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Recently Jason B. relayed a message from his daughter who said "You think too much!".

Jason seems to share a trait with me.....we ponder and nitpick stuff. We try to figure out things. Are you like this?

I sure as heck am......I've pondered and nitpicked myself outta organized religion, and I seem to be pondering and thinking myself into a state of doubt in everything. Are you like this?

Do you chew things over in your mind until everything is gone, including your saliva? I sure as heck am.....I get a bee in my bonnet about something and ponder it to death. To paraphrase Jason Bourne's daughter: I think too much! Are you like this?

Anyone got any ideas on how to stop being like this?

I'm like this but I also have an off switch. I can spend some time mulling something over and then forget it for weeks or months or years and do something else until I think of it again.

I've been told that I have the mind of a little child with an adult intellect. Not sure if that's a compliment or not. I'm also fairly sure that's not the child-like attribute Christ was praising.

The Nehor wrote:I'm like this but I also have an off switch. I can spend some time mulling something over and then forget it for weeks or months or years and do something else until I think of it again.

My off-switch is broken....I'm slowly trying to repair the dang thing. The repairman doesn't make house calls, so I have to do it myself.

Bond...James Bond wrote:
.....we ponder and nitpick stuff. We try to figure out things. Are you like this?

Anyone got any ideas on how to stop being like this?

Bond,

I hear what you're saying and I can totally relate. I'm an insomniac because of it. I can't go to sleep at night because I lay there and analyze things, and think of things I should have said, and wonder about things to research. I think it's like an OCD. Which means I need serious help! :) But really, I don't know how to stop it- when you find out let me know! :)

Sailgirl7

What was the question?

Theres nothign wrong with that, as long as you have a base to operate from. You need to decide where your base is as far as God is concerned and use it as a rock, otherwise your going to drown yourself.

Hows theold song go? "The wise man built his house upon the rock....."

Find your rock, then go ponder.

If we all took a personality test, I bet many of us would come out very similar and bordering on obsessive compulsive. I am a perfectionist by nature but try to keep it in check. I tend to overdo things but know it's a weakness of mine. I also have very strong opinions and principles that motivate my choices in life. People like us tend to be very passionate about everything we do so it's not surprsing that many of the posters here don't exit Mormonism silently or feel content to never discuss it again. Many of us probably feel the need to feel "understood." It doesn't matter to me if anybody agrees with my conclusions but I have a need to be understood. When apologists say there is never a valid reason to leave the church, it really sums up for me why I post. Why can't they understand???

It's probably genetic for me. My six year old daughter will ask me very detailed questions about God, religions, Santa (she doesn't believe).....she analyzes everything just as I did when I was her age. My father studied his way out of Mormonism (still a firm believer in Christ though) and when he was an active believer, welcomed all of my endless questions that had no answers when I was growing up. It would make my TBM mother furious when he would agree with my criticisms or doubts about religion. My mother is impossible to discuss Mormonism with. She uses no logic, the church never does anything wrong, and gets very angry if I make a valid point. She tells me I think too much and shouldn't worry about these things.

Its not "overthinking." It actually just thinking. America is so anti-intellectual that we've come to think of using our brains to work things out as something abnormal.

Thinking is good.

I can't tell you how many times people have told me I think too much! I can be a brooding kind of gal sometimes, I understand that, and even though my thinking sometimes keeps me up at night and makes me sad or conflicted, I'm glad I'm a thinker. My thoughts my be simple compared to some people's, but they're mine. I wouldn't be me without them.

KA

Bond...James Bond wrote:Recently Jason B. relayed a message from his daughter who said "You think too much!".

Jason seems to share a trait with me.....we ponder and nitpick stuff. We try to figure out things. Are you like this?

I sure as heck am......I've pondered and nitpicked myself outta organized religion, and I seem to be pondering and thinking myself into a state of doubt in everything. Are you like this?

Do you chew things over in your mind until everything is gone, including your saliva? I sure as heck am.....I get a bee in my bonnet about something and ponder it to death. To paraphrase Jason Bourne's daughter: I think too much! Are you like this?

Anyone got any ideas on how to stop being like this?

Well you know it seems that I do!