Help Determining Type
Hello all. I would like help determining my type. I believe the type I have listed might be wrong and would like your opinion. In the past I have scored as IEI, ILI, and EII. I saw these questions on another page, and copied and pasted them. Please let me know your thoughts.
1. What is beauty? What is love?
Beauty, to me, is the invocation of the sublime. What I mean by this is that a moment of beauty exists when you are met with a force, a picture, or idea greater than you. This concept is something you understand to affect your life supremely, and perhaps other people’s as well. Beauty, in essence, removes us from ourselves into something greater.
Love is two-fold. There is both the sentiment of love, and the act of loving. I believe the sentiment of love to be ostensibly the most powerful one in existence. The reason I say this is that I believe there is a point at which our minds cognize someone else as loved: this is a moment at which we realize our narratives are irrevocably bound with theirs. This feeling can exist outside of experience of the other person itself. This is to say, we can love someone, but not actually love them in the action. The action may present itself in myriad ways: sometimes in hate, sometimes in support, but always it traces itself back to a passionate understanding that the person before us is necessarily cognized in such a way that their narrative is something important to you personally.
2. What are your most important values?
This is hard to answer. Holding a concrete pillar or value is difficult to say, because I feel for me the ones I have are hard to articulate. That said, I believe reality to be a very liminal space, and that all things we come into contact with influence us insomuch as we influence them. So it becomes important to me to understand phenomenologically how I’ve interacted with my surroundings, how they have with me, and how I have influenced them and am doing so in real time.
3. Do you have any sort of spiritual/religious beliefs, and why do you hold (or don't) those beliefs in the first place?
I do not, officially. I have never enjoyed going to going to church. The environment has always felt slightly empty to me. I prefer to stress my connection to phenomena around me. That said, I would say because I see things so liminally I have a spiritual view of the world. In the right light, everything can be sacred.
4. Opinion on war and militaries? What is power to you?
Personally I do not enjoy war, nor would I involve myself in war. That said, I recognize that war has been an important manner for people to express themselves and their understandings of their communities across time. I especially enjoy reading novels about war because of their psychological complexity. The grandiosity of something like war forces an inversion of perspective on many people, and the ramifications of that bring out some of the most unbelievable things about people.
5. What have you had long conversations about? What are your interests? Why?
Most commonly philosophy. This is my major in college, and in larger groups I find it hard to open up, unless I am talking about something serious like philosophy. That said, I almost always try to pinpoint one person to have a meaningful conversation with. I usually try to get an idea of how they are interacting with the world around them, and usually I do this through discussing their relationships, sexual tendencies, beliefs about the world, and committing to see them continually over time so that they become more willing and comfortable speaking with me.
6. Interested in health/medicine as a conversation topic? Are you focused on your body?
Not at all. I tend to ignore my body for the most part. I feel I live in an almost constant state of dissociation. That said, I do work out to make sure that my body is running so well that I do not have to think about it or whatever might be affecting it.
7. What do you think of daily chores?
I really dislike daily chores. Sometimes it can be nice to put things in order, and ultimately I appreciate the outcome of chores, but many times I can’t get in the clearest place of mind to actually complete these.
8. Books or films you liked? Recently read/watched or otherwise. Examples welcome.
Generally I have not delved much into either of these art forms. Music, though I have considerably, so I will list some albums that I have connected powerfully with. The Age of Adz (Sufjan Stevens), Strange Mercy (St. Vincent), Kaputt (Destroyer), and Skeleton Tree (Nick Cave). I enjoy all of these because I think they deal with a very specific sort of psychotrauma, different in each case, and find imaginative approaches to expressing this trauma, leaving questions surrounding it, but declaring their pain in a way that feels personal and uncomfortable for them.
9. What has made you cry? What has made you smile? Why?
I almost only cry when something is bitter-sweet, I don’t show emotion hardly ever, even when alone. The crying, then, comes when some sublime feeling comes through to me, an experience of understanding someone else’s experience or a necessary collective emotional experience of all people becomes clear. Unironically, the same things make me smile afterword.
10. Where do you feel: at one with the environment/a sense of belonging?
Very few places. Perhaps a room including myself, or a lover. I enjoy lying in bed and listening to music...writing poetry. I also enjoy solitary experience of nature. It is good time to reflect and see phenomena come alive in a meaningful way.
