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What is the purpose of thinking?
Topic Started: Apr 22 2016, 04:52 AM (141 Views)
David
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For sometime I've been agitated by the purpose of thinking. Nothing felt right.
Crow stated its a simulation of Reality with no consequences; a tool. But why is it there when it mostly seems unnecessary?
Any connection to thinking is ego fearing letting go. Whatever its there for, just rest assured 'if' thinking is needed intuition will use it for you.
I also felt that anytime thinking was involved it involved others. So I guess thinking is a tool that is used for balance, like all tools. To stay safe around others and to communicate inspiration. Alone my addiction to thinking eases its grip more than when I'm with people. I think mostly involving the interaction of people. Maintaining my finances in a social structure, keeping family and associates in reasonable level of balance for a little more freedom for myself. To use languages of communication.
Thinking doesnt feel necessary away from people; with people its seems almost a necessary tool.
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crow
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Do you remember actively thinking, before you started going to school? I don't.
Thoughts came and went, sometimes they filled my head, but I wasn't controlling, channeling, directing them.
Thinking is something done to you. It becomes habitual. Then it never stops.

It is useful to be able to think. And destructive to confuse living with thinking.

"Squawk!" said the crow, and then made space.
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I don't know if it helps you understand but one time I started reading the Canterbury Tales. I must have been 19 at the time.
You must known that the complete book is written in rhyme
After reading chapter after chapter I called it a day and went for my evening smoke.
I recall being unable to stop thinking in rhyme. Every thought I had. It was funny and a bit nauseating.

I don't think it was the first time I realized that the voice of inner thoughts is influenced by reading among things.
But indeed, I do remember having that inner voice not always present. I think growing up in a semi isolated environment is one of the reasons I have linguistic less thoughts.
Another my be the fact of writing computer code from a young age on, in a time when people weren't that distracted yet because the internet didn't exist. Language, be it meta like math, logic or computer or natural languages have a way to influence the extend of your view. Speaking two languages naturally is not just knowing two languages. It is, with a bit of observation, understanding the shortcomings any form of linguistic system has.

Now, there are people who think in abstractions and patterns; others think in visions and images. And any person is able to experiment with these. Have you ever tried thinking without words? I bet you have, but you don't realize it.
The best and deepest thinking I have done, stands lose of words. And I don't mean philosophical thinking. I mean the best things I've engineered was by going with a gut feeling and using part visualization and part "abstract conceptualization".

Sorry, I'm drifting off-topic.
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