Is "type" the emerging "pop culture"?

[Onmymind_too]

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[Johnny]

Where compatibility with others is being sought, experience remains the last resort for anyone who is attracted to the "easy way out".

With laziness being so popular, I don't think typology is in any real danger. :lol:

[Jezebel]

Anything that places people in groups can be used to divide and discriminate. I don't think there's anything that can be done to stop that.

Personally, aside from the internet, I never hear about mbti type. I've known about the mbti for about 6 or 7 years, and haven't seen a significant rise in popularity. Even on the internet, it seems like only the N types show more than a passing interest in it.

[paladinoflunaria]

I really wouldn't mind if everyone took a test administrated by a professional and was thereafter forced to wear a badge displaying type, especially if we were to improve on the typology. There is also an inherent problem with that picture, and it is the seperation of people. People are all different, but they're all the same. If everyone wears everyone else's shoes at the same time, we'd be better off. So...

I'd agree with Johnny that the typology isn't in any danger.

[Claverhouse]

I really wouldn't mind if everyone took a test administrated by a professional and was thereafter forced to wear a badge displaying type

Apart from the dangers of literally labelling people ( jews in the middle ages, and more recently in nazi Germany --- although, once again in a display of their ever stunning ineptitude, this was initially a suggestion from the jewish leaders... ), I think that overt labels would take away just a little of the precious mystery in meeting new people.

Although it might be useful if it said 'idiot', or 'retard' often enough.


Claverhouse :ph34r:

[paladinoflunaria]

Claverhouse wrote:

Although it might be useful if it said 'idiot', or 'retard' often enough.

That's basically what I'm getting at. I'd avoid all of the ESFJs, etc. It would also be neat because I might meet people of disagreeable types that I end up liking. This would be a great way to weed out small talkers. Most people would only knowingly talk to an INTP in a serious manner. Although it isn't a perfect system, it would be better than what's being used now.

[KentOhio]

I wish typology was more popular. The Intro to Psych. class doesn't mention it at all. I talked to a junior psychology major and she had no idea what it was. Very disappointing. As I see it, typology is the most important part of psychology. I'd be happy if more people knew their types.

[int]

It's a little too complex, methinks, for the "pop" scene.

[HairlessBluetick]

It's a little too complex, methinks, for the "pop" scene.

Well, so is astrology. What would end up happening is we'd end up with real typology and "pop" typology -- a dumbed down version for people who would do the MBTI equivalent of checking their horoscopes on MSN every morning. :( :o :blink:

[Crazy]

It's a little too complex, methinks, for the "pop" scene.

Well, so is astrology. What would end up happening is we'd end up with real typology and "pop" typology -- a dumbed down version for people who would do the MBTI equivalent of checking their horoscopes on MSN every morning. :( :o :blink:

Shoot me now. http://www.intpcentral.com/uploads/gunner.gif

I can just see people coming in here and saying

"Like, OMG, I'm like Soooo INTP and junk"[/img]

[Johnny]

I've been tapping on the ground with a shovel so far with astrology, and there is something I do like about it - that astrology attempts a connection between one's birth and the planets, the sun, and the stars. For something like astrology to talk about who we are in a manner that gives the world some credit is quite interesting.

What I don't understand is how one's birthdate in relation to the positions of astral bodies (if, indeed, I am not misunderstanding something here in what astrology really is), has any power to determine my personality. But I'm really more interested searching the possibility that astrology directs one's life in a manner that would agree with, say, Campbell's hero journey, regardless of one's birthdate.

Edit: man, this is straying off-topic, isn't it?

[paladinoflunaria]

KentOhio wrote:

As I see it, typology is the most important part of psychology.

I think cognitive science is probably more important. What if not the mind?

Crazy5711 wrote:

I can just see people coming in here and saying

"Like, OMG, I'm like Soooo INTP and junk"[/img]

I will leave or harass the person who says this. Probably both.

Johnny wrote:

What I don't understand is how one's birthdate in relation to the positions of astral bodies (if, indeed, I am not misunderstanding something here in what astrology really is), has any power to determine my personality.

That goes for me as well. I just never understood how something like date of birth could have anything to do with the mind.

[Johnny]

Well, what really affects what, when we get down to it? Maybe astrology isn't quite as farfetched as we would like to imagine. Maybe astral bodies have more of an affect than we imagine, and some people are honoring this in the same manner that Campbell does with mythology (until, that is, another explanation is devised for such a thing).

I'm not trying to lay the foundation for wild theories to explain what I don't understand and then going about my business...but where is that line drawn? In one's personal experience? In collective experience? In a repeatable lab result?

Can anyone imagine how agonizingly boring repeatable lab results are when school is finally over? :zzz:

[Strephonade]

If we take annual rhythms of nature into account, maybe that would help to explain things a bit--and astrological studies were very closely related to farmer's almanacs, originally. Maybe things like a season of plenty and a season of conservation are less exaggerated in our modern times, but there are still rhythms in society that reflect seasonal changes. For instance, in winter, we might have a slightly smaller range of choices in terms of fruits and veggies at the supermarket, and we might be careful to protect our fragile bodies from the winter cold with warm clothing, spend less time than usual outdoors (although that probably wouldn't affect homebody INTPs like me as much), etc. In the spring, we might be more inclined to play outside a bit, enjoy the change in weather, and so on.

[int]

Well, so is astrology. What would end up happening is we'd end up with real typology and "pop" typology -- a dumbed down version for people who would do the MBTI equivalent of checking their horoscopes on MSN every morning. :( :o :blink:

Hmm...Maybe there's an new business venture for Miss Cleo? :)

[cloakable]

Well, so is astrology. What would end up happening is we'd end up with real typology and "pop" typology -- a dumbed down version for people who would do the MBTI equivalent of checking their horoscopes on MSN every morning. :( :o :blink:

*Shudders* But if that happened, and we got flooded with 'pop' INTP's, at least I'd get to exercise my sarcasm on some (hopefully fragile) ego's. Hehe, I'm not really very nice, am I? :ph34r: