Way OT: posting as neurological exercise

[Magpel]

Often I look back aghast at the sometimes ill-formed, sometimes ill-expressed and sometimes simply ludicrous opinions I express over the course of a single day here and at MP...and I understand that such posting is a vital, developmental exercise and release. And I am thankful.

 

We are a nice community for this, and we don't hold each other too terribly accountable for excesses and misfires. In this the era of Sudoku and the mania for keeping the neurological system limber and agile (which I see as part of a general fear of growing old in any way), daily writing--whether argumentative or imaginative or informative, all of which come into play here--is really good exercise, especially in a forgiving, responsive environment.

 

In a past life I was a composition specialist at a university, where I still teach a class from time ot time, and I remember some studies at Stanford that showed that students who kept daily journals experience better physical and mental health and less sickness. I believe that effect is enhanced by the presence of audience and response, even though there's the potential for it being more stressful because, you know, we don't always agree, and personalities do clash, and sometimes you embarrass youself, or at least I do.

 

Anyway, this forum is so great on so many levels, and one of them is the way it provides a venue for regular exploratory writing, opinion forming, and self-expression. The central tenet of process-based composition theory is that writing is not how you express what you know; it is how you discover what you know; not how you express who you are but how you become who you are. I believe it.

 

Cool. Thx.

[philbo]

It is one end of a healthy spectrum... The other end is having a complete surcease of dialog. It is good to regularly traverse the path between the two.

[spikemullings]

writing is not how you express what you know; it is how you discover what you know; not how you express who you are but how you become who you are.

 

Yep

[blue2blue]

Often I look back aghast at the sometimes ill-formed, sometimes ill-expressed and sometimes simply ludicrous opinions I express over the course of a single day here and at MP...and I understand that such posting is a vital, developmental exercise and release. And I am thankful. We are a nice community for this, and we don't hold each other too terribly accountable for excesses and misfires. In this the era of Sudoku and the mania for keeping the neurological system limber and agile (which I see as part of a general fear of growing old in any way), daily writing--whether argumentative or imaginative or informative, all of which come into play here--is really good exercise, especially in a forgiving, responsive environment. In a past life I was a composition specialist at a university, where I still teach a class from time ot time, and I remember some studies at Stanford that showed that students who kept daily journals experience better physical and mental health and less sickness. I believe that effect is enhanced by the presence of audience and response, even though there's the potential for it being more stressful because, you know, we don't always agree, and personalities do clash, and sometimes you embarrass youself, or at least I do. Anyway, this forum is so great on so many levels, and one of them is the way it provides a venue for regular exploratory writing, opinion forming, and self-expression. The central tenet of process-based composition theory is that writing is not how you express what you know; it is how you discover what you know; not how you express who you are but how you become who you are. I believe it. Cool. Thx.

 

The entire internet is my blog.

 

[UstadKhanAli]

Yes it is.

[Kendrix]

So, while much of the medical establishment is still rejecting the concept of mind-body you come along with the concept of internet-mind-body.

Let em chew on that for a while.

Insurance will never cover it.

[blue2blue]

I'm a cyberpagan... it's ALL mind, baby...