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I'm not arguing with your sense of humor, Economist. If you find something funny, then sure. And Demo, had you read what I was saying, you would have noticed I mentioned his orientation. I just think dude has a hugely arrogant vibe, and it really bothers me. If you think that arrogance is funny, eh, more power to you. I'd just rather watch Star Trek V five times in a row than one single episode of How I Met your Mother.
His character is arrogant, sure. It's satirical arrogance though and more accurately called overcompensation for a previous heartbreak. Regardless, Neil himself is incredibly humble and gracious, at least from the late night show interviews I've seen. In fact, if I were to pick a short list of Hollywood actors that were genuinely good people, Neil would probably be on it.
Wow, I don't even. You're truly a hardcore masochist.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nissa
Lol! Actually, I don't know why people hate that film. Sure, there's a lot of dumb stuff about it, but it's not really worth hating. After all, original series Trek was pretty dumb and preachy at times, and funny for being that way. Trek V seems more like a return to that awkward, questionable writing that few original episodes overcame. It's dumb, but it has good moments, good acting, and is definitely better than all of the Next Generation Trek movies.Quote:
Originally Posted by DemolitionSquid
Is Star Trek even worth getting into? I'm into all sorts of sci-fi. Never been a huge fan of the mainstream stuff like star wars or star trek however.
As far as Wars goes, I understand. There isn't really anything worth watching in that franchise besides the three original movies. Well, except people say that the Clone Wars TV show was good. I haven't seen that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gradius
As for Trek, it really depends on what you like. There's a lot to get into, and it depends on your personality as to which you like. Keep in mind that much of it is on Netflix, so you can try it out there.
Original Series -- this is what originally came out in the sixties. It's very cheesy, very silly. The episodes are rather hit or miss, but if you have a goofy side you'll enjoy even the famed bad third season. I recommend these episodes: I Mudd, Journey to Babylon, and Trouble with Tribbles. Those three I guarantee are good. The rest? That depends on you.
The Animated Series -- extremely boring. Star Trek does not work with Hanna Barbera style animation.
Next Generation -- this is the 80s/90s version of Trek. The first three seasons are kinda meh, but there are good episodes later on. Gene Roddenberry believed that people in this future age would outgrow personal conflict (hahahaha!) so some of the stories here are pretty weird, and the acting can be stilted. Still, there are fun episodes. The Next Phase, Frame of Mind, and Rascals are my favorites.
Both Voyager and Enterprise are really boring. I don't recommend them at all.
Deep Space Nine is like the anti-Trek. Where Star Trek is idealistic, DS9 is cryptic and doubtful. It's really fun, and if you don't like Trek as it is, you may like DS9. Bit of a soap opera, though.
Thank you, Lady Nissa. Overcoming the sickness will make your immune system stronger, so try your best to make it without drugs.
Theme: So be it. Sometimes my parents also think so.
Romance: My girl is optimistic. She is tender rather than assertive. You guess I have a pessimistic worldview. That's right, and enough. It seems that the world gives me a new balance. If both of us are dark, that may consume our relationship as well.
Typing: I like to show mercy to the weak, but it doesn't mean I root for them. In fact, it is about the feeling of superiority. What's more, the result of my Myers Briggs' test is INTJ. I get 23 points in Thinking and only 1 in Feeling. The rest of your analyzing sounds OK.
Leadership: I am a student now. So I will test myself in my job later.
Dislikes: Yes but not always. The standards for others should be different from those for myself. For example, I hate myself if I do nothing and just complain, but it is acceptable for me if others behave like that.
Personality issues: Actually, I am shocked by your words. It may be too serious I think, because they can be safely covered in reality.
Advice: OK~ I have learnt something from you~
Notes: So, we have some differences in our judgement to the races but nearly the same to characters.
Khalai Protoss remind me of a kind of ultimate but rigid communism , and Tal'darim Protoss have severe personality cult. However, Nerazim Protoss seem to be rational and have a big picture. You know I am not a fan of Protoss, but I do respect some of them.
As to Terran, the Dominion is just a historical retrogression and it implies an abnormal thirst for political power. UED indicates overconfidence. Raynor Raiders are loyal and dependable, though their leader is immature sometimes.
A perfect dictator can be a better leader than a group of blind democrats, if and only if the dictator is godlike. The Zerg carry forward this creed, so their society become extremely efficient in evolution. I have a neutral attitude to the Primal Zerg, since they evolve individualy. Without a thoughtful and united mind, their future are limited and uncertain.
That's why I don't think it's a good way to say "I don't like Terran or Protoss. " directly. As you can see here, each race can be devided into several forces. What I dislike are the self-righteous part of human and the stubborn part of alien.
Thanks again, Lady Nissa.