11. What have people seen as your weaknesses? What do you dislike about yourself?
People have seen me as allowing people to come in too far into my life, seeking out my guidance and support, while also not revealing enough personal information to match. In a sense, I suppose this is a sort of passive aggression because I rarely turn people away, but close myself off to the majority of people because I don’t intend to pursue an extended relation with them. While I tend to be nice, I collect a large amount of information on people which makes them feel I both have a part of them, while we might not want to pursue a true relationship of some sort.
12. What have people seen as your strengths? What do you like about yourself?
My ability for conversation, imagination, articulation in giving way to my ideas, philosophizing, and creativity are noted and enjoyed by many. I am a poet and I write a lot...this is something I enjoy being good at.
13. In what areas of your life would you like help?
I would like help in feeling able to unearth some of my harder-kept feelings at times. Self-revelation is something I value, but find hard to do and to let my guard down for in the moment, so I would like to be more engaged in that manner. Also, I would like to be better at doing simple house things perhaps, because otherwise I’m quite unable to maintain autonomy for myself.
14. Ever feel stuck in a rut? If yes, describe the causes and your reaction to it.
Yes. I suffer from a mood disorder. I’m fairly stubborn and usually rely on my own strength and explanations to cope. I have written as a mechanism of dealing with issues of mood.
15. What qualities do you most like and dislike in other people? What types do you get along with?
Again, this is very hard for me to articulate. Ultimately I care more about having an understanding of people on some level, at least in the context of how they fit into their own life. From there knowing why I like them likely deals with how they potentially would fit into mine.
16. How do you feel about romance/sex? What qualities do you want in a partner?
I enjoy both of these to a great degree. It’s hard again for me to describe the ideal partner, I find it would corrupt the notion of an ideal itself to even start delineating it, though there is a picture of someone interacting with their world in a certain way that sticks out to me.
17. If you were to raise a child, what would be your main concerns, what measures would you take, and why?
How will they interact with the world? Will the place we live in offer them potential to come to an understanding of who they might be subconsciously and who they want to be consciously? I would make sure to research where we were living, and see how my child changes over time to meet their needs.
18. A friend makes a claim that clashes with your current beliefs. What is your inward and outward reaction?
Outward: nothing. I usually don’t like to get into this sort of a debate, because I usually associate with people who feel as strongly about ideas as I do. Inward: I try and understand why this person reacted this way. I think about why I reacted in the opposite way. How do those diametric ideas fit together?
19. Describe your relationship to society. How do you see people as a whole? What do you consider a prevalent social problem? Name one.Prevalent social problem: Us vs Them mentality. We are all one people. We are all living beings, monkeys, horses whatever, it's all the same really, just different outtings of life. Distinctions only really exist in our minds.
I tend not to focus on larger societal issues because I find most change and living occur on a micro-level. I am enveloped with people around me to a large degree, and I enjoy reading theory about society and the way it shapes people and viceversa, but I would consider myself to be in general a stateless individual.
20. How do you choose your friends and how do you behave around them?
This is a gradual process. Usually I will meet someone astray outside a group function, get to know them, and become closer overtime. On the other hand, some people come into my life in a full-force manner, and some of them become friends over times, and some do not.
21. How do you behave around strangers?
Very freely. I enjoy making up personas around strangers, and pretending to be someone they might seem to enjoy. I find this to be fun especially at an airport or transition place where you can get to know someone and insert yourself into the world of someone with a very different background and experience of reality.
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Creative than a 
Creative. Also, you say that you don't care much about your body. This can be linked to 
Role and to IEI again. 
, the Leading function of IEI. 
on a personal level. In general I would say that I prefer to only open up to a small group of people and am known for being an incredibly serious person which runs a bit counter to that. In general I feel as though I am likely 
dominant and I have gotten ILI-3Ni as my score the past couple of times on the sociotype.com test. I figured if 
are my most valued functions, ILI could work in the sense that it works for someone like Kafka..
, laying complete ontologies of the universe so science may function on its back. I'm really most interested in how to integrate my own reality and experiences, however, which is certainly more of a 
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