"your personality type, IXFJ, (an 'X' represents a split), is not perfectly defined"

Career Test Center

Personality type results
EI: 13 out of 17
Extrovert |-------------------------------------------------| Introvert
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76%
SN: 8 out of 16
Sensation |-------------------------------------------------| iNtuition
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50%
TF: 9 out of 14
Thinking |-------------------------------------------------| Feeling
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64%
JP: 2 out of 16
Judging |-------------------------------------------------| Perceiving
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12%
"Because your answers in one or more categories were split 50/50,
your personality type, IXFJ, (an 'X' represents a split), is not perfectly defined."

Where Truth Falls Short

"The truth can take a bite out of life, but it cannot taste it." - Nick Piombino

Stigmata

Respect and awe for the natural world. We experience God in as many different ways as there are human beings. Most human beings want to live in relation to transcendence. Wonder. Awe. Excitement. Giving one intimations of something touching one deeply within, that lifts one up beyond oneself. Mythos and logos should not be mixed, for they are different things. And they’re not in competition. Reflect time, tree whispers. Philosophy is taming a unicorn. The happenstance of existence. He’s created one flame of original ecstasy in the spiritless waste around him. Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. Man is god in ruins. “To the man who is lost in love, ought will help him? An explanation?” - Wittgenstein.

Fernando Pessoa on Reason

"Reason is faith in what can be understood without faith, but it's still a faith." - Fernando Pessoa

'De-mystifying the Modern Magicians'

A beautiful collection of philosophers photographed up to Jan 2007 by Steve Pyke which a friend just told me about last night. I do think they (we?) are modern magicians. I do not think photographic portraiture, worth even it's thousand words, can de-mystify them though...or anything else for that matter.

'De-mystifying the Modern Magicians' 

If anyone ever wants to buy me his book as a present, I wouldn't object...

Connecting the Dots

"An account of the nature of knowledge can be, at most a description of human behavior" (Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, 182).

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"For [Nietzsche], knowledge is...a series of linguistic signs that designate and describe the world in light of our evolving needs, interests and purposes" (Cornel West, "Nietzsche's Prefiguration of Postmodern American Philosophy", from The Cornel West Reader, 205).

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"What use are descriptions that leave spirit and heart cold, lifeless descriptions of lifeless nature" (Novalis, Philosophical Writings, 165).


Knowledge is what we describe, a description of human behavior; describe the world in light of our needs; spiritually empty descriptions leave us lifeless; our need is for meaning. The best philosophers and scientists will allow us to meet such needs...