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I think that understanding someone is a very complex procedure, which goes on mostly intuitively or unconsciously. The tone of the voice may be crucial, depending on the act of speech. That is why employers do not employ people just after reading the application. They usually want to talk to the app...

A 70 % chance means that it is a good idea to take an umbrella with you. A little one, that you can put in your backpack. A 95 % chance means that you should take a big umbrella with you. A 10 % chance means that you can risk going out without an umbrella at all. Apart from people using umbrellas fa...

What do you need fun for ?

In order to kill the time because you have too much of it at your disposal ?

Or in order to forget the basic anxieties of the human condition (like the inevitableness of death, the fragility of our existence ... ) ?

Fun sounds shallow to me.

Yes, but I meant something else. Socializing may teach you something about the human nature, but only indirectly. Whereas philosophysing consists in verbalizing the insights, so you search for the truth directly or openly. Socializing can serve some other aims, sometimes unconscious, like getting a ...

You mean idle chit-chat ?
I thought we were supposed to search for truth on this forum ...
Can you derive any wisdom from socializing ?

Thank you Sonofgloin.

I am not really bored.
Life is not boring, rather stressful and exhausting at times.

Retired some time ago.
Like to read.

Often feel tired of life.
And want to sleep.