teleological answer but idk seems too woo woo for me

boredom does not pain me so

ok meditator

I got a paramore song stuck in my head

and a pretty poor one at that!

duna is the first paramita

Haven’t been bored since I got a smartphone tbh

I wish I was bored more often

Dude I totally understand and I'm going through the same thing. But giving more attention to the switch and trying to do other things is slowly but surely helping

Going to therapy rn for it and it’s about building habits. It’s so hard. Trying to put my phone in other room when I get out of work

We need an iPod with Apple Music so so bad. I had an Apple Watch before I lost it where you can put music on it and use AirPods completely away from the phone and i was going on phoneless walks which really helped. I'm just gonna bite the bullet n cop a new one

Heidegger wrote of ‘ennui’ or ‘boredom’ stating, “Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with it into a remarkable indifference. This boredom reveals being as a whole.”

Meaning, through boredom, the fullness of being becomes clear and its profound emptiness becomes apparent. At the heart of the individual there is a profound sense of incompletion, of lack. What then is this state of lack; this all pervading void which is not even of the emotions but pervades them, appears when emotions fade and the center of focus is made the total? It is the sin at the heart of man, the negatory will of God.

u think the apple watch will help with phone addiction though? feel like even with notifications silenced, you could just gravitate towards using it more

same, same.

trying to find something to stimulate me that feels productive and i'm progressing in

Having the watch standalone without cellular with just music and fitness tracking is elite

Can I have it

Humans used to be bored and that allowed us to imagine and create. Now we're bored because our brains are so fried with stimulus that it's become a perpetually negative feeling

thank u a real f***ing asnwer
u read being and time?

It was funny how they keep switching the boy's actor lol

@op biblioklept.org/2014/01/04/pain-and-boredom-schopenhauer

A dull mind is, as a rule, associated with dull sensibilities, nerves which no stimulus can affect, a temperament, in short, which does not feel pain or anxiety very much, however great or terrible it may be.

Now, intellectual dullness is at the bottom of that vacuity of soul which is stamped on so many faces, a state of mind which betrays itself by a constant and lively attention to all the trivial circumstances in the external world.

This is the true source of boredom—a continual panting after excitement, in order to have a pretext for giving the mind and spirits something to occupy them.

The kind of things people choose for this purpose shows that they are not very particular, as witness the miserable pastimes they have recourse to, and their ideas of social pleasure and conversation: or again, the number of people who gossip on the doorstep or gape out of the window.

It is mainly because of this inner vacuity of soul that people go in quest of society, diversion, amusement, luxury of every sort, which lead many to extravagance and misery.

Nothing is so good a protection against such misery as inward wealth, the wealth of the mind, because the greater it grows, the less room it leaves for boredom. The inexhaustible activity of thought!

Finding ever new material to work upon in the multifarious phenomena of self and nature, and able and ready to form new combinations of them,—there you have something that invigorates the mind, and apart from moments of relaxation, sets it far above the reach of boredom.

Every time I'm bored I'm reminded of the half dozen things I need to do that I'm ignoring

idk it's just one of those weird features of life

good looks on the schop