Criticalness, Integralism, and Type

Criticalness, Integralism, and Type Posted by marmalade on January 19, 2008 at 12:02am in Open Forum View Discussions This is in response to the thread titled ‘Should Integralists Storm The Religous Battlefield’. I’ve been involved in a thread at IIDB, an atheist discussion board. Its a thread about Acharya’s theories about astrotheology which is related to comparative mythology, and Acharya has [...]

Type and Development

Type and Development Posted by marmalade on January 9, 2008 at 4:58pm in Open Forum View Discussions I’m fascinated by both horizontal and vertical models, but most integral discussions emphasize the vertical. What I’m curious about is how the whole picture becomes more complex when the two are combined. Introduction to Volume 7 of the Collected [...]

Darn Apologists!

Darn Apologists! Posted on Dec 26th, 2008 by Marmalade *begin rant* I did a really silly thing.  I just made a brief comment on a Christian’s Youtube video.  I really didn’t want to discuss anything, but he responded and I responded.  I knew from the get-go that I desired not such a “discussion” (if an [...]

Politics, Personality, and Character

Politics, Personality, and Character Posted on Oct 13th, 2008 by Marmalade http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25335299/    Republican presidential nominee John McCain has spent months positioning himself as the heir to Ronald Reagan’s conservative movement. Recent poll data, however, show that his Democratic opponent perhaps better embodies some of Reagan’s key personality traits.   http://www.csbsju.edu/uspp/Obama/Obama_Personality-Profile_2007.html The personality profile yielded by the [...]

The Story of INFP

The Story of INFP Posted on Jul 7th, 2008 by Marmalade This blog is for Nicole.  This is a summary of a story I told to someone on the Globalchatter forum in trying to explain INFP in a different way.  The thread was titled Ne’s public face. You could think of an INFP’s Ne as [...]

Integral and Types

  Integral and Types Marmalade said Jul 5, 2008, 5:42 AM:     I’ve looked around for information about types within integral theory, but I couldn’t find much of anything beyond some brief mentions.  I wonder why that is.  This came up in a discussion I was having recently with Balder.  I have an interest in [...]

Self-Made Man

Self-Made Man Posted on Mar 18th, 2008 by Marmalade Self-Made Man, Norah Vincent This book is about a lesbian who dressed up as a man.  Its not my normal kind of reading material.  The premise of it sounds like superficial amusement, a catchy idea in a world glutted with such books.  I was very surprised [...]

Online Debates: Ideology, Education & Psychology

Internet discussions more often than not drive me bonkers.  I’ll mention some data and immediately someone will question and criticize the data.  If they’re a more worthy opponent, they’ll ask for specific sources.  I usually comply and then add even more data just to further support my argument.  The other person may offer data too, [...]

Political Charts: Ideology & Psychology

http://knowinghumans.net/2009/01/extra-nolan-chart-dimensions.html The problem I see with political identifications is conflation of factors.  A major confusion is that few people seem interested in the connection between political views and personality traits.  There has been a lot of psychological research.  There are three models that have been used for political research: MBTI, FFM, and Hartmann’s Boundary Types.  [...]

Psychology of Politics, Development of Society

I’ve been thinking out some complex issues and data.  In particular, my mind has been stuck on the issue of liberal and conservative.  This relates to personality types and traits, but furthermore it relates to genetics.  Scientists have discovered specific genes that correlate with specific tendencies of political attitudes.  That isn’t exactly surprising as trait research [...]