Posted by Harley on January 02, 2001 at 01:38:26:
In Reply to: Re: RA's Saturday Fireside Chat for Type 5s posted by RoTtEn ApPlE on December 31, 2000 at 03:20:51:
: : I'm still scratching my head wondering what "cold inside" means. Thanks god I allow myself the freedom to experience either cold or warm both inside and outside depending on where and whom I am with in which kind of settings. However, my inner life tends to be fairly even and calm, except when going through a conflict. When it comes to understanding or mapping the dynamics at play, I really prefer to use the etype configurations together with wings and directions.
: Yeah, what the hell does it mean to be "cold" or "warm"? Conveys the idea that objectivity and logic are not good means for relating to oneself or to other people... a feeling biased language system methinks.
I know some very cold "artistic types" who supposedly live in the world of language and expression...they are not very giving to the artistic process, very removed from the group and difficult to read. For me, those words are not about the difference between being logical or objective ("scientific"), but about how people express themselves and how they relate to other people.
Maybe the heart is warm, the gut is hot and the head is cold? Or maybe that's just my 8 way of seeing it.
My "heated" reactions are always tempered by my time at 5 - but my answer is getting in touch with moderation and opening my heart (warm = moderation).
It is only recently that I have started to learn to go to 5 BEFORE I react. And that has been a good thing.
I've just been thinking this as I'm writing it - sorry if it reads like a load of hippy shit.