Personality - ISTJ

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Openness	74%
Conscientiousness	81%
Extraversion	55%
Agreeableness	73%
Neuroticism	38%

Introverted Sensing Thinking Judging

ISTJs thrive on organisation. They keep their lives and environments well-regulated. They bring painstaking attention to detail in their work and will not rest until satisfied with a job well done. ISTJs are faithful, logical, organized, sensible, and earnest traditionalists. They earn success by thoroughness and dependability. Shutting out distractions, they take a practical, logical approach to their endeavors. Realistic and responsible, they work steadily toward their goals. They enjoy creating order in both their professional and personal lives. ISTJs are persons of thoughts and (sometimes) emotions. They prefer dealing with the present and factual, using various options to make decisions.

Openness

This trait refers to the extent to which you prefer novelty versus convention. Approximately 54% of respondents have a lower openness raw percentage than yours. From the way you answered the questions, you seem to describe yourself as someone who is aware of their feelings but doesn't get carried away with their imagination either. You might say that you embrace change when it is necessary while still resisting it when you think it is not, and that beauty is important to you, but it's not everything.

Reflective question: When do you think that tradition is important, and when is it time for change?

Conscientiousness

This trait refers to the extent to which you prefer an organised, or a flexible, approach in life. Approximately 88.5% of respondents have a lower conscientiousness raw percentage than yours. From the way you answered the questions, you seem to describe yourself as someone who is a perfectionist. From your responses it appears that you prefer to plan everything to the last detail, which has consequently led to you being very successful and extremely reliable. From your responses it appears that more than most you enjoy seeing your long-term plans come to fruition.

Reflective question: How does being in an untidy environment make you feel?

Extraversion

This trait refers to the extent to which you enjoy company, and seek excitement and stimulation. Approximately 34.5% of respondents have a lower extraversion raw percentage than yours. From the way you answered the questions, you seem to describe yourself as someone who prefers low-key social occasions, with a few close friends. You might say that it's not that you are afraid of large parties; they're just not that fun for you.

Reflective question: How do you like to spend your spare time?

Agreeableness

This trait refers to the way you express your opinions and manage relationships. Approximately 72.6% of respondents have a lower agreeableness raw percentage than yours. From the way you answered the questions, you seem to describe yourself as someone who people get along with easily. Your responses suggest that you would say you are considerate and friendly, and think that other people are generally honest and decent.

Reflective question: Is your co-operative preference ever taken advantage of by others?

Neuroticism (Emotional stability)

This trait refers to the way you cope with, and respond to, life's demands. Approximately 38.2% of respondents have a lower neuroticism raw percentage than yours. From the way you answered the questions, you seem to describe yourself as someone who is calm and emotionally stable. Based on your responses, you come across as someone who is rarely bothered by things, and when they do get you down the feeling does not persist for very long.

Reflective question: When do your emotions (or lack of emotions) get in the way of good decision making?

who am i?

who the hell am i these days?! when did i ever let go of just being myself. . .

when did i become so afraid of emotion, of wearing my heart on my sleeve, of letting people see my weaknesses, of being different. i carry so much anxiety at all times, just because someone might not like me for how i dress, how i look, or how much money i have. i look down on people on a regular basis to make myself feel like i am better, that i have progressed further, and that i am the "winner" of this game of life. some people fall for it. they fall for the show because they are just like me; they want to win. win what?! i really don't know. i guess winning is when you have proven yourself to be happier than everyone else around you. i am done pretending to be happier than you.

i don't care what anyone else thinks about who i am or what i do. i am me and i don't want to be anything else. i am a geek, i am an atheist, i usually hate fiction, i am obsessively clean and organized, i am passionate about science and technology, i am bored of my current job/career, i want to go back to school, i want to travel more, i want to bare my emotions, i want to be poor because i spent my money on experiences and education not alcohol and bar tabs. i want to make my own happiness.

we all just want to be happy and most of the time we don't know how, so we struggle with different approaches to life until we find one that works. i am done with this one and it is done with me. sometimes we get lucky enough to get a thorough glance at our inner clockworks, at our design flaws, all in one glorious moment of epiphany. it is both enlightenment and pure fear to be in that moment because you know you have to change. we don't stay there for long and oft forget it's significance with the passing of time. you have to make your changes quickly and with deliberation before you fall back into the same familiar, well beaten path of the past. why is change so frightening? we crave it so much with every passing day, but are so afraid to follow into the unknown. fuck it, i say. i want change, i want new, i want passion, i want to be happy . not happier than you; just as happy as i need to be.

if it's not working for you, don't be afraid to let go and just free fall into the unknown. it's all just one big adventure anyway and it sure as hell doesn't last long enough to waste on caution and stability.

left brain.right brain

imported from the australian daily telegraph. original story here.

