Because i work out early in the mornings, work in a office in a 9 to 5 and when i arrive home and i cant stand being sitted anymore, so i just relax on my bed shitposting on my phone. What are you gonna do about it?
People are afraid to be alone with their thoughts or simply don't like to be. So they distract themselves with meaningless garbage or conversations on their phone.
I was having this conversation with my cousin yesterday who admitted to not enjoying sitting with his own thoughts and where they take him.
He's a chronic phone user, it's quite sad really.
I think people like the phrasing of hating being alone with their thoughts to give it an edge, but what's more likely is that they're just not thinking about anything at all
at least with my cousin, when I questioned him on it, he told me he doesn't like where his thoughts go and that the thoughts are usually very self-deprecating.
I'm some one that prefers to sit with my own thoughts. Often they can also be very self-deprecating but I, usually, turn those thoughts into motivational ones.
I like to imagine its the same for most others. As when I ask others about it they generally give similar responses.
honestly I'd rather be talking to people and consuming information than mentally jerking off. You're implying that reading/communicating and thinking are mutually exclusive. Not that most internet usage is a particularly academic endeavour but what use is sitting there thinking you're better
Found the pseud lol
Doomscrolling on social media isn't talking to people or consuming meaningful information. I'm sure you send the occasional message and read the odd info-meme but don't kid yourself.
Sitting with your own thoughts is nothing impressive sure, but to call it mental masturbation is major cope. Time spent without stimulating your brain is objectively good for you as is simply allowing your body and mind and even your eyes to experience real-world stimulation rather than chasing dopamine on your screen. Staring out the window on a train for twenty minutes is unironically better for you than reading about whatever your moron buddies got up to over the weekend.
Save your communicating for face-to-face encounters and they become a lot more meaningful.
Then why are you here having this conversation with me and not staring out a window? You are literally attempting to share information with me right now. In your eyes you're getting even less out of this interaction than me. why aren't you staring at le grass
Embarrasing strawman. I can use the internet or social media without needing it to chase constant mental stimulation to the point where I can't sit on a train without doomscrolling. Alcohol is bad for you but that doesn't mean I can't occasionaly drink it without also saying "don't be an alcoholic". Everyone uses screens at some point because they have objective benefits but everyone also needs time to let their mind be static and unstimulated which is objectively and proveably good for you. Interacting with strangers on IST doesn't rob me of real life experience. When I spend time with family and friends we actually have things to talk about with them because I don't use social media to know the ins and outs of their every waking moment.
The point is it's not one or the other and if you cope by saying it's mental masturbation to sit alone with your thoughts then you're an idiot and likely a coping dopamine addict. No different to a fatty calling exercise masturbation lol.
I spent an hour at the beach this morning, enjoying the sunrise and swimming in the sea. I'll spend another hour in the park later enjoying nature. Right now I'm shitposting while frying eggs. It's probably not the best use of my time sure but it's a bit of fun and I keep it limited. Maybe in doing it I'll actually help someone who listens, maybe even you. I'm guessing you're a young lad and just defending a lifestyle of which you don't know any different.
Literally everyone is a little bit hippocritical and does things they shouldn't do or could be doing better, but if you use that as an excuse to dismiss people's wisdom and not listen then you'll never learn anything and likely just end up another depressed nihilist as is sadly so common these days.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Based again.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Nice essay
Based again.
Samegay harder
9 months ago
Anonymous
>dopamine addicted habit-induced-ADHD zoomer can't read a few paragraphs >copes by thinking everyone against him is the same person
Sorry lad, I tried to help you. We're all anonymous here, there's no need to be embarassed about getting btfo'd by someone with good intentions. Hopefully my words will land with you eventually when this thread is archived and you no longer feel you have to cling to your crumbling position so you can grow from a boy into a man. good luck and unironically touch grass.
9 months ago
Anonymous
I've not read any of your essays smoke my pole
9 months ago
Anonymous
We both know you read every word.
When the depression hits and you're liking and sharing every nihilist meme you find in your social feed, you think of me.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Following this anon's benign mog of your intellectual cope throughout the whole thread has been a delight. You should really listen to him, because he's right and you're wrong, and doubling down on arrogance is unbecoming. I know you are better than that zoomer bro.
