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Lol @ video game music
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I kinda find the attitude in this video more palpable than in others. Its nice that Adymus explained the nature of the game as being an open forum for debate rather than a monopoly. Err, so you already started round 2, but nobody's gotten a chance to argue/challenge the reads. Then again I wouldn't expect this game to halt for that sort of thing. Nonetheless I'd rather focus on addressing some of the differences in results, than going on... since doing so would do nothing more than enforce one unchallenged view.

Some of them I was not entirely certain of so I won't try to dispute the accuracy of; but others I have to highlight:

Ne-lead vs Ni-lead


Makemebad35: Podlair: NiFe | Auburn: NeFi/NeTi
How is this person native-state subjective/introverted? from every video I see (even taking added enthusiasm/drama out of the equation) he is very much natural-state objective. In fact, heavily buoyant. By podlair's own criteria, the eyes don't seem hooded to me, nor does it seem like 'going home' when he pauses/deflates. It feels like all pauses in energy are just intermissions between naturally healthy and continual excitation.

jennifer1234styles: Podlair: NeFi | Auburn: NiTe/NiFe
How is it that this person is not Ni lead? Her eyes are so clearly trancing, prone to drift, steady and totally lacking buoyancy. Her eyes are so much more hooded than makemebad35, yet makemebad35 has hooded eyes while jennifer has unhooded eyes? I really don't understand this. c.c

Her eyes look a lot more similar to StudyGuys than any other's eyes out of the seventeen. Adymus/Xailyyne seem to agree StudyGuys is Ni-lead, so why wouldn't Jennifer? o.o

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See here:

Jennifer: /watch?v=tbRrOknTYU8
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Now I know this is only a single still image but watch the video and you'll see it is an accurate screenshot of how she is natively throughout the whole video. Her eyes are zoned-out and steady, just like StudyGuys, and even Lyra's and Thomas.

makemebad: /watch?v=N-Xgg0xY7aE
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And likewise with him, this is also how his eyes look in all his videos, amped, wide open, soaking in. They're also quite buzzy/ditzy and naturally energetic. I could even maybe contemplate them being Se-lead eyes, maybe, but certainly not Ni-lead. Your thoughts, Podlair?

Edit: ..now see here StudyGuys to compare: /watch?v=eg4Jy34riCY
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Once again this mugshot is characteristic of his eyes' expression during the whole video. They look strikingly identical to Jennifer's eyes, not makemebad.
 

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MRR - Orientation II, she's really emphasizing how it is an art and how hard it is to read. This seems at odds with what I've heard from other PLarians who insist it's a science and clear cut. She says that you will continue to improve the rest of your life at it. I'm granting that PL seems to have a handle on physiological cues, but if those were used to augment MBTI I'm not sure PL would be that much ahead. One can use MBTI to read people - imperfectly, but it is possible.

@Lyra, you say that Reading is the key and by becoming adept at that a person will get it. Get what? What exactly do you say this offers over any other approach? Will I be more self aware, more in control of my energy, able to tap into more energy, or what exactly?

I'm actually not that interested in understanding other people better (mojo journalism/virtual village). Via MBTI I think I've got a good enough handle on all the Sensors around me, especially since that's all I've seen (few intuitives in my life unfortunately). I'm really looking for more insight into myself.
 

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Left-brain, right-brain, you guys know that we've found that left-right brain stuff is bunk, right? It came from a crude understanding of the brain in the 60's. The hemispheres are separated but it's not the logic/creative split that they thought back then.

Anyhow, finished this video, basically feels like I wasted a half hour. Again I'm seeing MBTI but put together in a much more confusing manner. She keeps droning on and it's getting on my nerves.

If MBTI was presented this way it wouldn't have gotten anywhere. I'm not trying to cut on you folks but I'm not getting anywhere.
 

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@Architect you could focus on reading this phenomenon specifically to a level of competence, or just to assessing the falsifiable claims made and patterns presented. We also use Reading to describe a potentially much more expansive process of reading energy patterns/phenomena generally. Bear in mind that we have a Scientific-Spirituality Index running from concrete (Vyy/Vai) up through spiritual (Nyy/Nai), that corresponds with our 5 gears of concrete > spiritual ways of reading. We put a heavy emphasis on the lower gears and aspects of the index in our public claims and pushes, because they're what gain traction right now. So you can Read focusing on those claims, and those claims are true and justified, but our terminology is also applicable to and sometimes employed in terms of the other end of the spectrum. The end actually most natural to most current P'L members, and which was the genesis of P'L's more literal insights (like Nai'xyy Einstein's Image-trips were for his).

