where does it come from?
I’ve experienced boredom since i’m a very little child
Have you checked your pants? No? Okay, then, smarty pants, how do you define boredom?
Boring people get bored.
(Okay, not really, but I like it.)
personality
very common among rich people and homeless people
and junkies and artists
I have always suffered from boredom too, but over the (many many) years I have learned to overcome it by filling those moments with things that entertain or occupy… that is the only way I have found to alleviate the ‘condition’ 
do shrooms
Thanks for the suggestion, but I don’t like ‘doing’ anything that takes my control away from me - I tried half an acid tab when I was 21 and liked it but got pissed/upset/bored that I couldn’t get to sleep after hours of seeing purple haze and other such things that people only sing about, so such things actually fuel my boredom more. 
I do weed sometimes… accompanied by copious amounts of tea or rum, and that vice seems to suffice me…
I wish drugs helped, but on those fuckin comedowns you are basically paralyzed and bedridden which renders the shit impractical to live off of. It kind of defeats its own purpose, but its good for stirring your shit up every once in awhile though
Boredom seems to come of not knowing what to do…
Not knowing what to do involves not having a purpose to fulfill.
But then aren’t there moments where one doesn’t need to be doing something with regards to that purpose?
Or can one practice for fulfilling that purpose in such moments?
Purpose or goal really, a purpose in the sense of something you define not necessarily something given…
boredom comes from:
- not having anything to do and not being happy about it
- not being fully satisfied by what you are doing
Because you don’t have some purpose or meaning (decided by you or some other) that gives your current mental narrative a reason to believe that there is a reason to be happy or satisfied by what your doing…
once I was as jaded as fuck
…nihilistic maybe…
,…bored of life…
and then I made up something fun for me to do… a creeded purpose…
and now i am happy as shit…
because that purpose happens to fit with who I am and what i want to do perfectly…
…finding something worthwhile to do with those moments when we would otherwise get bored seems to be the answer, but I think this happens with age and over time.
Indeed…
The next question is if my actions are determined then was my choice of purpose, thus such that it was considerable as being “given”?
…but I digress.
I think living for a purpose that you consciously choose may work for a while - until it doesn’t. For instance, my purpose could be to sell lots of cookies, and that might make me happy for a while. But this purpose involves a lot of effort, and is based on supporting conditions that aren’t dependable. Going out of business might make me so miserable that I don’t feel like I can live any longer. Or I could choose to work for the benefit of others, which is a much healthier purpose to choose, but if I don’t really have any insight into the nature of duality, I might think of myself as some kind of martyr - giving up what I really want, in order to be a “good” person. That seems kind of stressful and misguided to me, like a project that would eventually exhaust my mental and physical capacities.
I think meaning and value is best approached as something to be discovered, rather than chosen. I think informed meditation practice is an excellent tool in this respect. The Buddhist tradition is based on the truism that satisfaction is what all sentient beings desire, as well as the more unusual view that there is something that can be done about that in a substantial, non-erring way.
I think this text provides an excellent introductory overview to Buddhist philosophy and practice.
I knew I’d seen the phrase “philosophy of boredom” somewhere. Here’s a pdf: Lars Svendsen – A Philosophy of Boredom. I have yet to read it myself though, but it seems this could be what you’re after.
I tend to agree, at the least a prupose is best discovered in the sense of discovering what purpose best satisfies what a particular person is…finding where one fits maybe…
but then a purpose does not have to be exact it can be dynamic, thus for a moment one thing later another.
Or perhaps the best purpose is simply to do good. in the sense of finding whatever good happens to be… be that what is good relative to the person or others or what… just doing what is best… in fact I tend to think that is a goal/purpose that is instilled in us naturally, some are just better at working towards it for various reasons.
not necessarily because you may believe there is a reason to be happy or satisfied, but still not be happy or satisfied
not necessarily because you may believe there is a reason to be happy or satisfied, but still not be happy or satisfied
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perhaps there is a difference between knowing and believing.
knowledge is a term implicating the existence of an objective reality. its a sophist term
i.e. of more use to the sophist than the actual philosopher because all it does is mangle the purposes of language and fog up it’s surroundings
this is why you continuously see 20 page threads on here that dont really say anything