For those who don't know what it is, you take a test which categorizes you into a type based on your dominant traits, which are either:
Extroverted or IntrovertedSensing or IntuitionThinking or Feeling Judging or PerceivingYou can take the test here: http://www.mypersonality.info/personality-types/Of course it isn't perfect, being an online quiz. I find that I could answer some of the questions either way depending on the context of it and my mood at the time. I think it's meant to show how you process information, and what they can infer from that.My result was INTP. I find that I can relate well to a lot of things said about their personalities. But I am awful at maths, when INTPs are knows as the engineers. Something else I wanted to talk about was religion. I am curious about what you believe. I have always been a Christian but having philosophised about things, I'm pretty much borderline agnostic but I am not comfortable about leaving my faith altogether. I'm kind of vague about it now, I say things that seem logical to me, but it doesn't line up with my faith. I suppose it would have to do with my open-ended 'perceiving' trait, with the more rational 'NT' part of me. The Ne (extroverted intuition) and the P would make me more likely to see things from different perspectives, and say things with a type of detachment. There was a profile that articulated this better than I, but I suppose it's useless saying that since I am too lazy to look for it. Okay, that was just me rambling. …I thought I may as well add this:
And no, my name is not Eunice >.< It's my internet name that I use sometimes when signing up for things.
woops, forgot that agnostic says the existance of god is unknown.
No worries.
We have the illusion of free will, that is enough. We are a product of everything we've ever experienced or heard, combined with our genetics. We still hold basic instincts like some animals do, the need for food, water, comfort, the desire to connect with others like us, to reproduce, etc. We are different from animals in the way that we reason with words and philosophise things. You could call us animals because we are basically made of the same stuff, we are mammals. But humans have developed language, so I guess it's up to us to decide what we want to call ourselves. People regard most animals as being of little worth and would rather believe that God created us to be special, so I suppose that's why some don't like the idea of macro-evolution.
@ Juju: I see. @ RawrSpoon: What about theistic agnosticism? I thought agnostic meant not knowing. You could believe in a God, but believe that you couldn't know which religion is the right one, right?I've believed in determinism since I was like 11 (I didn't know it was called determinism or that anyone else believed it), but I'm gradually convincing myself otherwise. I think it's important to be able to change your ideas and understand when you're proved wrong.
Theology and the like hurts my brain parts. I wish I just didn't think about it at all, because the whole debate just leaves you feeling empty, I find.Then I go watch Donnie Darko and think "LUL WUT"I'm a physics student and as a result of studying cosmology and astronomy, I am reminded on a daily basis that humans and humanity are, indeed, utterly insignificant.
Ah, I really don't believe in those tests, I don't think you can really simplify human psyche so much. But I'm bored so what the heck.@ Juju: We are insignificant in the grand scope of things, we are relatively small and our lives are short and everything will eventually be forgotten. We're not entirely special and unique, we're just humans. Even the bible compares us to maggots. "How much less man, who is but a maggot - a son of man, who is only a worm!" (Job 25:6)
But we are or can be significant to ourselves and each other, significant in human terms, in this short amount of time we have here on earth. In the end, all that really matters is how conscious beings feel. If there is nothing there to perceive things, then nothing matters to anything.@ Sandwich: How are you convincing yourself otherwise? Yes it can feel quite empty, unless your particular philosophy is.. enlightening. Except I think it is good to think about it despite that..@ hel: The reason I said some was because not all animals have the desire to connect with others like itself, I should probably have worded that better.
And.. is there something I am not getting? Why should I want to kill you? :P