Try having a conversation. You're spending too much time on your own as it is.
Need suggestions: How to challenge your mind only using your mind ?!
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Jan 22, 2014
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#43
I enjoy figuring out math puzzles, but if you are really desperate go to someone and rent their phone.
i like to meditate when i have free time. Also I like to explore airports and browse the different shops. When I had down time waiting at a large internation airport, I found a fifa ps3 game for free that I played for a while. Large airports should have various diversions. The 'mind game with mind' sounds kind of insane to me, but if that makes u happy, then ok.
just carry a magietic chess board i do
Jan 22, 2014
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#46
ViktorHNielsen wrote:
You can try to ask yourself a question like: "What is a good deed?"
Then you formulate an answer. It's very important that you either say it, or are sure exactly what words you are using.
An answer could be: "A good deed is when you do something, which makes someone else happy, without necessary being good for you"
Now the fun part: You try to find examples, which refutes your answer.
An refutation of my answer could be:
"Is it a good deed to kill a random man, so I can feed a random dog? I make the dog happy and it doesn't necessary makes me happy, so according to my answer, it's a good deed. So my answer needs to be fixed".
It takes forever to get an answer which has no refutations (Sokrates and probably quite a few people after him tried, but did not publish any bulletfree answer), and if you get tired of the question, there is quite a few other philosofical questions.
Okay, I'll bite because this one does look like fun.
Historically, the wisest man to ever live said the conclusion of the matter was to, "Fear God and obey His commandments."
The reason there is no refutation is because, "there is no counsel (aka refutation) against the Lord."
Double numbers in your head and see how high you can get. Start with 1, 3, 7, or 9. Although it's handy to have a calculator or at least some paper to check to see if you beat your previous record 
Jan 22, 2014
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#48
crazy cool topic, i try to nap, then catch a dream, analyze dream in reference to where i physically am, and where i'm at in reference w life. combined w the atmosphere/people around me that want to give me something- NEVER BORED
ps i always see the chess board and play positions in my head awake or not
waffllemaster wrote:
Double numbers in your head and see how high you can get. Start with 1, 3, 7, or 9. Although it's handy to have a calculator or at least some paper to check to see if you beat your previous record
Waffllemaster, did u just change ur username to 2 l's? Or did it always have 2 l's, and I just didn't notice until just now?
It's always had two ls :D
When I was driving for a long time on the highway I'd calculate how long it would take to get to where I'm going at my present speed. Then solve various questions like, if I increased my speed by 2 MPH how much time would I save?
Then to double check your answer, find another way to solve it and see if you get the same solution.
Some of the most "fun" (?) parts are when you get different answers and you go over your stuff trying to find the mistake. Then once you do, you try to predict by how much that mistake should have made your answer wrong, and then compare to how wrong your answer actually was.
Jan 22, 2014
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#52
Idrinkyourhealth wrote:
learningthemoves wrote:
I would tame the invisible tornadoes until they were nothing more than symmetrical glasses of orange juice sitting side by side in my mind, using only my mind to do so.
..hhahha, fortunately I am not that crazy (who knows..)
Is it really that crazy?
If you look at it closer, you'll see it is someone creating order out of chaos and producing good fruit in the face of natural disasters.
Is it really that crazy or do you just doubt the health benefits of vitamin C?
I hope you weren't just absconding and leaving the infamous "who" as your scapegoat.
(With your username, I must say I had thought better of you. 
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learningthemoves wrote:
ViktorHNielsen wrote:
You can try to ask yourself a question like: "What is a good deed?"
Then you formulate an answer. It's very important that you either say it, or are sure exactly what words you are using.
An answer could be: "A good deed is when you do something, which makes someone else happy, without necessary being good for you"
Now the fun part: You try to find examples, which refutes your answer.
An refutation of my answer could be:
"Is it a good deed to kill a random man, so I can feed a random dog? I make the dog happy and it doesn't necessary makes me happy, so according to my answer, it's a good deed. So my answer needs to be fixed".
It takes forever to get an answer which has no refutations (Sokrates and probably quite a few people after him tried, but did not publish any bulletfree answer), and if you get tired of the question, there is quite a few other philosofical questions.
Okay, I'll bite because this one does look like fun.
Historically, the wisest man to ever live said the conclusion of the matter was to, "Fear God and obey His commandments."
The reason there is no refutation is because, "there is no counsel (aka refutation) against the Lord."
Citation needed that there is no counsel against the lord.
Jan 22, 2014
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#54
There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
- King James Bible "Authorized Version", Cambridge Edition, Proverbs 21:30
Sounds like a cop-out to me.
Jan 22, 2014
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#56
The mind centered on the senses and clinging only to what it can observe naturally, desperately wishes for it to be a cop-out, but unfortunately for those of that mind devoid of truth, it is often later than they wished, when they discover that self-same wishing, in itself, is the cop-out.
I think something is wrong if you lack the moral fibre to weigh the consequences of your own actions or inactions in order to come to a reasonable and balanced conclusion about what a good act is without the need to defer to some external moral authority.
In other words, shouldn't we all be good people simply because we're good people? Not because it's written down somewhere that we're supposed to be?
Jan 22, 2014
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#59
Just as one who does evil cannot truthfully say what they do is good,
so does one lack the capacity to act upon the good within, if one, has within, rejected the source of goodness.
Jan 22, 2014
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#60
TheGrobe wrote:
In other words, shouldn't we all be good people simply because we're good people? Not because it's written down somewhere that we're supposed to be?
that is logically flawed, because there is no more reason we would be good than bad. Without something greater than us there cannot be moral truth, and yet we all know that there must be right and wrong
Take the boy scout approach and don't get stuck in an airport in such a situation in the first place: Bring a book, tablet, etc.