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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (49441)	8/6/1999 4:19:00 PM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

My undergraduate degree was in medieval history with minors in comparative literature and economics. I went on to an M.B.A. and wrote my thesis on economic development in the Middle Ages. All well and good, but I had a lively interest in philosophy and married a man who graduated from Yale summa whose major was philosophy. I am a person who lives out her belief that one doesn't have to share one's lover's enthusiasms but must understand them to understand the lover. So I moved on from Plato--whose work IMO every person should study in order to understand civilization--and the medieval and Renaissance philosophers to go through Russell, Kant, Schopenhauer, Hegel, Nietzsche, Whitehead, et al. Even Lacan and his ilk. Then the man decided to become a clinical psychologist--through which Ph.D. I supported him. (P. T. Barnum was right!) So I can be a dead bore on psychology as well! As you have probably gathered, I am a person with a hungry mind. Every lover has introduced me to new interests that last long after the affair is over--BTW, most of them are still friends! Even now, one of my closest friends has a Ph.D. in Continental philosophers and teaches both at a university and on a web site. LOL, she has always assumed that I know what she is talking about--once or twice over dinner leaving my husband in the dust! Like Kipling's elephant child, I am insatiably curious. This curiosity has led me to interests that I might never have fallen over on my own. Every lover I have had has introduced me to new interests, most of which have lasted. I apologize for the rambling nature of this message. I am trying to convey in a long way why I can appear with interest and comments on the most "unlikely" topics.