15 Nov 2013, 7:05 pm
16 Nov 2013, 4:24 am
Interesting to see what some of us are interested in. 
But the idea of the thread (which I guess I didn't explain very well) was to actually write something on the topic of your special interest. Eg. tell us something interesting (that we probably don't know) about cats or the music of Bach.
I should probably have led with an example, but I don't really have special interests myself. Well, there are some things I'm interested in, obviously, but I don't think they quite qualify as "special" interests.
16 Nov 2013, 7:02 am
I'm very obsessed with "The Sims 3" game. I love to create different people and families. I kinda suck at building houses/buildings though. 
But I'll get the hang of it someday. Plus, I kinda consider my Sims as friends. Weird, I know.....
I also became obsessed with a new (?) show called "Scorned: Love Kills". It adds to my lifelong on and off special interest with true crime stories and psychology. I like learning about people--- the good, the bad and everything in between. It can be a bit scary sometimes, but fun.
16 Nov 2013, 1:05 pm
IreneS wrote:
Ausome wrote:
I'm currently writing a series of 5 novels, and have been for a couple of years. I got half way through book 3, but then went back and decided to rewrite book 1, which I'm finding, for some reason, unbelievably difficult to do. Been at it for four months and still not past chapter 2. Still, I'll get there eventually.
I'm not interested in writing, and when I'm done with the fifth book I will never write another word. I just have an obsession with this one story I've come up with.
I'm not interested in writing, and when I'm done with the fifth book I will never write another word. I just have an obsession with this one story I've come up with.
What´s it about?
The series is about a city which is being terrorized by a criminal mastermind: after two decades of this, the police decide that action must be taken. They take a child and make his function to thwart the villain, basically turning him into a weapon. And the series is basically about the boy's struggle between fulfilling his purpose, and doing what is right for himself. He doesn't fit in anywhere, and he eventually decides to reject society so that it can no longer reject him
Yeah, it's semi-autobiographical
16 Nov 2013, 1:23 pm
FMX wrote:
Interesting to see what some of us are interested in. But the idea of the thread (which I guess I didn't explain very well) was to actually write something on the topic of your special interest. Eg. tell us something interesting (that we probably don't know) about cats or the music of Bach.
I should probably have led with an example, but I don't really have special interests myself. Well, there are some things I'm interested in, obviously, but I don't think they quite qualify as "special" interests.
But the idea of the thread (which I guess I didn't explain very well) was to actually write something on the topic of your special interest. Eg. tell us something interesting (that we probably don't know) about cats or the music of Bach.I should probably have led with an example, but I don't really have special interests myself. Well, there are some things I'm interested in, obviously, but I don't think they quite qualify as "special" interests.
I myself have gone through a period in my life when I didn't have much of an actual 'special interest', but rather was pursuing what could be considered 'stopgap' interests; hobbies/interests that had the express purpose of using up my time when I was bored. These included 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer', comic books, listening to and collecting pop music albums, et cetera. I never got very knowledgeable on any of these popcultural pastimes.
And even though it could be said that my current special interests are Indonesian culture/history and linguistics in general, I'm not all that knowledgable on those two topics, either. Heck, Ganondox could probably tell you more about Indonesia than I can, considering he lives there.
I like the thread idea, though, but I'm not one of the posters who is a walking encyclopedia on their favourite subject when compared to most other people around here. When compared to most other people I encounter in real life, however, I do have a little reputation of being 'the walking encyclopedia', though that also depends on my company at any given time.
17 Nov 2013, 12:03 am
17 Nov 2013, 4:03 pm
17 Nov 2013, 4:15 pm
IreneS wrote:
There is no self. The me I think of as me isn´t really me. The you you think of as you isn´t really you. What is is the same existence in all. There is no outside or inside. Everything is inside. There is no distinction between what is observed and who is observing, the action of observing is automatic and doesn´t require will. The same goes for every kind of action, including no action. I see what I am, I am what I see and there is no existence beyond me. There is no high or low, divine or mundane. All is the same. All value is artificial. This signifies nothing.
THE END
THE END
i am that i am
advaita vedanta
non-dualism
no i
17 Nov 2013, 4:21 pm
17 Nov 2013, 5:30 pm
CyclopsSummers wrote:
FMX wrote:
Interesting to see what some of us are interested in. But the idea of the thread (which I guess I didn't explain very well) was to actually write something on the topic of your special interest. Eg. tell us something interesting (that we probably don't know) about cats or the music of Bach.
