haul the way that social involvement or reading a newspaper does,” says University of Maryland sociologist John P. Robinson, the study co-author and a pioneer in time use studies. “It’s more passive and may provide escape – especially when the news is as depressing as the economy itself. The data suggest to us that the TV habit may offer short-run pleasure at the expense of long-term malaise.
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“What viewers seem to be saying is that while TV in general is a waste of time and not particularly enjoyable, ‘the shows I saw tonight were pretty good,’ “
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“Addictive activities produce momentary pleasure and long-term misery and regret,”
Is passive consumption of entertainment a new thing? How did our forefathers try and pacify their misery?
I think they gazed into a fire, or at the stars. Sometimes I think I envy them, because I have neither fire nor stars. Both were crafted by the hand of God and reflect his creative beauty. I have television, which seems to be crafted along different lines entirely.
But then I don’t envy them, because I have God himself.