Every now and then, the subject of these tests pops up on the list; I was
just thinking recently it was about time again. Too cool, they're fun.
I was INTP last time I checked. For whatever that's worth (3 magic beans?)
Emlyn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Lias" <anrwlias@hotmail.com>
To: <extropians@maxwell.kumo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 12:53 AM
Subject: Re: New ways
> "J. R. Molloy" <jr@shasta.com> writes:
> >Andrew Lias has written,
> >
> > > one could say that the Promethean metaphor is in ascension while the
> > > Frankenstein metaphor is in decline.
> >
> >Indeed, Robert Anton Wilson has written a popular book entitled
_Prometheus
> >Rising_
> >http://www.newfalcon.com/books/prometheus_rising.htm
> >and the Frankensteinian monster has received makeovers from Hollywood.
>
> Of course, if we want to *really* strain the metaphor, we could conduct a
> poll to see how many on this list fall into the "Promethean" (i.e., *NT*)
> catagory on the Meyers-Briggs personality
> sorter(http://mijuno.larc.nasa.gov/dfc/mb.html).
>
> My guess is that we'd get a fair amount of Prometheans and an even
*larger*
> amount of people who consider the test to be crap and an utter waste of
> time. ;-)
>
> -- Andrew Lias
>
> [FWIW, and all humor aside, I've become rather skeptical of the inventory,
> over time, in spite of being admittedly taken with it when I first
> encountered it. See http://skepdic.com/myersb.html for a critical
> evaluation of the inventory]
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