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A challenge
OP - January 05, 2011, 10:49 AM

I am curious to see how people deal with isolation and I do not wish to rely on my own experience. Is there any person willing to go a week with minimum human contact. You can speak to one person once a day but cannot tell them what you are thinking or how you are feeling otherwise you can go about your business and whatever one does for pleasure for which another person presence is not necessary.

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impulerit. Tantaene animis caelestibus irae?

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Re: A challenge
Reply #1 - January 05, 2011, 12:23 PM

Sure, I'll do just that, since you asked.

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Re: A challenge
Reply #2 - January 05, 2011, 12:43 PM

LOOOOOOOL!!!!! thats impossible for me

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Re: A challenge
Reply #3 - January 08, 2011, 08:48 AM

if there's noone around.. easy.. i do it alot.. it's called enjoying your own company and reading ..
i actually don't mind being "bored"..

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Re: A challenge
Reply #4 - January 08, 2011, 10:01 AM

I actively avoid human interaction. I wish to see how it affects a regular person rather than the abomination that is myself.

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Re: A challenge
Reply #5 - January 08, 2011, 10:08 AM

I hate humans

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Re: A challenge
Reply #6 - January 08, 2011, 12:31 PM

Quote from: OccupiedVoid on January 05, 2011, 10:49 AM
I am curious to see how people deal with isolation and I do not wish to rely on my own experience. Is there any person willing to go a week with minimum human contact. You can speak to one person once a day but cannot tell them what you are thinking or how you are feeling otherwise you can go about your business and whatever one does for pleasure for which another person presence is not necessary.

I've come close to doing that before. Long story, but if I have a good book to read or something else to keep my mind occupied, the it is not hard.

Heck, I am sure people who deal with the public as a job would LOVE that scenario.

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Reply #7 - January 08, 2011, 01:12 PM

I manage quite well with v minimal social contact. I live in open countryside with just one neighbour who I never see, my wife who's out at work 10 hrs/day, the postman if he calls, hailing folk I see on my dog walk if I feel like it, and my dog. Favourite activity is fishing alone for hours at a time, or with my wife and mutt, just communing with Nature.
When I was teaching a couple of years ago the amt of people contact was just too much to bear. I'm content to control my contacts down to the bare minimum. In fact I'm more contented than I have been in my whole life. People can seriously fuck your head when you're bi-polar.

At the end of the 19th C. the British Govt ran an experiment with convicts in Tasmania. They were kept in solitary confinement with weekly religious worship their only 'social' activity. Each convict had his own stall in the chapel, built so that he could only see the preacher but not other prisoners. It was thought that this regime would reform them, but in fact, it drove almost all of them insane. The experiment was abandoned.

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Re: A challenge
Reply #8 - January 08, 2011, 01:32 PM

Quote from: OccupiedVoid on January 05, 2011, 10:49 AM
I am curious to see how people deal with isolation and I do not wish to rely on my own experience. Is there any person willing to go a week with minimum human contact. You can speak to one person once a day but cannot tell them what you are thinking or how you are feeling otherwise you can go about your business and whatever one does for pleasure for which another person presence is not necessary.

i pretty much do this, bar my family. from those who i do speak with, our conversation never passes anything more than work and those patronising 'how are you' questions. i was completely isolated for a period before i joined cemb, where my conversations only were with family about what food i wanted though, and i dealt with it ok.
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Re: A challenge
Reply #9 - January 08, 2011, 03:12 PM

This really isn't a challenge for me because i do it regularly, i love being alone and i thrive on it.

I am an introvert so i am not too much of a people person, i do enjoy being alone just reading a book, or looking up on some new scientific discoveries online etc. Just last month i was alone at home for about 2 weeks straight (everyone else traveled) and i absolutely loved it, i only went out for basic necessities like food/groceries.

The only time i do want company though is when i watch the beautiful game of football.

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Re: A challenge
Reply #10 - January 08, 2011, 04:39 PM

Quote from: OccupiedVoid on January 05, 2011, 10:49 AM
I am curious to see how people deal with isolation and I do not wish to rely on my own experience. Is there any person willing to go a week with minimum human contact. You can speak to one person once a day but cannot tell them what you are thinking or how you are feeling otherwise you can go about your business and whatever one does for pleasure for which another person presence is not necessary.

Only one week?

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Re: A challenge
Reply #11 - January 08, 2011, 04:45 PM

Quote from: OccupiedVoid on January 08, 2011, 10:01 AM
I actively avoid human interaction. I wish to see how it affects a regular person rather than the abomination that is myself.

Oh, I just saw this. That disqualified me from your challenge then.

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