On left vs. right: yes, that's metaphorical but occasionally one of us doesn't get that across. What's important is that there are physio-geographical accesses and drectionalities. Pod'Lair makes no strong claim about their relation to a literal physical region of the brain, nor about how the brain produces or works in relation to the Cognitive Configuration phenomenon.

So you felt like you wasted half an hour. Sorry, but that's irrelevant. So you think we could present faster or more punchily. Perhaps. I've already discussed that. But we are nonetheless the only people to have put the right info out there. Stick to course. The point about presentation has been made-- now there's really no point going over concerns resulting from not canvassing when there's that basic course I wrote set out in front of you. Take your time if you need to.

On yourself/others-- it's impossible to do one better without the other for a very long time in this context. Regardless, if getting yourself better is the aim, this is the best and most time in>reward out efficient resource available.
 

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@Auburn from Adymus

'First thing that needs to be said is that you are working with an inferior knock-off of Pod'Lair's Five Gears of Mojo Reading. You are using our terminology, but you have absolutely no idea what these words you are using even mean. Terms like "Bouncy" and "Laser Eyes" refer to real cues and signals, but if you are not learning how to read from Pod'Lair, then you wouldn't know what these terms are referring to in the first place. You are trying to just guesstimate what they mean, without even referring them to clean samples, and now you are surprised to find that you are wrong.

Next, this is exactly why in the criticism part of your scores I said that you are giving too much precedence to pure physiology, and not enough to energy and qualia. You are hyper-focusing on irrelevant physiology and completely overlooking all of the relevant Energy Fields that are happening at the same time. All Mojos both Objective and Subjective can have big eyes, the size of eyes does not determine if they are hooded or unhooded. Concrete Physiology (size of eyes, shape of face, etc) is often inconsistent, but energy is never inconsistent. This is also the inherent flaw of not using a method that has multiple gears that ascend across the Understanding Continuum. You are focusing almost purely on Gear 1, and a little bit of Gear 2, and you are putting the most importance on lower gears when you should be putting more importance on higher gears. Because of this you don't really have a way to make sense of what you are reading, even if you get their Pod Powers right, which is unlikely, you don't have a way to get their correct ordering right if you are not working with higher gears.



Makemebad35:
You are being very misleading with this one, you took out a single still cue where he is perking up his eyes, but that is not an innate-state quality for him, his eyes are hooded, and perking up his eyes often does not change that quality. He is a very Amped riff of Nai'xyy, especially when he is in this character that he is playing for his vlog . You need to be able to see through that Mah'zute, you do realize these videos are clipped together, right? Just because a person is doing a lot of a certain power in a video does not mean that it's natural state for them. I do a shit ton of Xyy Articulation in my videos, but that don't make me a Xyy Alpha. Doing a lot of Vyy Perk Up, does not mean Vyy is Momentum, that is a very sloppy assumption, there is such a thing called Peaking that allows a person to energize all of their powers. You can still see his Distinct Signal is Dissatisfaction, that's something he can't escape no matter what character he is in, or how Amped he gets. These movements are not Bouncy, they are a Nai'xyy's flavor of Vyy Shimmy. Look at the sheer amount of anger that is channeled into his characterizations, Vyy Alpha and Non-Nai Alpha just plain don't have that amount and flavor of rage energy, that is definitely not Adaptive. He has a Nai Alpha broken rhythm, this is not a Literal's rhythm. Look at his movements, they are percussive, Innate-State Yang gesturing, and altered-state Yin. Also, Forth Gear riff of Jimmy Fallon.

"Se-lead eyes, maybe, but certainly not Ni-lead"

They obviously are Cunning eyes to anyone that can read Mojo, but you wouldn't know because you are not one of those people, and you don't work with clean samples, so you don't have anything to use as a reference. He would not at all be the first Nai'xyy to have a really Amped riff, you just don't have any experience reading this kind of Nai'xyy, he is basically another Frezned, who fooled you as well. You need to pay attention to more than just the eyes, but also the higher gears.Know what you know; Mojo Reading is not some probabilistic guessing game, either you can read what Mojo it is or you can't, either you know or you don't. If are just guessing what Mojo you think they probably are, then you are not reading, and you should be aware of that.

jennifer1234styles:

It is almost silly that you would think she is a Nai'zyy.
4th Gear - Mila Kunis
3rd Gear - Buoyancy with Poignancy, not Dissatisfaction with Bracing.
2nd Gear -Literally from start to finish she is nothing but Bouncy.
-Where are you seeing Directive Energy in her exactly? There is no Cunning Signal, no boundary setting, having somewhat small and darker eyes does not make you the Mojo that you are.
-Emotive Expression goes passed the Mid-line, she has the soft Appley cheeks of the Nyy'xai, not the more steely cheeks of the Nai'zyy or a Logic-Based Mojo.
1st Gear - Those eyes are neither Cunning nor Hooded, they are Dancing Eyes and Unhooded, size of eyes has got nothing to do with it.

