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Post by Arctura on Mar 24, 2014 2:27:10 GMT
I spent forty minutes this afternoon reading Wikipedia articles on the various kinds of medieval capital punishment. Like impalement and shit.
I DON'T KNOW WHY. I WAS JUST CURIOUS AND NOW I FEEL LIKE I KNOW TOO MANY WAYS TO CAUSE AN AGONIZING DEATH (which, by the way, is not practical life information).
For example, I know that there are two types of impalement: longitudinal and transversal. I know all the major trivia about the Armeninan Genocide, which from the pictures, I will indeed have nightmares.
And this isn't even like research for a novel or anything. No historical fiction/period pieces. Nada.
Is it beyond strange, perhaps even unsettling, that I enjoy reading even about the darkest parts of history? And worse, on Wikipedia?
Please, tell me Sigmund. I must know the truth.
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Post by Arctura on Mar 24, 2014 2:28:24 GMT
It must be Dostoevsky, he's doing things to me. I even reread Dante's Divine Comedy.
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Post by Arctura on Mar 24, 2014 2:29:46 GMT
I don't recommend Crime and Punishment for you Freud, however. Not sexual enough. May I suggest Nabokov?
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Post by fairydragon10 on Mar 24, 2014 3:05:48 GMT
I'm pretty sure that is valuable life information
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Post by Arctura on Mar 24, 2014 10:39:41 GMT
Okay, cool, thanks. Good to know.
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Post by Sleeves on Mar 24, 2014 10:42:26 GMT
Honestly man I've done the same thing with far creepier subjects. I really don't think you need to be ashamed of your intellectual cravings, no matter what form they take. Just because society tells you that what you're interested in is wrong or strange or indicative of mental health problems does not mean they are. Indulge your academic curiosity. It builds a healthy, well-rounded mind.
TLDR; It is neither strange nor unsettling. It merely is.
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