are most thoughts useful or useless

[Moria]

Re: are most thoughts useful or useless

if we read the minds of the very smartest people in the world the majority of their thoughts would be gibberish. but they are capable of having a lot of them very quickly, come up with questions, and find/reach conclusions faster than most

personally i see decisiveness as its own form of intellect, but aweins onto something there

devonin too.. contextualize the situation and the applicability of the thought vs its repercussions before you go giving it any merit

[Moria]

Re: are most thoughts useful or useless

depends which direction of time the thoughts are focuseds too. foresight v hindsight the answers can be completely flipped

[Hakulyte]

Re: are most thoughts useful or useless

i've been debating this internally for a while. my opinion is that most thoughts are useless and therefore shouldn't be outputted unless you wanna waste your or other people's time

Thoughts are actually just a piece of the puzzle that fuel your entire daily life.
Thoughts are useful.
Thoughts will waste your and others time.
Thoughts will also help you move forward with everything.

i feel like there has to be a way to discuss this, even if imprecisely (i.e. there should be a generally agreed upon value for some things/thoughts/ideas)

Here's the framework of thoughts if you put all the pieces together:
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Event -> Observation -> Filter -> Thinking@Thoughts+(Core Values) -> Decision.
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An Event is something that happens that is considered a fact.
Observation is putting yourself into a context.
Filtering is taking your life experience/beliefs and drawing your own picture of how you perceive what is happening. (this is different depending on who you are because otherwise everyone would think the same thing)
Thinking is simply organizing information based on what you see, what you know and what could be relevant based on your experience in general.
Core values are the fundamental beliefs of a person. It defines how you will take action after you think about something.
Decision is mostly taking action to reflect everything else you did before that point. It can be frustrating if you're not decisive, but you'll get there with practice hopefully. (shoutouts to second guessing)
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Example:

Funny gets on Flash Flash Revolution. This is an event.
Funny observes the thread "are most thoughts useful or useless"
Funny filters the information given to her by the other users who are posting in the thread.
Funny thinks about what she's going to post.
Funny decides to post something.
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tl;dr: You guys are overthinking "thinking" because it's just a part of a bigger mechanism which is the entire decision making of a person.

Most thoughts are useful because they help you draw a picture of the current reality which will help you understand what you should do about what's around you to reach your goal.

So, the more you think, research, ask others or even a group about what you want; the more likely you are to get a full understanding of what you're looking for without bias.

I wouldn't be surprised if thinking also had mental health benefits because it may feed creativity and open the door to enjoying your life more by asking yourself the right questions to potentially reach new positive situations.

wow im very unobservant. sorry haku. i just didnt notice you turned 30

It's okay, I'm going to pretend you didn't notice that you noticed I turned 30.

i get my flaw here is assuming that a thing's value is fixed and contextually independent.

A thing's value is fixed.
A thing's value is dependant of the person.
A person's view of the thing is independant and may change over time.

tl;dr overall:

- Thoughts are useful because they are part of a bigger mechanism that is your decision making which is really important in life.
- It can be influenced by yourself, others or both at same time.
- Everything you think about matters because you decided to invest time thinking about it.
- You wouldn't invest time thinking about something that doesn't matter to you because it doesn't matter to you.
- If you invested time thinking about something that doesn't matter to you, it means you decided to place value into it therefore it's no longer something that doesn't matter to you.
- Useless thoughts would be thoughts that you decided to discard because they were no longer relevant to your reality. Every other thoughts would be meaningful/useful.

[aperson]

Re: are most thoughts useful or useless

depends on what you do with the thoughts

[Mahou]

Re: are most thoughts useful or useless

lmao

[Svaz]

Re: are most thoughts useful or useless

Imo it’s counterproductive to judge your inner thoughts, it’s been a while since I’ve dabbled in mindfulness but trying exercises like being in the moment and letting thoughts happen without judging them may help you reshape your thought patterns into something more beneficial for you.

[Funnygurl555]

Re: are most thoughts useful or useless

lmao

oh yes the old "let's laugh at any attempt at critical thinking on the internet since you presume to have a relatively higher level of intelligence when you're actually being intellectual dead weight"

people responding with just "lmao"/"lol"/"rofl" is one of my biggest pet peeves on the internet, if you think i'm being too harsh

there's nothing wrong with asking or engaging with dumb questions so long as you're willing to learn from the discourse that comes from it

gdi

[Svaz]

Re: are most thoughts useful or useless

You know he’s just gonna quote that whole ass post and reply “lmao” to tilt u right

[Funnygurl555]

Re: are most thoughts useful or useless

You know he’s just gonna quote that whole ass post and reply “lmao” to tilt u right

yeah i realized that a couple moments after i pressed send e___e

[DaBackpack]

Re: are most thoughts useful or useless

to give an honest and sincere answer I think most thoughts that you have are valuable in some sense but imperceptively so

me having some fleeting observation has healthy cognitive effects and gives me something specific to think about, distracting me from drowning in a infinitely expanding set of useless qualia

[Charu]

Re: are most thoughts useful or useless

"Alright, if I tap 'B' here, then down special and grab ledge, they might come over and I'll give them with a ledge jump F-Air since that move is a bit disjointed."

A thought that occurs whenever I play Duck Hunt in Super Smash Bros Ultimate.

Useful or not useful depends on the other person's needs. If the person doesn't give a crud about Smash, would this thought be useful for them?

[Mahou]

Re: are most thoughts useful or useless

oh yes the old "let's laugh at any attempt at critical thinking on the internet since you presume to have a relatively higher level of intelligence when you're actually being intellectual dead weight"

I think you’re just reading too deep into the lines but okay.

people responding with just "lmao"/"lol"/"rofl" is one of my biggest pet peeves on the internet, if you think i'm being too harsh

There is nothing “harsh” about your overreaction to my response.

there's nothing wrong with asking or engaging with dumb questions so long as you're willing to learn from the discourse that comes from it

You’re absolutely right - I just decided to use “lmao” as a way to paraphrase how I felt about your question.

You know he’s just gonna quote that whole ass post and reply “lmao” to tilt u right

This is funny, but nah.

[Dinglesberry]

Re: are most thoughts useful or useless

oh yes the old "let's laugh at any attempt at critical thinking on the internet since you presume to have a relatively higher level of intelligence when you're actually being intellectual dead weight"

people responding with just "lmao"/"lol"/"rofl" is one of my biggest pet peeves on the internet, if you think i'm being too harsh

there's nothing wrong with asking or engaging with dumb questions so long as you're willing to learn from the discourse that comes from it

gdi

lol ur so dumb xd

edit (i acutally read ur post): no one gives a shit how smart they are on the internet and ur like bottom barrel atm

[DaBackpack]

Re: are most thoughts useful or useless

some shit

"Yeah I'm making a public display of my disdain for your question but it's not because I'm performatively demonstrating my galaxy brain intelligence for the world to see or anything, baka."

-Mahou 2019

[DaBackpack]

Re: are most thoughts useful or useless

no one gives a shit how smart they are on the internet

are you new here?