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Boredom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Boredom is an unpleasant state of mind in which one interprets one's environment as dull, tedious, and lacking stimuli. Boredom is often inversely related to learning, and in school it may be a sign that a student is not challenged enough. Boredom can be a symptom of clinical depression; some boredom is a form of learned helplessness, a phenomenon closely related to depression. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Boredom   (1124 words)

Boredom - Wikiquote Boredom is a reactive state of emotion that interprets the condition of one's environment as wearingly dull due to repetitive, non-existent or tedious stimuli. Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. en.wikiquote.org /wiki/Boredom   (389 words)

Boredom - Uncyclopedia Boredom is most prevalent in suburban areas, though it is known to occur elsewhere. Boredom has been documented underwater, where it caused a group of researchers to give up looking for "Amelia fucking Earhart", (who we'll probably never find anyway), and even in outer space, where the absence of stuff appears to provide an ideal habitat for boredom. Boredom is believed to have been developed into weapon by the United Spades Government, and it may be that it is being forcibly induced in its populace because of its numbing effect on the brain. uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Boredom   (925 words)

Boredom - When Life Grows Dull - Introduction to Symptoms Boredom is an unpleasant mental and emotional state characterized by discontent and lack of interest. This second kind of boredom is a sort of psychological cancer that eats away at the heart of one’s existence. It is useful to look upon boredom as a major symptom in itself and to identify it as an important causal factor in depression. www.thehealthcenter.info /emotions/boredom   (666 words)

Quoteland :: Quotations by Topic In most all the descriptions of the periods preceding the rise of mass movements there is reference to vast ennui; and in their earliest stages mass movements are more likely to find sympathizers and support among the bored than among the exploited and oppressed. The consciousness of a barren, meaningless existence is the main fountainhead of boredom. The differentiated individual is free of boredom only when he is engaged either in creative work or some absorbing occupation or when he is wholly engrossed in the struggle for existence. www.quoteland.com /topic.asp?CATEGORY_ID=334   (468 words)

Anxiety Zone - Boredom Boredom, or ennui (pronounced "on-we," this French word comes from Old French enui, root of the English word 'annoy') is a reactive state to wearingly dull, repetitive, or tedious stimuli: suffering from a lack of interesting things to see, hear, etc., or do (physically or intellectually), while not in the mood of "doing nothing". Boredom may also lead to impulsive (and sometimes excessive) actions, that serve no purpose and may damage one's self-interest. The word boredom first appears in the English language in the Charles Dickens novel Bleak House, published in 1852, where Dickens writes of Lady Dedlock's "chronic malady of boredom". www.anxietyzone.com /glossary/boredom.html   (441 words)

Against School, by John Taylor Gatto Boredom was everywhere in my world, and if you asked the kids, as I often did, why they felt so bored, they always gave the same answers: They said the work was stupid, that it made no sense, that they already knew it. Boredom is the common condition of schoolteachers, and anyone who has spent time in a teachers' lounge can vouch for the low energy, the whining, the dispirited attitudes, to be found there. That episode cured me of boredom forever, and here and there over the years I was able to pass on the lesson to some remarkable student. www.spinninglobe.net /againstschool.htm   (3192 words)

Amazon.com: Boredom: The Literary History of a State of Mind: Books: Patricia Meyer Spacks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) According to the author, the psychic, social, and literary merits and implications of boredom are manifest in daily life and have helped determine the shape and the direction of modern society. Spacks examines the idea of boredom, its genesis and implications, and forces readers to acknowledge that it is a culturally constructed concept, not a naturally occurring one. After researching the topic of chronic boredom myself for the past four years it was gratifying to finally come accross a text that dealt with the problem from the perspective of women writers, thinkers and culture critics from the Enlightenment on. www.amazon.com /Boredom-Literary-History-State-Mind/dp/0226768546   (1551 words)

Boredom - More Useful Than You Thought   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Dr Ralley said that boredom could be useful because, at times when nothing is happening, humans conserve their energy for when they are able to re-engage. Boredom is therefore a mechanism (which, like most mechanisms, doesn't work always but does work sometimes) for turning no-purpose into purpose. Children might get force-fed with boredom just in the run of things, and it might actively be good for children, but only adults will really appreciate it. www.justabovesunset.com /2006/id140.html   (1927 words)

