Pretending to be dumb

Vermillion_Rx · 2019-09-29T19:59:10+00:00

Don't be dumb, just be simple

XXXMersenne · 2019-09-29T22:02:52+00:00

Overthink if you want but still say stuff here and there, stuff you think is funny. Build social momentum.

Like really, feel it in your mind/body and if you happen to spot a lil hehe in your stream of overthought, yank it out quick and lay it down thick. Give soycial conventions the fing.

Laugh at it, it was so funny you couldn't help saying it just to see what it sounded like out loud.

“No amount of care and hesitancy, no amount of introspection and searching of our motives, can make any ultimate difference to the fact that the mind is Like an eye that sees, but cannot see itself.^[1]

In the end, the only alternative to a shuddering paralysis is to leap into action regardless of the consequences.^[2] Action in this spirit may be right or wrong with respect to conventional standards. But our decisions upon the conventional level must be supported by the conviction that whatever we do, and whatever “happens” to us, is ultimately “right.” In other words, we must enter into it without “second thought,” without the arrière-pensée of regret, hesitancy, doubt, or self-recrimination.^[3]”

Excerpt From: Alan W. Watts. “The Way of Zen.” iBooks.

[1] When you act you must appear to others as if YOU are not really there. To get the best idea of this, imagine what someone looks like on camera when they think no one is watching, they have a much more spontaneous naturalness to them; singing, dancing, breaking stuff, ball scratching. There is no technique to this really, you just gotta have the spiritual balls to relax the pressure you put on yourself to act a certain way/keep up with everyone else. Be at the cause in the interaction; Escape the tangle.
[2] "Take so much action it shuts of the thinking mind" -RSDJulien. Your brain wants proof, not promises that nothing 'bad' is going to happen by taking the filters off. Logical arguments aren't gonna work on yourself cus you don't trust the guy comin up with them in the first place. Knowing this we get off the hamster wheel and just start doing what we want. Literally, read that again because that is literally what you gotta do.
[3] *Self-dialogue:* "Yeh this is how it always goes, I start doing ma thang n me brein starts shittin its pants pouring all sortsa weird chemicals down me spine, then I some people think I'm cool & fun, others think Im strange & suck, I make out with some girls, laugh some and eventually after about 20mins or so realise it's no big deal and he calms down. Really not that excitnin - after you've seen it once you've seen em all. Dé ja vu here-we-go-again type shit."

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MattyAnon · 2019-09-29T21:45:18+00:00

Pretending to be dumb

It's kinda fun, but generally not a great idea unless you really know what you're doing.

BeeBopJoe · 2019-09-30T04:34:08+00:00

Being dumb works better, it suits your face better too

Title	Pretending to be dumb
Author	ScooopWoopScoup
Upvotes	6
Comments	11
Date	September 29, 2019 7:57 PM UTC (6 years ago)
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