{"id":1106,"date":"2012-12-28T07:32:40","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T15:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/skepticallyleft\/?p=1106"},"modified":"2012-12-28T07:32:40","modified_gmt":"2012-12-28T15:32:40","slug":"what-are-your-interests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/skepticallyleft\/2012\/12\/28\/what-are-your-interests\/","title":{"rendered":"What Are Your Interests?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since this is a relatively new blog, I thought we should take a moment to get to know each other. So please feel free to share anything you’d like about yourselves in the comments (well, almost anything), provide constructive criticism, let me know if you’d like to guest post, and — most importantly — give me suggestions for future posts. I tried to do something similar on my FB page, got lots of great suggestions, but I’m having a hard time locating them all in my FB archives. So I thought I’d try to do this here instead. Any comments or questions would be greatly appreciated.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here are some general areas that I plan to focus on. Please feel free to make specific suggestions in any of these areas (or any others; if I’m not qualified, I’ll find a network colleague or guest blogger who is):<\/p>\n

Scope of skepticism (I’ve covered this once, but I think it merits a recap)<\/p>\n

Traditional skepticism<\/p>\n

Atheism, agnosticism, and ignosticism<\/p>\n

Atheist Activism<\/p>\n

Anti-theism<\/p>\n

Famous\/historically significant atheists & freethinkers<\/p>\n

Accommodationism\/Confrontationism (covered once, may merit a recap)<\/p>\n

Science Advocacy<\/p>\n

The “Dangers” of Science<\/p>\n

Eugenics<\/p>\n

Freethought<\/p>\n

Feminism (including schisms within feminism & feminist theory)<\/p>\n

“Political Correctness”<\/p>\n

Privilege Theory<\/p>\n

Rape Culture<\/p>\n

Sexual Harassment<\/p>\n

Blogosphere Issues<\/p>\n

Freedom of expression, speech, and association<\/p>\n

Philosophy of aesthetics (art, music)<\/p>\n

Determinism\/Compatibilism\/Free Will<\/p>\n

Causation and Correlation<\/p>\n

Extremism<\/p>\n

Politics (including socialism, Marxism, and Communism)<\/p>\n

The intersection between law and religion<\/p>\n

Evo Psych (from a lay-woman’s perspective)<\/p>\n

Evolution (from a lay-woman’s perspective)<\/p>\n

Adaptationism (from a lay-woman’s perspective)<\/p>\n

Mind\/body dualism<\/p>\n

Pop Culture<\/p>\n

SJWs<\/p>\n

Postmodernism<\/p>\n

Nietzsche<\/p>\n

Existentialism<\/p>\n

Law<\/p>\n

Secularism<\/p>\n

Current Events<\/p>\n

Nothing<\/p>\n

The meaning of life!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Thanks for playing. — M<\/p>\n

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Since this is a relatively new blog, I thought we should take a moment to get to know each other. So please feel free to share anything you’d like about yourselves in the comments (well, almost anything), provide constructive criticism, let me know if you’d like to guest post, and — most importantly — give […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/skepticallyleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/skepticallyleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/skepticallyleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/skepticallyleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/skepticallyleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/skepticallyleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/skepticallyleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/skepticallyleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/skepticallyleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}