Obession is dangerous. It's like a knife in the mind. In some cases... the knife can turn savagely upon the person wielding it... You use the knife carefully, because you know it doesn't care who it cuts.
One of the symptoms of Asperger's syndrome is the obsession or fixation over an object and especially, a topic (such as film for me). For about the last 5 years of my life, I have been obessed with movies of all types. I became so obessed that I am able to play "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon) on beck and call. My future goal is to become a filmmaker, but lately, I have been become more and more obessed with the very thing I am trying to escape - religion.
I would probably say that my obession began all the way back in June, when I first decided to leave Christianity (Those new might want to check out my deconversion post at the beginning of the blog). At that time, I began to visit Ex-Christian.net and Fundies Say The Darnest Things! (fstdt.com) as well as other sites as a form of research. I also visited a lot of filmmaking sites and researching editing platforms at the same time. As time went on, I began visiting Ex-C, FSTDT, and other atheist/deist sites a lot more. It came to the point that I would spend hours upon hours visiting these sites, looking at the same articles over and over again.
My original plans for the summer were to start filmmaking, by shooting short stories staring myself. I actually wrote a script and was getting ready to storyboard, but my daily pattern began to take control. By the time summer ended, I had accomplished nothing what-so-ever.
Now, with college coming up, I've been forced to evaluate what I want to do in life, and up until then I have been obsessed with religion. The worst part was I have not even noticed it.
With that said, I'm going to stop here and ask my readers (if there are any) one question. Is obsession with religion good or bad? Is it possibly acceptable, or downright wrong?
I'll leave the poll open until October 31st 11:59 PM EST time and, while you are at it, tell me what you voted and why?
I'll give my opinion and poll results on November 1st (Hopefully).
- TORM
P.S. Thanks for the votes on the last poll. I decided to tell a few friends that I trust, but no one serious for now.
Now, with college coming up, I've been forced to evaluate what I want to do in life, and up until then I have been obsessed with religion. The worst part was I have not even noticed it.
With that said, I'm going to stop here and ask my readers (if there are any) one question. Is obsession with religion good or bad? Is it possibly acceptable, or downright wrong?
I'll leave the poll open until October 31st 11:59 PM EST time and, while you are at it, tell me what you voted and why?
I'll give my opinion and poll results on November 1st (Hopefully).
- TORM
P.S. Thanks for the votes on the last poll. I decided to tell a few friends that I trust, but no one serious for now.
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