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Originally posted by Balkan
reply to post by JustinSee
Isn't it enough to just be human? Why should we concentrate so much on the differences between people? Why should some people be special and others not (a claim made in the OP)? Should we focus on inequalities?
Maybe we should.
Yesss that is soo true,.
Originally posted by JustinSee
reply to post by Witness2008
Not to be offensive, but some people see themselves in an entirely different light than what they really are...
A wife beater, doesn't see himself as a wife beater....
People lose themselves in the idea of oneself, rather than the actual self....
Originally posted by typwar
So let me get this straight, you are trying to tell me that people with clear mental problems are all actually super people who are going to save the world?
Originally posted by SpringHeeledJack
reply to post by 11I11
Condoleeza Rice
Hillary Clinton and Pelosi calling for war in Libya
Janet Napolitano
Let's just dispel this rumor right now if we can. It's this sort of self-loathing rhetoric that gets people to feel weak and subscribe to this sort of hokum. The past few decades, men have been made to feel inferior to women when in reality men are more often the victim of domestic abuse, do worse in schools, get less scholarships, and fare much worse in almost every other aspect of society while women are coddled and accompanied. This is not equality. But I'm straying off topic...
Originally posted by schuyler
Originally posted by typwar
So let me get this straight, you are trying to tell me that people with clear mental problems are all actually super people who are going to save the world?
Ha ha. Ain't it the truth! Nothin' good has come from a star child yet. But it presents real world problems. In my last job the Dorector was so enamored with Myers Briggs that she made all the management team take it. (INTJ myself), then based her management decisions on what we scored. I thought it was about the funniest thing I had ever encountered in a Pointy Haired Boss. Not to be outdone, she then got off on "Who Moved the Cheese?" and paid literally thousands of dollars to force us to watch the insipid movie by the same name. She actually thought it presented some kind of enlightenment. Since it was a government job, you taxpayers actually paid for that. When you're in a situation like this it's like being trapped on Prisoner Island. These people are nuts, yet they make decisions? It's insane!
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
Yes, the whole world is full of this type of stuff. Instead of learning Shakespeare, we are supposed to learn Briggs-Meyer tests. That is how low the level of real education has gone. These things can be fun additions, but it should not be the basis for good decision making. The world has gone crazy with "metrics" because thats how they think they can gauge progress. It's just more stuff the business world thinks it needs to replace real customer service by being the best.
Originally posted by azulejo
reply to post by Universer
umm its true, what I mean is more... people do change.. I mean its true, I wouldnt say I am the say I was 4 years ago because at that time I was a teenager I thought I knew everything now I am more certain I know nothing... maybe what I mean is character changes over the year and your perception over things.
I dont think a personality test would actually say who you are entirely, just like horoscope or the kaffa, vatta, pitta test which is very similar to a personality test... they cannot describe who you are. because humans are way unique and different from each other and there is no other person in world like you and there would never be. (my belief)
Anyways, I did one and say I am ESFJ and I dont know what it means...
I will try your link
Originally posted by azulejo
I think it would be better to not call yourself something specially when it involves your personality. People constantly change their personality as there is something new happening everyday that affects our perspective of reality and by not calling you "this" or "that" it makes you more open-minded and more receptive of those things that may be "opposite" to you.
Thanks