Introverted Sensing Thinking Perceiving. I did one of those personality tests that you find online, in fact it was this one http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp and I received the high honour of scoring an ISTP. Well the high honour part is my contribution to the said label. Now I hear you ask so what? And so what indeed, because that is precisely the usefulness of these sorts of pigeon holing personality tests that some people find intoxicating and meaningful with their alleged insight into the soul of man. Although, having acquired this new knowledge of myself, I admit, it gave me a certain inner musing whilst gathering further information on this ISTP continuum I seem embedded into and even defined by. However I have come to the conclusion that whilst it allowed me to chuckle in agreement with some of the assessments claimed about this ISTP personality trait I possess, I can essentially find no real discerning relevance for anything other than it being an instrument used to pull one’s own dick.

I know, perhaps it is my ISTP speaking and my apparent intolerance for placing any weight upon feeling that is speaking, but can anyone tell me in what way are these type-casts of personality useful for? Unless it is just a glorified horoscope to amuse oneself with while reading the morning paper I cannot really make heads or tails as to why anyone would place any significant weight in trying to extrapolate further meaning from it.

I lie, there is one way that it can be used in a practical sense and that is by perhaps trying extract money out of your hip pocket, whether it is with a Jungian Myer-Brigg expert using some Archetype metaphorical language to flatter your subconscious into paying the 100 dollar plus an hour for a therapy session to examine the true nature of last night’s dream; where you were running through a rosy garden, when suddenly the petals all fell from the rose bushes and the Sunshine vanished behind ominous clouds and a dark shadow appeared out from the pond and then….. Or it may benefit those Scientologist’s when using some adulterated form of the Jung-Myer-Brigg personality test and giving you a Dianetic reading of your fucked up personality and concluding that you are a PIST (Pure Imbecile In Treatment) instead of ISTP and that it can only be cured by forking out cold hard cash to Ron hub Hubbard in your cub cub cupboard.

Anyway what more can I say, the forum that had the link to the personality test that I performed tonight also had a true believer declaring with rapture, testifying to the truth and accuracy of such tests while in the same paragrapgh extolling the virtues of reiki healing and other such psuedo therapeutic nonsense. Need I say more?