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You're slow on the draw, ButtPirate. I figured you'd jump out your own skin to be the first niggler in line.

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Probably a slither more 4w5 than 5w4 due what appears to be a desire to subsume yourself to the ideas and labels you feel akin to, such that dropping them would cause you to lose definition. In addition you pursue a romantic ideal which defines 4s more than other types: mood cultivation based on that identity as opposed to the materialism more classically associated with 5.
I don't identify much with 4 at all (pussy shit as a leading e-type, although it does account for my sense of being set apart from others by differences), though slightly moreso than with 6 (the self-bamboozling paranoid crusades of many sixes piss me off, especially when these delusional holy knights are guilty of the same sins they decry in others). That said, 5w6 will come up on some tests. I also receive sp/sx IS test results at times.

You'll have to provide a citation for this supposed materialism, which my searches indicate is more a general feature of 7 and 8.

If you mean materialism in the ontological sense of physical monism, that's been my default stance for fucking ever. Recently I've been easing myself into idealist monism of the hindu variety, taking an interest mostly in the nondualism of advaita vedanta (it seems a bit dry though so for shits and giggles I'm also looking into the qualified theistic monism of advaita saivism). Zhuangzi's brand of taoism is also appealing for its sublimation of perspective and intentionality, its skepticism, and its call for attunement to the universal law. This philosophy also strikes me as having numerous parallels with the Logos, process philosophy, and enantiodromia of Heraclitus.

Within the mythological domain of sanatana dharma I identify most strongly with Shiva and Kali, personifications of inexorable time and the totality of existence, destroyers of darkness and ignorance, continually annihilating and creating the universe moment by moment. Likewise the defunct Zoroastrian deity Zurvan (called Aion by Jung), who had a somewhat similar role as transcendent uncaused cause and progenitor of all, including fathering the dualistic spirits of light and dark, Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu. Within Norse mythology I have a fondness for Tyr, and then the mystic and riddler Odin above all, plus Fenrir (Hrodvitnir) and his sons Skoll and Hati, the last two fixed by the Norns (fates) to consume the sun and moon during Ragnarok, closing one cycle of existence and allowing a new world and a new mankind to arise from the ashes of the old (see further parallels with the circularity of hindu cosmology and Heraclitian apokatastasis, i.e. the cosmic reset button that returns all to its primordial chaos so that order can once again order the manifestation of forms).

My tattoos proclaim me a lover of lightning and thunder; someone who says "That's life" and appreciates the absurdity and exploitation of happenstance; who knows that time is fleeting and also illusory against the backdrop of eternity; and who values the creative realization of ideals (heaven I-ching (tian) trigram with a suggested bifurcation into earth by a psychic cross), again with a recognition of the unity of creation and destruction.

If given use of a time machine to assassinate a destructive world-historical figure I would kill Plato rather than Jesus or ******, though Mohammed is also a tempting option.

As a kid I always favored Eeyore among all Winnie the Pooh characters, and on Sesame Street it was Sam the Robot.

I hope to die by lighting bolt or drowning at sea.

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