I keep feeling like I'm talking about the Doctors

[icepixie]

Because I feel like using some time unproductively, tell me what enneagram type you are!

I'm a Type 5 (more here, here, and here), and more specifically a 5w4: in other words, observant, knowledgeable, bookish, imaginative, obsessive, stubborn, high-strung, and reclusive. NO ONE IS SURPRISED. (In fact, according to the other test on that site, I am all of that with a "self-preservation instinct," which basically means a completely unscientific internet test thinks I am the introvertiest of introverts. Again, no one is surprised.) On lists of Five-ish fictional characters, Mulder shows up a lot, which I find fairly hilarious and maybe a touch horrifying. I also get Joyce, Rilke, Buddha, Jean-Paul "Hell is other people" Sartre, Nietzsche, and several other people I'm sure took this test back in the early twentieth century or, you know the fifth century BC.

I do think these personality typing systems are sort of pointless, because really, what is sorting myself into an arbitrary box with some adjectives that are vague enough to describe a lot of people really going to do for me, but they're fun time-wasters. (I guess they're also supposed to tell you what you should improve about yourself, but hell, I already know my people skills need work, and my life would be easier if I could take a break from obsessively planning and imagining worst-case scenarios. Not gaining much self-revelation here.) Some of the longer descriptions are a bit uncanny in their accuracy, but I wonder how much of that is due to confirmation bias.

Anyway, your type and your feelings about it (you know, if you want to), go!

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[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

ps - have you seen the psychoses of the extrovert descriptions?? "In the worst case, 3/4 is capable of atrocities, just like 3/2, except that because of the greater self-examination of the four-wing, such crimes are more likely to be isolated cases. ... In the deepest psychosis, mass-murder-suicides are possible." (http://mindheart.org/junction/oldcj/ep/types/3/34.html)

"If 3/2s lose touch still further, eightish anger at the world is the only emotion that is strong enough to penetrate the cotton wall of nineish deadness. In a peculiar, zombielike state, the most horrible atrocities might be committed. Sometimes extremely unbalanced 3/2s are nice-seeming, quiet people who just happen to be mass-murderers or serial rapists." (http://mindheart.org/junction/oldcj/ep/types/3/32.html)

As life becomes less and less tolerable, suicide becomes increasingly likely, and if it happens it may be done in some unusually gruesome way. Extremely dark, horrifying inner imaginings are welcomed and encouraged. The whole world, both inner and outer, is seen as grotesquely diseased and utterly without redeeming qualities. 4/5 Hell is a place of unimaginable ugliness, populated by those deformed, psychotic monsters, the human race. (http://mindheart.org/junction/oldcj/ep/types/4/45.html")"

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

[icepixie]

OMG. I hadn't gone to the other numbers on that site. I think it might be that site that's depressing, though, rather than the entire system.

Sometimes extremely unbalanced 3/2s are nice-seeming, quiet people who just happen to be mass-murderers or serial rapists.

D: D: D: D: D:

I have gotten a 4/5 result in the past, so I think I've seen that last one before. Um...basically you turn into H.P. Lovecraft?

[rowdycamels.livejournal.com]

Um...basically you turn into H.P. Lovecraft?

THAT'S A TERRIBLE SUPERPOWER.