We need to talk about this you guys.
We need to talk about this you guys.
I believe the quadral complexes are a theory only of Stratiyevskaya, right?
I'm not sure how much I accept the quadral complexes -- they seem to me all generally applicable to most people. That being said, I'll try to talk about what I relate to.
Ever since I was a child I've always felt a strong hatred of being excluded from conversations, especially of a secretive sort. I also hate the feeling of being present but unable to participate, or of being unwelcome. On the other side of the coin, I like to know secrets. Information most people don't have has an exciting allure.
I generally enjoy talking with people, and feel as if I could keep up a conversation indefinitely, as long as it were interesting. I don't mind casual 1-on-1 conversations at all, but what I love is a group atmosphere where there's a sense of "fun" and casual competitiveness in discussion, by which I mean people try to argue their points, defend them, and attack others' in a struggle to make everyone concede to their own point of view. My mother's family leans Alpha, and family reunions are often like this (and are a lot of fun), so I can see this being an Alpha trait. But I don't at all like it if such an atmosphere turns vicious or hostile toward anyone; it's important that a spirit of playfulness be maintained. Come to think of it, I think what I like is the atmosphere of a game: everyone is free to try as hard as possible to win, but all ultimately for fun. I very much enjoy playing games with other people, on that note, especially ones that rely more on strategy or skill than on luck -- but I don't enjoy playing video games by myself.
I don't at all like the concept of certain thoughts or expressions being forbidden. I grew up evangelical, and the notion that there were certain thoughts you couldn't think without being worthy of eternal damnation left a really bad taste in my mouth and influenced my leaving Christianity. I hate the feeling that there are certain words or ideas I'm unable to express in certain situations; I try to allow others the same freedom when I'm in such a position as to be able to. I also don't tend to mind topics of conversation being abruptly changed; if suddenly changes the subject my only consideration is that the new subject be interesting.
I like it when people, even strangers, start conversations out of the blue -- by which I don't mean small talk /asking "how are you," but suddenly launching into their opinions about the weather or what they did last week, and expecting you to engage; I also like atmospheres where this is permitted or encouraged. I think duality is a little overrated, but sometimes ESEs do this, and it's one of my favorite traits of theirs.
Might be f'ing wrong on all this. Drunk rn, tbh....
Ne is ideas, possibilities, it's a truly speculative & communicative (through their chosen media) function. Ne opens doors & overturns rocks to potentially extend these possibilities indefinitely.
Fe is merry, inviting, enjoys a homeostatic environment where the entire room is in the same sort if emotional circle.
Si recalls events in fine detail. It feeds Ne the "concrete" data necessary to branch out. It is atmospheric, helping to create the atmosphere Ne prefers for discussion truly thrive.
Ti classifies, brings about law & understanding. It's a bit of a stabilizer. It rationalizes. In this context, "laws" reign things in then allow coherency
Alpha is the quadra responsible for fresh ideas for their own merit. If Alpha "shut their mouths", the entire socion would stagnate cause only Alphas truly appreciate the initial process of creativity without morality, subservience or finances holding it down
SEIs tend to be the most closed-mouthed of the bunch especially when they're unsure of the company; they tend to be very defensive among strangers. LIIs tend to be detached sorts and often will remain silent unless they've something meaningful to add but they're not usually shy about speaking their mind even to strangers. Now, there have been more than a few occasions when I've wished that the other two types would just shut-up once in a while.
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Alpha's greatest strength is communication and verbal sparring. The expression of our ideas, idealizations, emotions, and competition to persuade others to our side is extremely important within the group. Words are power and democracy is upheld with it.
I am pretty timid and I generally like to keep to myself but, I always enjoy throwing out ideas and 'sparing' with others to see why theirs is essentially better. Why do you believe this and how can you back it up in multiple scenarios? Can it hold up? I enjoy is more so when it comes to morality and people personally because I like those topics and I feel the strongest in 'sparing' in those context. I also feel very confident in using emotional expression and persuasion techniques when I need to. It is more harder with strangers but I really get into it when I am comfortable with people and passionate. People have always commented I get very expressive both in my body and words when I am passionate about something.