9 months ago
Anonymous
stop samegayging so hard you absolute c**t nobody on IST ever comes along just to massively inflate someone elses ego. you are so terminally new it's sickening. I don't give 2 fricks about this argument at all but I just wanted to say its embarrassing. nothing irritates me more than seeing some moron write paragraphs while "someone else" follows all their comments with "LOL BASED YOURE SO SMART". literally everybody knows it's you, not that anyone else is even reading your drivel. you are completely jerking yourself off
9 months ago
Anonymous
>LOL BASED YOURE SO SMART"
I unironically believe IST discussion is high brow, with no padding and no bots. Nobody would stoop as to astroturf his comments, and would he?
9 months ago
Anonymous
every post here has /always/ been an astroturfing bot and you are the only human person. Sites with usernames are just catching up.
9 months ago
Anonymous
Real knows real, and likes to show respect.
9 months ago
Anonymous
agreed
9 months ago
Anonymous
Sup zoomBlack person, just got back from the park. Haven't read the reply chain yet but hilarious that you're swinging at shadows thinking everyone who disagrees with (you) is me lmao. You're unironically a schizo. Put down the phone and touch grass instead of letting me live rent free in your adhd addled mind
9 months ago
Anonymous
Based based based. Trips of base. I like you, good opinions
>honestly I'd rather be talking to people and consuming information than mentally jerking off.
If you don't stop and think about that stuff often you're not going to strengthen the necessary pathways to do something useful with this information.
For example, the people I know who follow political minutiae religiously are often some of the dumbest when the topic is brought up, because they just allow themselves to be clickbaited and manipulated by everything so they have systemic emotional overreactions blinding them, they don't really know how to place the information they get within a coherent understanding of the topic, they develop kneejerk reactions to things based on whether it fits or contradicts a preconceived worldview, and so on. You thoughts need room in order to grow.
Zoomer cope. Look up Sherry Turkle if you want some appeal to authority research since you lack common sense to see it’s good to be alone with yourself and your surroundings over constantly doing crap. The frying egg anon was quite nice to you.
And you don’t just sit there thinking you are better than others. That is a projection. You just sit there and exist with your thoughts, no thoughts, and your immediate surroundings. This is called direct living sir.
And you don’t just sit there thinking you are better than others. That is a projection. You just sit there and exist with your thoughts, no thoughts, and your immediate surroundings. This is called direct living sir.
So many people here posting that they're afraid to be alone with their own thoughts but like said it's a pseud excuse to look more noble instead of admitting they don't think much at all.
For me: the web is how I reassure myself that I am not crazy for denying the Marxist/LGBT shit I am constantly, endlessly assaulted with in all facets of campus life. If I can't interact with people who confirm my beliefs then I'm afraid I might start accepting the crazier shit thrown at me every day here.
I sometimes pretend to be checking my phone in public just so I don't look weird staring at nothing. I used to give in to my default of becoming lost in thought but had acquaintances make fun of me for it, so now I do this as a reflex.
Who gives a frick if you look weird to a bunch of morons who aren't even paying attention to you because they're glued to their phones? Not a man with any self confidence thats for sure.
If you change your behavior beacuse of playful ribbing from an acquaintance you need to stop being so insecure dude, laugh it off and joke back. If they weren't being playful then frick those morons, call them out, mock them back and stop caring about the opinions of people who belittle you for not being as stupid as they are.
Because they don't have anything better to do with their life , they can't face themselves. They seek distraction all the time so that they don't have to answer their conscious. Most of them already reached their meagre purpose to get a dead end job and pump kid now all they have is cope which they don't want so they distract themselves with alcohol, phones , porn , parties, etc . Look into the lifes of such people they will look empty. They are already dead inside they just don't want to admit hence they need distraction. This is the case with 99% of all humans.
It's escapism. The state of things makes me want to die. So I try to disconnect from reality by browsing the internet and living through others by watching garbage anime slop.
They're no longer human. They're transhuman cyborgs. I'll never use a smartphone again. Once I realized how much it was fricking up my brain and where they tech was leading I got rid of mine and never looked back. The "person" using a smartphone has given up what little agency they had in life. They're literal zombies.
Because i work out early in the mornings, work in a office in a 9 to 5 and when i arrive home and i cant stand being sitted anymore, so i just relax on my bed shitposting on my phone. What are you gonna do about it?
>Why is literally everyone is on their phone?
Because it's 2023 and the social engineering has been successful so far?
either way, I'm -always- the only one without a phone. waiting rooms, gyms (when I went), public transportation, you name it
Based. I'm the only person with their head up in public too. Gotta keep that crown level
I'm also that guy in the gym that don't have a phone or headphones and just stare at people
i mean she is all right but i bet her ass smells like farts.