I think this is all correct. Just as a note this is a quote I live by, "Anyone can do anything they want if they are willing to deal with the consequences."Quote:
Originally Posted by Nissa
I dislike Valentine's day, a lot. However, I still try to create my own blend of charm. Handmade gifts are a thing, like poems, stories, statues, and jewelry. Everything else, besides the classic romance ambiguity, is true.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nissa
This paragraph is a blend of true and false statements about myself. I admire power, human success, machines, and life itself. On the other hand, I'm not limited by my sources of motivation, I can be pretentious, and some times I like to drift into abstract subjects. I have some bad and other positive attributes from both ISTP and ESTP, but both models fail to win me over entirely. I guess I would land with ESTP if I had to made a choise between the two.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nissa
I've always regarded standard personality tests as some kind of distortion in reality. I feel they are also quite limited to a region. Probably my past experiences with tests like this are part of the purpose I don't find them as accurate as some professionals would like to say they are. Today, I believe in direct confrontations with a psychologist. Through words I was guided into what I'm today, in 2008. I "failed" a professional vocatio exam, and was sent to the school counselor. As a summary, each test I took derailled the last in a series of six. I was ignorant of physcological profiling at the time, and they said I could do whatever I wanted to do. Of course that was a lot for a kid. This inner confrontation with myself continues and I believe it will forever. I've since investigated the human mind and made my decisions without considering absolutes. I'm also devoted into becoming a great "human", and I constantly ask myself what will my doing bring to current and further generations.
As a more twisted belief, one that might be regarded as crazy talk, I recently found out I'm clairvoyant. While I'm not sure if I can speak to the death or practice other more paranormal ideas, I've noticed I can actually feel people. Probably, I've lived with this all my life and barely noticed the alien feelings in my heart because of my lack of reason ^^. In the end it's just one more mean for perspective. I'm not always certain where some things come from, just as eyes and ears cheat. One thing is clear though, I'm not a better person. It doesn't make you a better person. People are really negative most of the time, and contrast is important for people to care about other people. I've long since discarded personal conflicts as something to actually duel about or even take care of, because I'm constantly overwhelmed by their foolish problems.
Mostly true, but only if I feel the person is entitled as a leader by his abilities to be a leader. I take matters into my own hands, if there's a dummy for a leader and I can actually do something as a leader atm.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nissa
Pretty similar as well. I hate people who dwell in absolutes or single perspectives. I also dislike idiots. I like good teachers and I love history :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Nissa
Yes, I constantly question my motivations and talents. Some of my best intentions are not represented correctly. If I'm not related to people in pain and there's another gate for positive vibes for the person I don't get involved in the feeling drama. I normaly dislike people who seem to only like hatting another group of people.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nissa
Yes, this is a nice piece of advice. Some of these are being worked on, but damn it's hard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nissa
TY FOR YOUR TIME NISSA!
Aw, you're welcome.
Blade, I think I see where I messed up. While I'm never that good at guessing one's Myers-Briggs types (that's why they're in question marks up there), it appears from what you're saying that you're iNtuitive rather than Sensor. Ah, the clairvoyant thing makes sense to me. I don't believe in talking to the dead (you never know what spirits really are talking to you), but feeling people is something I've done for a long time. Have you ever...sensed the future? I've sensed things like answers to trivia questions, what people order at restaurants, and whenever my work log-in password changes. Seriously, it changes....oh, like four times a year, about, and every time it's about to change, I feel this strange feeling. Sure enough, next time I log in, new password.
You're definitely right that sensing others doesn't equal being a better person. It gets overwhelming when you sense so much from others, and you don't know how to act with all that stuff in mind. Seriously, you do need to start thinking about God. He helps me deal with all the overwhelming emotions I feel, and the church understands this sort of thing in the form of spiritual giftings. It's called word of knowledge, where you suddenly receive a piece of information in your head that you absolutely know is true. You have to be careful with it, though. I one time sensed something about a girl and brought it up, and she got really offended at me. Sometimes the best thing to do when you sense that kind of thing is pray, because there's a time to tell people about it, and a time not to, and it's hard to know the difference.
There's no such thing as the supernatural. I'd know, I used to perform exorcisms.
Deep graves, deep pockets.
Seriously though, there are not, nor have never been, deities of any kind. No Allah or Yaweh, no Zeus or Odin, no Ra or Khrisha, no Quetzalcoatl and no IFSM.
That's cute, honeybun.Quote:
Originally Posted by DemolitionSquid
Lots of people can do cold reads. It doesn't mean they have mystical powers. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Nissa
Who says they're mystic powers? They're spiritual powers. Everyone's a spirit, so everything spiritual is really normal. A person's spirit is the part of them that is gone when they die -- their personhood, their emotions, and knowledge. Nothing mystic about it.
