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OverAnalyzer is offline OverAnalyzer Post #1  July 12,2009, 5:33am
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Psychology Today? The Atlantic Monthly? Dalai Lama? Freud? Shakespeare? The Daily News?

What do you all read for viewpoints on spirituality, psychology, and philosophy.

Do you keep a journal? Blog? Write for publication?

Just curious.
 
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I dont read and write. I read and type =/ i rarely pick up a real newspaper ahh the internet ^_^
 
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OverAnalyzer wrote :
Psychology Today? The Atlantic Monthly? Dalai Lama? Freud? Shakespeare? The Daily News?
I read alternative sources of information and some news on the Internet, and research many topics. I also read scientific studies presented in professional and semi-professional sources.

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What do you all read for viewpoints on spirituality
I debate in public Internet forums against various forms of supernaturalism and superstition from the position of a realist / naturalist / scientist.

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psychology,
For preview of psychology or psychological problems I read these threads. There are many common psychological problems discussed and may astute responses (some from professional psychologists).

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philosophy.
I have developed a personal philosophy based upon reading wide-ranging sources.

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Do you keep a journal? Blog? Write for publication?
Yes, Yes and Yes.
 
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jayjay is offline jayjay Post #5  July 12,2009, 8:39am
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...things seem to have gotten quiet around here.

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LMAO.

Actually, at the moment I'm trying to 'unread' all that I've read in the past.
 
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OverAnalyzer wrote :
Psychology Today? The Atlantic Monthly? Dalai Lama? Freud? Shakespeare? The Daily News?
What do you all read for viewpoints on spirituality, psychology, and philosophy.
Do you keep a journal? Blog? Write for publication?
Just curious.


Shakespeare, Descartes, Socrates, Aristotle, Schultz, Ishida, most of the Sunday comics, histories & biographies, science fiction, several mainstream and not-so-mainstream news sources, Kant, Terry Pratchett, CJ Cherryh, Wired magazine, Popular Mechanics, How Stuff Works (website), some esoteric anthropological sources, my old college notes, classic literature, echuckles advice boards, billboards, tee shirts, noir novels, and graffiti.

I don’t keep a formal journal, but I write constantly. Eha is as close to a blog as I’ll get. I once wrote for a publication in college, but gave that up years ago. I haven’t the talent for regularly scheduled publications- my standards for my own writing are impossibly high, such that anything I hand in for print I view as no more than gutter trash. I constantly edit and re-write old documents as I go back through them.

The big three that you mentioned are so inextricably linked (well, they are in my head) that it really does take all of those sources, serious and not, to form my opinions on them. Basically, any form of human expression can be tallied into it. Some things form the basic structure of my opinions- these are mainly the philosophy, history, and classic literature parts- but the other sources flesh out the bones of that structure.

What about the rest of y’all?
 
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jayjay wrote :
LMAO.

Actually, at the moment I'm trying to 'unread' all that I've read in the past.
Agreed w/LMAO @ bubba - why didn't that surprise me?

Wondering, jayjay, why you are trying to unread the past. Think you've been misinformed or just heading in a new direction?
 
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I debate in public Internet forums against various forms of supernaturalism and superstition from the position of a realist / naturalist / scientist. This sounds interesting. Anyplace you care to share?


For preview of psychology or psychological problems I read these threads. There are many common psychological problems discussed and may astute responses (some from professional psychologists). Agreed. I went to college for Psychology many moons ago and human behavior still fascinates me.


I have developed a personal philosophy based upon reading wide-ranging sources. Would that be similar to a spiritual philosophy? If you substitute "spiritual" for "personal" in that sentence, that would be my belief.
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Mostly I read and write on the eHarmony Advice discussion boards.

For printed reading, lately it has been books on dating and relationships. I am trying to get Dating for Dummies but is not in my library at the moment.
 
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