"::darkshadows::" <blood@thirsty.net> wrote in
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> On Sat, 24 May 2008 05:33:54 GMT, WingedMessenger <Boy@FlyingHigh.com>
> wrote:
>
>>"::darkshadows::" <blood@thirsty.net> wrote in
>>news:4l3f345ii1k8645r38cgpp8rk0ssaq7emf@4ax.com:
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>>>
>>>
>>> Are You a Problem Thinker?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now and
>>> then to loosen up. Inevitably though, one thought led to another, and
>>> soon I was more than just a social thinker.
>>>
>>> I began to think alone - "to relax," I told myself - but I knew it
>>> wasn't true. Thinking became more and more important to me, and
>>> finally I was thinking all the time.
>>>
>>> I began to think on the job. I knew that thinking and employment
don't
>>> mix, but I couldn't stop myself.
>>>
>>> I began to avoid friends at lunchtime so I could read Thoreau and
>>> Kafka.
>>>
>>> I would return to the office dizzied and confused, asking, "What is
it
>>> exactly we are doing here?"
>>>
>>> Things weren't going so great at home either. One evening I had
turned
>>> off the TV and asked my wife about the meaning of life. She spent
that
>>> night at her mother's.
>>>
>>> I soon had a reputation as a heavy thinker. One day the boss called
me
>>> in. He said, "Skippy, I like you, and it hurts me to say this, but
>>> your thinking has become a real problem. If you don't stop thinking
on
>>> the job, you'll have to find another job." This gave me a lot to
think
>>> about.
>>>
>>> I came home early after my conversation with the boss. "Honey," I
>>> confessed, "I've been thinking..."
>>>
>>> "I know you've been thinking," she said, "and I want a divorce!"
>>>
>>> "But Honey, surely it's not that serious."
>>>
>>> "It is serious," she said, lower lip aquiver. "You think as much as
>>> college professors, and college professors don't make any money, so
if
>>> you keep on thinking we won't have any money!"
>>>
>>> "That's a faulty syllogism," I said impatiently, and she began to
cry.
>>> I'd had enough. "I'm going to the library," I snarled as I stomped
out
>>> the door.
>>>
>>> I headed for the library, in the mood for some Nietzsche, with NPR on
>>> the radio. I roared into the parking lot and ran up to the big glass
>>> doors... they didn't open. The library was closed.
>>>
>>> To this day, I believe that a Higher Power was looking out for me
that
>>> night.
>>>
>>> As I sank to the ground clawing at the unfeeling glass, whimpering
for
>>> Zarathustra, a poster caught my eye. "Friend, is heavy thinking
>>> ruining your life?" it asked. You probably recognize that line. It
>>> comes from the standard Thinker's Anonymous poster.
>>>
>>> Which is why I am what I am today: a recovering thinker. I never miss
>>> a TA meeting. At each meeting we watch a non-educational video; last
>>> week it was "Porky's." Then we share experiences about how we avoided
>>> thinking since the last meeting.
>>>
>>> I still have my job, and things are a lot better at home. Life just
>>> seemed... easier, somehow, as soon as I stopped thinking.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Thats become obvious after reading your posts LOL
>>
>>Mercury.
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> tick...tick...tick...TICK...TICK...TICK
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What's this I see?? Bevo getting in a panic LOL
Mercury.
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