When I used to run this road, eventually everything felt not worth the effort and, with it, came understimulation at a deeper level with resentment towards things that didn't effectively do it for me extending towards "Life".
Following that, there was the moment of "Well, I have to do something with my time", which lent to me doing things without judging it quite as much over how "All of it in a big picture sense is a waste of my time, and as no one important my time means nothing".
Following a willingness to go into "pointless" things, I began to find the means of enjoying it more from the investment as it gradually felt less pointless to me.
With every piece of seemingly useless information I've picked up from these 'pointless' things, I've seen room to network and reference it as experience in other conversations, showing a sort of bleed and blend of ideas and concepts more like a spectrum rather than a table of words.
A lot of things run together if you bother to learn a wide variety of things, and with people that can get a bit existential.
I'd rather do something that is more valuable or entertaining then read something of less value or entertainment. It is a mathematical equation. I only have this much time.
I guess that's where we're split, I feel like I am in a sea of time while trying to find places within it to swim towards.
I don't believe in "Useless Knowledge", there is always room to cross-reference it, it denotes experience that will shape your future choices, and what you may not have a use for now may end up being surprisingly helpful as a reference at a later date during unrelated events, such as how my talks with Turquie have randomly given me prompts for conversations with other people on matters like Spirituality.
I've found more benefits in being open minded from having started off more closed off and see it fail.
I do not share this experience. There is no 100% useless knowledge, but there is less valuable and more valuable knowledge and I pick accordingly. When I don't read a shit post I do something more valuable instead.
We can't judge how useful knowledge is before it becomes necessary to apply it, and a lot of how it even comes up is creatively tangential, based on knowing the thing already inspiring your own behavior to react differently rather than calling on it like words in a book.
I am very often surprised when something "useless" I learned becomes a point of reference or a prompt later in life.
With your model, you can only build in a single consistent direction, rather than sprawling out enough to see more than your own reflection.
You won't ever know if the pattern is valid if you're simply presuming it as reinforcement of your own idea there.
I have already tested it for years. It was time it came out of the testing stage. I may retest it in 5 years? And perhaps adjust it. But idk if I could. A risk I am willing to take, even if it gets off balance it would still be good enough.
When the only cost for me has been reading patience, I've gotten more out of pushing myself to read it than otherwise ignoring it.
Knowledge from outside of my framework is useful, even if foreign to try to filter through and process. Even a complete imbecile has a thought process that can be studied for future reference and comparison, and some idiots from my time with them ended with both of us growing from the interaction.
I read the people I don't enjoy, and find novelty when they break the pattern. If I opted for your method I'd not notice some of the weirder shit that goes on here out of mere impatience, nor would I have the room to appreciate more nuanced things about what makes them distinctive.
If ppl do weird things they are more valuable because its entertaining. It is in the algorithm. EVERYTHING IS IN THE ALGORITHM.
If you are ignoring people because you believe to know them already, then you will never notice what you missed or did not yet occur.
Consistent people are not 100%, they do other shit sometimes unexpectedly when given different prompts or context. There is also the room for those interactions to not only shape them, but have them shape you, offering variability overtime while also a sense of both investment and consistency.
Lets take Spatial for example, the guy is very much not aligned with my sensibilities, yet I feel like both of us get a fair amount out of the interactions. At the very least the exercise has taught me things about myself over what kinds of reactions his buffoonery can inspire.
I still don't get how there is a crowd here with a similar mindset.
I do love my jokes, flexes and disses
It's pointless if it's not about how others respond to it though, is my thinking.
I believe you TC, when you say you feel you're swimming in a sea of time trying to find something to swim to, because your days seem like a purposeless void where time is endless and the days, weeks, months and years roll into each other to the point where one year is hardly discernible from another and it's all just one long sprawling day, until that day somehow simply runs out, ending in a slow dark melancholy, alongside a bitter taste of poverty, but apart from that bleak summation, surely you must be able to see that not everyone lives like you, and, most people don't have the empty pointless luxury of just watching their days slowly slip away into nothing, and for most people, time is a valuable resource so they are not prone to piss it all away reading every meaningless shitpost or delusional ramble made by their psychotic e-friends, because they have real friends, and family, and jobs and school and goals and dreams they're swimming towards, so while your existence works perfectly for you and makes you feel content, it's not a common existence that translates into happiness for the majority of people's lives, and I'm surprised you don't know this or can't at least imagine another's reality and perspective, because it feels like you're justifying how the things you do that most people would find so boring, to the point their brain cells voluntarily suicide, is somehow enlightening, when it's not, it's like you think you're hunting for a marble in the city of Chicago, while for the rest of us, an elephant sits on the sofa in plain sight.