The Right Brain vs Left Brain test ... do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?

If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.

Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.

LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS uses logic detail oriented facts rule words and language present and past math and science can comprehend knowing acknowledges order/pattern perception knows object name reality based forms strategies practical safe

RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS uses feeling "big picture" oriented imagination rules symbols and images present and future philosophy & religion can "get it" (i.e. meaning) believes appreciates spatial perception knows object function fantasy based presents possibilities impetuous risk taking

(which way does she spin for you? when ever i stare directly at the picture she turns clockwise, but when i'm reading something i see her turning counter-clockwise out of the corner of my eye. strangeness. i guess i'm somewhere in the middle of left and right brained.)

i want mac.

just finished watching Steve Job's keynote on the new macbook.

i'm finally all in.

or

i was marketed to in the most devastatingly effective method. they are simply selling an object of pure perfection. how can i say 'no'?! i have been clenching on to the excuse to wait for a multi-touch mac tablet ever since the 'iphone / ipod touch' was released, but have now come to terms with the fact that it is never coming. either way, after the keynote i am nearly convinced the glass touchpad is conceptually better than a multi-touch screen in many ways. i'll save my multi-touch 'Minority Report' display dreams for the Microsoft Surface if it actually ever does . . . surface.

so many options. what do i buy though? i want tiny. the smallest available macbook pro is 15". my current acer laptop is a 12.1" tablet and i am of the stringent belief that laptops should be tiny and easily portable! if i want large, i will use my 23" desktop display or my 44" media center display. the macbook has a 13" option that is the same in every way (even the new 9400M gpu) as the macbook pro except for the lack of the second 9600M GT gpu. the 13" begins at $1299. the other option is the macbook pro 15" starting at $1999. should i spend the additional $700 for a second gpu? i'm not entirely sure i would be unhappy with a 15" if i had too, but i am still convinced smaller = better.

please advise me.

a defense of george bush

Hear me out...

First of all, I have been an anti-Bush since the first election and much more passionately when the speak of war first arose. I was also against the war in Iraq from it's beginnings and not because I am anti-war. I fully supported the Afghan war per the initial intelligence provided after the 9-11 incident. I also am claiming to have known about all of the lies that led us to Iraq before the war even started, because I actually read both sides and took the time to do the research, while the majority of the population read the headlines and fell for the White House press releases like sheep. I used to debate daily and passionately, trying to make people aware of how silly it is that we are leading a war into a country, which our own federal intelligence repeatedly insisted were not causing us any problems. I do take a bit of pride in my early analysis of the situation. Not that I was the only one, but we were few and far between (at least, in the US where the propaganda soared); however, it has been quite validating to see the world slowly come to the understanding that I had 6 years ago.

I remember the day the war started. I was sitting at a bar with a friend of mine, whom was in the Air Force and would shortly ship off to Germany. We got into the usual heated debate, and I finally came to the most positive perspective I could: there must be something that we are not being told, because there is no way that the top elected officials of our country could literally be so stupid to go against all of our allies, and all of the publicized intel, and just be running into Iraq on what seems to be an angry whim. I still held to my beliefs although I left a little room for that off-chance that there was some darker secret that we just weren't ready to be told. Years have gone by, "official" reports have laid open the truth about WMD's, links to al Qaeda, etc., but the question still arises daily, in the News, on Talk Radio, Magazines, Blogs, Web Forums, and so on "Why are we still in Iraq?"; "Why are we sending in more troops?"; "How is the Bush administration still supporting this war, despite overwhelming opposition?" Nobody is answering this question, except to say we are stabilizing Iraq so that a democracy might arise for the people.

I can guarantee the only reason there is instability is because we are still there. We leave; democracy and stability might just flourish. And really, why the hell do we care so much about Iraq's democratic infrastructure? What about the civil warring states of Africa, what about Israel/Palestine, what about China's Tibet? I know I'm leaving a whole lot of other more reasonable humanitarian causes than this costly and deadly fight for democracy in Iraq. Anybody who has watched the documentary, "Bush's War" can see the administration, clearly duped the population into supporting the war. So why? Are these people evil? Is there a personal gain? Will this be looked upon as one of the biggest blunders in U.S. history? Were they just stupid?

