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I used to spend at least 2 hours a day here. Now ...maybe half an hour or less. Any ideas why?

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Posted - November 1, 2020

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  • 13395
    You need a change of scenery once in a while.
      November 1, 2020 8:55 PM MST
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  • 10630
    I was going to say you're finally coming to your senses, but we both know better than that.
      November 1, 2020 10:53 PM MST
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  • 5808
    Me too
    Not much activity on the site
      November 2, 2020 12:32 AM MST
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  • 343
    It's because you are maturing, Element. The experts I talk to about this kind of thing suggest that about a-year-and-a-half spent dozily ambling around AM, and you ought to be replete with all the knowledge any well-grounded Mugger could ever aspire to knowing. So eighteen month is the time it takes rubbing shoulders with experts on all kinds of things, to become an expert on all kinds of things yourself.
      November 2, 2020 10:37 AM MST
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  • 44600
    Me? Mature? HAHAHAHA. I'm 69 and I'm still 18.
      November 2, 2020 1:49 PM MST
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  • 19937
    I do, but were I to commit it to writing, I would likely be banned from the site.
      November 2, 2020 11:52 AM MST
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  • 17592
    soap operas
      November 2, 2020 9:38 PM MST
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  • 10993
    I'm coming here a lot less too without any real reason that I can figure out.  I would have thought that with a lot of my normal activities on hold, I'd be here more often. But just like reading, exercising and organizing my closets (which never had enough time for), I'm actually doing less that I did before.
      November 3, 2020 4:20 AM MST
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  • 19937
    I'm really happy to hear that because I haven't yet figured out why I seem to be unable to get anything accomplished.  
      November 3, 2020 8:11 AM MST
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  • 23572
    I can relate to both of you in the same kind of way.
    :)

      November 3, 2020 7:19 PM MST
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  • 19937
    I think the word for this is "ennui."
      November 4, 2020 8:00 AM MST
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  • 23572
    I had to look up the definition. :)

    I'm thinking the word doesn't quite catch my reasons for my thoughts/feelings about not getting some things done. I'm getting certain things done but many seem to be adrift. :)
      November 4, 2020 6:46 PM MST
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  • 19937
    OK - you suffer from adrift while I suffer from ennui.  I can live with that. :)
      November 5, 2020 7:42 AM MST
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  • 23572
    Ha, me, too! :)

    Sounds like a plan! :)
      November 5, 2020 6:24 PM MST
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  • 19937
    All righty, then. :)
      November 6, 2020 11:45 AM MST
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  • 23572
    :)
    :)


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      November 6, 2020 6:19 PM MST
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  • 7280
    Cognitive dissonance perhaps?---and fatigue from deciphering fact from error when any error discovered must nevertheless be respected as if it had the same value as a truth.

    There may well be a dead zone involved where the atmosphere is similar to the dead zone on Mount Everest---only the one whose existence I am positing fails to adequately support intellectual life.

    I can still recuperate from such rarified air with shorter times on here or in other arguably more meaningful pursuits, but sooner or later I will move on.
      November 4, 2020 7:56 PM MST
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