Aaaaand... We have hit the hornet nest! Yey!
Seriously though, a while back we had a discussion on heaven and stuff. It went everywhere.
As someone who proactively tries to improve their "inuitive processes" I believe it basically comes down to pattern recognition, awareness, and "loading" more details of a large system in the mind. The subconscious is much better at these things because it isn't burdened by self-doubt and fact checking like the higher mental processes are which slows down the process and makes you unsure. If simple exercises (such as meditation or visualizers) can isolate the parts of the brain responsible for this and turn myself into an oblvious fool to something incredibly observant, then I really don't think there's anything mystical or spiritual about it. It's just a part of the brain that is misunderstood because we don't analyse it as much as we do high level states of mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by Nissa
This probably needs some context. Before I meditated and some other things, I was pretty much locked in my own shell. I engaged with people, I was popular, and people liked me, but they might as well have been objects in the environment I interacted with. Just by doing some simple exercises I went from this to be able to pick up on subtle body language cues to find what the person is feeling or wants to talk about and adjust my behavior according. Helped enormously with women because every woman is so incredibly different and particular about social interactions that one thing that works well with another will have another ready to slap or call the cops on you. My point is that I have tangible evidence for these simple exercises working. More importantly, it made me able to predict my father's stroke. Six months before he had it, I was able to pick up on small little details here and there that told me something was wrong. You know, like a dog does. I didn't know why I felt that way so I ignored it for longer than I should. The take away point behind here that I was given "psychic/spritial/mystical powers" simply by training the specific physical portions of my brain.
To be honest, I knew from the very moment you started posting here that a discussion about religion or spirituality would be imminent. I'm not psychic at all. I've just engaged by subconscious in a way I would "engage" my biceps or pectorals. I even know what you mean about the password thing, My password changes every 90 days on my school account and I always seem to know when its changed. That's because it always happens at the worst time so my subconscious counts down the days for Murphy's Law to screw me in the ass. Another anedote is that I can usually tell when someone is calling me. I have about 20 people that I have to talk to on a fairly regular basis for apartment related business. When the phone rings, I can usually tell who is calling me even though I have nothing tangible to go on. Its just that there's some pattern that by disciplined subconscious has picked up on that I'm not consciously aware of. It's kind of like the old saying of a "Woman's Intuition" which science has shown is the result of larger quantities of white matter in the brain (and smaller quantities of grey matter). White matter basically connects the brain to other parts of the brain and makes it better to form specific memories and to recognize abstract minuscule patterns.
This. Thank you. So many people fail to recognize the human brain and psyche as a beautifully layered machine. Experiments can essentially tell you what you're going to do before you know.Quote:
The subconscious is much better at these things because it isn't burdened by self-doubt and fact checking like the higher mental processes are which slows down the process and makes you unsure
I'm a fairly empathetic person. Put someone in front of me and I'll pick out subtle mannerisms here and there that clue me into what they're thinking or feeling. Is it psychic? Nope. Mirror neurons, if anything.
Though I am atheist, I am not opposed to religion in and of itself. Like anything in this world, it can be used for both good and bad. To me, it is essentially a collection of stories and practices.
TE, I've been interested in meditation for a while now but never got around to it. How did you start and evolve your approach to it?
I guess so, Econ. But God created that brain, so eh. That, and I'm pretty sure Blade is male.
Whatever. I've seen miracles and heard God, so I don't feel any real need to debate God here. Oh, but I want to clarify a point. It's not like "religion", some grandiose institution or system to make people behave a certain way, but rather a relationship with God as a person. Just wanted to make that clear. Sometimes people get it mixed up.
I actually just had a lengthy discussion about this with Gradius. It was mostly concerning Visualizers and audiowave brain entrainment (binaural beats/isochronic tones) so it ignores some of the other things I do to meditate but I'm not sure I'm of the state of mind right now to give a proper response to that. I'll simply say that, what is more important than how you meditate is how you use your mind. Like you said, the human psyche is a multi-layered complex entity and its very much connected to each other. Something as simple as understanding the deeper meanings of music or being able to be especially alert when driving can help something as different as economics. I suggest you look into brain waves and brain states if you haven't already to know what I'm talking about. The main thing is simply to try to find and isolate as many unused parts of your brain as possible and to train them. What you do to train them can be as simple as listening to music, day dreaming, playing a platformer, or doing speed math. I guess what I'm saying is that if there's something I am doing (by choice or else) I do it to the best of the my abilities with the belief that it will engage a part of my brain that will benefit me elsewhere. I know, that's very, very, very, general and probably sounds like nonsense, but the point I'm trying to get to you is that the best method is one you've made specifically for yourself at that particular time.Quote:
TE, I've been interested in meditation for a while now but never got around to it. How did you start and evolve your approach to it?
