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Infp (this makes me a saint)
Just a bunch of psychological bull .
Infp (this makes me a saint)
CBF - Yeah, I like philosophy all right. It's not something I've studied extensively though. The Honors College at UH (where I did my undergrad) gives a really good overview of philosophy (sort of a study of the history of philosophy), and I took a couple of classes in that direction, but they were more geared towards hermenuetics and historiography than actual philosophy. I've read Plato's Republic, of course, and some Neitzche and Heidegger. I'd like to read Kierkegaard, but I've been putting it off because I have a really hard time reading academc works for some reason. I can breeze through a 500 page novel in an afternoon, but it takes me three days to read The Prince. Sigh. It's frustrating because I lose my place or I read the words but they don't make sense. It's like reading in another language sometimes, and I feel so stupid when I do that.
Anyway, I like anything related to the human condition - philosophy, psychology, history and religion are my favorites, sociology and anthropology less interesting to me.
^^well if you can read a 500 page novel in one afternoon you're not that dumb
I wish I could do that ! I'm a slowpoke
philosophy rules btw, but ancient appeals to me more, haven't read much at all of modern
Your Type is
INTP
Introverted Intuitive Thinking Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
67 38 88 33
The Presocratics were fun, and it's really fascinating how much math and philosophy were linked for such a long time. Heraclitus is a fun one, with all the aphorisms. I swear all of our students know his saying "You never step into the same river twice."
But honestly, the thing that helped me the most with philosophy was "Pooh and The Philosophers - how all of western philosophy was a prelude to Winnie the Pooh." It actually really helped me get the various schools of philosophy down, especially the section on Pre-Socratics, where the author dissects one of my favorite Winnie The Pooh stories about Eeyore and his birthday to explain how the shape of the world influenced the philosophy.
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Really intellectual there, right? Working in academia always makes you feel dumb.
I'm too old for this .
Heraclitus was the ! Heraclitus and Parmenides pretty much sum up every thing I want to know haha
like yin and yang
Sadly, I recognize the name, but do not recall reading Parmenides.
Istj
ISTJ's type description by J. Butt was so *me* it was creepy.
Interesting. Mine seemed pretty dead on too, except for a couple that talk about loving humanity and working to right injustices. That's not me so much - I think people need to take responsibility for their own situations so I'm not much on helping hands.
Also istj. Compared to Jesus' disciple Thomas (yes, the doubter).
I like to think of him as the opposite of Heraclitus...heraclitus taught flux, alot of everything working in motion to form a whole, everything is never the same
P taught nothing changes, there is no everythign, etc
ENFJ
You are:
moderately expressed extrovert
moderately expressed intuitive personality
moderately expressed feeling personality
moderately expressed judging personality
ENTJ
FieldMarshal
Famous ENTJs:
U.S. Presidents:
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Richard M. Nixon
Benny Goodman, "Big Band" leader
General Norman Schwarzkopf
Harrison Ford
Steve Martin
Whoopi Goldberg
Sigourney Weaver
Margaret Thatcher
Al Gore (U.S Vice President, 1993-2001)
Lamar Alexander (former governor, US Secretary of Education)
Les Aspen, former U.S. Secretary of Defense
Candace Bergen (Murphy Brown)
Dave Letterman
Newt Gingrich
Patrick Stewart (STNG: Jean Luc Picard)
Robert James Waller (author: The Bridges of Madison County)
Jim Carrey (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, The Mask)
Steve Jobs
Penn Jillette
Fictional ENTJs:
Geordi LaForge (STNG)
INFJ (Counselor Idealist, according to Kiersey temprament sorter) - my type:
The Counselor Idealists are abstract in thought and speech, cooperative in reaching their goals, and directive and introverted in their interpersonal roles. Counselors focus on human potentials, think in terms of ethical values, and come easily to decisions. The small number of this type (little more than 2 percent) is regrettable, since Counselors have an unusually strong desire to contribute to the welfare of others and genuinely enjoy helping their companions. Although Counsleors tend to be private, sensitive people, and are not generally visible leaders, they nevertheless work quite intensely with those close to them, quietly exerting their influence behind the scenes with their families, friends, and colleagues. This type has great depth of personality; they are themselves complicated, and can understand and deal with complex issues and people.
