Discussion What is your favorite/least favorite subject?

[Circles]

First I want to say Good Morning everyone, you are all amazing!

Guess I'll go first. Mine is History and I am embarrassed to say that is probably my only skill set intellectually. I always liked to ponder what life was like for the majority of human history or even geologic history. Our small sliver of time is quite rare compared to the past. All the things that brought us to where we are now and all the stories long lost forgotten like 'tears in rain'. I think of all of it as a bittersweet tragedy. Just the thought of all the endless unnecessary hardships our ancestors went through keeps me up at night, I for sure wouldn't have survived back then. Right know I'm mostly reading stuff about ancient Greece, the Celts, etc.
Here's a sourcebook website with a collection of historical texts:

https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/index.asp

And here's a world atlas that goes as far back as 3000 b.c.:

http://geacron.com/home-en/?sid=GeaCron860992

Least favorite: English, failed it twice in community college.

 

[Exile]

History, archaeology and politics are at the top of my list, though in recent years it's mostly been Kindle trash fiction.

Economics and religious apologetics are way at the bottom.

 

[Circles]

Any time period/culture you're interested in particular?
What's trash fiction?

 

[Pentobartbital]

@Circles

If you don't mind me asking, is your quotation of "tears in rain" in any way related to Roy Batty's ending soliloquy in Blade Runner? Furthermore, many thanks for the above stated historical aggregation and atlas. As an amateur historian, I would love to engage you on favoured epochs and texts!

As for most favourite and least favourite, they would be English and maths respectively (this selection carries a sardonic antithesis of expectation given how I'm an electronics engineering alumnus.)

 

[Exile]

Any time period/culture you're interested in particular?
What's trash fiction?

Trash fiction means romance/sex 'literature'. I really shouldn't call it trash, though. There's a lot that's well-written.

I'm interested in a lot of eras/cultures. I travel a fair bit so I always have a new obsession.

 

[Circles]

Trash fiction means romance/sex 'literature'. I really shouldn't call it trash, though. There's a lot that's well-written.

I'm interested in a lot of eras/cultures. I travel a fair bit so I always have a new obsession.

That's cool where I live there aren't many historical sites to get lost in. Went to the Alamo museum once but it was small and cramped.

 

[Circles]

@Circles

If you don't mind me asking, is your quotation of "tears in rain" in any way related to Roy Batty's ending soliloquy in Blade Runner? Furthermore, many thanks for the above stated historical aggregation and atlas. As an amateur historian, I would love to engage you on favoured epochs and texts!

As for most favourite and least favourite, they would be English and maths respectively (this selection carries a sardonic antithesis of expectation given how I'm an electronics engineering alumnus.)

Yes it is. I always liked that part and got chill bumps the first time I saw that.

 

[Exile]

That's cool where I live there aren't many historical sites to get lost in. Went to the Alamo museum once but it was small and cramped.

I went there, too. Sad history.

 

[Going Home]

Good morning.
I would say history is my favorite subject with science running a close second.

I hope we all find some peace.

 

[21Neberg]

Good morning Circles!! I liked history too, though I've always loved English because I found it relatively easy and I thus didn't have to study for my tests on it.

 

[Circles]

Good morning Circles!! I liked history too, though I've always loved English because I found it relatively easy and I thus didn't have to study for my tests on it.

Anything from Dutch history you like? Wow never mind. I just looked this bad boy up. Thanks for giving me something to read. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Netherlands

 

[21Neberg]

Anything from Dutch history you like? Wow never mind. I just looked this bad boy up. Thanks for giving me something to read. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Netherlands

I'm not sure. I've always enjoyed other parts of history more.

 

[Exile]

Dutch culture has long fascinated me. A fairly small country surrounded by much larger cultures and languages (British, French, German) but very confident in its identity, unlike some others. They generally make happy drunks, too, unlike their neighbours.

 

[waived]

I appreciate an understanding of math, but past a certain level I found it arbitrary as mandatory course work. I excelled at communication and social science related topics.