That being said, there is a particular exercise that I do that I feel is very beneficial and important and extremely easy to do. That is visualizers. Here is my conversation with Gradius on that.
*WARNING* HUGE WALL OF TEXT, I really wish I knew how to do the spoiler box things.
It stimulates creativity simply by making you use your right hemisphere brain more. The right hemisphere of your brain is activated by random, nondescript imagery and motion. If the objects are recognizeable, you use your left brain which is basically just watching a movie, which makes you use left and right more in sync, which isn't the point. Visualizations immerse you in abstract thoughts because the objects aren't recognizeable and it decreases left brain function and right brain function through movement and imagery. Basically, it helps you to day dream. Day dreaming is caused by the natural switching of hemisphere you do throughout the day. You might have experienced this naturally if you ever got "in the zone" when playing sports or video games and the time just passed you by. This basically just puts you into that state by your choice. Nothing particularly magical or spiritual about it, although entire relgions with billions of followers have been based around this over the centuries.
As for evidence, I could go into the scientific aspects of it such as how it puts you into low alpha or theta brain waves (meditative, intuitive state) and there's plenty of that. I used to have a 100-page or so PDF file that I have bookmarked on Google Docs, but it was taken down. I'm sure you could find some more easily on the internet, but, I strongly recommend you just give it a shot for yourself. All of that is well and good but I think the best evidence is simply in cultures and religions. In Native American cultures they would stare at fire and go on a "vision quests" caused by the random, abstract, chaotic nature of fire. Hindu religions have similar things surrounding water and artistic patterns, etc. Its also the same principle behind the medallion used in so called "hypnosis". All of this is just a religious way to say that your body naturally adapts to the stimulus you are putting in front of it. Put a bunch of numbers and problems of some kind in front of you and your right hemisphere functioning will decrease and your left hemisphere will increase. The right hemisphere handles movement, in the moment experiencing, and the overall picture of what you're seeing or thinking. Left brain picks out specific objects at the expense of seeing everything, the right brain sees everything at the expense of being able to pick out specific details. All you're doing is simply telling your brain that you need to be using your right brain right now for abstract, random imagery which just so happens to also be your creative, intuitive side. Each hemisphere's functioning is attached and called to the forefront whenever one of its parts are used.
I don't really use it as meditation in the quite literal sense. There's no Hindu or Buddhist philosophy behind what I do although I can personally attest to it and I have heard in various places that people do use it for those reasons. What I personally use it for is simply to help me get in a certain state. Some times I use it while listening to music to relax but most times I use it for specific tasks that aren't at all related to meditation. Listening to audiobooks for one. When I listen to audiobooks without it, the imagery in my mind is no where near as vivid as when I am I told you before that using a visualizer turns an audiobook into a movie. I promise you that that is no exaggeration, and the effects are permanent, like going to the gym, in that you'll be able to do without a visualizer as you develop those parts of your brain. I'm much more likely to get sidetracked by real life problems or start analyzing the problems of the world if I haven't balanced my mind and visualizations help with that. I had that problem when I used to read physical books, I would read for a few pages, space out and think about something else, then notice I "read" several paragraphs without any comprehension. As the reading session continued, this would get worse until I could only focus on my thoughts unrelated to the book. I do not have these problems when using a visualizer, If I stop "reading" it is because I have exhausted my interest or focus on the book itself, not side matters. My primary use for it though, is to simply allow my subconscious to work things without being slowed down or distracted by my consciousness. Some of the greatest insights and break throughs in my understanding of just about anything came while I was just staring at a visualizer.
I use this primarily when I'm thinking about economic matters. Whenever I'm trying to "see" into the future, I just get a bunch of information in my head (infodump) then stare at a visualizer and let my subconscious sort it out. It helps me to sort out the information and form a coherent understanding in my mind, but, perhaps most importantly, it allowed my subconscious to work on it to an extent that I cannot get it to do without a visualizer. Sometimes I'll come to very strong conclusions about something, not be entirely sure why, but then as time goes on, I'll usually find that it was correct, or at least more correct than I would've gotten otherwise. Without a visualizer, I'm usually pretty aware of exactly what I think and why and know pretty well what my understanding and knowledge gaps are about a subject, which is best in most circumstances, but when I'm working on a REALLY, REALLY, REALLY hard problem, I need something more, and a visualizer helps with that. I consider it one of the key reasons I am able to think as much as I do. I told you before that I spend hours and hours a day just thinking, probably more time than I do sleeping, that's no exaggeration, I promise you, but I wasn't that way until relatively recently. Visualizers are an important part of the reason I was able to become that.
