Do you believe in rumpology/but* reading?
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no, i believe in god/////not supersition and fairytales!!
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no. i read them mainly because of interest/curiousity but not to the extent of practicing it.
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You can do the stop and think method.  As you read stop and think.  You can stop and ask yourself a questions about what you read, try to relate to the text, etc.
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Any time I read a book I don't understand it.\nBut how often do I read books? Lol
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i've had a few readings done.  most were good.  a couple were too general to be anything other than standard stuff.\n\nthe best one i've had done was a past life reading.  as soon as i sat down she started telling me things about my family and my life that were totally accurate.  she told me things about a couple of my past lives that i already felt, but couldn't explain.\n\n\nthe problem with readings is that time is so fluid, and anything that you're told can change by one choice that you make.  they're pretty good for short term stuff, but don't try to make life decisions based on one.\n\nedit\ni am amazed at some of the answers that i've seen for this question.  anything you don't agree with is automatically from satan and evil and is conjuring up demons\ni'm a reader myself.  i have never charged anyone anything for a reading.  i always tell people that if things continue the way they are going that this is the most likely result.  i also tell them that they shouldn't try to make major decisions based on a reading.\nwhy is it so hard for some people to accept other beliefs?\nblessed be
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Aside from the personal growth and enjoyment derived from said pursuit, reading is empowering and opens many doors.  In our recent past, slaves were rarely provided opportunity to learn to read. This was to maintain a level of oppression. In some countries today, women and children are similarly stifled.\n\nReading opens our minds, and provides educational opportunities otherwise unattainable... which can broaden and change our lives.
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Yes.\nIt is not a thing I believe, it is a thing I experienced, it is about seeing.
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*after reading* And your point is...?
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Yes. Not all of it is true (factual, historical), not all of it is false (fictional, mythical).\n\nCan you handle the truth? or the falsity?
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Yes, it's called Reading. Studding and Concentrating!
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knowing & believing (thinking you know)
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I'd say we read people by what we see. Certain gestures they make or do. The way they say things. People can give out certain kinds of vibes too. Good, bad, or wierd. But i think that's derived from facial expressions or from the eyes.
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No.\n\nI think it's important to understand the intent behind a person's work. Unlike something like the Da Vinci Code which might've been provoking contraversy, J.K. Rowling's Potter series was strictly written for entertainment purposes and does not advocate witch craft. \n\nNow as far as the reader's intent....
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Are they worth to be read?
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C- The Interactive Approach (Rumelhart, Stanovich, Eskey)\n\nFor those reading theorists who recognized the importance of both the text and the reader in the reading process, an amalgamation of the two emerged the interactive approach. Reading here is the process of combining textual information with the information the reader brings to a text. \nThe interactive model (Rumelhart 1977; Stanovich 1980) stresses both what is on the written page and what a reader brings to it using both top-down and bottom-up skills. It views reading is the interaction between reader and text. \nThe overreliance on either mode of processing to the neglect of the other mode has been found to cause reading difficulties for SL learners (Carrell 1988, p. 239) \nThe interactive models of reading assume that skills at all levels are interactively available to process and interpret the text (Grabe 1988). \nIn this model, good readers are both good decoders and good interpreters of text, their decoding skills becoming more automatic but no less important as their reading skill develops (Eskey 1988).\n\nAccording to Rumelhart's interactive model: \n1- linear models which pass information only in one direction and which do not permit the information contained in a higher stage to influence the processing of a lower stage contain a serious deficiency. Hence the need for an interactive model which permits the information contained in a higher stage of processing to influence the analysis that occurs at a lower stage. \n2- when an error in word recognition is made, the word substitution will maintain the same part of speech as the word for which it was substituted, which will make it difficult for the reader to understand. (orthographic knowledge) \n3- semantic knowledge influences word perception. (semantic knowledge) \n4- perception of syntax for a given word depends upon the context in which the word is embedded. (syntactic knowledge) \n5- our interpretation of what we read depends upon the context in which a text segment is embedded. (lexical knowledge)\n\nAll the aforementioned knowledge sources provide input simultaneously. These sources need to communicate and interact with each other, and the higher-order stages should be able to influence the processing of lower-order stages.\n\nAccording to Stanovich's interactive-compensatory model: \n* Top-down processing may be easier for the poor reader who may be slow at word recognition but has knowledge of the text topic. \n* Bottom-up processing may be easier for the reader who is skilled at word recognition but does not know much about the text topic. \n=> Stanovich's model states, then, that any stage may communicate with any other and any reader may rely on better developed knowledge sources when other sources are temporarily weak.\n\nTo properly achieve fluency and accuracy, developing readers must work at perfecting both their bottom-up recognition skills and their top-down interpretation strategies. Good reading (that is fluent and accurate reading) can result only from a constant interaction between these processes. \n=> Fluent reading entails both skillful decoding and relating information to prior knowledge (Eskey, 1988).\n\n<=> Reading is a bi-directional process that concerns both \nthe Reader & the Text. \nThe level of reader comprehension of the text is determined by how well the reader variables (interest level in the text, purpose for reading the text, knowledge of the topic, foreign language abilities, awareness of the reading process, and level of \nwillingness to take risks) interact with the text variables (text type, structure, syntax, and vocabulary) (Hosenfeld, 1979).\n\nhttp://www.sabes.org/resources/fieldnotes/vol10/f02abrah.htm\n\nAccording to Joanne Devine (1988), one thing needs to be taken into consideration: readers' internalized models of the reading process are extremely important. There is convincing evidence that readers do indeed have internalized
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you have to be interested in what you are reading..
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I have been reading about that as of late and find it interesting.  plausible. The bible has seen a lot gone through a lot in that i mean translations.  It also stands that some books were purposely left out.  With that in mind I don't feel it proves with out a shadow of a doubt that its true.  However it does leave enough room for the thought and probability.