Posted by pork on October 26, 2001 at 16:25:27:
In Reply to: Questions posted by Bored on October 25, 2001 at 17:58:22:
> Although I have no idea how many people frquent this board, I am still waiting for some kind of response
OK, I'll give you one, but don't expect the Second Coming.
> regarding my question about whether any of you feel that the enneagram system is too pleasant/optimistic a view
That depends on how YOU view it.
> on human behaviour and patterns.
Again, that depends on how YOU view it. In my view, one's Enneagram type does not correlate directly with one's behavior. Though one's behavior does arise from one's type, the intermediate pathways and resultant expressive quality of that arising are as various as... well, any number of variables you can imagine - upbringing, education, sensory representational type, experience, Myers-Briggs type.
> If you don't think so, then where the fuck do you put someone like Osamah bin Laden on the enemagram scale?
I believe he's a 9w1 INFP. Lest you think I should be able to entertain you with some far-out "crackpot" explanation for this conclusion that many people might say is downright crazy, I'm afraid I cannot, except to say that my guess is based more on his expressive qualities than on WHAT he does in a broad sense.
For fun, take the following Bin Laden quote (paraphrased, but almost accurate):
"Those youths who did what they did, and destroyed America with their airplanes, did a good thing.... This will be a test of the faithful against the faithless."
"Destroyed America"? With "their" airplanes? If someone else said that, you'd think they were naively uninformed. A "good" thing? "The faithful against the faithless?" He's just an idealistic crusader who's been radicalized.
> If you do think so, then do you see it as a shortcoming?
Observe my spelling (i.e., "behavior"). What country do you think I'm from? ;)
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