What Do You Know All About?

JustGeorge · Feb 9, 2023

Everyone knows something about something.

What's your something? What's your area of expertise?

How did you become an 'expert' in your 'field'?

Secret Chief · Feb 9, 2023

Faffing about.

Rival · Feb 9, 2023

Medieavalism, but still definitely an amateur.

I learn mostly by reading and watching things.

Daemon Sophic · Feb 9, 2023

I have a certain set of skills.

Let’s just say that they are specialized skills that most people know of, but very few are practiced in. It took many years of schooling and ….hands on training to develop these skills.
Also, all my years working with those skills have been under the employment of one government or another. Nuff said.

JustGeorge · Feb 9, 2023

I once sent my car in to the mechanic because I believed the starter was going bad.

In this neck of the woods, women claiming something in an mechanic's shop aren't always taken seriously. I assumed what I had requested(a new starter) was seen to(along with a few other things that need attended to). Because there were several issues on the ticket, I didn't go over it to see the new starter wasn't on the bill. I just paid it and left in my car.

The next day the car wouldn't start. I called the garage and asked if they thought maybe they'd gotten a faulty starter. They uncomfortably told me they'd taken the old one out and just cleaned it, thinking the grime was the issue. I told the guy on the phone "look, I don't know a thing about how cars run, but I know a lot about how they break down, and that damned starter is broken!"

They replaced it.

ChristineM · Feb 9, 2023

Applications of 3D computer graphics in industry and science.

Early modern humans circa 19000 to 32000 years ago

Roman civilization +/- 100 years of the fall of republic/rise of empire.

Cosmology 101

Track driving

Graphics about 25 years on an off of university study.

Cro-magnon, just a hobby i read up on, joined a few digs, research.

Roman civilization, after a year of it being an elective subject first year of uni i forgot about it until my second pregnancy, boredom set in so i read.

Cosmology relates to the 3D. We were asked to produce a computer model of the BB, were supplied a considerable amount of deep tech stuff from 10e-28 of a secondary after the event. (Nothing before but since then knowledge has advance a little). It got me hooked.

Track driving, i just love it

Twilight Hue · Feb 9, 2023

Jack of all trades, master of none.

I think anyone today can become a master however. It takes study of course and definitely engagement for the proper insight.

Sgt. Pepper · Feb 9, 2023

I know about things like how to raise a family, and I'm interested in history and science, asI well as a few other topics, but my favorite "areas of expertise" are The Beatles and the paranormal. So, I suppose my something are these two topics. While I've never known any of them personally, I'm familiar with the Beatles' lives because I've been a true-blue fan since I was a young teenager. They have always been special to me, so I took the time to "get to know them," so to speak, when I was younger. I know their songs by heart, and I am quite adept at recalling events and even minor details about their lives. I can honestly say that their music helped me cope better with difficult times in my life, especially when I was a teenager growing up in an abusive home, and it is for this reason that they will always hold a special place in my heart. As far as the paranormal is concerned, I don't like to say that I'm an "expert" per se, but I am quite familiar with the ongoing research and investigation of the paranormal. I've been researching and investigating the paranormal myself for the past fifteen and a half years. I'm curious about a lot of things, but these two subjects are my favorites to talk about.

Quagmire · Feb 9, 2023

I know more about running an internet forum than anybody (in their right mind would ever want to).

Wildswanderer · Feb 9, 2023

Brain tanning deer hides.
You become a " expert" by working harder than 99 percent will... But I don't consider myself an expert per say, but a lifelong learner.

Debater Slayer · Feb 9, 2023

I wouldn't call myself an "expert," but I'm decently good at mathematics, English, and Arabic. I'm also getting there with programming.

I became good at the above subjects through a combination of school/university courses and self-studying.

wandering peacefully · Feb 9, 2023

Cool. Do you use them for clothes? I tried scraping with actual 3,000 year old hide scrapers I found on my lake.

Then had to smoke it over a fire. It was a long process but worked well. It's crazy to think about all the ways humans have cured and used wild animal hides. Talk about work!

wandering peacefully · Feb 9, 2023

"to spend your time doing a lot of things that are not important instead of the thing that you should be doing:"

Had to look it up. That's one of my professions as well.

Vee · Feb 9, 2023

I'd say I'm a real expert at using the snooze button on my alarm clock. Too bad that's not a marketable skill.

Heyo · Feb 9, 2023

Just knowledge? I'm an encyclopedia of useless knowledge.
Skills, that's another thing. There are no things I could say I'm an expert in but a lot of things I can do at least at a useful level.

Nimos · Feb 9, 2023

JustGeorge · Feb 9, 2023

Teach my husband to do that. He is an expert in sleeping through them, and letting them blare, to wake me up. Again. And again. And again.

exchemist · Feb 9, 2023

Claiming to be expert is always risky.

I know a bit about chemistry (and some physics), having taken a degree in chemistry and used it off and on in my career. I know a reasonable amount about large diesel engines, their lubrication and that of other large power generation machines, and also about the operation of oil blending plants, having spent a career in the lubricants business. But that knowledge is probably already out of date now that I have been retired for a decade. I know something about rowing in racing boats, having rowed on the Thames for 35 years. I know a bit about choral singing, and the classical repertoire for that, because it has been a hobby for a number of years.

I don't think I could claim to be expert in any of them, though.

sun rise · Feb 9, 2023

If we ignore my posts on RF to avoid controversy

, Unix/linux system administration. That is the result of decades of working with, fighting with, that operating system in various situations over those years.

Ella S. · Feb 9, 2023

The history of Western esoteric tradition, all the way from the Greek Magical Papyri to the Temple of Set, including both the general occult scene (Hermetic alchemy, Hermetic "Qabalah," Rosicrucianism, Thelema, Theosophy, Spiritualism, etc.), grimoiric tradition (Hygromanteia, Picatrix, Greater and Lesser Keys of Solomon, Armatel, Agrippa, Abramelin, etc.), and the major recurring philosophical roots from Pythagoreanism and Neoplatonism.

(ETA: Including familiarity with tarot, its ties to Hermetic Qabalah, and detailed grade rituals for A.'.A.'., O.T.O., the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the Fraternitas Saturni, the Theosophical Society, and Scottish Rite Freemasonry.)

I have a particular understanding of Gnosticism and alchemy, from Zosimos and Paracelsus to Nicholas Flamel to Jung and Evola.

I'm also familiar with not just mainstream Christianity and Biblical study (including secular Biblical history) but also quite a bit about Catholic contemplatio, Orthodox hesychasm, a variety of monastic groups such as Byzantine and Ignatian mysticism, and lesser known strains of Christianity including Swedenborgianism, Catharism, Johannism, Pentecostalism, Rastafarianism, Messianic "Jews," and so on.

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