The Random Sharing of Trivial Interests Meme

[omorka]

Hmm . . . interesting. ;)

Go browse through my list of interests and pick one that either you know nothing about or can't fathom why I'd be interested in that and ask for an explanation.

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[bassfingers.livejournal.com]

Unfortunatley, the ones I'd want to ask about are probably answered by the ones I already know about...

[omorka.livejournal.com]

Tease. ;P (You might be right, but I don't know which ones you're referring to.)

[bassfingers.livejournal.com]

Well, otherkin (http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=otherkin), psivamps (http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=psivamps), and therianthropes (http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=therianthropes) are probably explained by the paradox (http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=paradox) of logic (http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=logic) and fantasy (http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=fantasy), amounting in a spirituality (http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=spirituality) that supports polytheism (http://www.livejournal.com/interests.bml?int=polytheism).

But that's just a hunch.

[omorka.livejournal.com]

*chortle* Right in one, as always.

Just for completeness's sake: I assume you already know what those are, or if you didn't and were interested you'd Google for them. So they'd be in the "why on earth would you be interested in that?" category, ne? The reasons are that I technically belong in the first category, although I have little else in common with the otherkin "community" (which is mostly run by Tolkien fanatics and furries); I keep running into people in the second category and having to clean up after them (and have been told by a couple of them that I am one, too, I just don't notice because my period between "feedings" is so long); and the third more or less goes with the first. Perhaps I should list "shapeshifters" as an interest, too . . .

[memeslayer.livejournal.com]

I never thought you'd be one for conspiracy theories, except maybe the fictional ki--

Oh. Never mind.

[omorka.livejournal.com]

They're all fnord fictional, aren't they? ;)

Although, the more I read about Rove and Cheney, the more the phrase "vast right-wing conspiracy" seems less and less personal paranoia on the part of Ms. Rodham Clinton and more and more an accurate description of the political arena . . .

I know what Smallworld is, but..

[quantumduck.livejournal.com]

worldreading? Is that where one loads up a world into their universal world engine and executes it as byte-level code?

Man, I'd love to be doing that!

Mostly you've forced me to add a few things to my list ;-)

Re: I know what Smallworld is, but..

[omorka.livejournal.com]

Worldreading is a technique I've been playing with. There are two definitions:

1) Treating the entire world as a text. I decided a while ago, while taking one of those tests that tells you what your preferred sensory mode for learning is, that I am actually a text-primary rather than an auditory (which is what I invariably come out as) - I really do process information best as text, either input or output. Since my own training as a reader and a teacher of reading includes both Reader-Response Theory and close-reading, this is rather interesting in its own right; however, the primary meaning is

2) Treating the entire world as a Tarot spread. Mostly this is an exercise in appreciating the holographic nature of reality, but it does have some interesting effects as far as connecting events that are disparate on the surface. It also combines nicely with the close-reading part of definition (1).

Heh. If I got you to steal a couple of interests from me, then bagatelle on all sides.