People bore me

I’d say there are quite a lot of intelligent, well educated and open minded people using this forum. Why don’t you start a thread about a topic that you find interesting and see what response you get? 

Personally I'm afraid that I’m usually terrible at expressing emotion unless it’s extreme. Can’t be dealing with PDAs too much either, most of the time!

I can see why it must have seemed unfair that the mum on the bus was ruining her children’s fun but as a mum myself I can see that she might have been wanting to keep her children under control so as not to annoy other passengers on the bus and to keep in line with societal expectations of acceptable behaviour in public.

That’s ok. It’s a good attempt at explaining. I can also struggle to put into words what I actually want to say when I’m put on the spot!

I dress with flair. Today I'm wearing light blue chinos with a Blink 182 T-shirt.

Yeah that's partly it. About politics, philosophy, economics, fashion, romance, sociology, geography, literature, film, TV.

I also feel people should express more emotion. I rarely see people kiss in public, people are more interesting in films/TV, they don't conceal so much. In real life I sense people are afraid most the time, of what others think. 

I was on a bus one day and two little children were playing innocently and harmlessly, having fun, and their mum was being horrible, saying how they wouldn't get to go to a party now because they kept changing seats they were in, playing some kind of game. She was getting more angry, and it was tedious. 

I'm not really good at explaining it but that's my best shot.

I sort of have this problem too. I have ben on dates with girls that have absolutely nothing to talk about and all they can tell me they do for fun is whatch TV. It of course extends to men as well but I don't try to go on dates with them so often have even less in common. Sadly i think it is the age we live in. Being intelligent is no longer a requirement for getting on in life. My employer totally does not get the fact that i am very intelligent and jut thinks that i have "knowledge". I was begrudgedly given a rise this year becaue of my "knowledge" but actually there are people paid plenty more than me that don't give a toss about their job and are not very clever.

Intelligent people on the whole do tend to get on and move away to new social circles. social circles seem to revolve around how much people are paid and if you want to meet other people in these income brackets you have to go where they go which is generally expensive.

On the other hand i see a dumbing down of things these days. People are not required to think for themselves anymore, they just follow instructions so there is very little get up and go in anyone and no one bothers unless they will get rewarded for making an effort. I have lost count of the times i have been asked to show someone how to do something that they won't understand and will go wrong if they have deviated slightly assuming nothing pops up anyway that they won't be able to deal with. I have now just taken to refusing offers of getting people to help me at work saying that i am the only one skilled enough to do it.

My boss who knows nothing of what i know expects to fly to a foreign country and troubleshoot our system on a customers vehicle by having me on the end of the phone in the UK. Last time I just ended every response with, I don't know because I am not there. The result was that he had to arrange a second trip and take me so that i could just deal with it.

We live in a culture where people are not encouraged to think, just tow the line.

So I am right in understanding that it’s not so much about what people are doing per se that makes them interesting or not interesting to you. But rather their mind set and whether or not they are highly educated and if they are willing to have open conversations? Is religion the only topic that you want to have open conversations about? What ‘interesting’ open conversations do you want to have with people?

What is the most interesting thing about you?

I think educated people are interesting and people with an open mind.

An Ancient Egyptian God was worshipped called Horus. Horus was said to have been born of a virgin, once died and was resurrected three days later, had 12 disciples and cured the sick. Sounds quite familiar, doesn't it?

In the Bible it's written that the Jews who had been slaves in Egypt fled with Moses as their leader and then founded Israel. It all adds up. From their experience in Egypt they learned how the rulers there used religion to control people, so they had their inspiration to create their own spin off. I'm half-Jewish myself but I don't believe in religion. If I told what I just wrote to most religious people they would be indignant and either refuse to talk to me or try to convert me.

That's an example. I wish I could find more people who can have an open conversation.

Mhmm...if there would be a solution-- I think it'd be to understand the value in other people. Don't force yourself to like them by any means...but figure out how to achieve that. 
So if you need people to be or talk a certain way, ask them to. Like if you don't like small talk or conversations with no point....or if you don't like when in-conversations people require silly, unuseful social-conversation structure...say for them not to and say what you'd prefer in an example, perhaps..

... Greetings. (What an amusing Topic!) I suggest that You Explore New Things which You and others around You might not have done before.

-- Easy: Try to go and Learn a New Language...and learn it properly. I suggest Chinese, Japanese, Ancient Greek, or Russian. Whilst in trying to learn that language, see Yourself around learning about New Cultures and Lifestyles and Histories and New Ways of Thinking, Yes? It is NOT as easy as might be assumed.

--- Hard: Apart from that...? Do something which is unusual or exciting: Writing, Skydiving, Bungee Jumping, Spelunking, ScubaDiving, Rally-Driving, Conservation, Ancestral History Exploration, BioChemistry... the list is quite endless.

...I may have missed Your point, though...? To find "interesting" people, then find out where they go, then know what they know, and then do what they do. That includes Actors, Writing, and the Film Industry.

(A good start is to answer 'Kitsun''s Question there though: What do You Yourself find interesting... Then work upon ways to fulfil that. 'Bye-Bye from Me, though, for now.)

What would you consider to be an interesting person? what sort of things would they be doing?