What's Interesting?

[qos]

This - like many other good things - lifted from mommybird

Pick an interest from my interests page that either 1) you know nothing about but sounds intriguing, or 2) you know something about but can't fathom why yours truly would be interested in it, and demand an explanation. Verily, I will provide.

Comments

[toesontheground.livejournal.com]

I'd like to hear what you have to say about "doors into other worlds"

[qos.livejournal.com]

I'm finding it hard to put this into words. . .

It's not the doors themselves that intrigue me, it's the whole concept that there are different worlds, and that we can move between them. In its most fantastical application, you have stories in which people accidentally stumble through a portal (or ride a tornado) into a different world where magic works, animals talk, time runs differently, and etc. There are also science fiction stories of moving between worlds via starship.

Then there's the fact that in our own real, mundane earth, there are different worlds of meaning, different worlds of culture.

Since I was 12 years old, I have wanted to be able to move between worlds and understand them: to be able to slip out of the habits and assumptions of my own world and truly see and appreciate and be able to partake in the customs of another world -- not keep repeating "This isn't like it is at home."

I also want to be a mediator: someone who can apply my understanding to helping people from different worlds communicate with each other, to translate symbols and ideas from one world into the symbols and ideas of another, while staying true to the original meaning.

Whatever mechanisms - "doors" - that exist to make this possible, are of interest to me.