Counselors can be hard to get to know. They have an unusually rich inner life, but they are reserved and tend not to share their reactions except with those they trust. With their loved ones, certainly, Counselors are not reluctant to express their feelings, their face lighting up with the positive emotions, but darkening like a thunderhead with the negative. Indeed, because of their strong ability to take into themselves the feelings of others, Counselors can be hurt rather easily by those around them, which, perhaps, is one reason why they tend to be private people, mutely withdrawing from human contact. At the same time, friends who have known a Counselor for years may find sides emerging which come as a surprise. Not that they are inconsistent; Counselors value their integrity a great deal, but they have intricately woven, mysterious personalities which sometimes puzzle even them.
Counselors have strong empathic abilities and can become aware of another's emotions or intentions -- good or evil -- even before that person is conscious of them. This "mind-reading" can take the form of feeling the hidden distress or illnesses of others to an extent which is difficult for other types to comprehend. Even Counselors can seldom tell how they came to penetrate others' feelings so keenly. Furthermore, the Counselor is most likely of all the types to demonstrate an ability to understand psychic phenomena and to have visions of human events, past, present, or future. What is known as ESP may well be exceptional intuitive ability-in both its forms, projection and introjection. Such supernormal intuition is found frequently in the Counselor, and can extend to people, things, and often events, taking the form of visions, episodes of foreknowledge, premonitions, auditory and visual images of things to come, as well as uncanny communications with certain individuals at a distance.
I am also an INFJ
Famous INFJs:
Nathan, prophet of Israel
Aristophanes
Chaucer
Goethe
Robert Burns, Scottish poet
U.S. Presidents:
Martin Van Buren
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Fanny Crosby, (blind) hymnist
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
Fred McMurray (My Three Sons)
Shirley Temple Black, child actor, ambassador
Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader, martyr
James Reston, newspaper reporter
Shirley McClain (Sweet Charity, ...)
Piers Anthony, author ("Xanth" series)
Michael Landon (Little House on the Prairie)
Tom Selleck
John Katz, critic, author
Paul Stookey (Peter, Paul and Mary)
U. S. Senator Carol Moseley-Braun (D-IL)
Billy Crystal
Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury)
Nelson Mandela
Mel Gibson
Carrie Fisher
Nicole Kidman
Jamie Foxx
Sela Ward
Mark Harmon
Gary Dourdan
Marg Helgaberger
Evangeline Lilly
Tori May
A company I had worked for about 9 years ago, spent big bucks on these tests...I "tested" and the results were INFP. Me an I...nfp. Everyone pretty much knows I am an extrovert, someone suggested that I was a "closet" Introvert. Now that I have changed careers, I should see what I am now....other than a weirdo
We did that at work a few times.
I was STFU.
saw a classmate post about this on facebook, and had never heard of it till now...
short 10-12 minute questionnaire here: https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test
labeled me as something called ISTP
Same here.
Now I'm hungry for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
, I saw this thread and thought it was about topology.
M-B has been largely debunked in Psychology. It's slightly (and I mean slightly) more valuable than a horoscope.
People use these tests to define themselves and it's terrible. They have been shown to have very poor reproducible values -- people who don't remember their responses usually end up with something moderately different than their last test, meaning it's less a personality test and more of a "how are you feeling today?" test. It's the computer version of a mood ring.
Mmmm. I don't think so. My result said I am Supergenius Pussymagnet.M-B has been largely debunked in Psychology. It's slightly (and I mean slightly) more valuable than a horoscope.
People use these tests to define themselves and it's terrible. They have been shown to have very poor reproducible values -- people who don't remember their responses usually end up with something moderately different than their last test, meaning it's less a personality test and more of a "how are you feeling today?" test. It's the computer version of a mood ring.
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