Like I told you before though, I know it will take some serious dedication to it for a while for you to get the benefits of it. I started and stopped quickly for years and years until I finally had an epiphany. But, now that I understand, I wish I had been doing it all the years, would have helped in so many ways I can't count them. This is going to feel like a waste of time for a long, long, long time. You have to be in the right state of mind and your experience will derive from that state of mind. It takes getting used to to be able to get into that state of mind easily. Consider this working muscles in the gym you haven't worked in along time. Just stick with it and eventually your mind will adapt and you'll be able to use these parts of your brain easier and more effectively.
Like I said, I do listen to music with it and it intensifies the music itself while also sort of giving a story or theme to the song instead of just pretty sounds. But, if you don't want to use music, you can use binaural beats or isochronic tones. I've used them a lot in the past and I can also promise you that they do work, to a reasonable extent, if done correctly. You can find them on YouTube although to get the best result you need a lossless file. I've got a program that makes them. It's not complex to use, but it would take some getting used to. You can also combine music and the tones if you want. I can make a couple WAVs for you if you tell me what kind of state you want to be in. You can find a list of the frequency to brain state all over the internet. Be very aware though, that you're venturing into retard territory and you'll be told lots of things about how if you meditate to certain frequencies you'll be able to do all of these amazing things. There's certain people who think all you need to cure addiction or bad habits is to meditate to the correct frequency. You know those types, they're all over the internet. I don't need to tell you that is nonsense and you need to stay away from it. Clearly, there's not much scientific or logic reasoning behind it, however, they have proven that hearing different frequencies puts the brain in a certain mood. This is why we enjoy music and it has an effect on us. The only difference between a properly done binaural/isochronic is that it's meant to focus on a particular mind state instead of going up the scale like all music does and its also supposed to be much more specific. There's some pretty outrageous claims surrounding these things, just like anything of its kind, but I have used LifeFlow (Project Meditation) and few others and I can tell you it does have some benefits. Nothing miraculous, but beneficial. There's debate in the scientific community if it works any better than music or if its just the same thing, but there's very little debate that there IS an effect of some kind. Therefore, it may be better for you to simply listen to certain kinds of music. Astropilot, the artist I told you about, his music plays in the title screen of Space Engine and when flying through space, he specifically states that he crafts his songs around certain frequency ranges for certain moods. Actually, all artists do to some extent, but this is more specific. The only reason I knew about him before Space Engine was that I found him on YouTube with some various tones with it.
As a kid, I was diagnosed with pretty severe ADD. Things like this not only helped me to cope but to master the problem and turn it into one of my greatest assets. The difference between me being a functioning human being and a chaotic mess of uncontrollable energy is a pretty thin line consisting on various routine activities like visualizers and meditation, etc. If that's what you're after, meditation as a whole and visualizers specifically will be of great benefit to you. Focusing on the here and now was always my biggest problem. Even when I was in the most stimulating of social situations, I was never really there mentally, always off analyzing some shit that didn't at all matter at the time. If that's what you feel like, yeah, you've probably got ADD. Good news though is that there's a good chance that there's a more powerful brain underneath there than you ever thought, just needing to be disciplined. As a teenager, I just kind of always assumed I was retarded or that there was something wrong with me. I could never focus on anything to retain any information. Video games (namely StarCraft) was just about the only thing I could concentrate on. Little did I know, all I needed was to create a fairly easy to follow routine and my brain functioning fell right in line and my entire life went from hopeless to organized and promising.Quote:
I'm pretty sure I'm borderline ADD
As I got older and researched the problem, there's a very real problem with certain people (correlating with high IQs) where left brain functioning overrules right hemisphere functioning to the extent that the person exhibits strong ADD symptoms even though it isn't technically ADD. It's more like a restless brain that isn't being stimulated in certain areas. I was always a thinker and after spending so much time just thinking I guess I kind of weakened the part of my brain used simply to "be". Meditation helped me conquer this pretty well, i.e. spending as much time a day as possible focusing on every detail I could of the here and now and then visualizing doing the same thing before sleep. Visualizers also helped greatly with this since it trained my brain to also be more aware of the present. Now, I know it's pretty much as simple as activating the visual cortex and right hemisphere functions. After a long visualizer session, I feel like some kind of superhuman in the way that I can pick out details, be aware of everything around me (to ridiculous extents) and things seem to move slower. More than that though, it really helped with my intuitive processes, for example, say, since you mentioned women, it helped me to be aware of subtle body language cues and to come up with topics of conversation and the like.
I don't just do this for the effect though its basically required maintenance for me. I start falling apart without it, probably because I spend so much time inside now compared to what I used to do.
