Re: THINKERS ANONYMOUS

[JoeRaisin <joeraisin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Have you seen Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
I love the planet that smacks folks in the head whenever it detects a
thought.
Due to a complete lack of original thought, the inhabitants of this
planet evolved into civil servants.

Jackcsg wrote:

> It started out innocently enough.
>
> I began to think at parties now and then -- to loosen up.
>
> Inevitably, though, one thought led to another, and soon I was more than
> just a social thinker.
>
> I began to think alone -- "to relax," I told myself -- but I knew it
> wasn't true. Thinking became more and more important to me, and finally I
> was
> thinking all the time.
>
> That was when things began to sour at home.
>
> One evening I had turned off the TV and asked my wife about the meaning of
> life. She spent that night at her mother's.
>
> I began to think on the job. I knew that thinking and employment don't
> mix, but I couldn't stop myself.
>
> I began to avoid friends at lunchtime so I could read Thoreau and Kafka.
>
> I would return to the office dizzied and confused, asking, "What is it
> exactly we are doing here?"
>
> One day the boss called me in. He said, "Listen, I like you, and it
> hurts me to say this, but your thinking has become a real problem. If
> you don't stop thinking on the job, you'll have to find another job."
>
> This gave me a lot to think about. I came home early after my
> conversation with the boss.
>
> "Honey," I confessed, "I've been thinking..."
>
> "I know you've been thinking," she said, "and I want a divorce!"
>
> "But Honey, surely it's not that serious."
>
> "It is serious," she said, lower lip aquiver. "You think as much as
> college professors, and college professors don't make any money,
> so if you keep on thinking, we won't have any money!"
>
> "That's a faulty syllogism," I said impatiently.
>
> She exploded in tears of rage and frustration, but I was in no mood to
> deal with the emotional drama.
>
> "I'm going to the library," I snarled as I stomped out the door. I
> headed for the library, in the mood for some Nietzsche.
>
> I roared into the parking lot with NPR on the radio and ran up to the
> big glass doors... They didn't open. The library was closed.
>
>
> To this day, I believe that a Higher Power was looking out for me
> that night. Leaning on the unfeeling glass, whimpering for
> Zarathustra, a poster caught my eye.
>
> "Friend, is heavy thinking ruining your life?" it asked.
>
> You probably recognize that line. It comes from the standard Thinker's
> Anonymous poster. Which is why I am what I am today: a recovering thinker.
>
> I never miss a TA meeting.
>
> At each meeting we watch a non-educational video; last week it was
> "Porky's." Then we share experiences about how we avoided thinking since the
> last meeting.
>
> I still have my job, and things are a lot better at home.
>
> Life just seemed...easier, somehow, as soon as I stopped thinking.
>
> I think the road to recovery is nearly complete for me.
>
> Today, I registered to vote as a Republican...
>
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