In my opinion, I don't think that Alpha's are not afraid to be not 'heard' rather, there is no equal ground when they had the chance to both speak about their ideology and not be considered an 'immoral' person despite having such an ideology. The democracy of ideology comes in here. There also seems to be a detachment from the person and the ideology when it comes to discussing in Alpha spaces in the sense when I argue with Delta, where you are your ideology.
For example: I had an LSE classmate where we debating our own personal beliefs on how long one should wait to marry someone during the dating phrase. I said I would leave after two years if I didn't have a ring and he got upset and argued that his five was the best. He initially argued me into submission and agree that his five years was superior and felt 'very happy' that he could convince me. His reasoning were valid and factual, I just didn't feel that my ideology was given equal consideration and I was 'bad' for having a different one even though it wasn't a black or white issue. I felt very crappy afterwards and by the end of the night I still agree with my own point. My ideology wasn't fact but his was. I felt like it's a bit of a pecking order when it comes to arguing with Delta's about ideology or anything really.
I dated an ILE and it was honestly the first time I could argue comfortably. I wasn't pecked down for expressing my views and ideology. We would 'spare' but I didn't feel crappy afterward for expressing a different view even if he or I didn't agree. Even if it was taken too far, there was always a let up and not a dismissal of me as a person. Plus I always liked that I wasn't forced to have the same ideology and didn't feel 'bad' for not having the same one. I am not a 'bad' person for having a different ideology, I just may have the potential of having a 'bad' ideology and may need to question.
I feel in Alpha spaces you are always allowed to have a chance to argue your ideology however, you are not allowed to force that opinion on others. On a democratic space, you must be able to back up your ideology and convince others and they must agree with you freely. The majority choose to take that ideology forward. Even if you fail to get the majority, you still have a chance to fight another day on equal ground again. Words are power and we should not take that away from others. So the worst thing you can do force our mouths shut. Forcing our mouth shuts and forcing us to obey is the most dis-empowering thing one can do I think.
I strongly dislike it when people exclude others from meetings at work. I don’t mean to say that every meeting needs to turn into a company wide meeting, but I do believe that everyone who wants to participate should be welcome. I feel like it’s important to let people lower on the company totem pole speak because they might have information about certain topics, especially because they’re the ones who spend the most time in the weeds. Meetings are important sources of information, so it can be harmful to exclude others when you don’t relay any information to them afterwards.
Last edited by Poptart; 06-07-2021 at 07:23 PM.
The quadra complex articles are my favorite in all of socionics, even if they are “a theory only of Stratiyevskaya”.
The decisive thing is not the reality of the object, but the reality of the subjective factor, i.e. the primordial images, which in their totality represent a psychic mirror-world. It is a mirror, however, with the peculiar capacity of representing the present contents of consciousness not in their known and customary form but in a certain sense sub specie aeternitatis, somewhat as a million-year old consciousness might see them.
(Jung on Si)
I think it’s kind of silly to say “x type is the most like their quadra, y type is the least like their quadra”. It reminds me of the “most intuitive N type”, “most introverted introvert”, etc. discussions you see in MBTI all of the time. Also, the complex of closed mouth is more complicated than just “alphas are loud”, so boiling it down to the loudest and quietest types of the quadra doesn’t really make sense.
Your point about Alpha being democratic is valid. They're also judicious, willing to study, plan & explore for optimal argumentation (especially NT Alpha researcher). Willing to bet their SF socialite value system is responsible for the, somewhat, peacemaker attitude Alpha take during debate
I've seen the alpha/delta argumentation dynamic play out in sports debate. Not ideal. The alpha, with his merry disposition & subjective logic would only accuse others when using incorrect facts. The delta, with his serious disposition & objective logic believed an argument could just be straight up "wrong".
Alpha willingly go along with any debate with accurate facts. Sports is a decent & popular platform for Alpha to communicate on cause clear facts exist but such facts are also open to interpretation or different ideology.
