How much do you think?

[c4ts]

Should you think in front of the kids?

[Mr Clingford]

Only in moderation ,but perhaps letting Uncle Freddy think to excess in front of the children to see the effects - glazed eyes, drooling, will put them on the right road

[Phil]

I try real hard to just be a social thinker, because the capacity to think too much runs in my family. Legend has it that my great great grandfather died from thinking at age 37. The cops arrested him and threw him in the think tank. Next morning he was gone.

[geni]

My names geni and I'm a thinkerholic....

[Lord Emsworth]

I think you take this way too serious. And no, I don't think I have a thinking problem.

[Grommitt]

Thinking makes my head hurt. I have better things to do than go around thinking all day. Thinking is a slippery slope. Left unabated it can lead to clarity and sound judgement. Not thinking helps me to be treated as an equal among all the great non-thinkers. The voice in my head is irritatingly similiar to Rodney Dangerfield reading passages from 'Catcher in the Rye'.

I think I will go lie down now.

[sparklecat]

Does the quality of the thoughts matter?

[Mr Clingford]

Originally posted by sparklecat
Does the quality of the thoughts matter? Ideally they are pure and single, and have lain in a barrel for 12 years

[DarkMagician]

Please don't think and thrive.

[jj]

All the time, basically, except for when I'm asleep, in which case I haven't any evidence.

[c4ts]

I'm a thunkard myself.

[roger]

I hate to admit it, but, I think alone.

[Nucular]

Can someone who is alive, and with a brain, ever be said to not be thinking? Does thinking have to be conscious, and remembered? Are there any brain processes which can be considered not to involve thought on some level? Does the fact that I haven't really thought this post through mean I haven't been thinking?

Oh, I think I thunk too much.

<syntax error; Nucular will now restart>

[wayrad]

What about those whose religion prohibits thinking?

[Dancing David]

the first step is to admit that we are powerless over our thinking and that our lives have become unmanageble.

[c4ts]

Originally posted by Dancing David
the first step is to admit that we are powerless over our thinking and that our lives have become unmanageble.

That's why we have religions that think for us.

[fishbob]

A bit a cogitation with dinner, maybe some late night pondering once in a while certainly doesn't hurt. Don't tell anybody, but I calculate and analyze at work sometimes.

[Darat]

Well as I said in the do you drink threads I had quite a religious education therefore I was taught that thinking for yourself was the root of evil.

Even today I find myself reading some posts here and thinking "dirty smelly Satan worshiping freethinker".

I have once or twice tried thinking but to be honest I don't think I could ever think much, one small thought and I feel queasy, I get giddy and start saying things I only regret later.

(Oh and I certainly would NOT think in front of children –that would be setting a terrible example.)

[Hamish]

I used to think a lot more than I do now. As a student at university, I was thinking nearly every evening, sometimes even in the middle of the day. Once or twice, I even started thinking in the morning. Everyone was doing it.

Now I'm a bit older and wiser and I find that if I think too much, my head really hurts the next day, so I don't do it nearly as much. I do have a quiet think at weekends but it's only to help me relax and I can give it up any time I want.

I wouldn't have a problem with moderate thinking in front of kids. Just as long as it was made clear to them that they definitely shouldn't be thinking until they're old enough. Of course some countries allow thinking at earlier ages than others.

Am I in the right thread?

[Yahweh]

How much do you think?

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[Marquis de Carabas]

Heidegger, Heidegger was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table

[wayrad]

I've had it with you folks, you drive me to think. :p

[Marquis de Carabas]

Binge Thinking: A Horrible Problem that American Universities May Never Have to Face

[wollery]

Hmmmm.... I'm going to have to think this over a bit and get back to you......

[HerNibs]

I voted "Never".

I work for the gummerment. It's not allowed.

[DarkMagician]

*stands up*
"Hello, I'm DarkMagician and I'm a thoughtoholic."

[Iamme]

I always was told that one should at least start to think once it gets past noon. Otherwise you might find yourself thinking tooo much in one 24 hour period and this could lead to headaches and other bad affects. A person should only think in moderation. Never over do it. Too much thinking also can cause brain farts.

[Yahweh]

Some of my friends like to brag about thinking, I wonder if I should be worried about them...

(Golly gosh gee, I hope one of them never forms an opinion, thats just taking thinking too far...)

[Globert]

I've experimented with thinking, thought too much on occasion, been pulled over for thinking and deriving. they have a zero tolerance policy about thinking where I work.

[Mercutio]

MY BRAIN HURTS!

[epepke]

"Of course I think! Every Saturday. Need it or not."

Brownie points for anybody who can cite the reference.

[QuarkChild]

I'm not as think as you thunk I am.

[Upchurch]

They have a program to help cure thinking at the local churchs, I hear. I'm not sure how many steps are involved, but it does involve acknowledging a higher power.

[Skeptical Greg]

Depenths on the lath time I bathed..

[Dragonrock]

I think I was confused by your poll having 2 planet X options...

[Upchurch]

Originally posted by Dragonrock
I think... I think you have a problem.


Wait! Now I have a problem! Oh, the damnable temptations of thinking!

[Chanileslie]

Originally posted by Dancing David
the first step is to admit that we are powerless over our thinking and that our lives have become unmanageble.

And then the next step is to accept that there is a higher power in control of everything.

[Chanileslie]

Originally posted by fishbob
A bit a cogitation with dinner, maybe some late night pondering once in a while certainly doesn't hurt. Don't tell anybody, but I calculate and analyze at work sometimes.

Why you are an absolute FIEND!!! I am absolutely shocked, I tell you, SHOCKED!!

[DarkMagician]

I'm trying to stop thinking, but it's so warm and inviting and *drools*.

[athon]

I don't have a thinking problem. I can stop anytime I....

Umm....

And, anyway...what was I saying?

Athon

[sorgoth]

You know, sometimes I get the feeling that people stop thinking once they start talking. Mouth open leads to brain off.

[c4ts]

Originally posted by sorgoth
You know, sometimes I get the feeling that people stop thinking once they start talking. Mouth open leads to brain off.

That's only true for airheads and stupid people.

[mummymonkey]

I'm a secret thinker. I never think in public without first concealing my thoughts in a plain wrapper.
I also try to shop around and get the cheapest but strongest thoughts available.

This has the highest thoughts/penny ratio:

http://www.munros-shop.com/Buckfast.gif