Because you have so many to choose from. I really need to update those interests. I set them up about 5 years ago...
Taoism. Hurrah! I read the Tao Te Ching at Uni, agreed with it completely, think the world needs a lot more of it in general. I’ve done big Taoism write-ups on my LJ before (links available if you want!) but basically if the TTC was pushed as much as the Bible, the world would be a much, much happier place. It’s actually difficult to put into words why I like it so much, but I suspect that’s the point. My main philosophy might have moved on a bit, but I’ll always collect any new edition of the books that I come across, especially the TTC, Chuang Tzu and Lieh Tzu.
More bad sci-fi I watch a lot of bad movies, and read a lot of books. Many of both of those would fall under the category of “bad sci-fi”. So many, in fact, that I need a second tag for it. In a similar way to how I’ll watch films with titles like “Ninja Terminator”, bad sci-fi has an allure all of it’s own. The enthusiastic but terrible novels, the no-budget 70’s tv-movies… I accept that much of what I think is *good* sci-fi is seen by everyone else as dreck. Also, that much of the public lump fantasy and sci-fi together (heresy!) Thus, some of this tag describes perfectly good films and books in both genres that are nevertheless shunned by an ungrateful public.
Celtic Mythology Less an interest, more a religion. Well, some of it. Well, a lazy neopagan interpretation of some of it. The problem I’m finding now is that (having had demanding teachers) when I find other groups using research I consider to be rubbish and basing a spiritual practice around it, I get condescending. Always had an interest in European mythology and folklore, and Irish solely because of half my ancestry (before it got cool to be ‘Celtic’ in neopagan circles). Am only just now working this more into my actual practice though, after several years. (If I’m going to be getting the Morrigan’s attention for any reason, I’d prefer to be speaking good Irish first.)
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I really need to update those interests. I set them up about 5 years ago...
Taoism.
Hurrah! I read the Tao Te Ching at Uni, agreed with it completely, think the world needs a lot more of it in general. I’ve done big Taoism write-ups on my LJ before (links available if you want!) but basically if the TTC was pushed as much as the Bible, the world would be a much, much happier place. It’s actually difficult to put into words why I like it so much, but I suspect that’s the point. My main philosophy might have moved on a bit, but I’ll always collect any new edition of the books that I come across, especially the TTC, Chuang Tzu and Lieh Tzu.
More bad sci-fi
I watch a lot of bad movies, and read a lot of books. Many of both of those would fall under the category of “bad sci-fi”. So many, in fact, that I need a second tag for it. In a similar way to how I’ll watch films with titles like “Ninja Terminator”, bad sci-fi has an allure all of it’s own. The enthusiastic but terrible novels, the no-budget 70’s tv-movies…
I accept that much of what I think is *good* sci-fi is seen by everyone else as dreck. Also, that much of the public lump fantasy and sci-fi together (heresy!) Thus, some of this tag describes perfectly good films and books in both genres that are nevertheless shunned by an ungrateful public.
Celtic Mythology
Less an interest, more a religion. Well, some of it. Well, a lazy neopagan interpretation of some of it.
The problem I’m finding now is that (having had demanding teachers) when I find other groups using research I consider to be rubbish and basing a spiritual practice around it, I get condescending.
Always had an interest in European mythology and folklore, and Irish solely because of half my ancestry (before it got cool to be ‘Celtic’ in neopagan circles). Am only just now working this more into my actual practice though, after several years. (If I’m going to be getting the Morrigan’s attention for any reason, I’d prefer to be speaking good Irish first.)