An event could be as simple as eating breakfast one morning. Re-call is just memory retrieval. That it
Si is a perceiving function. It gathers information. Si can "recall" information from an "event". I'm not saying Si IS an event or that Si IS re-call. "Event" and "re-call" are simply tools used to accurately assist Si communicate what's already on the inside to the outside.
Yes. Si is about the external world effecting the internal state but Si also communicates. Without recalling a particular event an Si-ego may as well be mute.
The decisive thing is not the reality of the object, but the reality of the subjective factor, i.e. the primordial images, which in their totality represent a psychic mirror-world. It is a mirror, however, with the peculiar capacity of representing the present contents of consciousness not in their known and customary form but in a certain sense sub specie aeternitatis, somewhat as a million-year old consciousness might see them.
(Jung on Si)
Brother you could've at least linked it for us old-timers
I agree with most of it but I really hate the parts where apparently alpha hogs air because we can't stand to let others speak. I find this kind of behavior awful and only do it if I have no other choice. There is a natural give and take in good conversation and some people need to learn to shut up to give the conversation room to breathe.
On the other hand.. I can be bad about this if I think the conversation is going too slowly too, so
There's a lot of stuff in that article that I'm sure hasn't helped stop witch hunts over the years.
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Try to tell an ILE to shut up, see what happens
I have. They usually stop, laugh, and then pick up right where they left off—unless they know they really fucked up, in which case they stop, laugh, apologize, and then make jokes about it for the next 14 days (“lol poptart remember when you told me to shut up yesterday lololol”)
Maybe it ought to be re-named "Complex of Cut Communication". LII-Ti aren't the most talkative. They'll communicate with child-like enthusiasm that most Alphas tend to. The mouth generally suggests talking but LII-Ti are quite comfortable texting, writing or artistry. I know SEIs who communicate with their makeup, their hair or their cooking.
Mouth is cool with context but communication may be a more accurate umbrella.
Alphas never stfu, even LIIs will post massive walls of text on this fourm. I love that about them .
The Barnum or Forer effect is the tendency for people to judge that general, universally valid statements about personality are actually specific descriptions of their own personalities. A "universally valid" statement is one that is true of everyone—or, more likely, nearly everyone. It is not known why people tend to make such misjudgments, but the effect has been experimentally reproduced.
The psychologist Paul Meehl named this fallacy "the P.T. Barnum effect" because Barnum built his circus and dime museum on the principle of having something for everyone. It is also called "the Forer effect" after its discoverer, the psychologist Bertram R. Forer, who modestly dubbed it "the fallacy of personal validation".
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What is a bitch(you) worth?
If, according to Kanye West, one good girl is worth a thousand bitches, and if, according to Lil Wayne, bitches come a dime a dozen, does that mean one good girl is worth $8.33?
Well, $8.35 in Canada.
In Thailand, $8.33 is about 275 Baht. 275 Baht will get you a skanky one in a Thai brothel. If you want a really good hooker, it'll cost you at least 2000 Baht, or about $61.00. So in Thailand a good woman is worth $61.00 or $732 a dozen.
Yes. However to further this, according to 2Pac Mo' Money= Mo' Bitches If you divide out Mo', you will see that money=bitches Therefore, 1000 moneys= one good girl.
To extrapolate further, diving with respect to "money" yields 1 money = $0.00833 This changes everything, because money isn't worth hardly anything.
True. A linear relationship between money and bitches means the equation relating money to them is in the form of y=ax+b, where x is money and y is bitches. Consulting the Lil Wayne theorem, if 12 bitches are worth $0.10, then one is $0.0083. Therefore we know that the equation 1=a(.0083)+b must hold true and so must 12=a(.1)+b. To find the equation relating money to bitches must have "a" and "b" values which satisfy the two previous equations. Since "Mo'" implies a positive linear relation, we know "a" must be positive. I have done the math for you and found that a=119.96 and b=.0043. So, (Bitches)=119.96(Money) + .0043. To find the number of good girls you get from an amount of money, simply divide the number of bitches by 1000 (because of the Kanye West Theorem).
