What is your special interest?

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Up to age 14 or so it must've been nature and the natural sciences (that one never really disappeared, I just didn't obsess over it as much for a while).

15 - The 60s, the hippie/psychedelic movement, entheogenic substances and their use in a spiritual context, religion and spirituality (this never disappeared either, but then I think it has been a very normal process many people go through), finding ways of achieving enlightenment; during that winter and spring I obsessed quite a bit over Syd Barrett and Sergei Esenin, then it went away for a bit and came back in the fall

16-18 - Syd Barrett and early Pink Floyd, Sergei Esenin's life and poetry, depth psychology, C.G.Jung and other similar scholars, schizophrenia and recovery from it, the concept of the schizophrenic break as a spiritual journey or transformation

19 - Dracula (Coppola's film, which remains among my favorites, and some aspects of the book, especially Mina's character, the spiritual/Christian connotations and the concept of the "vampire with a soul"), Christian spirituality, some Christian ideas about marriage and what it means for two people to become "one flesh", Romania

20-22 - Anne Rice (especially some characters and, again, the concept of "vampires with souls"), Italy, Greece, writing

23 up to now - nature and the animal sciences, affective disorders (upon being diagnosed), Modernist literature including but not limited to Esenin and Woolf, Orthodox Christianity and Christian spirituality, most recently autism, child development psychology and depth psychology/C.G.Jung, Italy, Greece

Art has always been a big interest, but not an obsessive one. (By "obsessive" I mean I kept talking and thinking about these things almost all the time, even when I was walking through the city on my own and daydreaming. Actually the daydreaming played a large part in it, I think. The time I spent by myself somewhere outdoors, in my own world, was the time which I could devote solely to the things I loved without having anybody interfere, while when I came home, conditions would be dictated to me and I couldn't really do what I liked. So during those walks I remembered what I had read on my subject of interest, reflected on it, imagined things, played out whole plotlines in my head if I had to, etc.)

Programming methodology, darwinian psychology,

It would include classic cars but lack of car resteration courses make that difficult. Bleeding **nts don't care about what happens in thair own car.

2 WP members.

Electronics, Science in general, Computers, Photography,
Mathematical Curiosities (eg: Quadratic Prime series, Pentominoes, Topology)
Old Books. Movies, And Music.

If one is talking interests as well as special, obsessive interests... I have a load, but I assumed the poster meant current, special interests, and since I can only ever focus to that level on a few at a time, I only posted my current few special interests.

I have a new special interest; Vieras.

I dont know what im interested in anymore, I can hardly sit through the history channel and I cant talk on politics forums anymore.

Heavy Metal
Hard Rock
Guitars
American History
Medieval and Renaissance ages
Theology of the Left-Hand path religions
swords
video games
Radio Broadcast
psychology
the list goes on

Watching people change



Seriously, "life" I guess. I think about 'thinking' and love to read about 'the mind' and what happens in it and s**t. Outside, the universe, space, time, the rocks, other people, pet sharks, wingsdings font sized 82, talking, and other things that exist. And connecting "why" they exist. And hopefully finding an end in that they 'exist' because 'they exist' and only because its "impossible that nothing 'exists'" and the opposite of 'nothing' is 'anything'/'something'/'"thing"'

ya, philosophy... spirituality... meditation... psychology... reality... truth... logics... why??? just is...

and stuff... but then I work and clean up and cook and s**t and play video games

Timber Frames
Puzzles
Neurology
Music
Documentaries

Meerkats (can't you tell?)
zoology and animals (even so called "animal lovers" are kinda freaked out by me and find me rude because I won't talk to them or look at them and are just kinda freaked out by the fact I don't do people. )
The Lion King movie (even other so-called Lion King "fans" find me strange because of my intense obsession with it)
Customizing My Little Ponies

Meerkats are adorable.

Starbuline: Is one of them that person I shall not name?

Movies
Film Scores
the Holocaust/Genocide history