Recent content by Umai

Thankyou.

You' re getting very warm. Christianity was the invention of Paul. What jesus taught and was an emissary for was something very different and more akin to a series of spiritual ideas that arose throughout the far, middle and near east in the millennium BC.

That is, I agree with whoever upthread said he was INTJ.

Not quite, but I have always felt that I sensed a malice in him and a latent potential for fanaticism. His endorsement of Christianity is likely for social and political reasons rather than religious, something we' re seeing increasingly in recent years. I'm less concerned about his agenda than...

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I don't know much about these subjects at all but I tend to think of iNtuition in the MBTI sense as merely a label for a type of cognitive processing and it's a whole lot more mundane than the subjects of OBE's and ESP. 'Intuition' in the more esoteric sense of telepathy, ESP etc, etc is...

Yes. Israel's possession of nukes has not sparked an ME nuclear arms race but Iran's would. Arab states in general are uneasy with Iran. Saudi would have almost as much to fear as Israel. Their ideology and their means of government make them a loose canon in the region. And yes, Israel is a...

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Russia wouldn't lift a finger against the US and as for non-proxy support, their army is currently engaged in conquering a new trench in eastern Ukraine. China will keep well out of it (they've got a lot of sense, and Taiwan is their issue). What the arab states want is stability, the same as...

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/nov/14/britain-fifties-book-review-whitehorn Trying to understand today's society by understanding where it came from.

I don't personally feel it's getting old: I still use it to get a handle on people and how I'll jive with them, which is it's main utility I think. For deeper stuff like neurosis and trigger points, it's the Enneagram. What is probably getting old is the online discussion of it across all...

Happy 2025 to you too !!

Yes there's interesting links between Freud's theories, via Bernays, and consumer capitalism, modern marketing etc. Quality responses as usual. From Asa's comments I see how some in the Enneagram community typed him as a Six rather than a Five. I haven't really read him. Maybe I throw the baby...

Preferences, not abilities, and all that.... Thanks, I'll have a look.