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At 10:05 AM 6/23/2006, you wrote:<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On 6/22/06, <b>Anne-Marie
Taylor</b>
<<a href="mailto:femmechakra@yahoo.ca">femmechakra@yahoo.ca</a>>
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<dd>I figure, a form of boredom, would be someone that hasn't begun to
formulate their <br>
<dd>basic interests. <br><br>
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True, don't many of us have memories of ourselves or other children
complaining (esp. on rainy days) "there's nothing to do".
But one has to wonder with TV, Video Games, the WWW, etc. now-a-days
whether it is not still too easy for individuals to become narrowly
focused and exhaust the (local) realm of possibilities.
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That state of restlessness can be a good thing because when we are not in
involved in activities that stimulate our brains, a time of inner
contemplation can set in. But it is that sense challenge is not
easily permeated because it is an unknown state that people usually
rush away from to quickly find the Tivo. But this is no excuse for
humanities general lack of will to get out and do something because most
people find that challenge too much unless someone or something urges
them, or the really need it to survive. And if survival is not an
urge of humanity, most people seem to simply settle in and get
bored.<br><br>
As a child, I often complained about having nothing to do, while I grew
up with 4 siblings in a highly imaginative and innovative family. We had
plenty to do with Mores Code tree houses, cricket courses, gymnastics,
miniature golf course, big pond for swimming or skating and theater stage
in our basement. There was ALWAYS something to do! But it was
part of my own inner search to have something new and different to learn
that cause me to tell my Mother than I had nothing to do.<br><br>
I remember I would ask her to tell me how to spell words, and she would
say, "Look it up in the dictionary," and I'd want her to just
spell it for me. Because I was one of the youngest, I expected my
siblings, or our parents, to be the instigators of our games. When
I decided to be an artist I learned <i>how</i> to learn to
create.<br><br>
People tend to expect others to entertain them. When that moment of
restlessness sets in, most people think someone or something will change
the mood. Most people do not know how to be creative, and many have
not been taught how to learn to create. <br><br>
Not all <font size=2>Austropithicus</font> thought of the cutting tool,
but the one(s) who did showed it to the others. This is a pattern
in humanity. <br><br>
Natasha<br><br>
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<dd><font size=2><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Natasha
</a><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/">Vita-More</a>
<dd>Cultural Strategist - Designer
<dd>President, <a href="http://www.extropy.org/">Extropy Institute</a>
<dd>Member, <a href="http://www.profuturists.com/">Association of
Professional Futurists</a>
<dd>Founder, <a href="http://www.transhumanist.biz/">Transhumanist Arts
& Culture</a> <br><br>
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<dd><font face="Times New Roman, Times"><i>If you draw a circle in the
sand and study only what's inside the circle, then that is a
closed-system perspective. If you study what is inside the circle and
everything outside the circle, then that is an open system perspective. -
</i>Buckminster Fuller<br>
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