Boredom...

[D.S.M.]

What is it?
What causes it?
What processes are involved to make boredom "happen"?
What "purpose" does it server to the mind and brain?

Being bored, then though about the concept of boredom, no longer bored, but...
Now I can't GOOD DAMN SLEEP!
And it be 6 AM, which equals: Brain got stuck and refuses to cooperate while singing some kind of annoying melody...
Dear Mr. Brain, I HATE you.

[The Magic Pudding]

I bore myself to sleep at night
I bore myself in broad daylight

'Cause I'm bored
Just another slimy bore
I'm free to bore my well-bought friends
And spend my cash until the end
'Cause I'm bored
I'm bored, I'm the chairman of the board

The first recorded use of the word boredom is in the novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens, written in 1852

I didn't know that factoid, it's free, no charge.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boredom

Boredom also plays a role in existentialist thought. In contexts where one is confined, spatially or otherwise, boredom may be met with various religious activities, not because religion would want to associate itself with tedium, but rather, partly because boredom may be taken as the essential human condition, to which God, wisdom, or morality are the ultimate answers. Boredom is in fact taken in this sense by virtually all existentialist philosophers as well as by Schopenhauer.

Essential human condition?
Dogs get bored, elephants get bored.
Arrogant humans.

[Violet]

The forum's resident existentialist disagrees...

[The Magic Pudding]

I've sat through Catholic services, God isn't the ultimate answer to boredom, he's a major cause.
And morality as an answer to boredom? That's just dumb.

[Violet]

I've sat through Catholic services, God isn't the ultimate answer to boredom, he's a major cause.
And morality as an answer to boredom? That's just dumb.

Nah, just hating on wiki again. Because this is silly:

"Boredom also plays a role in existentialist thought. In contexts where one is confined, spatially or otherwise, boredom may be met with various religious activities, not because religion would want to associate itself with tedium, but rather, partly because boredom may be taken as the essential human condition, to which God, wisdom, or morality are the ultimate answers. Boredom is in fact taken in this sense by virtually all existentialist philosophers as well as by Schopenhauer."

And I totally agree with your response to it.

Obviously, this wiki isn't counting me.