You'd still lap it up like it's premium pudding
Does premium pudding raise test, bros?
>Sees a hot chick he will never have a chance with
>i-it dosent matter because s-she le fart and poop
Giga virgin detected
IMAGINE THE SMELLE
mind your business
People are afraid to be alone with their thoughts or simply don't like to be. So they distract themselves with meaningless garbage or conversations on their phone.
I was having this conversation with my cousin yesterday who admitted to not enjoying sitting with his own thoughts and where they take him.
He's a chronic phone user, it's quite sad really.
I think people like the phrasing of hating being alone with their thoughts to give it an edge, but what's more likely is that they're just not thinking about anything at all
at least with my cousin, when I questioned him on it, he told me he doesn't like where his thoughts go and that the thoughts are usually very self-deprecating.
I'm some one that prefers to sit with my own thoughts. Often they can also be very self-deprecating but I, usually, turn those thoughts into motivational ones.
I like to imagine its the same for most others. As when I ask others about it they generally give similar responses.
honestly I'd rather be talking to people and consuming information than mentally jerking off. You're implying that reading/communicating and thinking are mutually exclusive. Not that most internet usage is a particularly academic endeavour but what use is sitting there thinking you're better
Found the pseud lol
Doomscrolling on social media isn't talking to people or consuming meaningful information. I'm sure you send the occasional message and read the odd info-meme but don't kid yourself.
Sitting with your own thoughts is nothing impressive sure, but to call it mental masturbation is major cope. Time spent without stimulating your brain is objectively good for you as is simply allowing your body and mind and even your eyes to experience real-world stimulation rather than chasing dopamine on your screen. Staring out the window on a train for twenty minutes is unironically better for you than reading about whatever your moron buddies got up to over the weekend.
Save your communicating for face-to-face encounters and they become a lot more meaningful.
Then why are you here having this conversation with me and not staring out a window? You are literally attempting to share information with me right now. In your eyes you're getting even less out of this interaction than me. why aren't you staring at le grass
Embarrasing strawman. I can use the internet or social media without needing it to chase constant mental stimulation to the point where I can't sit on a train without doomscrolling. Alcohol is bad for you but that doesn't mean I can't occasionaly drink it without also saying "don't be an alcoholic". Everyone uses screens at some point because they have objective benefits but everyone also needs time to let their mind be static and unstimulated which is objectively and proveably good for you. Interacting with strangers on IST doesn't rob me of real life experience. When I spend time with family and friends we actually have things to talk about with them because I don't use social media to know the ins and outs of their every waking moment.
The point is it's not one or the other and if you cope by saying it's mental masturbation to sit alone with your thoughts then you're an idiot and likely a coping dopamine addict. No different to a fatty calling exercise masturbation lol.
I spent an hour at the beach this morning, enjoying the sunrise and swimming in the sea. I'll spend another hour in the park later enjoying nature. Right now I'm shitposting while frying eggs. It's probably not the best use of my time sure but it's a bit of fun and I keep it limited. Maybe in doing it I'll actually help someone who listens, maybe even you. I'm guessing you're a young lad and just defending a lifestyle of which you don't know any different.
Literally everyone is a little bit hippocritical and does things they shouldn't do or could be doing better, but if you use that as an excuse to dismiss people's wisdom and not listen then you'll never learn anything and likely just end up another depressed nihilist as is sadly so common these days.
Based again.
Nice essay
Samegay harder
>dopamine addicted habit-induced-ADHD zoomer can't read a few paragraphs
>copes by thinking everyone against him is the same person
Sorry lad, I tried to help you. We're all anonymous here, there's no need to be embarassed about getting btfo'd by someone with good intentions. Hopefully my words will land with you eventually when this thread is archived and you no longer feel you have to cling to your crumbling position so you can grow from a boy into a man. good luck and unironically touch grass.
I've not read any of your essays smoke my pole
We both know you read every word.
When the depression hits and you're liking and sharing every nihilist meme you find in your social feed, you think of me.
Following this anon's benign mog of your intellectual cope throughout the whole thread has been a delight. You should really listen to him, because he's right and you're wrong, and doubling down on arrogance is unbecoming. I know you are better than that zoomer bro.
stop samegayging so hard you absolute c**t nobody on IST ever comes along just to massively inflate someone elses ego. you are so terminally new it's sickening. I don't give 2 fricks about this argument at all but I just wanted to say its embarrassing. nothing irritates me more than seeing some moron write paragraphs while "someone else" follows all their comments with "LOL BASED YOURE SO SMART". literally everybody knows it's you, not that anyone else is even reading your drivel. you are completely jerking yourself off
>LOL BASED YOURE SO SMART"
I unironically believe IST discussion is high brow, with no padding and no bots. Nobody would stoop as to astroturf his comments, and would he?
every post here has /always/ been an astroturfing bot and you are the only human person. Sites with usernames are just catching up.
