Wonder Thread

[Rackinac]

I noticed that there hasn't been many threads besides game ones that people are involved in, so I decided to make this.

Has anyone ever just sit there and think? I don't know if it's just me thinking too much, but ever just wonder about people? About the world? Yourself as a human being? Just plain wonder? I think a lot about these things, I have no idea why. I lie in bed, staring at the ceiling, wondering what is and what to come.

I always think what someone is doing while I'm not there. I wonder if that person I talked to at the store will remember me if I were to pass him agian. I wonder... what people think of me. Kind of a bad thing, but I never heard my mom say anything really positive about people I meet. Just because a stranger talked to you in a shoe store, or made good book recamendations at a library, does this make them mental? Just because they talked to someone as if they knew them all their life? I talk to people, I think nothing of what they did, but my mom always thinks there is something wrong with them, but I can't figure out what.

And that makes me wonder... that maybe kindlyness is as alien as it seems. Do people that show an act of kindness turn out to seem strange to a person? I don't know, but maybe that's how people think of one another these days. Do I come off as weird when I talk to someone or help someone out? Give someone that is looking for a good horror bbook some ideas of what is good to read? I mean, I was just wondering if people walked away and talked about me, as saying "That girl was so friendly, maybe she had a mental defect..."

And that agian makes me wonder... Where do I stand in the human race? Am I just some speck soon to die off, or will I be remembered? And, as agian I wonder, people do bad, bad things. Is this because they feel inferior? As in, they will not be remembered? Going down in history as a bad guy may not seem so good, but they were remembered... right?

Nowadays everything is focused on the bad aspects of life. Some guy got killed at a gas station. Some 11 year old girl was raped. Some boys toasted a puppy in a microwave. And we look that way at people too. Look at an ugly person, and automatically your disgusted and not interested in even talking to them. But maybe, you never saw that they had a pretty smile, and they helped save lives. You see, we never look at the good things, because flaws are pop out just faster. Maybe that is why people are so depressed today.

Now, talking about depression, pills. Sleeping pills, diet pills, happy pills, anything. The human body was made to support itself. Why do we need these things? Your sick and need mediciene, sure, they help out bodies. But we can sleep naturally, becuase our body needs it and naturally makes you tireed so you rest. Diet pills. "I lost 12 pounds using so-and-so pill!". Stop shoving cake up your mouth and shut up. People who complain about being fat that think the way to be healthy is to take a pill. Wrong. you eat healthy and your body will be healthy. Take a pill, loose some weight, but don't get what you need in your body is the wrong way to go. And, happy pills. Depression isn't an illness, I don't care what they say. Your sad, becuase your looking at the bad things. Experts say that depression is a sickness, but they also say it is all in our mind. Which it is; all in our mind. Smell the flowers, hang with the family, you don't need a prescription for happiness.

Well, that is my little rant. Feel free to express your own feelings, talk about your wonderings, talk about other people's wonderings, whatever. Just talk about something other than a game.

[Spade]

i...always wonder about my friends...like....do they really like me....or do they just pity me and pretend to like me....? it really depresses me sometimes....well..then again...ihave bipolar psychosis....so...i get depressed randomly... =P

[red.yoshi]

Great topic. I wonder about who I am, and once I wonder enough, I get freaked out when I get in touch with my inner self, and find that its me breathing, me blinking, me staring, my heart pounding in my chest, my skin tingling. I wonder sometimes if anyone likes me for who I am, of if its all just a lie.

[Yoshi]

I think about things. Lots of things. Whether or not they make any sense makes no difference to me.

A lot of the things I wonder about fall into two different categories, the first one being "Wouldn't it be awesome if...", which is where 95% of my depravity comes from. Like "Wouldn't it be awesome if someone threw up on a school bus, causing a chain reaction that had everyone puke all over each other?"

The rest is the stuff that no one else really cares about, the stuff that interests me. The stuff about politics, relations and different types of support. The kind of behavior analysis stuff that has me bust out the big words when I start rambling about it. This five percent is what might be called the useful part. I remember telling someone before, it's hard to get me to really take something seriously, but when I do the effort is genuine.

I find myself not wondering a lot about what others think of me, instead it's whether or not I'm having a good time.

[Masakuni]

I sometimes wonder about a lot of things. Like how people are doing when I'm not around. Or how certain future events will be. Those kind of things.

[emvee]

I try not to wonder too much, as it leads to a lot of assumptions and fears of what -might- happen, though it's unlikely that it will XD. Though when I do wonder, I wonder about upcoming games, I wonder about the state of society (simple little curiosities), just random things.

[teh yoshi]

I wonder about many things. Many times concerning self-worth. Other times I ponder a lot about how and why the way things are now as well with the people I surround myself with.

[Max "Snow" Andershi]

I wonder about who I am, what I am, what I mean to people, what they mean to me, what the future holds, whether or not I can face that future, what I should be doing, if I'm doing that..

And I wonder how my friends are doing, always, and on how I can make things better for them, and make them smile..

And whether I deserve the things I get

[Blitzzoshi]

I tend to wonder a lot about the future...

I find myself taking interest in a number of different hobbies and projects, from graphics to audio to videos to games, yet I hardly ever finish any of them. How will I decide what to finish, and what not to? How can I find a way to dedicate my time to a particular project, and not get sidetracked?