Meditation is more "clear your mind and let it go where it wills". What I do is more augment the thinking processes under the surface that are held back by conscious thought. Subtle difference I know, but it's probably there. I'm sure meditation gurus would scoff at the idea that I try to direct my thoughts toward specific, logic based problems while I meditate.Quote:
That is what meditation is used for
For me, personally, now, no, far from, it helps the experience quite a bit. However, I remember there was a time when it was difficult for me to focus on the two stimuli. For example, I could either focus on the visualizer or the music/audiobook/whatever. That's the early stages eventually it'll be like second nature and no difficulty at all to focus on both. This stage didn't take long for me. I think it was the death cries of my ADD. It's up to you either way, but I don't know if I would recommend that you wait though, not sure, just try it yourself. Entrainment (binaural beats/isochronic tones) would probably be a bit easier than music and audiobooks though so you can also try that. Some people also like rain, ocean, nature sounds. I recommend you head on over the TPB and download LifeFlow, also called project meditation. The program itself recommends that you start with the first track (Alpha waves) and then do that for several weeks and then move on to the next. There's ten major tracks for alpha to lower theta waves. Personally, I didn't have any problems skipping to wherever I felt like, but maybe that's because I had already been meditating so much. My favorite is the 'Creative Flow' and 'Nirvana'. Play those with a visualizer and I promise you, if you give it time, you'll start to feel the benefits.Quote:
My question is whether the extra stimulus (music, visual input, audiobooks) actually takes away from the meditative state.
I just started myself a few weeks ago. 20-30 mins per day while I'm at work. I use a visualizer. I think the key is remembering that it's an active process. You'll want to think about random shit, but you have to resist the urge. I'm hoping this will help with my ADD, as well as the other documented health benefits of meditation. But yeah TE has been doing it for a while, he's your go-to guy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Visions of Khas
To elaborate on this, basically, what you're trying to do is isolate the lower levels of your consciousness. When you first start, there's going to be a phase where you're going to be thinking about random shit like the things you have to get done or something that happened last week. That's fine, but not what you're trying to do. You're trying to get the deeper thoughts that go on behind the scenes that you're not completely aware of. So, that means you're trying to empty your mind of conscious thought but then letting your subconscious go wild. You don't need to direct it. Sounds more difficult than it is and it may feel awkward at first, but the more you do these things, the easier and more natural it will be.Quote:
You'll want to think about random shit, but you have to resist the urge.
I liken the experience to how, when you're say, reading a book or doing homework, you'll be trudging along and then all of a sudden you'll feel a bit of a jolt a little bit later and realize you were day dreaming. For example, you might realize that you read a few paragraphs without any focus or comprehension, or that you were staring at that math problem for five minutes and didn't even know it. That's sort of the kind of state you're trying to isolate with visualizers. That's a state caused by the left brain crapping out and the right brain taking over. This happens naturally approximately every 90 minutes (why we day dream in class or at work) so don't feel like its something weird of anything.
That sounds like something I do when I'm trying to write -- like moving away part of my mind, so that the inspired part can make something happen.
Sorry I wasn't very clear with my point. I had 3 major points.Quote:
That, and I'm pretty sure Blade is male.
1) That that kind of intuition is caused by the right hemisphere of the brain.
2) That women, who have more usage of their right hemisphere, had a knack for these kinds of things so the term "woman's intuition" was created.
3) Men, while still able to have same kind of intuition, tend not to because they historically suppressed those parts of thinking and because men are more left brain dominate, with the exception of left handed people (who tend to be right brain dominate) and a few percentage of people who are right brain dominate and right handed.
Basically, I wasn't saying that men can't do these things. I was saying that men are put as a disadvantage because their brains were usually wired differently and because they suppress it.
Oh, I'm not worried about any of that.
Moo.
Your favorite race: protoss (SC1), they were basically an army of Predators.
Your disliked race: protoss (SC2)...they're basically nothing but space Draenei nowadays...
Your three favorite characters: Raynor (SC1), Kerrigan (SC1), Tosh, Honorable mention: Abathur
Your three least favorite characters: Kerrigan (SC2), Mengsk (SC2), Aldaris, Honorable mention: Raynor (SC2)
Alright. Sorry it took me so long. I had to babysit tonight.Quote:
Originally Posted by RetlocLive
Themes: Straightforwardness, Honesty, Trust, Bluntness, Effectivity over mysticism.
Romance: Yeah. Not the sugary, sappy kind, though. You're plenty capable of the chocolates and roses type of romance, but you're not the type known for sweeping women off their feet. Your primary appeal to women is that you're open, and you don't play games. Dating is about fun more than it is about impressing anyone, for you. You're also pretty funny.
