Poll: Do you take life seriously?

[redbaron]

(you can move this thread if you want. I do feel it's type related which is why I put it in "general". more on that later)

More or less. This shouldn't be interpreted to mean that you're serious all the time or anything. Or that you don't laugh or can't take a joke. Just that you, more often than not, have a serious outlook. Don't think too long about it though--go with your gut reaction.

[Slacker]

I would say no, which is why I doubted that I could be a "serious" type as far as the Reinen dichotomies go. Which is yet another example of why I don't like them. Misleading.

[Absurd]

Serious as it can get.

[FDG]

More likely to be a "no" than "yes" from me.

[ashlesha]

yes, more seriously than i'd like to.

[DirectorAbbie]

I take details seriously, but not life itself. The world can fall down a black hole, but the forks will be in the fork tray.

I have a motto. "There are two types of problems: those you can do something about and those you can't. There's no need to worry about the problems you can solve, and there's no point in worrying about the problems you can't solve."

[EyeSeeCold]

Hmm. Define "seriously".

[Capitalist Pig]

More likely to be a "no" than "yes" from me.

This.

I feel like I don't take life seriously enough.

Also this, sometimes.

[golden]

Not sure why people are criticizing Abbie's values/approach. It sounds totally in line with LSE and E1, and it's a perfectly functional way to exist in this world, even if you don't live that way yourself.

The motto she describes is very much like the serenity prayer: "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." That saying is so well known because many people find it helpful.

Re kids: Regardless of your type, your strengths, weaknesses, and values, having children will challenge you.

My response to this question was that I take life seriously. (And I care about some of the details, but not all of them.)

[Hot Scalding Gayser]

50% serious and 50% funny.

W/o seriousness you have no core or substance. W/o humor you have no lightedness.

The universe has a natural magnetic balance. The humor is constantly trying to raise everything UP and the seriousness is trying to bring everything DOWN. It's really like gravity. But you need both for balance. Without seriousness there can be no 'humor' and without humor there can be no 'seriousness.'

People who tell too many jokes have a defense mechanism about something to me. People who are too serious need to cut that crap out or they will just end up hurting only themselves.

[Hot Scalding Gayser]

This reminds me of art. 'Style' is funny, and humor. But to relate to your audience you need substance and a core. Pain is the only thing that's really real, so the pain of seriousness ties everything back to the center, and makes everybody love your art. 'Good art should make you vomit, and feel hella empathy for the victims being abused.'

Instinctively speaking, people hold onto their pain (because it turns into love and strength) and because it's real and hold on-able, and people let go of their happiness- because it's light and not hold on-able. You can't just hug something that naturally wants to float up away into oblivion.

The personal style or flair is there to make everything seem interesting, as well as your own unique aesthetic value. Tie everything together, and you have art.

If you avoid all pain and tragedy, you're just being naive to the horrors of the world and putting your head in the sand like an ostrich. But talking about it too much makes everybody kill themselves.

[golden]

50% serious and 50% funny.

W/o seriousness you have no core or substance. W/o humor you have no lightedness.

The universe has a natural magnetic balance. The humor is constantly trying to raise everything UP and the seriousness is trying to bring everything DOWN. It's really like gravity. But you need both for balance. Without seriousness there can be no 'humor' and without humor there can be no 'seriousness.'

People who tell too many jokes have a defense mechanism about something to me. People who are too serious need to cut that crap out or they will just end up hurting only themselves.

I've heard it said--not sure I agree--that people who take things seriously or are melancholy or whatever are more likely to have a lot of humor. It's something I watch for and sometimes seems true. It makes me think of the Pierrot archetype and Charlie Chaplin.

And I guess everyone except the enlightened has some set of defenses. Jokes are hardly my least favorite, heh.