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  • At my last workplace there was a central staircase with a gap in the middle through the whole building.

    I very often had an intrusive thought of jumping down 4 stories.
    It came even more often when one of the lights inside this gap started flickering and I could have taken it down with me.

  • I get bad short thoughts about how I could easily end so many personal relationships with a quick random punch to the face. Pick the right person and you could be ostracised from your whole family.

  • Most intrusive?

    It think it’s probably a relatively common one: you’re at height, with access to the precipice, and your brain starts entertaining the possibility of jumping. Nothing compelling about it, in fact my rational brain always tells the stupid part “WTF, bro…” but nonetheless, the thought exists.

    Occasional other random thoughts pop in to my head on rare occasion, but for some reason the “jump” one is the most common and the most irritating.

  • My most common thought of all time or my most common that appears unprovoked?

    My most common thought of all time is, just generally, about how mentally misguided humans are in general. In my experience, people predominantly have an "ask questions later" approach to things, and then when they do finally "ask the question", it's "how do I excuse myself". My whole life, and everything I've learned from history, is shaped by this, and they hate pushback. If humanity killed someone for agreeing, in time, would they be remembered as a philosopher or a crazy person since inclination rules?

    My most common thought that appears unprovoked is similar, it deals with the situations I've been witness to in the name of what I described and trying to think out what the implications actually are and what would be in the best interest of each situation. I recently watched a show about a guy who built 100 houses for people in an impoverished country, and people reacted to this act of charity by complaining he was continuing colonialism. Sometimes "I can't even" is a perfect mood descriptor.

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