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On Sunday, October 16, 2016 at 1:56:23 AM UTC-6, RichA wrote:
Electronics, ham radio, amateur astronomy, microscopy, stamp collecting, woodworking (most of it), metal working. The millenials and teens only want to play video games, text on their cellphones and go to restaurants to be seen. One growing hobby is metal-detecting because of the desperation of the fading middle class. You forgot model railroading! John Savard |
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On Sun, 16 Oct 2016 00:56:16 -0700 (PDT), RichA
wrote: Electronics, ham radio, amateur astronomy, microscopy, stamp collecting, woodworking (most of it), metal working. The millenials and teens only want to play video games, text on their cellphones and go to restaurants to be seen. One growing hobby is metal-detecting because of the desperation of the fading middle class. And get off my lawn! |
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On Sunday, October 16, 2016 at 3:56:23 AM UTC-4, RichA wrote:
Electronics, ham radio, amateur astronomy, microscopy, stamp collecting, woodworking (most of it), metal working. The millenials and teens only want to play video games, text on their cellphones and go to restaurants to be seen. One growing hobby is metal-detecting because of the desperation of the fading middle class. Some hobbies have the advantage that once the basic equipment/skills are acquired the ongoing costs are nil. Amateur astronomy is like that. A simple 60mm refractor from a department store can provide years of astronomy enjoyment to those who are motivated. (A very few oddball kids might be harmed by such a telescope, however.) Metal detectors can be run indefinitely for just a few cents of electricity per month. Photography used to be too expensive for most, given the costs of film and processing. My current favorite hobby is much more expensive than astronomy. |
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On Monday, October 17, 2016 at 11:22:27 AM UTC+1, wrote:
My current favorite hobby is much more expensive than astronomy. All the money in the world cannot buy you an astronomical insight my boy no more than you can buy you an extra minute of life. In your mediocrity 'astronomy' is a hobby as it is for many others here with magnification devices however astronomy is nothing less than participation in creation and the great cycles that make life possible, even for the small-minded and unimaginative. |
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On Monday, October 17, 2016 at 7:39:04 AM UTC-4, Gerald Kelleher wrote:
'astronomy' is a hobby as it is for many others here What exactly is it for you, birdman? Surely, it can't be your profession! the small-minded and unimaginative. That would be you. |
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On Monday, October 17, 2016 at 1:22:56 PM UTC+1, wrote:
On Monday, October 17, 2016 at 7:39:04 AM UTC-4, Gerald Kelleher wrote: 'astronomy' is a hobby as it is for many others here What exactly is it for you, birdman? As a Christian, the worse condition of humanity was not disbelief but mediocrity - “I know your works; I know that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either cold or hot.So, because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. For you say, ‘I am rich and affluent and have no need of anything,’ and yet do not realize that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked" Christian truth For Christ the rich were to be pitied more than the poor for the same reason you think astronomy is an expensive hobby - Most people are other people. Their thoughts are some one else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Christ was not merely the supreme individualist, but he was the first individualist in history. People have tried to make him out an ordinary philanthropist, or ranked him as an altruist with the scientific and sentimental. But he was really neither one nor the other. Pity he has, of course, for the poor, for those who are shut up in prisons, for the lowly, for the wretched; but he has far more pity for the rich, for the hard hedonists, for those who waste their freedom in becoming slaves to things, for those who wear soft raiment and live in kings' houses. Riches and pleasure seemed to him to be really greater tragedies than poverty or sorrow. And as for altruism, who knew better than he that it is vocation not volition that determines us, and that one cannot gather grapes of thorns or figs from thistles? " Oscar Wilde, De Profundis You can get nothing from your posts unless goading others into uttering inanities passes off as a discussion. Hopefully things work out for you in your new expensive hobby. |
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On Monday, October 17, 2016 at 8:59:21 AM UTC-4, Gerald Kelleher wrote:
You can get nothing from your posts unless goading others into uttering inanities Who is goading you into uttering inanities? You seem to be self-motivated in that particular area. Hopefully things work out for you in your new expensive hobby. I said more expensive, not expensive. The costs work out to about $500 US per year for a typical participant, but can be much less or much more depending on how dedicated or resourceful one might be. The startup costs can be relatively small at first but easily reach into the thousands depending on level of interest. As with astronomy, there are many paths to enlightenment. |
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Gerald Kelleher wrote:
On Monday, October 17, 2016 at 1:22:56 PM UTC+1, wrote: On Monday, October 17, 2016 at 7:39:04 AM UTC-4, Gerald Kelleher wrote: 'astronomy' is a hobby as it is for many others here What exactly is it for you, birdman? As a Christian, the worse condition of humanity was not disbelief but mediocrity - “I know your works; I know that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either cold or hot.So, because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. For you say, ‘I am rich and affluent and have no need of anything,’ and yet do not realize that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked" Christian truth For Christ the rich were to be pitied more than the poor for the same reason you think astronomy is an expensive hobby - Most people are other people. Their thoughts are some one else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. Christ was not merely the supreme individualist, but he was the first individualist in history. People have tried to make him out an ordinary philanthropist, or ranked him as an altruist with the scientific and sentimental. But he was really neither one nor the other. Pity he has, of course, for the poor, for those who are shut up in prisons, for the lowly, for the wretched; but he has far more pity for the rich, for the hard hedonists, for those who waste their freedom in becoming slaves to things, for those who wear soft raiment and live in kings' houses. Riches and pleasure seemed to him to be really greater tragedies than poverty or sorrow. And as for altruism, who knew better than he that it is vocation not volition that determines us, and that one cannot gather grapes of thorns or figs from thistles? " Oscar Wilde, De Profundis You can get nothing from your posts unless goading others into uttering inanities passes off as a discussion. Hopefully things work out for you in your new expensive hobby. You've got a long way to ride before you can aspire to mediocrity. |
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On Sunday, October 16, 2016 at 3:56:23 AM UTC-4, RichA wrote:
Electronics, ham radio, amateur astronomy, microscopy, stamp collecting, woodworking (most of it), metal working. The millenials and teens only want to play video games, text on their cellphones and go to restaurants to be seen. One growing hobby is metal-detecting because of the desperation of the fading middle class. Quite a number to choose from and some are rather new: http://discoverahobby.com/listofhobbies And it's certainly NOT a complete list. |
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