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Dead Dino is Art

A blog by AJ Plai in General

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personal notes on collecting and appreciating paleontological art

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The Psychology And Philosophy Behind Collecting

Sigmund Freud theorized that the act of collecting ties back to the time of our toilet training. Freud suggested that the loss of control and what went down the toilet was a traumatic occurrence to us human and thus in our subconscious we develop the desire to collect things as a mean to try to gain back not only control but “possessions” of that which were lost so many years ago....... O.K. if I tried to rephrase what I just shared in a non-academic language is that we human collect because
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Fossils As Investment - Good Or Bad Idea?

Due to recent topic and discussions about "Fossils as Investment", I have decided to record and save my post into this blog for my own future reference and hopefully others fellow members may find it useful as well. You can see the original discussion in this topic here: http://www.thefossilforum.com/index.php?/topic/47826-fossil-investments/ With the rise of so called "Passion Investment" or "Alternative Investment" whereby instead of putting your money and wealth into the conventional inves
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