'Well yes and no.  It really depends on what you mean by care and consider.  Should the Catholic Church and its doctrine of Divine Simplicity be believed, God is a singular, timeless, and perfect...|||I'd be a little disappointed, but mostly confused -- I'd be more interested in figuring out what conclusions I could draw based on this new information.  By the way, I'd find it more plausible that...|||Yeah, it super baffled me that that was one of the most thanked posts in that thread.  Also, being mixed race myself (cuz that's a thing worth mentioning to some people) I really think it'd be a...|||Stroke? Nah, tell your friend that real friends tender their OWN friends loins.  Sometimes you just gotta get in there and make your friend feel like the truest friend of all.|||Yeah, I wouldn't recommend it.  It's a slippery slope.  I do recommend the orgasms though.|||I think one thing to keep in mind about language is that it's heavily based on associating sounds to context.  Like the word feline refers to cat-like things, but people have different associations...|||Okay, this is starting to get interesting.  It looks to me like you're assuming by default that the mind dies when the body does.  You merely claim out of hand that there's overwhelming evidence...|||That's an interesting line of thought.  I suppose my view is that life is mostly coherent, e.g. we have experiences that can be ordered across time, whereas death seems it would remove the grounding...|||This interests me.  Do you mean consciousness seems better thought of as manifest or not, rather than alive or not?|||I kinda feel like you're missing the spirit of what I'm asking, so let me rephrase.  I want to know why you claim the state of being dead necessarily involves an absence of experience.  I'd also...|||I've noticed that a lot of people assume that death is like a dreamless sleep.  I'm kinda curious how sure people are about that, and what exactly it's based on.    Two thought experiments to...|||I kinda agree, though the biggest attack I've seen on family in this area is the frivolity of divorce.  I work afterschool care and I can't tell you how many kids get gloomy just mentioning Mom or...|||Because you're a fan of socialism, or just better sex in general?|||Hrm, well traditionally Enneatype isn't about presenting a persona so much as it's about your defense mechanisms and how you tend to respond to problems.  The type 9, for instance, avoids being...|||The two seem different to me as well, though I tend to associate repression more with shoving the feelings away or overwriting them with other ones than I do with labeling.  Usually what happens with...|||Basically I found out that many descriptions of God are canonically metaphorical.  The doctrine of Divine Simplicity (which the Catholic Church still adheres to, last I checked), teaches that God is...|||:cool:|||The Five Butthole Languages Explained  Describe two things you don't like about buttholes  Smelly Butthole Poopers  interesting butthole stories  Post buttholes you like|||I prefer Enneagram because it focuses more on emotional hang-ups and the things that people struggle with.  MBTI can capture some of that by pointing out trends among groups of people that process...|||really this is the most important dating question to ask|||I suggest broiling them to perfection first.  A good plan must be meticulously cooked before consumption.  Then again, I've never much believed in the sunny side up perspective, so ymmv.|||You know what spam is, right?  Maybe try turning your threads into discussions rather than preaching your dogma.  Or taking your views and actually defending them in the debate section.|||Yeah, the closest thing I'm hearing to an argument in that is that most atheistic philosophies simply don't answer a certain type of question that most theistic ones do. But then they also pretty...|||Unfortunately tests only can give you an idea of where to start.  Maybe highlight what it is about each type you relate to, and look up mistypes between 5 and 9.  Also, I suggest you don't worry...|||Kinda I guess. I get more talkative and crass (INFJ 9w8 here.)  And even though I censor myself less, I even more say what I think people want to hear.  Like I hate teasing normally, but I'll tease...|||My favorite is from Naranjo:    In much of my childhood I felt like a passive observer in my life.  It wasn't just that I didn't get involved in the people around me, it was that I tried to...|||I thought it'd be neat if we had a thread coalescing stuff people really related to about their type experience and dilemmas.  Feel free to include stuff you or other members have written, as well as...|||Thisguynowswhat'sup.|||Thank the l0ord Jesus for this wonderful Friday.  I have my day over and have this blessed weekend of krunkedness.|||I really like this.  It seems like a good way to frame why sp-types often feel okay with being alone.  There are times when I feel a need for other people, but in the past couple years it's been...|||I'm not looking at this as about trust or problems...  and I didn't say sp should lax down either. I said it needs a bigger incentive to.  I mean that in the sense of what's in it for me? when what...|||I think this gets at something key, because sp-dominants often behave as if trying to retain a kind of extra reserve.  I see this reflected in what @Nephilibata was saying about having a thick cell...|||So, I was hoping to start a discussion to find out what people really think of the sp-instinct as. Instinct theory has been muddy to me, but the constant that makes most sense to me is...|||**something weird happened; could I get this deleted?  not sure how to go about this.  @birdsintrees ?   also posted in the wrong forum before this here:  ...|||It may also help to think of these beliefs as simply justification tendencies.  You may/may not try to justify your problems in type-typical ways, but for each type there's a low-hanging fruit that...|||Hmm, I'd have to say for me I tend to make casual friendships mostly easily with 5s and 6s but lasting friendships more with image types (esp 3s).  Weirdly, even though I get along and relate most...|||Well, R&H mention in their Wisdom of the Enneagram that the types have an energy either outwards (2,7,8) inwards (4,5,1) or both directions (3,6,9), which I've restated to be more in terms of...|||Basically, it can be understood as an extension of what it means for a type to be a part of a given triad.  Each triad has a characteristic cluster of issues/concerns, and there's three basic...|||Yep, I'm a 9 and this seems pretty accurate.  And if it helps, basically I don't like having to explain stuff.  Most of my friends if they offer a suggestion or ask if I'm down to do something and...|||I guess one thing I'd add personally is that identifying with my Enneagram type helped me to clear myself out of some of the boxes I had unwittingly fallen into that didn't fall from my type.  Like...|||I think I did at one point but not recently, and I just checked and my passwords for perC and FB are different.  But I went ahead and erased my cookies and cache and it's working for now at least.|||Same problem.  I've been having to login via incognito.  FWIW, it keeps redirecting back and forth from perC to facebook, and if I log out of FB it stops on FB and asks me to login.|||FWIW, I already see each type as a spectrum - wings to me are just a way of trying to capture what the spectrum looks like on the far sides of the type.  I find this useful for my own type (9), but I...|||I wasn't sure where to put this -- not sure it's even type related.  But I've been wondering if maybe there's more to my withdrawing than simply getting overstimulated and needing to get my bearings...|||I like it if it can be done in good taste, in areas I care to improve -- sadly it usually hasn't been either of those for me.|||My first thought on this was legion, though in recent times I've been pretty consistent with this.  Basically I trust my gut feelings, but whether I act immediately or reflect depends a lot on...|||Yeah, sometimes I wish I had a box of thanks I could shower over particular posts.  But this way is much nicer.  :kitteh:|||Well, whether you describe the 4's ego fixation as fantasizing or melancholy, if you want to talk about the ego fixation specifically you have to limit the boundaries of what the words fantasizing...|||I first felt like 4 would explain a lot of my meaning of life troubles, and so I was pretty drawn to it.  Didn't help that a lot of people, whenever I'd get all melancholic on them would bring up...|||Okay, I think I get what you're seeking.  The way I see it is -- and I'd be skeptical of anyone who largely disagrees with this -- descriptions that say 9s daydream or 4s fantasize are painting...'