"Hobbies are what you have when you don't have obsessions."

[Leucosticte]

https://boldanddetermined.com/obsession/

Hobbies are what you try and accomplish. A hobby is manufactured just to have something to do. A hobby is a time-killer in between obsessions.

Yeah, I just realized, I don't really have any obsessions anymore. And hobbies bore me. I was gonna learn Latin or something but it would just be a hobby, not an obsession, because I don't really give all that much of a shit about it.

Some stuff is halfway between a hobby and an obsession, though. I guess being here is halfway between; like if I weren't here, I would have to find some other place to write about stuff, maybe.

Idk, I do a lot less writing these days because it's so hard to find suitable platforms anymore. I could go to the darkweb or something, but what's the point.

 

[upyr]

What are your obsessions? Mine are programming, learning and female aesthetics/eroticism.

 

[Creamer]

Write some dirty rape fantasys with gore

 

[Surreal]

Nathan "Bald and Determined" Larson has a point, that you need hobbies if you don't have obsessions (I mean, that's presumably his point; I only glossed over his post), but better than hobbies are pastimes - for instance, watching soccer on television. I like the Spanish League that's going on, for instance. It's unfortunate that American sports is all "our niggers vs. their niggers," because ball games are pretty fine if you can identify with the players. I love Lionel Messi. I also watch MMA matches such as Bellator and UFC.

 

[Oxblood]

I already know latin and greek, because I have a classical education. Now I'm obsessed with Chick-Lit. I want to see how difficult it is to challenge the market.

 

[Leucosticte]

I already know latin and greek, because I have a classical education. Now I'm obsessed with Chick-Lit. I want to see how difficult it is to challenge the market.

Where'd you get your classical education? Are/were you Catholic?

 

[Leucosticte]

Nathan "Bald and Determined" Larson has a point, that you need hobbies if you don't have obsessions (I mean, that's presumably his point; I only glossed over his post), but better than hobbies are pastimes - for instance, watching soccer on television. I like the Spanish League that's going on, for instance. It's unfortunate that American sports is all "our niggers vs. their niggers," because ball games are pretty fine if you can identify with the players. I love Lionel Messi. I also watch MMA matches such as Bellator and UFC.

I'm actually combed over and determined. Not that it matters, since all I have to do is take a pic where the top of my head is cut off, and no one would even realize I'm bald. https://wiki.nearcels.com/w/images/a/a1/20200110_102152.jpg

 

[Oxblood]

Where'd you get your classical education? Are/were you Catholic?

I’m not Catholic. It was a high school focused on classical studies.

 

[Leucosticte]

I’m not Catholic. It was a high school focused on classical studies.

Public or private?

 

[Oxblood]

Public or private?

Public school. In the old education system Latin was instituted as a language for middle-schoolers (after elenentary school, before high-school). After few generations, Latin and Greek become a specific field for a classical studies education.

I applied in a scientific traditional high-school, so these subjects were still taught even if not necessary.

A lot of students and parents complained about such schooling system, arguing that Latin and Greek are useless, because you have to spend 6 hours a week minimum for each one. A lot of things changed and now if you want to study these subjects you have to chose them when you are very young.

Universities expect you to have at least a basic preparation, at least 5 years of studies. They never teach you the core basics. There is no “Latin 101” course out there. You already have to know grammar and declensions and how to translate basic texts.

 

[Leucosticte]

Public school. In the old education system Latin was instituted as a primary language for middle-schoolers (after elenentary school, before high-school). After few generations, Latin and Greek become a specific field for a classical studies education.

I applied in a scientific traditional high-school, so these subjects were still taught even if not necessary.

A lot of students and parents complained about such schooling system, arguing that Latin and Greek are useless, because you have to spend 6 hours a week minimum for each one. A lot of things changed and now if you want to study these subjects you have to chose them when you are very young.

Universities expect you to have at least a basic preparation, at least 5 years of studies. They never teach you the core basics. There is no “Latin 101” course out there. You already have to know grammar and declensions and how to translate basic texts.

Nah, they teach Latin 101 at community college and at the university. They also probably still teach Latin as an optional course at a lot of high schools, if you choose that over French and Spanish as a foreign language, or at least they did 20 years ago.

 

[Oxblood]

Nah, they teach Latin 101 at community college and at the university. They also probably still teach Latin as an optional course at a lot of high schools, if you choose that over French and Spanish as a foreign language, or at least they did 20 years ago.

Where?

Where I live, even Theology schools or philosophy schools expect you to have a preparation in Latin.

 

[Leucosticte]

Where?

Where I live, even Theology schools or philosophy schools expect you to have a preparation in Latin.

Catholic University wrote to me in an email today, with regard to the Greek and Latin certificates, "You should know that the requirements for the certificates begin at the advanced level. This does not mean that it is impossible to complete a certificate program without previous knowledge of the language, only that it is necessary first to get your languages up to speed."

That last sentence almost seems self-contradictory; I don't quite understand what he means. Anyway, he directed my attention to this list of summer courses, all of which are grad level. https://greek-latin.catholic.edu/academics/summer/index.html

Also, there's this list: https://greek-latin.catholic.edu/academics/courses/course-descriptions/index.html

You can see that even at the grad level, they're teaching elementary Greek and Latin.

 

[Oxblood]

You can see that even at the grad level, they're teaching elementary Greek and Latin.

Yes but it’s like in a math course. In the first year they review the entire program you are supposed to study in five years of high school. Sure if you are a genius and a fast learner and you have a lot of hours to study you can keep up and learn starting from zero.

I know no-one who was able to do such a thing. Even in classical literature courses they have Latin and Greek courses where they review the basics.

It’s like asking if you can enter an English literature course without knowing how to speak or write in English. Sure they will have small courses to review your knowledge but that’s it.

 

[vegetariancel]

https://boldanddetermined.com/obsession/
Idk, I do a lot less writing these days because it's so hard to find suitable platforms anymore. I could go to the darkweb or something, but what's the point.

What about your blogspot? https://nathanlarson3141.blogspot.com/ It can sort of be like wordpress and you seemed to like wordpress.

 

[Leucosticte]

What about your blogspot? https://nathanlarson3141.blogspot.com/ It can sort of be like wordpress and you seemed to like wordpress.

Yeah, I was gonna use that blogspot but for whatever reason I ended up not doing it, probably partly because I've heard people can get deplatformed from there too. So it seemed not worth really investing too much in it, as it could end up being a masochistic thing to do. Who knows if they'd even provide me a copy of my content if they decided to take it down; I haven't always been extended that courtesy by every provider.