World View Essays

World View Essays World View Essay World View Essay Even without resorting to radical concepts such as solipsism: a philosophical theory which suggests that an individuals experience is made up only of their subjective experiences and subjective perception of the world and that objective reality cant actually be known, it is fairly easy to make a convincing case that boredom is a state which mirrors the inner-world, rather than the outer world, of the person who is bored. Most of us have experienced the seemingly contradictory feelings of being at a place of excitement: a concert, a movie, a party, or even a sporting event perhaps even one which we had looked forward to attending, and, instead of finding excitement and fun, we discovered boredom and disinterest in participating in the very event we had been looking forward to attending.On the other hand, history records examples of tragically isolated and/or lonely individuals who experienced very little outside stimulation and yet were able to not only expres s an attitude of deep energy and involvement with the world, but they were able to influence the world as well. Names that spring to mind are poet Emily Dickinson, chess champion Bobby Fischer, physicist Stephen Hawking and many, many others. The fact remains that ones inner-world is both projected upon and influenced by the outer-world. So if an individual is bored during what should be a momentous or even dramatic event, the emotion and feelings of boredom obviously have an internal source, one which may well be more potent than any kind of deprivation of outer stimulation.I agree with the statement that People get bored because they are not thinking   and I think I can even use the topic of this paper, itself, as an an example of how intellectual stimulation staves off boredom. Shortly after receiving this assignment, I found myself stuck in a line at the store where I had to wait for approximately ten to fifteen minutes to check-out. Normally, I would consider myself very bore d during this kind of wait, but I was thinking about the topic of this paper and whether or not I believed boredom came from within or from without and the experience of thinking about the issue caused time to pass so fast, I hardly noticed my wait in line.   After that experience I am convinced that mental and intellectual stimulation: the use of the human imagination (or lack of its use) are the primary influences as to whether or not a person will suffer from boredom.