Re: you may be a 5 if...

Posted by voodoodolly on October 02, 2000 at 21:47:26:

In Reply to: you may be a 5 if... posted by isaac on October 02, 2000 at 17:33:46:

Hi Isaac,
I love your list! On every test I've taken so far, including the new one on this site, the results have been "5", with no room for doubt on any of them. So, it looks like you've just met a second female 5 in your lifetime (We must really exist after all - Lol). What I'm finding very interesting about those two *survey questions* on the top ten list I posted, is that so far (& to my knowledge), you & Laurence are the only *males* to have responded, & both of you apparently have in common type 3 fathers & type 4 mothers. On the main board, everyone else (females?) so far seems to have type 2 mothers & type 8 fathers (or else knows of another 5 else w/ that parental combination). This is fascinating because I only put that in there experimentally (to see if anyone else shares my own parents combination). What I want with the enneagram (as with just about everything else I become interested in) is *evidence*, not just a "kinda-neat-*vibe*-that-sorta-works-some-of-the-time-for-some-people-in- certain-situations" etc...etc... Why do most of the typing systems I come across end up being treated in such a flaky way? As far as the enneagram goes, so much of what I've read by different authors is contradictory (hence all the arguments & different *branches* of theory springing up). But no one I've read yet has said anything DEFINITE or has tried to conduct some serious studies to find things out. For example, maybe type 5 males have a 90 to 99% likelihood of having type 3 fathers &/or type 4 mothers? If you think about it, wouldn't it make SENSE that the individual's personality type would share in common w/ others of the same type a similar parental background influence? There are people out there right now successfully creating & implementing psychological profiles of killers base on extensive interviewing & digging for common denominators among prisoners. It IS possible to find these answers. Perhaps the problem with the enneagram is that not many people bother to find the right questions to ask in the first place, because maybe it's easier to just go on what other authors are hashing & re-hashing. Or maybe I just haven't come across the right books myself yet. I apologize for this irritable tone of voice. Believe me, it's not directed at you personally.

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• parents' types? jen 00:52:41 10/04/00 (2)
  • Re: parents' types? voodoodolly 21:06:26 10/04/00 (1)
    • shoulda known a joke would turn into a study on this board... lol isaacthe54 21:50:18 10/04/00 (0)

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