Typing: ISTJ or ESTJ by my guess (keep in mind I'm a Myers-Brigg noob, so take that with a grain of salt). One of the things you enjoy most is getting stuff done. You're not a workaholic, but generally you have at least a vague idea of where you want to go in life -- not always an idea of how to get there, but you'll figure that out as you go along. You trust yourself, and you're willing to trust others. While you don't always volunteer information about yourself, you have no problem opening up and being honest with others. You're rarely afraid of being honest with others, even if what you have to say isn't exactly palatable to the person you're speaking to. You feel it's better to tell the truth and assess what to do from there than lie and potentially allow stupid conflict to happen. You love the open and honest truth, in clear detail so that the next decision can be made quickly and with certainty. I have a strange feeling that you have a hidden ideal or desire in your heart, one that is more lofty or daring than most people would dream. Either that or you simply believe in doing good for those around you in all you attempt. You admire those that are tough, driven, and not intimidated by others into abandoning what they want.
Leadership: Absolutely. You don't generally have the desire to gather others around you just to have followers, but when you see a problem, you know you have to do something about it. You're the one that goes "Hey guys, let's figure this out" and then others willingly listen to what you have to say. Over time you've accumulated a lot of trust from those you work with, particularly considering your honestly, love of efficiency, and genuine concern for/appreciation of others. As a follower, you prefer to work at least semi-independently. You don't want your job to hinge on having to follow the orders of dumb people. Even under a good leader, you prefer at least some degree of autonomy.
Dislikes: Stupid conflicts and de-railings. You're that kind of guy that reads a book and watches a movie, and then a bad twist of some sort will happen, and you react with "oh come on, that's just stupid!" You have no problem with people believing in things or being different, so long as those beliefs and differences don't get in the way of progress. Nothing grates your nerves more than someone who gets in the way of efficiency or goal-reaching and says "but what about [issue]?" You're not overly emotional, and feel disdainful of those that put too much importance into them. You also are pretty dang sick of "mystical prophesies" in fantasy stories (well, then again, so is everyone else....).
Personality issues: You're not all that sure how to handle it when someone disagrees with you, or when overly emotional people point out a problem that you feel is trivial. Emotional cultural quirks and traditions throw you off, and when they get in your way, you can be extremely insensitive. You can be very quick to shut down or avoid someone who doesn't understand the importance of your opinions, brings up an irrelevant issue, or thinks you're wrong. Or suggests that you use a more polite tone of voice.
Advice: Strive to listen to others more. Your drive to get stuff done can shut your ears to naysayers, but naysayers sometimes have important logical points. Or maybe they have no point at all, but you are obligated by rank or manners to politely consider their opinion. Manners make a superior man, and self-control will win the day here. And you know what? Pointless things are sometimes fun. Relax a bit and enjoy the seemingly irrelevant now and again. Sometimes it's beautiful.
Notes: Liking and alternatively disliking Protoss for the reasons stated indicates a desire to move forward and a love of toughness. Raynor, SC1 Kerri, Tosh, and Abathur are all driven characters who know at least vaguely what they want (good, revenge, freedom, and genetic advancement, respectively), and are willing to work with worthy companions to get it done. None of them, even Kerrigan, have trouble taking orders/advice from others if it means progress toward a goal. And, in the case of the primary three, so long as they have a choice in the matter.
SC2 Kerri, SC2 Mengsk, Aldaris and SC2 Raynor are all major obstacles. The SC2 characters mentioned are dumb, overemotional airheads who have forgotten who they are and what their goals should be. Aldaris is an over-emotional mofo who gets in the way of the liberation of Aiur and overreacts to finding out the truth about Raszagal. None of these characters appear to take as much as ten minutes of time to think about if what they're doing is stupid or not.
You wanted feedback, well here it comes. Sorry it took so long :P.
I am assuming you want feedback on how you did in order to perhaps improve, so I am going to be brutally honest.
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Here I actually I don't know for certain as I lack the experience. I do have the experience on the opposite side of the matter thou.Quote:
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But would I prefer to know a person better before initiating a relationship of any kind? Yes. And I would think most people would.
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Everybody does this. Too vague or general.Quote:
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MMhwell, that depends entirely on the plans. I can't admire someone just because they have plans.Quote:
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Part of me says yes, another part says no. It all depends. Rushed decisions are dangerous. And admire might be a bit of a stretch.Quote:
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True. The result is what matters. To most people.Quote:
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No. Big miss. LoA can verify. :PQuote:
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If I have a deadline on them, maybe.Quote:
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Unless it is a thunderstorm outside (in which I will stop with whatever I am doing, procrastination or work and go outside), true.Quote:
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I would certainly like to think they are rational but... subdued and quiet they are +1.Quote:
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Unless it is anger. -1
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I consider the Myers-Briggs test meaningless as it is based on unproven theories, limited binaries, gives inconsistent results and is disregarded by psychologists. The only thing it is good for is entertainment.Quote:
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Outside of that thou... I am neither ESTP or ENTP.
