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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Current mood: relaxed

[this blog post includes replies that were received via MySpace]

A Hobby is an Addiction when “polite” “mainstream” “society” doesn’t approve of your hobby.

For instance if your main hobby is collecting stamps and you spend most of your life’s free time collecting stamps, that’s a hobby.

If your main hobby is square dancing and you enroll in every annual rotation of the local square dancing club chapter and you spend hundreds (or thousands) of dollars a year on your matching couples’ costumes, trips, hotel rooms, entry fees, and spend hours learning choreography and attending square dances… that’s a hobby.

If after work every night you go home and work on your patchwork quilts, that’s a hobby.

If after work every night you go home and log into World of Warcraft and hang out with friends in there and go on quests and collect cool stuff, that’s an addiction… so they say.

If after work every night you go home and surf the internet and collect well-done bondage pics from websites, that’s an addiction…. so they say.

Cough.

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Actually, I think some counselors say that the sign of an addiction is if it interferes with your work life, personal life or family life, or is a major influence in preventing you from having a work life, personal life or family life. That, I think, is a much better way to determine whether something is a hobby or an addiction.

8:53 PM - 7 Comments - 10 Kudos

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Doc - Artist & Writer

Bravo

Posted by Doc - Artist & Writer on Wednesday, January 16, 2008 at 11:10 PM

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Richard

The thing to remember is that there is no such thing as an addictive pastime. The only external addictions that are medically recognized are those that cause physical dependencies such as drugs and certain medications where there is a chemical cause and effect.

There are people with addictive personality disorders. What I’ve seen is that, when somebody forces such a person to abandon an activity that they obsess over, they find something else to obsess over. Sometimes, a person, with an obsessive compulsive personality will turn to religion to cure themselves of their “addiction”. That person will then pursue religion with the same obsessiveness that they did with their other addiction. They haven’t been cured of their underlying problem. They have merely transferred one addiction for another that is more socially acceptable.

I did a blog comparing porn addiction with sports addiction. In every instance where one can show something detrimental about porn addiction, I found information that showed that a sports addiction was worse. There was even a war started because of a sporting event. I’ve yet to see porn cause a war. The blog has links to back up every fact.

PS: Please dump the CAPTCHAs. They cause a problem with dialup where the letters on the screen don’t always keep up with the letters required for acceptance. The letters keep changing and the download of the visual occurs after MySpace has internally changed the ones that are acceptable. People on dialup are typing in letters for a visual that is no longer being used. I never had a problem with the old system where the letters stayed on the screen. With the new system, where the CAPTCHA image keeps changing, it takes me a half dozen tries to be in sync between what’s on the screen and what is being accepted.

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=48765996&blogID=197367450

Posted by Richard on Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 6:10 AM

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Pete Puma

Well stated and wholeheartedly agreed with from this enthusiast!

Posted by Pete Puma on Thursday, January 17, 2008 at 11:56 AM

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Duct Tape Messiah

well said

Posted by Duct Tape Messiah on Sunday, January 20, 2008 at 7:28 PM

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Andre

Then I must be in need of serious medical attention. After my real world job I come home and sketch a few damsels in distress pictures, prep a few pictures of models that I tied up, surf and download my favorite bondage pix (incl. Bedroom Bondage and American Damsels, thank you), then download a few well-done pix of women posing in sexy dresses and heels wearing pantyhose. Guess I must be a head case and a half!
-Andre;)

Posted by Andre on Monday, January 21, 2008 at 3:55 PM

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