Posted by adavis on April 21, 1998 at 14:24:57:
In Reply to: Re: Fives and glasses posted by Copperhead on April 20, 1998 at 19:54:10:
Another geeky five responding, yes, I wear glasses and am nearly blind
without them. My boyfriend also wears glasses,is blind, and is a five.
I'm not sure about the actual statistics, or factual basis for asserting
that fives are more often nearsighted than other points, but like many
generalizations I associate with the enneagram (gothic fours, plastic
threes, large nines....), I think it is an instructive caricature for
beginners. I think that is the spirit in which Rohr writes about fours
with berets and accents. They are helpful portraits for beginners, but
are by no means written in stone. I have a friend who has been studying
the enneagram for many, many years and is still limited by those superficial
characterizations. He has little intuition for the enneagram and tries
to extrapolate too much upon those stereotypes, so I suppose it isn't
good to take them too literally. They sure make for good jokes though.