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This one is a bit difficult. I do not know someone is stupid before they have proven to be so, and that might take a long while to figure out for me. So at first, I am not good at ignoring the comments of stupid people, even after I might start to think they are stupid (-1), but once all attempts of rationalization has failed, then yes, I am. +1Quote:
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Nope. So very much nope.Quote:
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Maybe, but I am in no way leadership material.Quote:
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Yes, and sometimes my sentences mean stuff too. But alright.Quote:
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Oh yes, but it better be darn clear!Quote:
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Yes. I dislike most generalizations, of which stereotypes are a big part of. It makes things inaccurate and thus prone to misunderstanding.Quote:
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Well "too" anything is an instant dislike for most people. I can see the beauty in simplicity.Quote:
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Or, I dig deeper. Or I lose interest. Althou usage of the word "too" again makes this a bit too general and vague for me to give you any score in either direction :P.Quote:
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Yes, I do view the world as a large massive ball of wibbly wobbly stuffy wuffy things that are in reality of utter insignificance in the broad picture... yet darn interesting.Quote:
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And don't worry, I am capable of loving and living even thou I am at the realization that it is all meaningless.
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Already well aware :).Quote:
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Or what makes them clear.Quote:
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Very, VERY much aware. I have discussed with people that are way more intelligent and experienced than I am, but who were... I believe the term is "batshit crazy" (In the sense of believing he was the one true messiah and speaker of the old testament god, and had 60 (I forgot the number and wrote a random unusually high number for cats but I actually had to check, the actual number was 208!!!) cats living with him). But the guy was eloquent and well spoken. And his arguments well founded and logical.Quote:
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And part of why this is possible is their their ability to rationalize things that are in reality flat out wrong to themselves and to others.
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So all in all as a feedback on your personality test:
I feel that a lot of your characteristics on me are invoking the Forer effect a bit too much. As with everything you have your hits, but in my view most of them are based on such broad strokes that would in many cases fit almost anyone.
All put together I will personally not give it a pass. Because the misses you make are what I would consider very big when it comes to my personality.
Hope that was not too harsh :)
Nah, it's alright. I've got to get better at this one way or another, and that's by hearing what you didn't like. The fundamental flaw in all of this is that I'm not analyzing you directly, but rather trying to judge you by an outside factor. I like to think I do pretty good with nothing but Starcraft characters to go by.
Eh, part of my iffiness about qualifying my sentences is that I don't want to offend people. Sometimes people take this stuff the wrong way, like I'm trying to put them in a box or judging them.
[Insert obligatory bitchy comment on recent developments with underlying meaning about something entirely different.]
Favourite Race: Terran (SC1)
Least Favourite Race: UED
Favourite Characters: Jim Raynor, Sarah Kerrigan (infested), Abathur
Least Favourite Characters: Every SC1/BW/Retribution PC bar the cerebrates
I'm past caring about debate - no doubt most people know where I stand. But having taken a VARK test recently, it'll be interesting to see what Nissa can provide.
Edit: Looking back at other posts, I saw some precedents that allowed me to change my choices. So, on that note:
-Least Favourite Race: Changed from Protoss (SC1) to UED. While I found the protoss race (race, not characters) of SC1 to be bland and poorly executed prior to their own episode (SC2 protoss haven't had the best deal either, but I prefer the race aesthetic essence/art design/voice effects, hence why they weren't originally chosen), the UED is a faction I actually resent in terms of its presence.
Favourite Characters: Replaced Valerian with Abathur. I'm confident with Raynor and Kerrigan in that they have defined arcs that extend over multiple games. And while Valerian does indeed go through an arc of his own, we don't see a lot of it (see the start and end point in HotS, but not the middle), and while his characterization is great in the DTS and I, Mengsk, his actions in 'Flashpoint' are...eh. Abathur is...well, Abathur. While he doesn't develop in the same way other characters do, he's an example of a character that doesn't need to. That, and he's easily the most unique character in HotS and I would argue, most unique zerg character all around.
Least Favourite Characters: Original list was Duke, Daggoth, and Artanis (SC1). And while those are characters that I all take issue with in some form, there are worse characters existing in the setting. And by 'characters,' I mean the player characters. True, there are worse actual characters in the setting. I have a dislike for Lester and Sarge given that they represent the cinematic segregation of SC1, but at least they had personality. I dislike Nyon from SC2 in that he has no personality, but at least he had purpose. The listed player characters however, in their listed forms, have no purpose, and no personality. They add NOTHING. This may be a cheat, and I'm not sure how Nissa can interpret it, but...well, I said it. Not sure how that translates in a psyche test, but...well, go figure.
I have never disagreed with a list of characters more. Who is responsible for this madness?
Oh, good to have you back Hawki.