Personality type results

EI: 10 out of 17
Extrovert |-------------------------------------------------| Introvert
                                      |
                                     58%
SN: 13 out of 17
Sensation |-------------------------------------------------| iNtuition
                                               |
                                              76%
TF: 8 out of 16
Thinking  |-------------------------------------------------| Feeling
                                  |
                                 50%
JP: 7 out of 17
Judging   |-------------------------------------------------| Perceiving
                             |
                            41%

Because your answers in one or more categories were split 50/50,
your personality type, INXJ, (an 'X' represents a split), is not perfectly defined.

Dec. 21, 2004: the date of this test.

http://www.personalitytest.net/types/index.htm

I didn't answer at least one question in the test, otherwise I would not have come up 50% in any section. I assume that the test is set up to have odd numbers in each section to avoid a person getting 50%.

I think that these results account for the ways I’ve been treated by some people. Falling in the middle, being neither white nor black, figuratively and not in the matter of skin color. Perhaps it’s not an unusual thing, but I seem to irritate or perplex people because I don’t conform to their expectations, which seem to be that a person should fall into certain categories. I myself have always felt that the black-and-white (as I call it) thinking or perception of the world is strange to me. It’s something that people crave, to put everything and everyone in a category or on one side of a question or argument. I don’t like that way of thinking. To me, almost everything sits in a grey area of various possibilities. Why should I choose sides? I don’t commit myself to many things, except in some ethical and political situations. It’s not a popular thing I do, it seems, like when I worked at my previous job, where people had formed little ‘cliques’ and I tried to be friends with almost all of them and ignore the cliques. I didn’t see why I should choose, when I liked people within all of the cliques. That bothered some people, though: that I’d act friendly to someone they didn’t get along with. Looked at in a macrocosmic view, this is why there are wars and persecutions. We are dividing people into us and them. All the time. I’m certainly not guilt-free of this tendency myself, but that doesn’t mean I like it.

I had difficulties answering a number of the questions in the personality test, probably due to – if you take this test seriously – making decisions in both ways, Thinking and Feeling. It becomes, in reality, that I may use both ways and not just one or the other, or it depends on the situation I’m thrown into, and what my hormone levels are like at that time.

Hormones, now there’s something. I blame everything on them. Those are the things that really run your brain and your life. Hormones, the most troublesome things in the human experience.

When I don’t blame them, though, "I blame the government. I hate the bastards." {-- Truly Madly Deeply (1991)}

Just recently I have become a fan of the German band Rammstein. Their music is described roughly as industrial metal with electronic influences. Some of their music has been in American movies, but I haven’t seen any of those. I cannot remember hearing their music until November Fifth, a little more than one month ago. I fell in love with it immediately. I ordered their second-to-last album, Muetter (That means "Mother". I don’t have an U with umlaut, so add an ‘e’ after it).

I adore it. I love it. It is way fantastic.
I suppose it helps a bit that I have some knowledge of the German language, so I don’t feel completely lost when it comes to the lyrics. The lyrics are not inconsequential.

I bought a copy of their DVD “Lichtspielhaus” which has twelve of their music videos, some live concert footage, and five “making of” the music videos. I have watched most of the DVD – I didn’t want to get overloaded by watching all of it at once. I really love most of their music videos.
So, I don’t know a lot about the band, but I’ve read a few things on the internet and looked at some photos there.

Today I watched the “Swedish interview” which was recorded sometime in 2001.This interview was in English, but done in Stockholm. I had fun watching the interview and also afterwards, just thinking about it. I’m dissecting it, somewhat.

The interview is given by this very squeaky clean young man who doesn’t look remotely like he would ever listen to metal music. He is very polite and respectful. There are two band members there, Till the singer and Christoph the drummer. They mostly behaved themselves until near the end. The show was about 28 minutes, so it’s not that short. It was done as a live chat, with fans e-mailing questions in to the studio.

Interviewer: Over here in Sweden, you are very famous for your live shows. You played a gig in (sounds like) “Huchstratt” and the whole scene sort of, what happened, there was a large fire?
Christoph: That was a usual Rammstein concert I would say, and we had a lot of fun, and we had an extra pyro show. Because the stage were made from wood and it got burnt…some way… and nobody got hurt. I have good memories of this show.

I think to myself: no wonder they’re famous for their live shows in Sweden. They bloody burn the house down.
Later the interviewer asks, “What will you have new in the next live show?”
Till looks him in the eyes and says “Two dildos, instead (sic) one**.”

As for me, I’m laughing, because I’ve seen these photos of concert footage where Till has a dildo sticking out of his pants during one of the songs. The song “Bueck Dich” which means “Bend Over.”
I’m thinking, though, that the interviewer doesn’t know anything about the use of a dildo in concert. I don’t know.

Interviewer: Something else?
Christoph: Fire is going to be part of the show…we are going to keep this…
Till: We’re teasing the fire marshalls there.


A question from a fan: what is your favorite song to play live?
Christoph: (says like) I want to play the new songs. Not the old ones.
Till: For me it’s definitely the dildo song. Bueck dich. I like to fuck the keyboarder. (He means keyboardist.)
Christoph (aside): I told you he’s a faggot.
Till: I’m a faggot, okay.
Interviewer: Keyboard faggot.
Till: Keyboarder. I don’t want to fuck the keyboard. The thing
is quite boring and cold.

Following that, strange talk of eating reptiles because someone asked if any of the band members own reptiles.
During the livechat is shown a song from a concert in Berlin, and a music video for the song Sonne.

A direct link to the interview, in Realplayer, is:
http://www.rammsteinniccage.com/multimedia/video/Sweden_video_chat.rm

**Shades of D.C. Fontana ~wink wink~

I was just listening to disc three of The Remains of Tom Lehrer, when I heard this appropriate track; the words are copied from www.lyrics.net.ua, with additional punctuation by me, because it was a bit sparse in that respect.

"What with President Johnson practicing escalatio on the Vietnamese, and then the Dominican crisis on top of that, it has been a nervous year, and people have begun to feel like a Christian scientist -- with appendicitis. Fortunately, in times of crisis just like this, America always has this number one instrument of diplomacy to fall back on.

Here's a song about it.

When someone makes a move
Of which we don't approve,
Who is it that always intervenes?
U.N. and O.A.S.,
They have their place, I guess,
But first send the Marines!

We'll send them all we've got,
John Wayne and Randolph Scott,
Remember those exciting fighting scenes?
To the shores of Tripoli,
But not to Mississippoli,

What do we do? We send the Marines!
For might makes right,
And till they've seen the light,
They've got to be protected,
All their rights respected,
'Till somebody we like can be elected.

Members of the corps
All hate the thought of war,
They'd rather kill them off by peaceful means.
Stop calling it aggression,
O we hate that expression.
We only want the world to know
That we support the status quo.
They love us everywhere we go,
So when in doubt,
Send the Marines!"

I love that phrase -- "practicing escalatio" -- oh, that is wicked of him to say. Just before I listened to this, I had listened to Lehrer's song called "Smut," so when he said "practicing escalatio" I got a quite sexual but confused visualization of it. (Go, go, Jumbo!) I'd prefer not to say here what Jumbo refers to, if you don't know, sorry. If you do, Ha ha!

I feel that these lyrics are quite appropriate to Bush's war on Iraq. This is just the latest example of bullying the little countries.