I should probably have led with an example, but I don't really have special interests myself. Well, there are some things I'm interested in, obviously, but I don't think they quite qualify as "special" interests.
But the idea of the thread (which I guess I didn't explain very well) was to actually write something on the topic of your special interest. Eg. tell us something interesting (that we probably don't know) about cats or the music of Bach.I should probably have led with an example, but I don't really have special interests myself. Well, there are some things I'm interested in, obviously, but I don't think they quite qualify as "special" interests.
I myself have gone through a period in my life when I didn't have much of an actual 'special interest', but rather was pursuing what could be considered 'stopgap' interests; hobbies/interests that had the express purpose of using up my time when I was bored. These included 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer', comic books, listening to and collecting pop music albums, et cetera. I never got very knowledgeable on any of these popcultural pastimes.
And even though it could be said that my current special interests are Indonesian culture/history and linguistics in general, I'm not all that knowledgable on those two topics, either. Heck, Ganondox could probably tell you more about Indonesia than I can, considering he lives there.
I like the thread idea, though, but I'm not one of the posters who is a walking encyclopedia on their favourite subject when compared to most other people around here. When compared to most other people I encounter in real life, however, I do have a little reputation of being 'the walking encyclopedia', though that also depends on my company at any given time.
I'm the same way; I don't really have a special interest either. In fact, I haven't had one for the past 2 and a half years. There are many things that give me enjoyment, but they're a far cry from the intense, all-consuming obsessions that I once had. Or as I like to say, "I like a lot of things but I'm not in love with anything".
Before my meds got an increased dosage last month, my search for a new special interest was in and of itself an obsession, albeit a very desperate and unhealthy one. My mom had a saying that I was "obsessed with being obsessed".
A combination of time and especially my upped dosage of meds has made me much less desperate. I still miss having special interests, but now I have learned to be content with enjoying things on a general level instead of freaking out all the time because I'm not obsessed with anything.
My brother says I have probably outgrown having special interests and that most people have multiple interests that they enjoy on a general level. My mom says that there's still a chance that I might come across a special interest one day, but I won't count on it.
17 Nov 2013, 8:16 pm
17 Nov 2013, 8:45 pm
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17 Nov 2013, 9:24 pm
18 Nov 2013, 5:50 am
18 Nov 2013, 6:05 pm
CyclopsSummers wrote:
IdahoRose wrote:
I'm the same way; I don't really have a special interest either. In fact, I haven't had one for the past 2 and a half years. There are many things that give me enjoyment, but they're a far cry from the intense, all-consuming obsessions that I once had. Or as I like to say, "I like a lot of things but I'm not in love with anything".
Before my meds got an increased dosage last month, my search for a new special interest was in and of itself an obsession, albeit a very desperate and unhealthy one. My mom had a saying that I was "obsessed with being obsessed".
A combination of time and especially my upped dosage of meds has made me much less desperate. I still miss having special interests, but now I have learned to be content with enjoying things on a general level instead of freaking out all the time because I'm not obsessed with anything.
My brother says I have probably outgrown having special interests and that most people have multiple interests that they enjoy on a general level. My mom says that there's still a chance that I might come across a special interest one day, but I won't count on it.
Before my meds got an increased dosage last month, my search for a new special interest was in and of itself an obsession, albeit a very desperate and unhealthy one. My mom had a saying that I was "obsessed with being obsessed".
A combination of time and especially my upped dosage of meds has made me much less desperate. I still miss having special interests, but now I have learned to be content with enjoying things on a general level instead of freaking out all the time because I'm not obsessed with anything.
My brother says I have probably outgrown having special interests and that most people have multiple interests that they enjoy on a general level. My mom says that there's still a chance that I might come across a special interest one day, but I won't count on it.
Well, sometimes these things move in cycles. After my X-Men infatuation waned just a tad, I went without a proper special interest for a long time, but slowly yet surely my new interest in Indonesia built up and grew strong.
I don't know if medication will have that profound an effect as to equalize your interests for the rest of your life, but I do know that I have once felt like I had reached the point where special interests were a thing of the past. But then I bounced right back into a couple of them. And I recognize them as special interests; some days I spend hour after hour on it, but without letting it interfere with my functioning or important scheduled things. (heck, I consider the time spent on my special interests time well-spent!)
So, it could be that you're at an 'ebb' when it comes to having one or two specific interests to devote yourself to, but who knows one might come along in full force one day.
Thanks for the encouragement, Cyclops. That makes me feel better.
18 Nov 2013, 11:29 pm
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