Ah, a /thought/ board! I see there is not much going on here, so I will proceed with a guide on how to think.
How to think?! Thought is free, how can someone impose rules on thought?! Sure you can tell someone to think about Something, but How to think? Blasphemy!
1. There are different types of thinking.
Much like we approach say - a cup of coffee, a mathematics exercise or a casual discussion with our friends - so we must differentiate between different Objects and different Fields.
An Object will be anything we choose to think about, analyse, deconstruct, conceptualize, clarify, explore, paraphrase, relate, reduce, use as a basis for dialectics etc.
A Field will be a collection of Objects, which for our or general purposes we group together.
Some Fields like - the compositions of Dmitri Shostakovich, or algebraic-geometry, or developmental psychology, or woodwork - lend themselves naturally to a Field, where relations and context forms naturally and deeply; while something like - the alcohol drunk last night, or the names of previous girlfriends, or the chairs in one flats - are most likely random, and are forced groupings and relations, of which the analysis only lends insight into the arranger .
2. The act of thinking is not daydreaming or couch philosophy.
Look at this photo of Jean Sartré, look at any philosophers desk - you will see paper and pen. Have you ever tried writing a coherent series of thoughts down? Do you know how to phrase a sentence? or a paragraph? Do you have a dictionary? What do you read? Have you read philosophy? Are you interested in something?
If you can answer these questions positively and elaborate on them, you are a cultured man. If not, you are not a culture man,, yet. Philosophy, much like jazz improvisation, has a sort of paradoxical association with it - while actual philosophy is quite strenuous and requires effort, the "philosopher" is a guy who writes outlandiPost too long. Click here to view the full text.