We try our best to avoid it, but boredom has its benefits. Today, it's a lost art form. We're terrified of boredom and simultaneously sunk up to our knees in it, a post-"Seinfeld" generation running as hard and frantically as we can to avoid a condition we increasingly regard as inevitable. Collins, who called boredom his "muse" and "the mother of creativity" on "60 Minutes" last July, may be the subject's leading contemporary bard. Boredom took on the new, heavier freight of despair, depression and a kind of ontological fury in the 20th century. www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/04/02/DDGHJ5UGM51.DTL   (1679 words)

Purse Lip Square Jaw: In favour of boredom A key premise of the mobile-technology game industry is that the pleasure of interactivity is preferable to boredom. In The Mass Ornament, Kracauer writes about boredom as a way of resisting constant distraction or, in other words, defying Debord's spectacle and Lefebvre's colonisation of everyday life by the commodity. "Boredom becomes the the only proper occupation, since it provides a kind of guarantee that one is, so to speak, still in control of one's existence... www.purselipsquarejaw.org /2005/02/in-favour-of-boredom.php   (660 words)

Boredom Quotes | Boredom Quotations | Boredom Sayings | Wisdom Quotes Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination. The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. www.wisdomquotes.com /cat_boredom.html   (442 words)

Monkey See, Monkey Do » boredom and zen buddhism If we are to become the dharma without credentials [ego patting ourselves on the back], the introduction of boredom and repetitiousness is extremely important. This is only supposed to create a feeling of boredom, but to American students it is a work of art. not hot boredom, where i was restless and thinking about all the things i had to do, but cold boredom like a stream washing over me. but i was identifying with that boredom, my ego had the attitude of ‘look what i’ve done! owlmonkey.com /halfshell/archives/2004/01/31/boredom-and-zen-buddhism   (1013 words)

Amazon.com: Boredom (New York Review Books Classics): Books: Alberto Moravia,Angus Davidson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) He wants to be the user, to use her body and her emotions and detatch himself from her, but is curious to find she is also as equally detatched from the world, which leads Dino into a dangerous spiral to make her feel at least something for him. We see the crucial significance of this philosophy in Moravia's "Boredom." The novel is rather an unusual one....it is a disturbing psychological study. Boredom is more than just "ennui"...it is his inability to develop a relationship to the world around him. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0940322285?v=glance   (1817 words)

Flea: Boredom Charles Moore argues boredom is the secret weapon of the terrorists (via Argghhh!!! At last, it began to realise that the biggest single British mainland feeling about Northern Ireland was boredom. So clever republicans, such as Gerry Adams, preserved the weapon of fear ("the Armalite in one hand"), but added the weapon of boredom, becoming droning, self-righteous players in a "peace process" that we could all agree to pretend was the real thing. www.ghostofaflea.com /archives/003359.html   (153 words)

Boredom Noise Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) Boredom Noise will still be running Unknown Controller. Boredom Noise will still be updated following certain bands tours who are in the nature of Boredom Noise bands, shows similar interests to Boredom Noise as we are still a small population of people and need to keep working together. www.boredomnoise.com /Home.html   (915 words)

www.myspace.com/boredom77 Released an album of demo.live and DIY recordings from 2001 - 2004 under the title Menthols and Cider (Noize12) Recorded a new E.P titled Lowlife in November this year which marks a new chapter in Boredoms history with an harsher sound that still retains the ethos, fun and spirit of the early punk days. Boredom are also seriously looking for European and American labels to work with to release the new Boredom album titled Riot InMy Head.......................................................................................................... With the punk scene being full of bands who are going for that American sound (which in my opinion mostly isn't punk) it is great to hear punk with that 70's sound. www.myspace.com /boredom77   (1487 words)

TCS Daily - Educated... and Bored What he means is that you can study the classical guitar repertoire so thoroughly and for so many years that you simply become bored with it. Thinking that beauty was played out, composers such as Schoenberg, Webern, Elliot Carter, or Pierre Boulez wrote atonal works that sounded to most people like a collection of wrong notes. Professional educators have educated themselves into boredom with traditional methods. www.tcsdaily.com /article.aspx?id=120704A   (950 words)

Boredom - www.ezboard.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) The metaphors, and your sentences described it so thoroughly, there was no question to what it was. Well, I believe you poem is right on point with what boredom can be. Boredom follows me to class quite often and refuses to leave. p216.ezboard.com /ftironinfrm19.showMessage?topicID=10.topic   (298 words)

