Special Interests? (Or "Obsessions"?)

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I would say history is my main special interest. I could put some limits on what interests me (mostly Venice and the Italian city-states, Soviet Russia/the USSR from the Revolution to 1941), but then, maybe I shouldn't. When I learn something about any setting, I use it randomly in conversation with the same amount of unrelatedness. I just know more about certain periods and certain regions, but I use everything I know about any period and any region.

I think there should be a space left for "philosophy", but more as a work in project in my head than as a subject of study. It would be something in between ethics and politics, with epistemology as needed.

Also, French grammar. Do NOT ask me a question about that. You WILL be bored.

I am very knowledgeable about a certain number of things that interest me (the Lord of the Rings trilogy, computers and computer games, social psychology, Daria, whichever band I like the most at a given time, etc.), but I think they count as normal interests, + my generally absorbing information better than most.

I have a few interests but there are two that I divulge in more frequently than the others. They would be astronomy and North American birds. I also like rocket ships, Native American things (my grandfather was Cherokee), dinosaurs or anything 'ancient earth,' weather, earth sciences in general, rocks, geography...I think I'm one of the few people here in California that get excited when there's and earthquake, like we had the other day. I don't see how people don't get excited about plate tectonics being at work!

As you can see, my interests are mainly science-y...Though I'm not perfect at it, I find grammar and sentence structure to be interesting as well.

Current obsessions: Star Wars, World of Warcraft, writing

Past obsessions: classical music, The Beatles, gardening, movies in general

Guns, yo (actually, projectile weaponry; changes over time. Liking bows at one time, liking artillery another time, small arms another, and so on).

I think I should stop posting on this forum because I get out of bed at 5 in the morning to correct my mistakes and I lie awake thinking about them. This is seriously getting out of hand! I have developed a whole new obsession in just a couple of months.

Why did I type conscious instead of conscience in one of my previous posts?! I can't take it anymore and I will never learn english.

In the past I've been obsessed with a zone creator program for a MUD, a cellular automata simulator, various bands [none of which seem all that great to me anymore], various women, various MMOGs [single player games too, but once I run out of content I tend to get bored], Star Trek [but I've run out of shows to watch.. I suppose there are the books], even certain tasks at jobs I otherwise find dull..

I've actually run out of obsessions as of late.. nothing seems particularly interesting anymore, really.. the world burnt me out on it

Building and racing RC cars (would having more money in my 3 rc racers than in my real car count as an obsession?)
Astronomy
Hunting/ target shooting

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Music.

Same here! I particularly like reading about ballistics and the physics behind it.

Genetics/Biology
Astrophysics (I don't understand the math, but I love the concepts)
Dogs (species/breed history, behavior, etc)
Lore (the backstories to fantasy and sci fi games/books/etc)
Mythology in general

Well, it may have a few extra wires attached and you really don't want to know what the flashing lights are for...

1) Pop Punk
-Blink-182
--Tom Delonge & Mark Hoppus (they're GODS)
--Collecting Blink-182 albums/lp's/merch/magazines featuring them/posters/...
--The same for Mark and Tom's side projects
-The All-American Rejects
--Collecting discography
-Saves The Day
-Learning about Pop Punk, from Descendents to All Time Low
-Going to a Belgian Punkrock festival + any other festival (be, nl, ger) with good Pop Punk bands playing
-Writing Poppunk
--Guitar, bass, drums, singing, songwriting
-Last.fm, making extra lists based on my stats
-Categorizing Pop Punk bands per sound
-Drawing my favorite musicians
-Collecting CD's, downloading albums
-Sometimes listening to the same song over and over again

2) The Big Bang theory
-Watching all the episodes, sometimes on repeat
-Reading the wikia of TBBT
-memorizing my favorite Sheldon quotes
-trying to study physics again
-Comic books

3) Myself
-Personality disorders
-Asperger's
-Anxiety disorders
-Analyzing myself, writing my life down over and over again,
+ making lists about it
-Visiting related forums
-WebMD, diagnosis forums, etc.
-Brain training

Older obsessions:
-Hayley Williams, Paramore
-The Legend Of Zelda, Ocarina Of Time, Soundtrack (+ A Link To The Past & Zelda 2)
-NES
--8-bit-music
-Making games w/ Game Maker
-Pokémon
--Trading Card Game
--Red/yellow, silver/crystal, stadium, pinball
--Anime
--Pokémon toys, merch, etc.
-Lucid dreaming, shared dreams, dream symbols etc.
-Paranormal
--Telekinesis, telepathy, aura, etc.
--The Secret
-Penguins
-Anime
--Learning Japanese
--Full Metal Alchemist
---Asian Kung-Fu Generation (soundtrack)
--Death Note
---Anime, Manga, Soundtrack
--Liar Game
---Series, manga
-Doctor who (9th & 10th Doctor)
-People I knew

me to! well one of. i have sponge bob shirt, socks, pj pants, comics, socks, a spongebob quilt cover and a couple of funny looking spongebob blankets (one has spongebob holding a krusty krab "flyer" ) i also have sponbebob seson 1 - 3 on dvd and a bunch of random epsiode dvds, i used to have a taking spongebob soft toy where you could flick his lip, pull his nose and squeese his hand but its lost somwhere. . i started watching spongebob when it first aired! i was only a few years i old i think when it first came on tv... watched it since then (im 18 now )
obsessed with racing games also.
and nintendo and legend of Zelda!! !

yay ! !

That's an awesome picture nintendofan!