ENFP.
Curious, in light of the immense amount of thinking I do.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Emlyn" <emlyn@one.net.au>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: New ways
> Every now and then, the subject of these tests pops up on the list; I was
> just thinking recently it was about time again. Too cool, they're fun.
>
> I was INTP last time I checked. For whatever that's worth (3 magic beans?)
>
> Emlyn
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andrew Lias" <anrwlias@hotmail.com>
> To: <extropians@maxwell.kumo.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 12:53 AM
> Subject: Re: New ways
>
>
> > "J. R. Molloy" <jr@shasta.com> writes:
> > >Andrew Lias has written,
> > >
> > > > one could say that the Promethean metaphor is in ascension while the
> > > > Frankenstein metaphor is in decline.
> > >
> > >Indeed, Robert Anton Wilson has written a popular book entitled
> _Prometheus
> > >Rising_
> > >http://www.newfalcon.com/books/prometheus_rising.htm
> > >and the Frankensteinian monster has received makeovers from Hollywood.
> >
> > Of course, if we want to *really* strain the metaphor, we could conduct
a
> > poll to see how many on this list fall into the "Promethean" (i.e.,
*NT*)
> > catagory on the Meyers-Briggs personality
> > sorter(http://mijuno.larc.nasa.gov/dfc/mb.html).
> >
> > My guess is that we'd get a fair amount of Prometheans and an even
> *larger*
> > amount of people who consider the test to be crap and an utter waste of
> > time. ;-)
> >
> > -- Andrew Lias
> >
> > [FWIW, and all humor aside, I've become rather skeptical of the
inventory,
> > over time, in spite of being admittedly taken with it when I first
> > encountered it. See http://skepdic.com/myersb.html for a critical
> > evaluation of the inventory]
> >
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