I really disagree with this concept of "thoughts" being a free-floating occurence that springs on you like a burgular in the night. Obviously thoughts exist an

I really disagree with this concept of "thoughts" being a free-floating occurence that springs on you like a burgular in the night. Obviously thoughts exist and understanding why and how thoughts exist is yet to be known. But don't we have centuries of philosophers writing about what happens if you follow those thoughts... IF I had a thought about the boringness of "seeing the same damn thing again and again", that's not an Event in my mind that needs a special verb attached to it. I just know those thoughts occur and Schopenhauer knows better than I do, what life is like if you follow and grow that particular thought. I really wonder how we're supposed to survive the experiences of pleasure and pain, positive/negative, happy/sad, whatever... without a philosophy to validate our experiences. People can think negatively (or positively) all they want, in my view, as long as it's connected to their philosophy managing their experiences. The problems occur when you let the experiences of feeings/emotions reinforce arbitrary thoughts, and cloud/submerge/drown the ability to rationalize your way out of trouble.