Does it on average take religious people more or less time to get bored of something than non-religious folk?

Question

Something like...... Y!A R&S for example.

Frankly.... this place is slowly but surely starting to bore me. I might have to take a break for a few months soon.... not that I expect anyone to care or even notice. The monotony is just starting to wear a bit thin.... and even the satirical questions at the expense of the..... less intelligent members... are starting to get repetitive.

Answer 1

It takes a brain to be bored.... and I totally hear you.
Humans really aren't up to much mentally, are they?

Answer 2

All things can bore a person if they are not taking in knowledge of what ever they are involved in. the reason why things seem to be repetitive because people do not learn at the same rate like others so things have to be repeated over and over again, allow some that are new to repeat some questions or answers.

Answer 3

I don't believe the explanation for your question. Maybe the study actually happened and came to those results. But if it had, I think we would have heard much about it than we have heard. Can you give us a cite, some electronic link to your study, so we will know you're not just BSing? I'm an agnostic, really cannot believe in what some of the fundamentalists do. I might share your beliefs more than theirs. But I worry that in debates over religion -- and over other important things -- people on both sides of the debate may just start making things up. Let's not simply makes things up to "prove" debating points. Life is complicated & confusing enough already, just as it is. -- a friendly agnostic "In war, truth is the first casualty." -- The Greek dramatist Aeschylus, in his tragedy "Agamemnon."

Answer 4

Maybe it's the way you think that determines how bored you get, and how quickly you gt bored. Apparently by your question and following statements, ALL religious people are the same, and ALL non-religious folk are the same compared to each other.

I find that thinking to be a rather homogeneous in expectation!

I suppose that I get bored as I get bored. I do not expect my threshold of boredom to be similar to anyone else's, though I could see that can happen in a spontaneous sort of way.

Answer 5

Lucid - You should breeze by the philosophy section. You are an articulate dude, change the venue.
Think about it. Is it really that hard to point out the blatant contradictions in religions folklore? Is it really that hard to make believers fumble when you cause them to actually think, about the position they are defending? Of course not! I bounce from philosophy to RS and back again. But in all honesty when I come over here, it`s because I`m mentally lazy.

Answer 6

Anyone who can read the Bible more than once has a large tolerance for boredom. Additionally, anyone who can listen to infinite variations on the same basic sermon over and over and over and over again just doesn't get bored easily at all.

As for you, when satire loses it's flavor, you're right. It's time to move on for a while.

Answer 7

I'm back from a long break, so this site feels like poison running through my veins (Copyright Alice Cooper).

So enjoy yourself, and we look forward to having you back on the chain gang (Copyright The Pretenders)

Answer 8

a break is good sometimes, I took it a while ago. Now it is more or less a week that I am back, but I am thinking of taking another one soon
If you go, have a nice holiday from R&S.

Answer 9

If I click on a "Why do atheists use R&S" question one more time...

Seriously, I think there are at least 2 variations on the first page of questions as I type this.

Answer 10

True. I was going to point out that the time to "boredom" is really dependent on what the activity is.