Has anyone found they let boards.ie do their thinking?

completedit · 02-12-2019 03:54PM #1

Been a long time boards and other message board viewer. I feel after so many years passively observing other people’s opinions that can’t form any off my own bat. Anyone else like this? For example, I saw a great message on the LLS TOY Show thread about how the toy show shouldn’t be about the adults but that’s pretty much what it’s aimed at now. Kids who grew up with it who want to feel nostalgic. It’s actually a bad example, could have picked anything but just an example of something that I liked and struck a chord with me but I wouldn’t have thought of myself,

Can anybody relate and is it even a problem?

zenith · 02-12-2019 04:03PM

Ah, be kinder to yourself. You can't be thinking of nuanced positions on everything, and taking new opinions in is the sign of an active and curious mind.

Kimbot · 02-12-2019 04:18PM

All my thoughts are conducted by a poll on boards.ie

LineOfBeauty · 02-12-2019 04:22PM

Modern day "hot take" culture really is awful. Why would anyone possibly want to have an opinion about everything? Especially things that they have not the slightest clue about.

o1s1n · 02-12-2019 04:26PM

completedit wrote: »

Been a long time boards and other message board viewer. I feel after so many years passively observing other people’s opinions that can’t form any off my own bat. Anyone else like this? For example, I saw a great message on the LLS TOY Show thread about how the toy show shouldn’t be about the adults but that’s pretty much what it’s aimed at now. Kids who grew up with it who want to feel nostalgic. It’s actually a bad example, could have picked anything but just an example of something that I liked and struck a chord with me but I wouldn’t have thought of myself,

Can anybody relate and is it even a problem?

Easy solution, stop reading and start contributing!

completedit · 02-12-2019 04:33PM

LineOfBeauty wrote: »

Modern day "hot take" culture really is awful. Why would anyone possibly want to have an opinion about everything? Especially things that they have not the slightest clue about.

The likes of Joe Rogan are to “blame” for this but what was it like before. It does seem to be different, people go on like they’re experts on subjects they haven’t a breeze about or subjects nobody cares about. Maybe this is a problem with consuming such varied media, you’ll get people caring and being interested in much wider material and information than previous generations. Like there’s a good podcast on Rogan about sleeping, the guy is clearly passionate and I even started to read his book, seemed like s decent read but then I was like, I’ve listened to some guy blabber on about sleep for 2 hours and now am gonna read a book about it. **** that, I know sleep is important, don’t really see why it would be of interest to me to know the ins and outs of it unless I stood to gain monetarily like that lad Mathew Walker does. I found myself caring about something that when I thought about it, wasn’t actually interesting at all. Why we sleep is a good question but a rigorous examination of it, isn’t gonna make my life better.

It’s a really good question that I’ve thought about quite a bit, how to decide what matters to know, podcast culture and news on tap mean that so much info is just there waiting to be discovered but then you ask yourself, what actually is the value in this? I just went on “stuff you should know” podcast and the summary of the podcast is like “ever wanted to know about satanism, champagne, chaos theory well look no further coz josh and chuck have you covered” well tbh josh and cuck, to be perfectly honest, the answer is no, not really. But then I just seem like a philistine cynic.

The One Doctor · 02-12-2019 04:38PM

And this is why I got rid of my TV and stopped reading the news online.

sbsquarepants · 02-12-2019 04:48PM

completedit wrote: »

The likes of Joe Rogan are to “blame” for this but what was it like before.

I don't mind you laying into the late late, but leave Joe alone - whatever it is, it's not Joes fault, he's a nice bloke!

completedit wrote: »

I just went on “stuff you should know” podcast and the summary of the podcast is like “ever wanted to know about satanism, champagne, chaos theory well look no further coz josh and chuck have uncovered” well tbh josh and cuck, to be perfectly honest, the answer is no, not really.

Out of the 2 dozen or so podcasts that i have my phone set to download automatically, this is one of the 2 or 3, i actually ever get round to listening to on the regular, it's very good! But like most Americans you need to play them sped up around the 1.25 to 1.5x mark. Why do Americans talk so god damned slowly, it's infuriating!

xzanti · 02-12-2019 04:54PM

I don't know.

Have I?

completedit · 02-12-2019 04:54PM

sbsquarepants wrote: »

I don't mind you laying into the late late, but leave Joe alone - whatever it is, it's not Joes fault, he's a nice bloke!

Out of the 2 dozen or so podcasts that i have my phone set to download automatically, this is one of the 2 or 3, i actually ever get round to listening to on the regular, it's very good! But like most Americans you need to play them sped up around the 1.25 to 1.5x mark. Why do Americans talk so god damned slowly, it's infuriating!

Rogan reminds me of myself; a good natured, inquisitive, eager to learn bore.

jammiedodgers · 02-12-2019 04:56PM

Can someone PM me the answer?

Arghus · 02-12-2019 04:59PM

It depends. Most of the forums I would look at are full of good and worthwhile opinions, but after hours is hit and miss and current affairs is a cesspit of half baked angry hot takes, with a smidge of decent articulate and knowledgable contributors and another simdge of the outright unhinged.

The more I read AH and CA the more I'm starting to realise that the proportion of maladjusted and angry people here is quite high and I would wonder if it's actually any good to keep reading it, it can definitely fck with your head after a while and I think that's why there's a lot of angry, angry people posting in CA: too much time on the Internet.

02-12-2019 05:07PM

completedit wrote: »

Been a long time boards and other message board viewer. I feel after so many years passively observing other people’s opinions that can’t form any off my own bat. Anyone else like this?

Stop following the crowd OP.

I'm feeling nice, so for starts why not lurk in a few irrelevant forums and forums of different regions from your own,
Like farming and forestry instead of AH. Or take a look at Galway, if your based in Dublin.

Ficheall · 02-12-2019 06:22PM

Default position is to assume the truth is the opposite to the opinion expressed by every boardsie.

branie2 · 02-12-2019 06:25PM

No

Woke Hogan · 02-12-2019 06:36PM

I wouldn’t recommend you let Boards.ie do any thinking for you, maybe try a site closer to the centre like Brietbart or Stromfront.

02-12-2019 06:37PM

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Cushtie · 02-12-2019 07:44PM

Definately give AH and CA is miss for a while. As more of a lurker than a Contributor I find that there are some really worthwhile forums outside of those two. It's very easy to feel involved in AH and CA without actually contributing anything

(see what I did there?!)

Say Your Number · 02-12-2019 07:45PM

The less people know about a subject here, the more they have to say about it.

Salary Negotiator · 02-12-2019 07:48PM

I actually think the opposite; that reading boards has given me a more nuanced view on many topics.

It has certainly allowed me read opinions that I wouldn’t ordinarily get to hear or read and that has helped me think more critically about things.

Has anyone found they let boards.ie do their thinking?

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