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Well... for some of you that may be a big shocker... but when one milks cows for fun being called wierd is just part of everyday life. :)

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I started making a list of what I am "passionate" about a few times here but never posted because it always turns out to be nothing more than a list of my hobbies. So maybe I don't have true passion either, but a lot of interests (some of which come and go) -which I find very fulfilling in and of themselves. :)

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The point of this thread isn't my definition of passion, that's for another discussion. The point of the thread was, according to the definition given to me (stated in the first post) and that framing of what a passion is, I don't have one and it seemed to take the guy off guard.

You can BE PERCEIVED as being passionate about some things by others, but still in your heart you know that those things really aren't your passion. Only you know if your PERCEIVED PASSIONATE actions are being appropriately interpreted.

I have no idea if the Titus Woman has a PASSION for farming... only she does. But it would be presumptive of me to interpret her passionate seeming actions as being the presence of a passion. Calling someone's action or reaction passionate is very subjective, and no fact can be built upon it. Only she knows if it is indeed her passion.

I submit that under the framing of the definition given is what I was curious of people's responses.

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And that would describe me about a number of things... there are things I might like, enjoy, and find even fulfilling, but none of them are a Passion to me (within the definition of Passion my acquaintance provided).

I still submit, that very few people in this world really have a PASSION, but most have things they enjoy, find fullfilling, and like to do. I submit that a having a PASSION, is a luxury that few get to enjoy.

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I agree. I pretty much understood your point of view on this from the first post or two.

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Wow. Well I'm not sure what I have learned about passions of the lack thereof in this thread but I have learned one thing for sure... I am blissfully shallow. I never, ever, ever examine something so deeply from a flippant comment made by an aquaintence. To get my attention enough to make me question myself like this would almost take an intervention... Maybe I need therapy :D

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Yep, I don't mind being weird. :happydance

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:toofunny

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I just never want to be strange.

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Too Late! Bahawawhahahaha!

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I don't really have a passion, outside of Christ. The passion of the Christ...has a ring to it.

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Been missin' you Matt man! :)

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So you DO view a passion as an emotion you must feel, e.g., if you're missing a strong emotion, you believe you are also missing passion.

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When he started thread I sort of presumed the Reverend precluded our passion for Jesus. Kind of like when someone asks, "If you could have dinner with anyone who ever lived, who would it be?". It sort of assumes all Christians would say Christ as a first choice and is asking beyond that.

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Perhaps we are not understanding Bro. Robbins initial question, which was this:

I had to think about my "passion" which really is not a passion according to this definition because I had to think about it.

His answer was in accordance to that definition they gave him. He was honest in that he did not really have any passion according to that definition. Do any of us have that intense drive and/or fervent passion that we hoped to have in Christ or any other place or subject? Are we really honest about it? Do we get home from work and open up our Bibles and study and pray for hours on end each day until bedtime? That, to me would be an example to the definition his acquaintance put forth to him. I am ashamed to say that although I love God, I do not have a passion for Him in accordance to this definition. Should I have this passion. You bet. Christ had this passion. The disciples had this passion for God. They did not even want to wait tables because it took them away from study and prayer.

I am sure that there might be some people out there who would have this sort of passion, but would be hesitant to display that passion in today's world. Our society has changed that definition of passion to another word...fanatic. Fanatic is a word used to disrespect a person who would be passionate about religion or politics, or I suppose about any subject.

Why is it, that in this world, one can be passionate about sports, but if they spend much of their time praying and seeking God, they would be considered a fanatic by some?

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Miss you much too T2W, IDK what's been wrong with me, things just haven't been peaking my interest lately. I just started a new job, may have something to do with it.

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I would recommend that you read the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit which were written by J.R.R. Tolkien. That would explain quite a bit of the conversation.




I have heard people who sound a lot like Gollum when the talk about some of their possessions. "Precious, my Precious."

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passionless here, like some of yall's marriages.

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Not here... I've got to say that even after 28 years of use Don is still smokin' hot :D Boy did I marry up!

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Ummm, no... but I sang a booming rendition of 'It Is Well With My Soul' and 'How Great Thou Art' to my cows during milking tonight... Does that count? :)

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I have two daughters so I must have some passion and I'm still married.

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Ah...a double passion eh? :lol

Did you synchronize the squirts of milk into the bucket with the notes? :heeheehee

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Yes. I only sing slow songs to Buttercup because she loves human interaction and carefully munches her grain in a picking the best bits first while I hand milk her.

Petunia on the other hand is all business and vacuums her feed and pulls back on the head gate ready to get out. I usually sing peppy Broadway show tunes to her or turn the radio on the country station while I slap the milk machine on her. At 5 gallons in 6 minutes it is exponentially faster than me.

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So Petunia's theme song would be America from West Side Story.

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I thought maybe it would be the "rumble" part.

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Global Missions!

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Thinking this over, I do have a passion. It's my passion to set a good Godly example to my Godchild, instead of the life I was living. If he would have seen me the way I was growing up, he wouldn't have been very proud of his old Nonk. He has it pretty hard, having a lesbian couple as parents (a mommy and a daddy from what he knows.) But by God's mighty hand, I'm going to show him how to grow up in a Godly manner.