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Sunday, October 1, 2006

   "Boredom"
This was a topic for AMEX...I hope I did well.GOODBYE SEMI LITERACY! (this is failing boldly!)
***If you have anything to add please let me know. The original prompt was this:"In 1670 the French philospher Blaise Pascal wrote the following:

“The sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.”
In the context of our recent discussions on the importance (or lack of importance) of a rich interior life, please support, qualify, or refute the above claim about the ability to sit with oneself quietly and at length.

That is all!****


It seems to me that boredom itself isn't the issue; man's unhappieness seems to be more the pleauge of "filling" that void of boredom.

Boredom is doing too much. Boredom is not doing enough. Boredom is discontent with ourselves and our lives; to the point that we can't sit in our rooms quietly with ourselves- for fear of being "bored".

So what do we do when we discover "we're bored", we find things to do. But can we do after that? We find more to do. Untill the things that "fill", in time loose effect as the victim of boredom seeks more and more outside stimulation to hold back the beast of "boredom".

Millions of chanells and nothing good on T.v? The vast expancse of the internet, and people sitting on MySpace-
and bored?

With all of this distraction from "sitting quietly in our rooms" and being content with ourselves I can't help but wonder Why? What are we afraind of? Why do we insist on distracting ourselves from- ourselves?

Perhaps we shouldn't be asking ourselves what we can to to avoid boredom, but how we can accept it- and ourselves- as we are.
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