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I hate how often I look at my phone, searching for literally the most trivial, moronic distractions, especially when I know I should be paying attention to why I'm even compelled to do this. For thousands of years, human beings did ok without a little piece of glass that flashed pictures and words at them when they got anxious or bored. I think we could go back to that and see what it's like.
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Nov 15, 2015 18:09
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People who get mad at phone lookers aren't so much mad at the specific person looking at their phone, but simply lamenting the age we live in and cultural changes that prefer constant streams of mindless entertainment like Infinite Jest while lacking the basic fundamental level of mindful appreciation of living
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Nov 15, 2015 18:10
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Toadstrieb posted:I hate how often I look at my phone, searching for literally the most trivial, moronic distractions, especially when I know I should be paying attention to why I'm even compelled to do this. This guy gets it
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Nov 15, 2015 18:10
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If you look every 5 minutes, you should learn to stop it, especially if you're speaking/discussing with people. If you look every hour or so, no problems doing so in my opinion
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Nov 15, 2015 18:12
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every now and then i try to sit down on a bench somewhere and just enjoy the sounds of nature but after like 2 minutes im like "this is loving gay as poo poo" and i put my headphones back on.
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Nov 15, 2015 18:13
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Rond posted:If you look every 5 minutes, you should learn to stop it, especially if you're speaking/discussing with people. What if I only look once a day but don't at any point stop looking
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Nov 15, 2015 18:14
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Commie NedFlanders posted:This guy gets it thank you 
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Nov 15, 2015 18:15
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The technology and convenience is wonderful but often times we can become spoiled by our privilege. I bet if people would experiment with not using phones or devices for a week they would find it difficult at first and then pleasant and easy. We try too hard to fill every moment of our time with pointless minutiae, we forget how to appreciate the silence and emptiness behind it all. We experience it as anxiety and rush to fill the void with stuff but I think confronting it allows one to enjoy "extra dimensions and higher resolutions" of our experience (pardon my techno-analogy, it seems appropriate here)
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Nov 15, 2015 18:15
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Yeah, people used to pull out their books and newspapers all the time while driving or sitting with their friends at a bar or in movie theaters Let's just keep saying that dumb poo poo over and over until it doesn't seem retarded anymore Edit also people got along for millions of years without phones so let's all run out into the woods and get infested with guinea worm parasites and eat poo poo and berries it would be somehow helpful I'm sure faaarrrrt
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Nov 15, 2015 18:16
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Nov 15, 2015 18:19
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Oberleutnant posted:every now and then i try to sit down on a bench somewhere and just enjoy the sounds of nature but after like 2 minutes im like "this is loving gay as poo poo" and i put my headphones back on. I think mindfulness is a lot like exercise. It's aight at first but quickly becomes boring or just plain unpleasant. it can feel dreadfully boring or just plain painful but if you push through it you start to feel like  It's good that you easily find it enjoyable at first, you should try to push it and see where it takes you https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCadcBR95oU
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Nov 15, 2015 18:20
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O.M.G. 
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Nov 15, 2015 18:21
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Tujague posted:Yeah, people used to pull out their books and newspapers all the time while driving or sitting with their friends at a bar or in movie theaters When the first cold front came this year I sat in my front yard and just enjoyed the breeze and the trees for a lil bit and yeah mang I got this huge assworm and dysentery it was so savage I felt like a real nativr American
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Nov 15, 2015 18:25
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Nov 15, 2015 18:26
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Ahundredbux posted:why parents are the type of people who sit around looking at their phone or ipad or wahtever all the time it cracks me up when i hear stories about how its ruining todays kids i constantly hear professors talking about how it's ruining the youth then they check their phone (not even an android what a fuckin noob) while we are taking tests
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Nov 15, 2015 18:27
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I like to look at my phone in public so no one thinks I'm a weirdo. Gotta fit in the crowd, you know?
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Nov 15, 2015 18:29
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extra stout posted:i constantly hear professors talking about how it's ruining the youth then they check their phone (not even an android what a fuckin noob) while we are taking tests I don't think kids should drink alcohol but I enjoy a good drink 
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Nov 15, 2015 18:31
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nice nonconsenting kiss, please nsw rape content if you're gonna post it
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Nov 15, 2015 18:31
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Mokbek posted:I like to look at my phone in public so no one thinks I'm a weirdo. Lol you think a crowd of people staring at their phones cares about you?
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Nov 15, 2015 18:32
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Tujague posted:
I wish most people would do this tbh. For real though, smoking cigarettes is a relatively modern novelty, and I bet you wouldn't want to go back to 1950s era "you can chain smoke in the cabin of a plane" levels of secondhand cancer. There are better and worse conditions.
