(1) What Twitter Means to Me
As Sarah (@LonePandaRoams) says she does, some people does seem to spend far more time and share much more private information on social media than most others do. The problem with them, or at least what they find it to be the problem with them, ...
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(2) ... is that they just can't control themselves when doing so. For such people, being on social media seems to be some kind of addictive drug. They feel it's not quite productive, and yet they can't give up on it unless ...
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(3) ... they do something drastic about it (such as by abruptly leaving). I've seen people like that. I myself don't feel addictive to social media. I stay here for a certain amount of time precisely because that's the most productive way of spending my time, at least for now.
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(4) Otherwise I wouldn't have come here in the first place. And if in the course of my activity here there ever comes a time I feel I'm not being productive enough, then I'll leave immediately, or if not immediately, I'll leave sooner or later.
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(5) I stay here precisely as long as I find it rewarding, instructive, informative, and educative. Being here, in touch with people sharing the way they feel about life, what they know about the current and past wars, their life stories, philosophies and religions, ...
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(6) ... affairs about India, Africa, the Middle East, the USA, Britain, and Stalin and Hitler and so on... all this has been quite educative to me. Naturally the bits and pieces of information the members share here do not constitute the whole of what you should know.
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(7) They're just the beginning of your learning process. Their fragmentary information drives me hard to read many more books and learn. And that's precisely the beauty of anything in life, including Twitter. Life, for me, is a series of struggles. Life is a learning process.
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(8) I live, therefore I learn. People may say that I am rationalizing the futility of life, which I very often complain of. I admit that I may be rationalizing things here. But I can't help it. I'm not ashamed of it. Life, for me anyway, is precisely about learning.
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(9) Ever since I was six, or perhaps even younger, I've been inquisitive. Here, I'm not saying I'm intelligent. Far from it. I'm just an average guy. I wish I were more intelligent. I'm rather on the stupid side as compared to most others on Twitter or in the rest of the world.
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(10) But I'm not ashamed of that either. If I was born that way, I couldn't help it. But by effort, I can be something slightly better, even though some may sneer at the futility of all that. Even if it is totally meaningless, I am firmly determined to struggle on.
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Hey, do whatever ya gotta do. I like trying to drill right into the core of the antinatalist philosophy & I appreciate others who are also of the same bent. I get off on it. It's my meditation. My practice. My discipline.
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You're a very rare personality capable of all that. Actually you're the very first person I've actually talked to whether in real life or on the Internet that's as determined to do so as you are. I'll keep reading all your tweets.
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There are some other people on Twitter that are really good at it, too. It's challenging & rewarding to try to express the antinatalist insight with as much clarity & depth as possible. If there is an absolute truth, antinatalism seems to be it. #antinatalism
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