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Monday, May 02, 2005

Psychology eh?

So, I did that test thats going around. It was a little odd, I got ENTJ whereas in all the ones i've done previously I've gotten INTP. True, the ones that are different got pretty weak scores in this test. Perhaps I'm sort of borderline. That or this particular test is crap.

Your Type is
ENTJ
Extroverted Intuitive Thinking Judging
Strength of the preferences %
11 75 75 22

Qualitative analysis of your type formula

You are:
slightly expressed extrovert
distinctively expressed intuitive personality
distinctively expressed thinking personality
slightly expressed judging personality


Link to description by J. Butt

Sort of accurate. That very first quote is dead wrong, but after that its not so bad. If you take into account the fact that I got only 11% for the extroverted part and adjust the description accordingly then it's not too bad.
TRADEMARK: -- "I'm really sorry you have to die."
Heh, thats cool.
I read the INTP one out of interest as well, there are some things in there I can relate to also. Perhaps it is a combo then.

Anyway, while I was driving to uni this morning, I found myself pondering this:

THE ABSURDITY OF FOLLOWING THE 10 COMMANDMENTS OF GOD
(At least for the reason of being afraid that you will go to hell if you don't)

Consider first that God is some all-powerful and all-seeing entity that created the universe and everything, or else is some kind of super-conciousness that pervades all the universe and all life, or is simply the universe itself as seen as a 4+ dimensional entity unchanging and complete in all its beauty and magnificence.
Anyway the first definition is more the one I am here to deal with.
So this all-powerful and all-seeing being can presumably see all throughout time and has complete knowledge of everything that can and will happen. Having created humans exactly as we are and having explicit knowledge of how we develop as people throughout our lives, He would surely know how certain events would contribute to who we are and how we react to the world around us.
As an all-powerful and all-seeing being, it is obvious that He has complete control over what happens to us, either through his action or inaction, simply because of this knowledge. Therefore it would be completely absurb for this entity to pass a bunch of laws upon man and demand that he obey them, as it is the entity itself who determines whether or not man is going to follow them.
Perhaps this is all part of some divine scheme you say. If it is it can only be one that is extremely sadistic. To pass such laws upon man, knowing full well who is going to obey them and who is not (remembering that He in fact controls who will and will not obey them), and then say that those who do not follow them will be sent to hell where they will suffer an eternity of torment (through no fault of their own, it was preordained by God from the dawn of time) can hardly be seen as the actions of a good and just god. No-one claims that he is always nice and hurts no-one, but sadism is a flaw that surely a divine being could not have.
I'm not saying that the 10 commandments aren't reasonable enough things for the most part or that people shouldn't follow them, just that they are not of divine origin.

That is all.

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