Election 2018

[Bob Butler 54]

(11-01-2018, 03:15 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(10-31-2018, 03:20 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote: Hmm...  I wonder.  You seem to put people in stereotypes emotionally as you Feel and Judge them.  Your posting of TV skits as an argument for blue thought is more Feeling than Thinking.  You Judge people as fitting a niche rather than trying to Perceive how they actually are.  You do not react or respond to Thinking arguments that disagree with your worldview.  

Are you sure you are an INTP?  The Myers Briggs tests are vulnerable to people who have fooled themselves.

Your comments about me and others always say more about me than about you, and demonstrate the same qualities in yourself that you criticize in others. 

I am something of an expert on that test, and have taken it many times. It's true that in my T and F scores the margins are razor thin, but predominantly the T usually wins out. If you could appreciate all the thought designs I have discovered, you could see that I fit the type very well. Architect, philosopher, designer; that's always been me, even though I veered toward feeling in the late sixties and that time left its mark on me.

I am very happy that, in the midst of such deception and tyranny and the utter banal foolishness in the White House and congress, that I can watch and share the comics who make it more bearable by subjecting our leaders to ridicule and unmasking their foolishness. Meyers, Colbert, Maher and Oliver are masters of their craft, and these times would not be bearable without them. I'm glad someone in the media is telling the truth to offset all the bullshit from the far right media.

I don't know how far the resistance would go if the congress swerved to the center-left. Past patterns might continue, and they might be mitigated to some extent by some features of our new age. I can only make the best prediction I can, and others can make theirs, and we'll see what happens. I can't disagree with your scenario, and hope for the best, but I can't be sure which one will happen.

A razor thin score might explain it.

Mind you, there is nothing wrong with Feelers or Judgers.   You often want a good mix of types.  Judgers might quickly answer a problem while Peceptives are still dithering.  Feelers are better people persons, while Thinkers have (hopefully) sound logic.  It takes all types.

It does occur to me that classic S&H turning theory is a Judger's theory.  There are eight stereotypes in the theory: Prophet, Nomad, Hero, Artist, High, Awakening, Unraveling and Crisis.  The merit of the theory rests on whether the stereotypes fit reality, whether they make accurate predictions.  This has always rubbed me a bit wrong.  Even if a stereotype broadly holds true, often enough they don't, and it does not fit well the idea of how one should be.  And, of course, if you change civilizations or ages, the patterns might not hold true at all.  You must double check against reality.