Comments on: Sometimes Digging Only Gets You Dirt http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/10/17/sometimes-digging-only-gets-you-dirt/ Infinite Possibilities Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:10:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: S. William Shaw, Amateur Writer » Blog Archive » Around the Blogosphere, 10/18/2006 http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/10/17/sometimes-digging-only-gets-you-dirt/comment-page-1/#comment-875 S. William Shaw, Amateur Writer » Blog Archive » Around the Blogosphere, 10/18/2006 Wed, 18 Oct 2006 17:39:17 +0000 http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/10/17/sometimes-digging-only-gets-you-dirt/#comment-875 [...] Les Femmes @ Decadent Tranquility. Violet Corona ia talking women in refrigerators. Tina is an egg hater. Jamie Ford talks manly romance? Bookwyrm is slow, but sure. Heather is cat bowling. Jean is revising beginnings. Red Church digs dirt. Holly Lisle has a contest of her own. Therese has just right advice. Brenda has one more day. The Wry Writer speaketh on Duneology. LA is better. Lisa keeps posting stories from cheeseland. Jill has a burning question. Jay heads for home. Mike found some books in cheeseland. It’s snowing in the Writer’s Lair. Nienke NaNos. Bonnie is green. Ewww, burnt pretzels. [...] [...] Les Femmes @ Decadent Tranquility. Violet Corona ia talking women in refrigerators. Tina is an egg hater. Jamie Ford talks manly romance? Bookwyrm is slow, but sure. Heather is cat bowling. Jean is revising beginnings. Red Church digs dirt. Holly Lisle has a contest of her own. Therese has just right advice. Brenda has one more day. The Wry Writer speaketh on Duneology. LA is better. Lisa keeps posting stories from cheeseland. Jill has a burning question. Jay heads for home. Mike found some books in cheeseland. It’s snowing in the Writer’s Lair. Nienke NaNos. Bonnie is green. Ewww, burnt pretzels. [...]

]]> By: Eric http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/10/17/sometimes-digging-only-gets-you-dirt/comment-page-1/#comment-873 Eric Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:44:07 +0000 http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/10/17/sometimes-digging-only-gets-you-dirt/#comment-873 Eliza, sometimes I think it's worse than that. I've noticed that teenagers from all types of families can be surrounded with books, movies, music, and video games--yet they'll still just sit and stare at the wall and say "I'm bored!" When I was a teenager, I did it too. And now I wish I could go back in a time machine and slap myself silly, and force myself to read a mountain of books for all the time I spent doing absolutely nothing, and complaining about it. Eliza, sometimes I think it’s worse than that. I’ve noticed that teenagers from all types of families can be surrounded with books, movies, music, and video games–yet they’ll still just sit and stare at the wall and say “I’m bored!”

When I was a teenager, I did it too. And now I wish I could go back in a time machine and slap myself silly, and force myself to read a mountain of books for all the time I spent doing absolutely nothing, and complaining about it.

]]> By: Eliza http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/10/17/sometimes-digging-only-gets-you-dirt/comment-page-1/#comment-869 Eliza Wed, 18 Oct 2006 02:06:36 +0000 http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/10/17/sometimes-digging-only-gets-you-dirt/#comment-869 <I>The biggest threat to a future society might be boredom.</i> My husband and I have been saying this for years. Why do rich kids vandalize their own posh neighborhoods? Why do kids from "good" families do drugs more than experimentally? Why do US citizens overspend on entertainment and sports, then get depressed over their debt? Yeah, I agree with that statement. Lots. The biggest threat to a future society might be boredom.

My husband and I have been saying this for years. Why do rich kids vandalize their own posh neighborhoods? Why do kids from “good” families do drugs more than experimentally? Why do US citizens overspend on entertainment and sports, then get depressed over their debt?

Yeah, I agree with that statement. Lots.

]]> By: Eric http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/10/17/sometimes-digging-only-gets-you-dirt/comment-page-1/#comment-865 Eric Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:02:59 +0000 http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/10/17/sometimes-digging-only-gets-you-dirt/#comment-865 Yeah, I should note that Spike was overly optimistic. The author couldn't get over the idea that technology might solve all our problems in the near future. I find the idea interesting, but I don't necessarily believe it myself. Another thing that made the book a less rewarding read. Yeah, I should note that Spike was overly optimistic. The author couldn’t get over the idea that technology might solve all our problems in the near future. I find the idea interesting, but I don’t necessarily believe it myself. Another thing that made the book a less rewarding read.

]]> By: S William Shaw http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/10/17/sometimes-digging-only-gets-you-dirt/comment-page-1/#comment-863 S William Shaw Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:39:08 +0000 http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/10/17/sometimes-digging-only-gets-you-dirt/#comment-863 The last 50 years has been technology lead to more busyness and a faster pace of life. I don't see technology leading to couch potato-ism for a long, long time. First we have a whole world of problems to cure. The last 50 years has been technology lead to more busyness and a faster pace of life. I don’t see technology leading to couch potato-ism for a long, long time. First we have a whole world of problems to cure.

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