I'm not much for conspiracy theories, so I've always chosen the latter, the simplest answer, pure stupidity. So finally for my defense (you were starting to wonder?): What if there was something deeper, darker? A conspiracy right? If something is reasonable and has simple, sensible arguments, I say it doesn't fall into the category of conspiracy. Peak oil? I noticed another thread was hashing the points of peak oil, and it is something more and more on my mind these days, as I watch the price of gasoline rise rapidly, while the other dominoes fall in their predicted orders: food prices soaring, economy falling into a recession, the sudden surge of propaganda to go green and look at alternative energies, enormous consumption and waste, and now the rest of the world following our lead, and so on. People keep talking as if gas prices are going to eventually drop again. What's going to happen? Is the demand for oil going to lessen? Are we going to find new oil? Will China and India decide to just return to their days of old or will they continue to compete with us for an oil supply that will only lessen year by year, while demand sky rockets?

Prices will not go down. Prices of everything will sky rocket, food supply will lessen, the economy will fall into shambles. Populations around the world will starve while we subsidize our food crop to produce ethanol, and buy food cheap from other countries that can’t afford to compete with our buying power. Eventually the problem will reach every home, even in our own industrialized country. They will continue to increase to the point where the normal consumer won't even be able to afford gasoline, let alone anything transported using gasoline (which is everything you own, btw). The few top industries that can afford the $30 a gallon fuel, will eventually make the move to hydrogen. Thank god for hydrogen, right? We might be alright, but wait, where do we get hydrogen? There's a ton of it on our planet somewhere. The Ocean, right? But how do we get the hydrogen out of the water? Electrolysis is a process used to separate H2O to hydrogen and oxygen. Not only is this an inefficient process, it also requires a form of energy to make it happen. Luckily the U.S. has the largest deposits of coal in the world. We are already using it for electricity; why not use it to produce a new form of mobile energy, hydrogen? We will then run into the same wall of Peak Coal, and not long after when you calculate the growing population, then the doubly growing demand for electricity, the inefficiency of electrolysis, and the enormous growing requirements for a mobile fuel, while Oil is $2,000 a barrel, and $50 a gallon.

So how do we support the 10 or 11 billion people on this planet, when we suddenly hit that final brick wall: NO MORE EASY ENERGY! The world will plunge into a sudden crash of starvation and panic, the likes of which has never been seen. Is it real? Of course, it’s real. The only question is how long? What Bush is doing in Iraq(the second largest reservoir of oil in the world), we will soon be doing in Iran, then Saudi Arabia, etc. The only difference is, we will not be fighting just the Middle East at that point, we will be fighting with the world for the remaining drops of easy energy. Fossilized sunlight from hundreds of millions of years of plants and animals has provided this short burst of easy energy that has given civilization a short ride of efficiency to support the 7 billion people on this planet like nothing else can, or ever will be able to. Simple entropy.

So does George Bush have my support to lead us gently into the future of a “kill or be killed” world? Absolutely!

The alternative is only to crash really, really hard! Blah, blah, blah, nuclear energy, solar energy, geo-thermal, etc. None will be near capable of supporting the enormous energy sucking infrastructure that oil, coal, and other hydrocarbons have brought us to. Please argue some sense into me!

a beautiful thing is religion

religion has been an enormous sore spot with me for years since I painfully lost my own. it is only in recent reflection that i have discovered the enormous beauty of religion and it's practicality. i have gained a kind of respect for religion and it's great offerings to the masses. this has lead me to almost feel a blessed tie with the elite of this world in not being constrained by such.

i have a great deal of pride in being allowed into what i feel is the elite group of atheists inhabiting this dear planet earth. please do not take my reference to "elite" as a lack of modesty; it is more a fortunate happenstance that we, atheists, probably have some biological neuro-aphasia to the god-piece that has allowed us the clarity to see beyond. i consider it elite only because it is so much more beautiful a vision than any religion could ever project. i tend to believe that the belief in god has huge evolutionary advantages over the lack of the belief, and that is why it is so enormously fortunate and paradoxical to have my current perspective.

please don't mistake my pride as lack of modesty either. i am very aware, as are most true atheists that anything is possible, and even an exact semantical argument like a god/creator archetype could be valid. the problem of arguing your point as an atheist is that your debater will never understand until they are allowed to see the same perspective, which is an extremely hard conclusion to come to. it actually requires hearing out many different perspectives to their fullest extent. at the end of the day, we, the atheist, believe that there is just not any valid reason to either need a "god" or to prove a "god's" existence, by any common definition of the word. as the word atheist breaks down, "a-" none, or lacking; "theist" belief in a god, i simply lack this belief. more specifically, per the school of David Hume, i have followed a statistical form of skepticism, in which all things have possibility, some just have higher probability than others. as a great peer once told me, please add a question mark to the end of every statement i make; some just have smaller question marks than others.

