moimeme Posted November 4, 2003 Share Posted November 4, 2003 As it happens, I'm poking around a bit to do some reading on Maslow. Up popped this article from an e-book called 'The Psychology of Cyberspace': "To Get What You Need Healthy and Pathological Internet Use" http://www.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/getneed.html The author talks about how and why internet porn and cybersex meet needs. Interesting stufff! Link to post Share on other sites
bark Posted November 4, 2003 Share Posted November 4, 2003 Suler writes: Are people self-actualizing in cyberspace? Many people feel they are expressing their creative potentials by engaging the technical and social dimensions of the internet. They find themselves realizing inner interests, attitudes, and aspects of their personality that were previously hidden. Many feel they are developing fulfilling relationships with others by experimenting with new ways of being. Some people say they are MORE like their true selves in cyberspace than in real life. It's difficult to say whether this is true self-actualization, or rather self-deception as a defense against understanding unconscious, pathological motives behind internet use. The eight factors at the beginning of this article can help answer this question. But ultimately the answer may be purely subjective - purely in the eyes of the user. Sounds like a description of many a LS senior member! : ) Link to post Share on other sites
Author moimeme Posted November 4, 2003 Author Share Posted November 4, 2003 Sounds like a description of many a LS senior member! : ) Oh, heck - much of it, I bet, applies to many LS senior members. for instance: If you experience the internet as the evolution of a world-mind and world-self into a universal Whole, then you are part of that Whole. You have succeeded in transcending your small, encapsulated identity in order to participate in something much larger than the self An Aquarian ideal if ever there was one! Link to post Share on other sites
bark Posted November 4, 2003 Share Posted November 4, 2003 Yeah, maybe Love Shack is just some trans-individual psychotherapeutic "self." A cyber-whole which is greater than the sum of its individual all-too-human parts--a Matrix-like "soul" floating in cyberspace. Or, Love Shack is simply a Tower of Babel of advice. People, brimming with good intentions,pecking away on their keyboards --each with his or her own perfect solution to problems that constantly vex us humans. Or maybe, just maybe, Love Shack is just about connecting. Link to post Share on other sites
jenny Posted November 4, 2003 Share Posted November 4, 2003 i would have to say i am pretty addicted to reading about other people's problems and pains. it's not just this forum, either. and the worse the problems, the more compelling it is; it's like getting a shot of high-speed empathy every day. seriously, that bit in fight club where they sneak into self-help groups to gain intimacy in a condo-IKEA world made perfect, perfect, sense to me. i think they seek to empirically disprove nihilism. ah well, luckily i'm a fickle little thing, maybe i should move on to porn. looking at it, i mean. cheers j p.s. ohmygod, bark, i loove this: Or, Love Shack is simply a Tower of Babel of advice. People, brimming with good intentions,pecking away on their keyboards --each with his or her own perfect solution to problems that constantly vex us humans. wow. wow! Link to post Share on other sites
Author moimeme Posted November 4, 2003 Author Share Posted November 4, 2003 Or maybe, Bark, it's all of the above and more; many things to many people Link to post Share on other sites
bark Posted November 4, 2003 Share Posted November 4, 2003 "ah well, luckily i'm a fickle little thing, maybe i should move on to porn. looking at it, i mean. cheers j" Cheers to you Jenny. Since your a self-confessed empathy junkie, I couldn't help but think of empathy and porn. To paraphrase the Tom Hanks character, "There's no empathy in porn!" Link to post Share on other sites
Thinkalot Posted November 5, 2003 Share Posted November 5, 2003 I am relatively new to this site, which I stumbled upon by accident. However, since I found it, I have found myself compelled to check in regularly and read what people have to say, so I can see how it could become a bit of an addiction! It's the first time I have ever participated in an internet site. It is also somewhat comforting to realise everyone has problems. I am curious about those of you who are senior members...what do have to do to reach that status? You must have read a lot of people's problems by now! Link to post Share on other sites
Author moimeme Posted November 5, 2003 Author Share Posted November 5, 2003 It's not a big deal. Post 100 times and you're 'senior'. Link to post Share on other sites
Thinkalot Posted November 5, 2003 Share Posted November 5, 2003 I see, thanks Moimeme. I've noticed you usually have well-thought advice for people. Link to post Share on other sites
Author moimeme Posted November 5, 2003 Author Share Posted November 5, 2003 Thank you for your kind compliment! Link to post Share on other sites
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