Comments for Inexplicable Passions at http://open2it.com , comment 1 to 9 out of 9 comments http://open2it.com Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:48:26 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://open2it.com/community-blog/Inexplicable-Passions.html#comment-103 While I agree sex may not be the sum total, it is a big part of everything or else no living creatures would exist, even snakes. Though I'm with VaranusJay on the sex part, I have no love for snakes or reptiles in general and for that matter I'm not much of a pet person of any kind. My passion is around things mechanical, especially high performance vehicles. Yes, I've heard that such activity is a redirection of sexual energy. The great thing about mechanical equipment is it doesn't require constant care and feeding, if you don't use it and it does only what you direct it to do. - sxe60 Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:29:14 +0100 http://open2it.com/community-blog/Inexplicable-Passions.html#comment-97 That's 2 for 2 my new friend :) Is there a blog post coming soon?? (please!) - Soapy Dishwater Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:57:37 +0100 http://open2it.com/community-blog/Inexplicable-Passions.html#comment-94 RSR, I can totally understand where you are coming from only 2 things spark interest in my life. Sex and reptiles. Both are very much so unrelated. I dont understand the looks I get when I am walking through the common places of society with 3 1/2 foot long Argus monitor (Varanus panoptes) . I am not a mammal person either they stink and are boring. But to each his own. I am a breeder of the Varanus species and see something new daily from these amazing beasts. So do what you love because as long as you are happy and learning no-one can fault you. Life is short screw the psychology and have fun. - VaranusJay Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:09:04 +0100 http://open2it.com/community-blog/Inexplicable-Passions.html#comment-93 That's what I was looking for! You might notice that I voted positively on your last reply, while my passions remain neutral on your first (nothing against Alice Cooper or metaphors). I think that working theories on idiosyncratic passions might benefit from Robert [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Plutchik]Plutchik's work[/url], and it seems like a fruiitful endeavor to blog and comment further on this topic--insofar as ideas can prevail over data. [url]http://www.open2it.com/community-blog/Ideas-and-Data-A-Case-for-Duality.html[/url] - rsr Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:46:06 +0100 http://open2it.com/community-blog/Inexplicable-Passions.html#comment-92 and Freud is a happy chapter among many notable chapters of theory...and...I definitely concur that something limbic happens. And, I definitely think there is something that motivates & inspires people besides basic instinctual needs. My metaphoric descriptions are meant to further develop the concept of what you're hoping to capture with a cyclotron - an instantaneous, real-time result. That can speak to interest & enthusiasm but it totally leaves out the lifelong passion part of your query. - Soapy Dishwater Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:08:17 +0100 http://open2it.com/community-blog/Inexplicable-Passions.html#comment-91 This Freudian interpretation is rejected by most modern psychologists. Maslow's scheme does a better job of framing the issue, but fails on explanatory grounds. It's hard to tell exactly what you are referring to owing to the tongue-in-cheek approach and a general absence of analysis, but one can presume that a blush connotes sexual attraction. Because it is clear that sexual attraction has little or nothing to do with non-fetish idiosyncratic passions, we should assume that it has to do with the urge to read on. Having arrived back at "interest," we have returned to where I left off. We don't know what it is that determines our interests or what causes diversity in personal passions. While Alice Cooper provides a great example of the extent to which passions can emanate from primal urges, reference to feelings does not provide any explanatory power. Reading into your point a little, however, it might be correct that our answers will be found in the limbic system rather than the neocortex. There is a video on Open2it that addresses motivation and emotion, but it does not address my topic in any detail--rather it is focused primarily on sexual motivation. [url]http://open2it.com/videos/49-psychology-videos/86-discovering-psychologymotivation-and-emotion.html[/url] - rsr Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:10:12 +0100 http://open2it.com/community-blog/Inexplicable-Passions.html#comment-88 [b]That's the answer: [/b]If the headline makes you blush then you know the answer to what makes something interesting. If it didn't make you blush but you've got the urge to keep reading then you also know the answer to what makes something interesting... And now let's pause for some pretty words to describe how you know if something has thrilled your gorilla: You hear the faint little click of something perfect falling into place - like placing the last piece of a puzzle. You feel a giddy tickle deep in your belly and give a breathless gasp. And...it supremely annoys you to be distracted from said click and tickle by some oblivious third party. Or maybe your blood slowly warms like snow melting in the sunshine and the runoff rushes the streams and gushes on downhill until that snap of a moment when it becomes airborne with energy. And...you can patiently endure distractions but small-talk with the oblivious is torture. _________________________ It's je n'sais quoi. It's visceral. It's a flash of [url] bicameral mode [/url] - yes?? Whatever "it" is, it thrills the gorilla and not the rational man. ___________________ Pardon the continuing references to Alice Cooper lyrics - I really should get out more :) PS Coincidentally, "Thrill My Gorilla" comes off of the Constrictor album. [IMG]http://open2it.com/images/95/CooperConstrictor.jpg[/IMG] - Soapy Dishwater Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:36:35 +0100 http://open2it.com/community-blog/Inexplicable-Passions.html#comment-85 That would be me. I don't have a motivating passion/hobby/aspirations. Well, there are things and people I enjoy, but I think maybe I'm just in survival mode. As for preference for herps, my reasons would be, I like that you can get up close and personal with them. You mostly don't have to use any microscopes, binoculars to see them. They are clean in terms of usually not passing any diseases to humans (especially me!). But finally and not least, the fine company I got to keep. - littlefaith Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:03:36 +0100 http://open2it.com/community-blog/Inexplicable-Passions.html#comment-81 My mother was terrified of snakes but I didn't know until high school she saw of picture of me with a lapful of 3 or 4 bull snakes collected during a field trip to western Kansas. (Incidentally it was this picture that convinced my husband that I [i]was[/i] the one for him - sight unseen....) Our 9-year-old daughter has 2 black rat snakes - Stinky and Yolky - retrieved from our chicken coop last summer. A few weeks ago an old friend (who I believe was in on the infamous bull snake picture) visited over the holidays & I overheard his 8-year-old son ask my 9-year-old dughter, "So, what-r-ya feedin' em?", to which she casually replied, "mice." Does life get any more perfect than this?? If I had less restraint I'd have died laughing...my mother would be mortified but hey, don't mess with what ain't broke. - Soapy Dishwater Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:40:23 +0100