Have you ever said or done really stupid things on purpose just to feel less empty?

[Edwardo Piet]

[Aegon]

Have you ever said or done really stupid things on purpose just to feel less empty?

I think a lot of drug abuse starts that way.

[Brian37]

Have you ever said or done really stupid things on purpose just to feel less empty?

And have you ever felt like a complete idiot for it afterwards?

Has feeling like an idiot made you feel even more empty which causes you do do or say something stupid again just to feel something again. Even just something negative.

And has that vicious cycle repeated itself?

Or does this all sound completely ridiculous?

No, it isn't crazy,  but if you want to ask the biggest expert in being an attention whore, we have an asshole controlling our nuclear codes.

The problem is he doesn't know he is an idiot, nor does he care. Sane empathetic people admit when they do stupid shit.

I accept that I am an idiot.

[Edwardo Piet]

IMO no true idiot knows they're an idiot. If you know you're an idiot that self-awareness alone makes you at least average intelligence and a non-idiot. So that's rather a paradox there. Idiots never know they're idiots. And that is one of the most intense powers that truly heightens their complete idiocy.

[Whateverist]

I don't think that would even work. But I have done risky things to feel more alive. Fortunately not in a long time and without having to pay any great penalty back in the day.

[Edwardo Piet]

I don't think that would even work.  But I have done risky things to feel more alive.  

That's exactly what I'm talking about ^^^^

I'm a shitty

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[Whateverist]

Well make sure you get lucky until you get past it.

[Thumpalumpacus]

When I get truly stupid, I'm usually dead-serious.

Likewise . . . when I'm coherent.

The takeaway I get from this is stop being so dead-serious, and look for the absurdity in the problem. Because when you boil it down, most problems are just absurdities.

[Edwardo Piet]

Hmmm. Practical problems don't feel like absurdities.

[Fireball]

I traffic often enough in the absurd, almost always for the sake of humor.

When I get truly stupid, I'm usually dead-serious.

When somebody is being a prize weenie, this is my go-to, as well. I can go back and forth with persiflage, no problem. Fuck with me, you get it back. I can pull a chain like many have not seen.  I'm usually OK with people fucking up, but if they get my goat, it's pretty obvious that they are trying to, and then they get on my list. It's pretty hard to make it onto my list. It's even harder to get off it.

BoT, I've done so much stupid shit that my life is far from  empty. It's a lot easier to laugh shit off with the internet. It's only words.