as a last argument, i must admit that it is absurd to the normal human being to not follow a religion; to not believe in a god. it is truly absurd. when i first gained my understanding, i found it so hard not to argue with every person i met that the belief in god was silly; how could they believe in such a ridiculous concept. ironically, i had only grown up believing it whole-heartedly myself for 21 years. why did i really think it was so silly of a belief? i just wanted others to join me on my beautiful deserted "atheistic" island. the takers were few and far between, and i have since come to believe that we are a small congregation of human beings on this planet. the few that can handle such a truth without malfunctioning. i have also found that the issue is not a problem of intelligence, but maybe an intense fear of the unknown. intelligence and logic seem to break down in the face of losing all that propagates the stability of one's mind. those that i have talked with that grew up with this atheistic world-view have no impedance to the problems it provides the "believers". it is merely impossible to change the basis of your entire structure of reality after it has settled for so many years, without completely dismantling and questioning everything you have ever been told or believed. by the way, i had to do this, and it was not convenient, nor easy; however, i am so much better for doing so.

the downside is i am alone in this world. no sense of solidarity or commonality with anyone i meet. i find it incredibly hard to find anyone that shares my beliefs, and that is sad to me. i enjoy discussion of the religiously derived questions , "where did i come from?", "why am I here?", and "where am I going?" just as much as any other human being; yet I have no one with my world-view to discuss with. where are all of you at? i have read about you in articles and books many a time, but here in Atlanta, GA, i seem to be all alone.

for those of you are ready to take the leap, here is the punchline: "god is merely the easy answer to all of your unanswered or difficult questions." in effect, the "god" answer allows you to merely pass over the difficult questions, and pass on all of your fears to the hope that someone else has got it all worked out.

water!

this is the source of the majority of the worlds drinking water. the off-flow of mountain glacier waters into rivers, dams, and lakes.

Top (1968) / Bottom (2007)











water. without it life cannot continue. have you ever been thirsty?

we have been in a drought for a couple of years now. I haven't thought much about it until recently. I have taken care to go easy on water consumption, short showers, efficient toilets, no lawn watering, etc. however in the last week, we have just been informed that our water supply is projected to have only 4 months left of water. our lakes will actually be dried up! the same lakes that I used to go boating and water skiing on. the rest of the Southeast United States are also in drought although I'm not sure of their particular standings.

4 months left of water! so what exactly does that mean? we need rain badly. unfortunately weather patterns over the years are showing that water fall is dwindling. (maybe global warming? I don't know.) it is cyclical, however, and we will have rain again when the rainy season returns but as for now we are looking at possibly a time where we will not even have enough water for showers, etc. maybe even drinking water will be gone temporarily.

I can always go to the grocery store and buy bottled water, but hydration is not the only thing I'm worried about. our businesses, power plants, agriculture, and food industry cannot perform without water. I am looking at potential chaos in my own back yard and it isn't that far off. there are 6 million people in Atlanta and it's surrounding suburbs. this could cause a total infrastructure meltdown like I have never seen in my lifetime.

I may be overreacting, and we may pull through this year with some crafty engineering and some extreme water conservation, but what about next year? the year after? it will continue to get worse.


please read the following facts:

• - few of us realise how much water it takes to get us through the day. on average, we drink no more than five litres. even after washing and flushing the toilet, we usually consume no more than 150 litres. but when we add in the water needed to grow what we eat and drink, the numbers soar.
• - it takes between 2,000 and 5,000 litres of water to grow one kilo of rice, over 1,000 litres for a kilo of wheat, between 2,000 and 11,000 litres to grow the feed for enough cow to make a quarter-pound hamburger, and between 2,000 and 4,000 litres for that cow to fill its udders with a litre of milk.
• - every teaspoonful of sugar requires 50 cups of water, and every cup of coffee 140 litres. Hoekstra calculates that his fellow Netherlanders require the virtual-water equivalent of 4% of the flow of the Rhine to produce the coffee they drink in a year. to feed and clothe a typical meat-eating Westerner for a year takes around 1,500 cubic metres – rather more than half the contents of an Olympic-size swimming pool.

source: United Nations Educational Scientific & Cultural Orginization

why is all of this happening?! overpopulation! the world population is now growing exponentially and we don't have the resources to support it. now, I realize this is nothing new and we have seen this coming, but for me this is the first time I have had the honor of it hitting home. I personally will not have water.

and for you that live outside of Atlanta, keep in mind, you're next. it is projected that in 2025 (this is only 17 years from now), 1 in 3 people will not have enough water to survive on this planet. I am guessing that could be an over-projection. it might be 2015 or earlier. the wars of the future will be fought over water . . .

what will you do?