No but biggie said mo' money= mo' problems so money=problems and since mo' money mo' bitches, we can see that bitches=problems
Well one must first consult the "50 Cent Law": "Mo' Money, Mo' Problems". Here we see that the amount of money is proportionate to the number of problems. Then one must factor one of the basic rules of the "The Carter Theorem" : "I got 99 problem but a bitch ain't one". Here we see that without a "bitch" the average person will have exactly 99 problems. Therefore the formula must be applied: (current amount of money) (8.33) / ln[(Problems100-1 ) (current amount of money)]bitches = worth of bitch Unfortunately this formula only tells us the value "a bitch" which as we know is only worth one monies Therefore you must apply [(worth of said prostitute) (problems) * (money-8.33)] + 1 / 1000 = The value of a good girl. Hope this helps.
Yeah. No. That's not how math works. 2pac was merely stating that the derivative of Money in terms of Bitches is strictly positive. More-over, he skipped a lot of steps in his proof and never formally published the full version. I bet you believed Fermat's margins really were too small as well, right?
Imperial bitches is actually a unit of weight. An imperial one is ~111.1111111112 pounds
Theres one fundamental law of math that Lil'Wayne forgot to include in his calculations. We have to follow the law of "bitches ain't shit" theorized by doctor dre himself. With that principal included we can work out that if bitches aint shit, and a good girl is worth 1,000 bitches, a good girl is still not worth shit.
You're forgetting that Jay-Z published his paper on the "Money Ain't A Thang" theory. Therefore if bitches aren't worth shit then bitches aren't money and so therefore they ARE, in fact, a "Thang".
Is that the transitive property of bitches? Is it possible that for every bitch, there is an equal and opposite good girl? That doesn't make sense though because kanye said a good girl is worth one thousand bitches. The economics don't make sense. Newton or kanye is wrong. They cannot both apply their laws to bitches
I think the important part here is, are we assuming that there is 1 good girl for every 1000 bitches. This is a very scary thought. 1/1000 females is a good girl and the other 999 are bitches. To me this would make my $8.33 a very good investment. I paid at least $3000 for my wife's wedding ring. Could I have bought 360 good girls in stead of 1 good girl? B/c I can't help but feel like I have overpaid for my good girl according to the genius of Kanye West and Little Weezy F. Baby. Don't get me wrong, I love my good girl wife, but I feel duped knowing she may have only been worth 8 bucks instead of 3000
It actually depends on they type of women. If it is a bakers daughter it is less since the sample size is actually larger I.E. a bakers dozen (13) so: (.10/13)x1000=$7.69 ...0r $9.69 Canadian (not counting the maple syrup)
How much candy you can buy for $8.33?
We can conclude that you are then worth approximately 0.83c, but since bitches are of negative value it's actually -0.83c. This means that in order to get the correct positive value of a good girl there needs to be an exponential factor involved here. In order to evaluate the amount of good girls needed to offset the bitches you use the simple formula -0.0083B2 = G. This intuitively makes sense when you think about how the more bitches you have around you the exponentially higher value even a single good girl has. So when B=1000 we get: G = -0.0083(1000)2 = $68.89 Interestingly enough, if the entire female population of the US, let's say 150 million for simplicity, were bitches, the worth of one good girl would then be $1,550,025,000,000 which is just over the total USD currently in circulation.
The problem with the current hypothesis, is that it weighs the calculations solely on mathematics, negleting key factors such as supply and demand, macro economics, the purchasing power parity and other significant market factors. Say, a bitch (bitches, singular) is meassured as a commodity, the theoretic value might be $8,33 but This doesn’t factor the wide range of market mechanics that could alter This price. These could be the amount of bitches compared to good girls domestically, the demand for bitches compared to good girls domestically, any current domestic events that might alter the demand for bitches relative to good girls, or the purchasing power of the average bitch or good Girl consumer. We could also dive into the international market for bitches compared against good girls, but This would include a wide array of factors, such as logistics, international politics, and geo-politics to name a few.