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Nov 15, 2015 18:45
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If that had been a farting rear end instead of a Korea man it would have been preferable to me even tho the Korea Nan is pretty close already to the thing I said lololol
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Nov 15, 2015 18:46
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Toadstrieb posted:I wish most people would do this tbh. Are you saying that smartphones fight second hand smoke
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Nov 15, 2015 18:47
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People can't even sit through a movie without checking their phone.
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Nov 15, 2015 18:51
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I think phones are cool but I don't like it when people start looking at their phones as an excuse to walk away and stop listening to my hilarious comedy jokes and stories.
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Nov 15, 2015 18:55
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if someone's not actually in a situation that requires their attention right that second, who cares where they direct it? it's not like continuing that into rudeness is genuinely new either - the older gent who keeps staring at his paper while having a conversation with his wife at the dinner table isn't any more respectable than a kid talking while staring at their phone. sure, the phone is more portable and generally useful than a newspaper which is why younger people will pull them out even where in the past nobody would whip out a book or w/e but you bet your rear end if that old guy had grown up with phones instead of papers he'd be using them everywhere too. basically, it's a social awareness problem, not a tech problem; the tech just enables what was already there to flourish rather than be quashed by the daily struggle to not starve and the relative paucity of information to sift through. teach your kids that it's important to be aware enough to recognize quickly that it's time to put down the phone and when not focus on it in the first place and 99% of the time they'll be fine
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Nov 15, 2015 19:00
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like I don't usually even care if someone's texting at a movie since they usually hold their phones down near their lap where you can't see it unless you're really trying to steal a good look at their groin area
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Nov 15, 2015 19:02
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eric posted:People can't even sit through a movie without checking their phone. i remember being in the theater watching the two towers for the third time and thinking 'this still FUCKIN OWNS' because i didn't even own a cell phone because i didn't need one and my life was wonderful i rarely go to movies now because they're bad and im cheap and the one good one that comes out every season i go and sit down and it's a half dozen teens glowing in the dark making references to 'drake' when smaug was clearly a dragon
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Nov 15, 2015 19:13
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I occasionally have dinner with my whole family, within minutes of being seated every one of us is either on an iPad or smart phone; I don't need to talk to those people so I think this is a good thing.
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Nov 15, 2015 19:39
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Kuato posted:I occasionally have dinner with my whole family, within minutes of being seated every one of us is either on an iPad or smart phone; I don't need to talk to those people so I think this is a good thing. Beats the gently caress out of having a knock down loving argument with your parents over Thanksgiving dinner.
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Nov 15, 2015 19:45
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Sheep-Goats posted:Are you saying that smartphones fight second hand smoke 
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Nov 15, 2015 19:57
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extra stout posted:i remember being in the theater watching the two towers for the third time and thinking 'this still FUCKIN OWNS' because i didn't even own a cell phone because i didn't need one and my life was wonderful *Maple and sagely nod*
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Nov 15, 2015 20:25
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VendaGoat posted:Beats the gently caress out of having a knock down loving argument with your parents over Thanksgiving dinner. Honor thy mother and father 
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Nov 15, 2015 20:26
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Commie NedFlanders posted:Lol you think a crowd of people staring at their phones cares about you? They don't because I'm also staring at my phone. See where I'm going with this?
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Nov 15, 2015 20:39
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Mokbek posted:They don't because I'm also staring at my phone. See where I'm going with this? They don't care either way unless you block their view of their Facebook feed
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Nov 15, 2015 20:41
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Commie NedFlanders posted:They don't care either way unless you block their view of their Facebook feed Exactly! I'm too busy looking at my phone!
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Nov 15, 2015 20:43
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if it's like a book and i can read a story all about me how the gently caress could i not put it down??
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Nov 15, 2015 20:45
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I'm looking at my weener it's big and nice and good, the OP's mom told me so lol
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Nov 15, 2015 20:47
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Tujague posted:Yeah, people used to pull out their books and newspapers all the time while driving or sitting with their friends at a bar or in movie theaters this guy gets it for maximum passive agressive goonage, carry around a newspaper and read it whenever the other person is doing their snapchat or whatever they wont notice but you can post a thread about it i guess
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Nov 15, 2015 20:49
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Nooner posted:I'm looking at my weener it's big and nice and good, the OP's mom told me so lol Same
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Nov 15, 2015 20:50
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Commie NedFlanders posted:Millenials are so terrified of being bored that they forget that the majesty of creation is right in front of them beckoning them to embrace their freedom and becoming. Huh huh yeah right ya know? Like get out there and play with some sticks, play kick the can, roll a hoop with a stick down a dusty road. Basically reenact the script from Stand By Me.
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