The Thread of CONTRAVERSY

[plotter]

Socialist dog.

amidoinitrite?

[April]

EII > ESI > LII. Other suggestions are kind of silly if you really know me. I've considered ESI and LII a lot, but things just don't fit together as nicely for those types.

[Ave]

EII > ESI > LII. Other suggestions are kind of silly if you really know me. I've considered ESI and LII a lot, but things just don't fit together as nicely for those types.

I know you can do better than that.

[April]

I know you can do better than that.

I guess.

Regarding EII vs. ESI, perhaps it's a failing of type descriptions, but I relate more to EII/Ne descriptions than ESI/Se descriptions. ESI/Se descriptions are often focused on force and influencing people, whereas I have much more of a "live and let live" type of attitude. I'd much rather exemplify my ideals than push them onto others. ESI/Se descriptions also describe evaluating people at face value, whereas I'm more likely to see their potential, give them the benefit of the doubt, consider many possibilities about why somebody is behaving the way they are, and not judge so harshly--even to the point of "making excuses" for people. I am generally not willing to make potentially unfair judgments about the personal value of an individual or take things out of context.

I've read somewhat conflicting information about a certain manifestation of Ne-creative and Ne-PoLR. In ESI and EII descriptions, it's been noted that both of these types can be a bit neurotic about possibilities and lost potential. However, as some people have described their Ne-PoLR friends and relatives on this board, I simply can't relate to not wanting to hear all the potential outcomes of a situation. I actively think about all the factors affecting potential outcomes throughout the entire damn day rather naturally (e.g., regarding projects at work, personal affairs, etc.), and sometimes it's stressful, but most of the time it's not. I am, however, uncomfortable with the idea of lost potential. I have a lot of health problems, so I've been particularly disappointed with needing to scale back my expectations and goals in life, but that's the way it goes sometimes.

I also relate much more to EII than ESI in terms of quadra values and intertype relationships. I'd much rather be thrown into a room of random Alphas than random Betas. I know you have to assume that I've typed them correctly, but I've experienced conflict with SLE, duality with LSE, mirror with IEE (my mother and best friend of many years), etc. I haven't experienced conflict, but rather pleasant relationships, with some ILEs on the board, like Riddy and Sam (shindaiwa). In fact, regarding the quadra descriptions at http://www.socionics.us/theory/quadras.shtml, I almost relate to Alpha more than Delta, and really not so much Gamma (*barfs at terms like "marketplace," "social maneuvering," and "profitable"*).

That's probably enough for now.

[Ave]

*applause*