Will I ever pick up the courage to draw? Or the incentive to finish a large project? How does one start a group project? Can I ever sketch a Yoshi with the correct proportions, or find anything worth uploading to dA at all? And what about my game idea Blitzz the Monkey? Will it ever become a reality?

What about education? Will I make it to college? Hopefully I should, but you never know. And what will I do at college? Should I take CAD, computer science, game design? I've been flip-flopping back and forth and I've yet to decide on something. Moreover, when I get a degree, how far will I go? Will I be high-ranked, or a low-level employee?

What will happen to pop-culture? Will it go into further decline, forcing us geeks to retreat even further into our own culture? Will the inhabitants of mainstream society ever learn to be different, and not be subject to peer pressure? Will underage drinking, smoking, drugs, and sex ever decrease? When will chatspeak stop being an issue? Will MySpace become decent in the future? When will they all get a clue?

And what about the environment? Will technology and nature ever coincide peacefully? Will we run out of water? Can the hurricanes be stopped, or are we doomed to die in natural disaster? What about gasoline? When will electric cars be cheap enough to replace gas models? Same goes for solar energy: when will that technology be marketed to the average consumer?

How about the gaming industry? Is the condition of the PS3 enough to lift Sony's iron fist off of the market? Can Nintendo rise up from underdog status? Will modern games one day become as fun as retro? And will Sonic the Hedgehog actually become good again? What will be the next "big thing" in terms of gameplay? Will innovative games ever sell well?

And is the world simply falling apart, or am I just going about this the wrong way? Will things improve when I get older? Am I just having teen angst? Things to ponder...

[Lord of the Dance]

Lately I've been wondering why people always ask me what's wrong when I'm perfectly happy.
I guess I look depressed when I'm lost in thought. I'm usually plotting what I'm going to write about (Not that I'd write the whole story down). I actually got pulled aside by my teacher in New York because I supposedly threw a temper tantrum that my coffee was the wrong flavor. Sure I was mad, since I had asked for a cold decaffinated drink and he had given me a steaming hot caffiene filled... thing, but I was drinking it anyways because I was thirsty. I only really got mad when everyone said I was mad.
I also feel like I always have to pay attention. Always react faster. I can't move fast enough to get out of peoples' way and then I feel like an idiot because they ran into me. But then I feel like I was so busy trying to pay attention that I forgot to actually pay attention. Haha.
I wonder why people do bad things. Do they think they're doing the right thing when they ruin someone else's life? Nobody's completely evil- I read that even Hitler loved his dogs.

Gah, I feel like everything's falling apart. I can see how things happened in the past- nobody really seemed to need anything new, but they did because there were plenty of things to be artificialized. Now, I don't feel like I'm on the verge of anything even though I'm going to a whole new school and stuff. I don't feel like there's anything in human society that could be newly invented and actually have an exciting effect on the world.
I would like a new kind of video game to come out, but I know I would probably be suspicious of it since it's not a classic character. But where will the old characters go? They've explored just about every kind of storyline I can imagine. I want to keep adventuring in games but I can't think of any way to improve them, so I can't really complain about the bad plots nowadays.

What happened when the Earth began? There's dinosaur fossils and old people and stuff, but there's also a boat sitting up in the mountains and missing links in "evolutionary chains" and cool miracles. I know scientists probably won't find enough evidence to find an entire chain for an evolutionary path. And what's with the crop circles and wierd lights in the sky and stuff? People didn't think there was a conspiracy in the government in the 1700s, so why would they have changed now?

[Not-Garr]

To be honest.
Brutally.
Ultimately.
Fatally honest.

When I saw the thread title, I first thought it said "Wonder Bread".

[emvee]

I thought that same thing Gar, I truly did. In fact, I see it as that everytime I see it, and have to do a double take.

Oh yeah, I also wonder why I constantly misread things and have to do double takes.

[Yoshi]

A lot of people seem to be wondering about the end of the world, and I suppose they have a reason to, what with all the news we're bombarded with. Always the violence, always the death. Iran getting nukes. Then again I suppose it's the only way for them to get attention. I mean would you write about a truck that's not on fire? Don't answer that.

Ever since I took a behavior analysis course I've been wondering about what kinds of things happen that shape and change behavior. You could say I've bought into it big time, and they have the numbers to back up their ideas; numbers based on tests that have been repeated over and over on humans, rats, pigeons, dogs, cats and similar.

I've been trying to blend it with ideas from the other things I've been learning for Political Science, to try and see if there's a good way to find technology that works and is cost effective. A lot of people are saying that there would have to be a massive shift in society for "good" things to happen, but I don't think it has to be that way. Maybe a few new programs; I've been thinking a lot about behavior shaping and rehabilitation for the disadvantaged; reforming them while giving them useful skills at the same time. Plus I like being able to list ways about why Fascism and Anarchy and Communism and Marxism all suck.

Ever since a recent thing over the chatroom I've also been focusing more on presentation, and how to better present ideas and cases so people don't come off as complete jackasses. It's not really my place to say stuff about it here, but I'll just say that it should have been handled differently on both sides and leave it there.