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Philosophy / Manipulation underlying form of OCD?
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Date: Sun, Sep 9 2007 02:00:15
Since we can't control anything else in our lives, we can always control a pen? Some may do it for how it looks, or to show off to friends, but for those that can't explain why they spin or why they liked it, this is maybe the reason I continue to spin.
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Date: Sun, Sep 9 2007 02:06:27
I would argue we can never control the pen. We always drop, yet never intend to. Perhaps it's an underlying form of the opposite of OCD?
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Date: Sun, Sep 9 2007 03:43:25
I'm with mats in a way. We cant always control the pen. But it is OCD that causes us to use the pen, yet we cant fully control it.
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Date: Sun, Sep 9 2007 03:49:37QUOTE (Mats @ Sep 8 2007, 09:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>We always drop, yet never intend to.
Wouldn't that be more to the amount of practice you have put in? -
Date: Sun, Sep 9 2007 04:42:16
I would think it is only OCD if you have to incredible urge to dominate the pen, yet many of us don't mind letting fly away once in a while.
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Date: Sun, Sep 9 2007 05:48:54
Or perhaps we seek companionship of the primal chaos that is an object in motion, and can only relate to the mundane pen that we hold for hours everyday? In familiarity, we find meaning.
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Date: Sun, Sep 9 2007 05:58:13
Think back to OCD, its was probably developed due to that little little voice in your head that told you, you had to learn a TA, you had to learn a backaround to rev TA. And during that time you developed a little OCD telling you, you had to spin your pen because it was part of your daily life.
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Date: Sun, Sep 9 2007 06:47:39
i spin for fun. and thats it. there is no addiction or any obsession. its just for personal entertainment.
do you guys seriously believe we penspinners are weirdos who do all we can to manipulate and control the movement of pens according to our will? that is a little far fetched if i say so myself. -
Date: Sun, Sep 9 2007 06:52:16QUOTE (Nova @ Sep 9 2007, 01:47 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>i spin for fun. and thats it. there is no addiction or any obsession. its just for personal entertainment.
do you guys seriously believe we penspinners are weirdos who do all we can to manipulate and control the movement of pens according to our will? that is a little far fetched if i say so myself.
Well, not an obsession, but it is sort of an OCD thing, I just spin when I have something in my hand, no conscience thing, I just spin. I put the pen down when I notice it, pick it up, to write, then I spin again!
And I can control it as I will, I tell it to fall alot because I know my pen likes it rough
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Date: Sun, Sep 9 2007 08:46:09QUOTE (tohlz @ Sep 9 2007, 04:49 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Wouldn't that be more to the amount of practice you have put in?
Find me a spinner who doesn't drop. Even the best spinner on his best day will drop once in a while. We spin the pen and think we have control over this simple object, yet gravity is always there to remind us we are not really in control. -
Date: Sun, Sep 9 2007 08:55:44
i think it's the same concept as a game.
you really like it, you keep playing, you get better, but you don't always win.
there's also the obsession factor.
i have been addicted to games, and probably, at the time, if i couldn't play it, i would go crazy.
but right now all games seem to bore me (free ones anyways, i'm too cheap to buy games).
I think my status with pen spinning is pretty similar to my status with stepmania.
I enjoy playing it, but i don't play it all day long and i don't mind taking a break either.
that and if i play it for too long i'll get bored. -
Date: Sun, Sep 9 2007 12:08:26
I agree with Druid. Games are meant to be played..and for them to be enjoyed. You constantly play it to get better. You really can never be the best in any game.. OCD, as you all know, is like ALWAYS WANTING TO DO IT. But some of us spin pens without even knowing it. So we're not obsessed with it. My 8th grade teacher told us this during science class. Some guy told the teacher I have OCD with the pen. It's just a hobby we do. So yeah
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Date: Sun, Sep 9 2007 19:46:51
I never said everyone who spun has OCD, but I'm saying that for those who don't know why they spin, it could be the reason. The same way one might be clean all the time, I'm just comparing pen spinning to a type of a 'constant'.
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Date: Wed, Oct 17 2007 01:47:46
Honestly i do get what he's saying. It's gotten to the point where if It feels weird if i'm not spinning a pen. Like i constantly need to be manipulating something in my hands. And because i can do it in both hands i find my self doing things right handed while spinning left all the time. So who knows, maybe.