Real knows real, and likes to show respect.
agreed
Sup zoomBlack person, just got back from the park. Haven't read the reply chain yet but hilarious that you're swinging at shadows thinking everyone who disagrees with (you) is me lmao. You're unironically a schizo. Put down the phone and touch grass instead of letting me live rent free in your adhd addled mind
Based based based. Trips of base. I like you, good opinions
>honestly I'd rather be talking to people and consuming information than mentally jerking off.
If you don't stop and think about that stuff often you're not going to strengthen the necessary pathways to do something useful with this information.
For example, the people I know who follow political minutiae religiously are often some of the dumbest when the topic is brought up, because they just allow themselves to be clickbaited and manipulated by everything so they have systemic emotional overreactions blinding them, they don't really know how to place the information they get within a coherent understanding of the topic, they develop kneejerk reactions to things based on whether it fits or contradicts a preconceived worldview, and so on. You thoughts need room in order to grow.
Zoomer cope. Look up Sherry Turkle if you want some appeal to authority research since you lack common sense to see it’s good to be alone with yourself and your surroundings over constantly doing crap. The frying egg anon was quite nice to you.
shut up
And you don’t just sit there thinking you are better than others. That is a projection. You just sit there and exist with your thoughts, no thoughts, and your immediate surroundings. This is called direct living sir.
So many people here posting that they're afraid to be alone with their own thoughts but like said it's a pseud excuse to look more noble instead of admitting they don't think much at all.
For me: the web is how I reassure myself that I am not crazy for denying the Marxist/LGBT shit I am constantly, endlessly assaulted with in all facets of campus life. If I can't interact with people who confirm my beliefs then I'm afraid I might start accepting the crazier shit thrown at me every day here.
nah, I cant stand myself
I sometimes pretend to be checking my phone in public just so I don't look weird staring at nothing. I used to give in to my default of becoming lost in thought but had acquaintances make fun of me for it, so now I do this as a reflex.
Who gives a frick if you look weird to a bunch of morons who aren't even paying attention to you because they're glued to their phones? Not a man with any self confidence thats for sure.
If you change your behavior beacuse of playful ribbing from an acquaintance you need to stop being so insecure dude, laugh it off and joke back. If they weren't being playful then frick those morons, call them out, mock them back and stop caring about the opinions of people who belittle you for not being as stupid as they are.
>stop being so insecure
easy to say
Work on it bro. Knowing it's an issue is the first step. If you can acknowledge the ways in which it affects you then you can do something about it.
>but had acquaintances make fun of me for it,
kek, imagine thinking instead of being bombarded with stimulation every second of every day.
It's so stupid. In a gym you ccan stare at asses instead of phone both male and female.
Looking forward to everyone having crippling neck and hand problems from staring at their phones all the time.
That's a cute kitty, saved
Because they don't have anything better to do with their life , they can't face themselves. They seek distraction all the time so that they don't have to answer their conscious. Most of them already reached their meagre purpose to get a dead end job and pump kid now all they have is cope which they don't want so they distract themselves with alcohol, phones , porn , parties, etc . Look into the lifes of such people they will look empty. They are already dead inside they just don't want to admit hence they need distraction. This is the case with 99% of all humans.
No need to get all philosophical morons. It’s addicting, end of.
It's escapism. The state of things makes me want to die. So I try to disconnect from reality by browsing the internet and living through others by watching garbage anime slop.
Wrestling Empire
Baseball 9
Clash of Clans
Survivor.io
Retro Bowl
Bubble Pop
Wordscapes
Chess
These are fun. Let me have fun.
Dragonfist Limitless
Sudoku
Only acceptable thing on your list is chess. Frick the rest. You're missing Durak Online mobile card game . Best game
>Survivor.io
zombsroyale is the real sweaty one
They're no longer human. They're transhuman cyborgs. I'll never use a smartphone again. Once I realized how much it was fricking up my brain and where they tech was leading I got rid of mine and never looked back. The "person" using a smartphone has given up what little agency they had in life. They're literal zombies.
Sorry I was setting the timer for between my sets
>Reading this on my phone
You a b***h.
>not bringing in the Sunday Times to read between sets