That's why people provoke others into wars, to relieve their own boredom. — baker

If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of Nature. — Schopenhauer

Putin? haha — schopenhauer1

If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once and without any difficulty, men would either die of boredom or hang themselves; or there would be wars, massacres, and murders; so that in the end mankind would inflict more suffering on itself than it has now to accept at the hands of Nature. — Schopenhauer

Boredom sits at the heart of the human condition. — schopenhauer1

That certainly isn't true of me or most of the people I know. Again, you seem to be projecting your own feelings onto others. — T Clark

You need to keep yourself busy at all times because ... — baker

Well normal human cognitive function is often impaired by severe mental conditions, or physical brain alterations like a lobotomy. I doubt those apply to you..so being you’re in the spectrum of average functioning human, I call bullshit. — schopenhauer1

It has always been clear that you and I have very different understandings of human motivation and behavior. You have always seemed unable to see that many, perhaps most, people find life interesting; worthwhile; and, often, enjoyable. The fact that you can't imagine living without boredom is a case in point. — T Clark

You're ridiculous. — schopenhauer1

Why do you keep yourself busy? Same as baker's question. — schopenhauer1

I'm ridiculous because I disagree with you? Because I experience things differently than you do? I don't get it. — T Clark

I do the things I do because I want to. Because I enjoy them, e.g. participating on the forum. It is not unusual for me to do nothing. — T Clark

I'm ridiculous because I disagree with you? Because I experience things differently than you do? I don't get it.
— T Clark

Because you think you don't experience boredom, and that we have radically different ways of being in the world. — schopenhauer1

On what? An underline? Perry mason would indeed lose all his cases with no evidence. — schopenhauer1

Im not sure cause you haven’t directly answered my last post. I do not believe you go through life without existential awareness at this point and think either you simply don’t really know what I’m asking or you don’t have a prefrontal cortex which by our discussion itself couldn’t be the case. — schopenhauer1

Life presents itself chiefly as a task—the task, I mean, of subsisting at all, gagner sa vie. If this is accomplished, life is a burden, and then there comes the second task of doing something with that which has been won—of warding off boredom, which, like a bird of prey, hovers over us, ready to fall wherever it sees a life secure from need. The first task is to win something; the second, to banish the feeling that it has been won; otherwise it is a burden.

Human life must be some kind of mistake. The truth of this will be sufficiently obvious if we only remember that man is a compound of needs and necessities hard to satisfy; and that even when they are satisfied, all he obtains is a state of painlessness, where nothing remains to him but abandonment to ​boredom. This is direct proof that existence has no real value in itself; for what is boredom but the feeling of the emptiness of life? If life—the craving for which is the very essence of our being—were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing. But as it is, we take no delight in existence except when we are struggling for something; and then distance and difficulties to be overcome make our goal look as though it would satisfy us—an illusion which vanishes when we reach it; or else when we are occupied with some purely intellectual interest—when in reality we have stepped forth from life to look upon it from the outside, much after the manner of spectators at a play. And even sensual pleasure itself means nothing but a struggle and aspiration, ceasing the moment its aim is attained. Whenever we are not occupied in one of these ways, but cast upon existence itself, its vain and worthless nature is brought home to us; and this is what we mean by boredom. The hankering after what is strange and uncommon—an innate and ineradicable tendency of human nature—shows how glad we are at any interruption of that natural course of affairs which is so very tedious. — Schopenhauer

If life—the craving for which is the very essence of our being—were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as boredom at all: mere existence would satisfy us in itself, and we should want for nothing. — schopenhauer

All I can say is that if boredom lies at the root of your existence then your existence lacks a certain serenity and creative sensibility. — Janus

The fact that there is boredom (and anxiety) proves only that life’s intrinsic positive value is not guaranteed to us, but that it has to be “won”. — Aaron R

You need to keep yourself busy at all times because ...
— baker

I said I am never bored, not that I am always busy. — T Clark

Shall we test you by placing you on a desert island, alone? — baker

Watching television, fantasizing, and such are still under "keeping oneself busy". — baker

I do read, fiction and non-fiction. I participate on the forum. I swim. I do my physical therapy exercises. — T Clark

I don't think you understand how this works, at least works for me. The motivation to do things comes from inside me. I picture a spring bubbling up from under the ground. Just because I do stuff doesn't mean I'm keeping myself busy. Sometimes nothing bubbles up, so I just pay attention and wait. It doesn't usually take long. — T Clark

I guess you and schopenhauer1 lack imagination and empathy. You can't imagine other people experiencing things different from what you do. You don't seem to understand that others may feel differently. — T Clark

instead you become indignant at the words I am using to describe what amounts to the same thing — schopenhauer1