From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Mon Oct 09 2000 - 23:10:55 MDT
Andrew Lias wrote:
>
> "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
>
>
Idealist - NF; alternate (Healer) INFP
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