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Re: ah, that's why ... » Willow

Posted by wendy b. on May 13, 2002, at 11:31:49

In reply to Re: ah, that's why ... » Krazy Kat, posted by Willow on May 12, 2002, at 20:14:23

Willow et al,

Now that you mention it, I have these waking-dream moments, too. It's like I'll imagine a sequel to an event or situation that's happening, and I'm tired, and it's almost nodding off, but you're still there, standing or talking or whatever. So it's a there-but-not-there feeling, and you want to go off into that hallucination, but the current situation demands that you stay in the moment....

Sorry, I just checked the boards for the first time since Thursday (was at a wedding). So, don't mean to butt in to the conversation already begun...

I think "yadda yadda yadda" is a Seinfeld quip. He at least brought it into common parlance, I'm almost positive. It went along with the "this show is about nothing" theme - yadda yadda yadda is just filler talk, like "er" or "umm," doesn't really convey a message except "I could go on, but it's more of the same..."
Blah blah blah. It's all about nothing.

We always liked "blah-blah, woof-woof." We said this LONG before Seinfeld came along...

Anyway, the intrvert-extrovert thing: I'm not sure, but I think I don't like the terminology we've been doled out here by the psychologists or the social-psychologists, or whomever the people are who make their livings off "testing" people like us, or inventing those tests and then doling them out like there is some "truth" to their categories... I think the dichotomy between internalness and externalness is a man-made (human-made) split. Maybe, if we assume those properties exist within the human psyche, we're all both, and we just alternate between them, some more one way, some more the other? If I do assume the split, I think no one could ever be JUST one of those categories. It's too inexorable (Willow, I anticipate a dictionary check so here goes... 1) that which cannot be moved or influenced by persuasion or entreaty; unrelenting, & 2) that which cannot be altered, checked).

So if the Meyers-Briggs test says I'm an ENFP (I think that was it? don't remember the category-splits, so I don't know what any of it means except the "E") - does this mean I am never depressed, turned inward, need time alone, quiet, etc.? Not at all. The test-makers give themselves an out and deliver some disclaimer that no one is any of these all the time, but it's just a way of thinking about one's own personality, in order to make decisions about careers (mostly). I think they said I would make a good social worker or French teacher... Whatever... (ah ha! another filler word!!)

Just some thoughts, does anyone ever read my posts? Willow, we care very deeply what you are saying and talking about! I think you are one of the wisest, most funny, and most caring persons on the board...

Wishing you a lovely, rainy Monday...


Wendy


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