Anyone else suffer from procrastination?

[emeraldfool]

Emeraldfool knows he's wrong and that he can't defend his statements,

That one sentence pretty much sums up why arguing with you is one gigantic waste of time.

Everyone else is 'obviously' wrong, and you're 'obviously' right, and all this 'debate' is really just you patiently trying to show everyone why your opinion is the correct one.

I suppose I was naive to think you were actually listening to what I had to say...
(Honestly, I'm sure you read that and thought something along the lines of 'of course I was listening! you're an idiot! I'm so gonna slap a pissed-off rant on your ass!', but could you honestly tell me what my point was without going back over it with a fine-tooth comb? In fact, maybe you should, just to see the points I was making without the express purpose of arguing them to the death.)

[zanzibar]

Emeraldfool knows he's wrong and that he can't defend his statements,

That one sentence pretty much sums up why arguing with you is one gigantic waste of time.

If I see that you're trying to change the subject or distract from a point someone else has made, I'll call you on it.  It indicates that you recognize that you've been proven wrong on something, but instead of admitting it, you'd rather just move on to something else (like the proper spelling of the word "colour").

[neko kyouran]

Stop procrasticating about discussing procrastination please.  (get back to the original subject, and leave the land of offtopicness)

[bilbous]

I've been ignoring this thread for a while but the time seems right for a quote for a former first lady

My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

[emeraldfool]

I was using 'colour' as an analogy for my perception of the word 'science'

Another testament to the fact that your only thoughts go to how you are going to argue a point, rather than what that point actually means. I've never ever seen you agree with anything I've ever said, regardless of how small and insignificant a comment. It stands to reason that there'd be something you would agree with me on. I mean, it's not like there's not a lot to choose from.
But no, everything I say you turn into an argument.'Planeshift is closest to the dark ages', 'Karyuu acts innocent', 'cheating is wrong', even when it looks like we're on the same side, you somehow find a way to twist your argument so it opposes mine, just so you can argue with me.

I'm sorry I've procrastinated so long in telling you that

[Parallo]

I've never ever seen you agree with anything I've ever said

I very rarely see reason to agree with you. Of what relevence is that?

[zanzibar]

I guess if I don't reply to something you say, then there's a chance I agree with it.


More seriously, I'm not picking on you.  I'm not disagreeing with you for the sake of disagreeing with you.  I just disagree with you on a lot of things.

[lordraleigh]

I've procrastinated enough to bring this thread back on topic.

I think the common practice of procrastinating comes from two factors: from your own personality and from the way your family treated you.

There are people that are more methodic and organized, that act fully based on a schedule. For example: there are people that wake up always 7:00 AM, including on holidays, breakfast on 7:15, lunch on 12:00, dinner on 7:00 PM and sleep on 11:00 PM. However these people also are less prone to make radical changes on their lives or to have innovative ideas, while the procrastinators are usually the opposite, people that cares little about having an orderly life with routines, schedules and such, that prefer innovation and independence over hierarchies and schedules.

Anyway don't worry, Albert Einstein "procrastinated" until 9 years old to speak fluently 

Also some people associate it with the already mentioned and controversial "Attention-Deficit Disorder", that has as one of the "symptoms":

Procrastination, inability to begin an activity

[zanzibar]

Personally, I don't see procrastination in terms of being a free spirit.  It's more of a cage than anything else.

[lordraleigh]

Personally, I don't see procrastination in terms of being a free spirit.  It's more of a cage than anything else.

Of course it is, following strictly and orderly schedule is the way to free yourself.
I was caged before, now I will not procrastinate and follow order, sleep always at 12:00AM, I will be free to don't sleep when I am tired but instead sleep when the rules I created for myself wish to. I will lunch always precisely at 12:00 PM regardless of being or not hungry. Hoorray!

But now I'm caging myself perhaps? No I'm not, procrastinating is the cage!

[bilbous]

Hmm I have to dispute the wikitinuum. I am perfectly able to start an activity, I just prefer to delay at times.

[zanzibar]

But there are more options than being a procrastinator or living by a strict schedule.

[lordraleigh]

     How can the act procrastinating exist if there isn't an existing schedule of what is being procrastinated? The other option is to nullify the own meaning of the word procrastination by shredding all schedules, deadlines and routines from your life so you won't have a point of comparation through time for it. Of course it would disrupt fully your professional life, meaning that if you insisted in such thing, you would soon end up as a Hobo, which shows the sad reality: it's not a question of escaping from cages of schedules or of the "cage" of procrastination when we're bound by money, and the need of cash chain many to corporate life until becoming full "Corporate Dummies".

[bilbous]

If I get hungry while playing a game but put off eating for hours there is no set schedule I am breaking but I am still procrastinating assuaging my hunger.

Right now I am procrastinating going to bed because there is more rum to be drunk which I am procrastinating in drinking because I will regret it tomorrow....

[lordraleigh]

If I get hungry while playing a game but put off eating for hours there is no set schedule I am breaking but I am still procrastinating assuaging my hunger.

Right now I am procrastinating going to bed because there is more rum to be drunk which I am procrastinating in drinking because I will regret it tomorrow....

I guess it's nearing impossible, still if you suppress your bodily sensations to the point they become insignificant, or if you take a fully nihilistic approach to life, you may become able of nullify the meaning of procrastinating, at least for yourself.