Are we spending too much time here?

Master Chuck · Aug 5, 2004

I enjoy coming here very much, I won't deny that. But do some of us come here too much?

I don't want to add up the minutes/hours I have sat here at my desk staring at my computer screen reading everyone's dig at each other in the week, but yet I still do it.

There is so much that I have to do, yet I will log on here and hours will go by. Hours that could have been put to better use.

I could have a workout, iron some shirts, do more work, whiten my teeth, read a book about quantum computing, but I will whittle away time hunched over my terminal staring at YOUR personal opinions.

For what? Why? What for? How do I gain? Am I lonely? Bored? A loner? Prefer non face to face company?

Maybe all of the above. Why do I write this? I don't know? I am acknowledging that time is limited, there are things to do, and should I be putting it to better use? Should I be doing all of those things I always wished I should do?

Reading some other posts I feel I am far from alone.

M.C.

seebs · Aug 5, 2004

I guess... I socialize because I think it helps communicate, and ultimately, I am trying to communicate something that I think is important.

Is it worth the time? If a few people are perhaps able to throw off a few chains, then yes.

Norseman · Aug 5, 2004

I usually spend my time here to socialize more than anything else, but also practice debating, fallacy recognition, and so on.

You could spend your whole life talking with other people, seeing other viewpoints, and it would not be a wasted life.

seebs · Aug 5, 2004

Norseman said:
I usually spend my time here to socialize more than anything else, but also practice debating, fallacy recognition, and so on.

You could spend your whole life talking with other people, seeing other viewpoints, and it would not be a wasted life.

Amen.

Doctrine1st · Aug 5, 2004

I come here while at work where it's just me and my boss in this huge building, and he has bad breath.

Just kidding.

klaus · Aug 5, 2004

Master Chuck said:
But do some of us come here too much?

as for myself: definitely yes.
though i agree with previous posters, that communicating is not a waste of time, i feel, that message board conversation is lacking some of the most important, enjoyable and productive attributes of communication. i´d better go out and talk to "real" persons.
why do i come here so much? i´m afraid it´s close to an addiction.

Logic · Aug 5, 2004

Well, existance of God(s) is a very important, heated, undeterminable, endless, and entertaining argument.

Btodd · Aug 5, 2004

I don't know if it goes back to personality profiles or what, but religious/spiritual thought occupies a great deal of my time (always has).....so this place is somewhat like a second home in that sense.

That being said, I spend WAY too much time here and on the internet, period. It's really gotten out of hand lately, and I'm trying to work things back to a more natural state.

SIGH....I really need a girlfriend, lol.

Btodd

Walking_With_Angels · Aug 5, 2004

I come here because I am interested in religion and I love all of the debates here and I cant get it anywhere else. Coming here is like an online religious class. Except it is fun at the same time.

Hydra009 · Aug 5, 2004

Coming here is like an online religious class. Except it is fun at the same time.

ha ha. So true.

StormeTorque · Aug 5, 2004

Aint unemployment great?

Kris_J · Aug 6, 2004

Are we spending too much time here?

Click to expand...

Shh... don't say it cos it might make it true!

In all honesty, I've learned lot on this crash course on the pros & cons of christianity & am for the better for it where I'm at with my fiancee's evangelical church. If only I had 28 hours a day instead of 24...

seebs · Aug 6, 2004

Kris_J said:
Shh... don't say it cos it might make it true!

In all honesty, I've learned lot on this crash course on the pros & cons of christianity & am for the better for it where I'm at with my fiancee's evangelical church. If only I had 28 hours a day instead of 24...

Oh, my.

An evangelical church... And presumably, you're not really "of the fold"? That could be rough.

Kris_J · Aug 6, 2004

Yes, a lot of research & lunch hours at work, sometimes a bit of homework of work...Fortunately (Luckily

) I already enjoy all the Christian & other theological discussions - a student at heart.

Sanguine · Aug 6, 2004

But do some of us come here too much?

In a word, yes.

However, there is plenty of time that needs wasting.

ObbiQuiet · Aug 6, 2004

I'm here for a form of entertainment. I socialize, learn trivial scientific information (not saying it's useless info), and grow impacient when I read silly things.

It doesn't benefit me as much as other tasks - yet, the social aspect of it is very appealing, especially considering I am alone more frequently then not.

ObbiQuiet · Aug 6, 2004

Kris_J said:
Shh... don't say it cos it might make it true!

In all honesty, I've learned lot on this crash course on the pros & cons of christianity & am for the better for it where I'm at with my fiancee's evangelical church. If only I had 28 hours a day instead of 24...

This day I'd have 41 hours. ^_^

16 hours to go. And I'm getting a lot done, too.

I photoshopped a lot, wrote a short story, registered for school, and spent a while musing over my new sheet music. I've spent the last three hours speaking with a UK friend of mine.

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