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This has led some scholars to suggest that collecting is a way of managing fears about death by creating a form of immortality. This is consistent with a popular theory in social psychology called the terror management theory (TMT). TMT grows out of an existential predicament--that people, like animals, are mortal. But unlike animals, we are aware of our own mortality. Knowledge of the inevitability of death and its unpredictability can produce paralyzing fear. To cope with this potential terror
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― Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
― Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things
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There are people like Senhor José everywhere, who fill their time, or what they believe to be their spare time, by collecting stamps, coins, medals, vases, postcards, matchboxes, books, clocks, sport shirts, autographs, stones, clay figurines, empty beverage cans, little angels, cacti, opera programmes, lighters, pens, owls, music boxes, bottles, bonsai trees, paintings, mugs, pipes, glass obelisks, ceramic ducks, old toys, carnival masks, and they probably do so out of something that we might c
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― All the Names
― All the Names
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Welcome to Modern Book Collecting. This club is dedicated to those of us who love books so much …more
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Anything related to Numismatics! Everything from error coins, die varieties, key dates, low mint…more
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This global discussion group has been designed to encourage debates about important and underrep…more
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