Aesthetic Realism Asks: Why Are Young Men Bored?--A Public Seminar "Boredom can be caused by a desire to have contempt for the world; for what is not oneself....Making less of the outside world is the same as contempt; and this contempt is the cause, through oneself, of boredom, tedium, alienation.... The mistake is to take the pleasure of contempt--there is such a pleasure--as also a means of heightening oneself, increasing one's significance. The powerful, luscious alternative to boredom is in honest like of the world--which is the same as the active desire to know that is in all art and science. www.tarrow-carduner.net /Boredom-JC.htm   (1235 words)

::: alancreech ::: home ::: My typical response is something like, "I can't do anything for you ______________, it's not my job to cure your boredom." Boredom is not a universal. This concept called boredom is bound up inside our respective cultural contexts. The idea that my run through our minds from day to day, that there is "nothing to do" is about as universal as thinking "blond haired girls are pretty." Sorry girls, but not everyone has that ingrained in their mind structure. www.alancreech.com /2006/03/boredom.html   (803 words)

boredom - OneLook Dictionary Search Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "boredom" is defined. boredom : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info] Phrases that include boredom: principle of maximum boredom www.onelook.com /?w=boredom   (195 words)

Welcome to the Church of Boredom! What you do from the moment of birth, till the moment of death. People who are of the Church of Boredom are often Bored. If you are worthy, you will be chosen by the Bored One. hometown.aol.com /amurderofsix/ChurchOfBoredom.html   (203 words)

NYRB Classics: Boredom The novels that the great Italian writer Alberto Moravia wrote in the years following the World War II represent an extraordinary survey of the range of human behavior in a fragmented modern society. Boredom, the story of a failed artist and pampered son of a rich family who becomes dangerously attached to a young model, examines the complex relations between money, sex, and imperiled masculinity. This powerful and disturbing study in the pathology of modern life is one of the masterworks of a writer whom as Anthony Burgess once remarked, was "always trying to get to the bottom of the human imbroglio." www.nybooks.com /shop/product?product_id=3   (312 words)

Quitting Tobacco: Facing Boredom - National Cancer Institute For smokers, boredom often brings the urge to smoke—this urge may have a physical and chemical basis. When you quit smoking, you may miss the increased excitement and good feeling that nicotine gave you. This fact sheet was adapted from material developed by the Tobacco Education and Prevention Program of the Arizona Department of Health Services and the Arizona Smokers’ Helpline of the University of Arizona. www.cancer.gov /cancertopics/factsheet/Tobacco/boredom   (345 words)

Buzzcocks: Boredom / Orange Juice: Rip It Up - Seconds - Stylus Magazine Buzzcocks: Boredom / Orange Juice: Rip It Up anuary, 1977: At the tail end of the month, Manchester’s foremost punk band, Buzzcocks, release their debut recording—a four-track, seven-inch EP called Spiral Scratch. While it was not quite the first punk record (that would be the Damned), and it wasn’t the most influential (that’s probably the Sex Pistols), Spiral Scratch was arguably the most important for one reason. The highlight was “Boredom”, nearly three-minutes of raging ennui expressed through Howard Devoto’s smarmy lyrics (“You me I’m acting dumb-dumb / You know the scene it’s very humdrum / Boredom, Boredom”) and possibly the most inventive, cloying, repetitive, three-note guitar riff ever—you really do have to hear it to believe it. www.stylusmagazine.com /feature.php?ID=1190   (851 words)

Authentic Boredom ~ Delivered weekly by Cameron Moll Authentic Boredom is the platitudinous web home of Cameron Moll. And if you’ve got nothing else to do in September, you might fill your entire month with conferences on three continents. But they probably meant undisputed king of… boredom. www.cameronmoll.com   (962 words)

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Psychophysiology of Boredom, Interest, Entertainment, Excitement, Sleepiness, and Fatigue A book chapter describing an originally-conceived conceptualization of the etiology and modulation of insomnia complaints, which also provided an original schema for the psychophysiological evaluation and treatment of insomnia complaints; this chapter appeared in the first book published in the United States on the diagnosis and treatment of the full-range of sleep disorders Two book chapters and a book (The Psychobiology of Cancer: Automatization and Boredom in Health and Disease, Praeger, New York, 1983) on the psychophysiology of boredom/interest, outlining boredom’s possible modulation of various bodily-expressed disorders (some types of cancer, hypertension, pain syndromes, etc.), PTSD, and a variety of behavioral (hyperactivity, violence), eating, and sleep disorders Please e-mail me at adelapen@prodigy.net or click on the Contact bar of this webpage and keyboard your message in the designated space. www.boredominterest.net   (496 words)

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