And no, her eyes are not identical to Studyguys, one is cunning the other is dancing, unless you mean in size, which you shouldn't, because that's irrelevant. Studyguys and Makemebad are simply two different developmental riffs of Nai'xyy, Mojos do have different riffs you know.'
 

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See, this is exactly what I thought would happen. =P
Circular answers.

If I try to dispute the signals Pod'lair describes, I will never see them, until I do. *eyerolls* In other words, what you're asking me to do, Adymus is to brainwash myself into your interpretations of your words. You're asking me to watch the 'clean' samples you've listed and ingrain it in my head that what I will see *are* those signals. Just because they are. So that what I call "dissatisfied" is whatever it is those videos of your listed Ni-leads show. You can't be anymore specific than that because it'd lose the qualia.

And so what if I were to I give you a "Podlair-style" reply of my own...
"You are the one misinterpreting my signals. You're right, even though we use similar words, you have no idea what I'm talking about when I use my terms. If you only knew how to Read Type properly, then you wouldn't have an issue identifying them. But you don't know. Just because a person crops their video together, to show the most animated bits, doesn't mean they're not naturally energetic by default.

The eye size had nothing to do with my read. I read people Explorers with small eyes too (Sam Worthington, George Lopez) and Worldviewers with big eyes. The focus is in how they're held. How the face operates in concert. It has nothing to do with facial structure.

What I am reading is them, not their Ma'zute. If you knew what he really is, you'd see that he really is being default in his energy. There is a difference between an objective type trying to be subjective, and a subjective playing up their objective functions. Makemebad35 is clearly amped by stimuli in the way explorer-leads are, not worldview leads. But you've formed a twisted perception of configurations by prolonged confirmation bias up in "gears 4-5", which are basically an absolutely anything-goes realm of completely unfalsifiable and unscientific fluff.

I know what I see when I see it, but am also not foolish enough to say I see all things. So what I say I see is because I do see it; it is not guesswork. If I don't see it, I just admit that I don't. And this is from firsthand prolonged experience with the types --- psychically understanding the rhythm/tempo of their thoughts until I know why they think how they do (their functions) --- and then lots of observation of their expressions/mannerisms until I see the consistent signals.

I don't even see how you could have gotten "dreamy" out of jennifer1234's eyes. They are sensual, steady, penetrative, trancing, and drift in a way that only Ni-lead eyes do. I can actually prove this and present clips for each of those things, that most anyone can readily see too -- and understand why I use those terms. I clearly don't know what you mean by dreamy but I'm not interested in knowing since you're wrong if you correlate that to jennifer1234, and then that to Ne/Nyy as a psychic process (both by your own description in the Nyy Power Flow video & jungian descriptions)."
 

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If I try to dispute the signals Pod'lair describes, I will never see them, until I do. *eyerolls* In other words, what you're asking me to do, Adymus is to brainwash myself into your interpretations of your words. You're asking me to watch the 'clean' samples you've listed and ingrain it in my head that what I will see *are* those signals. Just because they are. So that what I call "dissatisfied" is whatever it is those videos of your listed Ni-leads show. You can't be anymore specific than that because it'd lose the qualia.
Dude, this is the most retarded thing I've heard from you for a long time. You're breaking your own increasingly impressive records. How the fuck are you meant to learn to use any technical vocabulary or associated discipline without paying attention to what the intended referent of the terms is? It's like you're reading a Physics textbook and saying 'NOPE. NOPE. I don't care what you SAY an electron is. I know the word and it has something to do with - signs. I know that because you told me, and I am obsessed with the things. But you telling me HOW I'm supposed to look at this version of 'electron' you talk about (microscopes? PsHHHt) and what equations can predict its movements is clearly CIRCULAR! You're just defining 'electron' to be whatever you want it to be after all, and I could do exactly the same thing!'.

That sounded really retarded. You're sounding really retarded. Stop being so retarded, Auburn.

You learn the technical vocabulary and methods and doing so allows you to engage with the claims being made. You can't just appropriate the vocabulary and ignore the original referent and treat attempts to use it for that referent as circular. All that does is show you have no idea what you're talking about, because you're talking about the claims being made, and you have no idea what they are.

All this time you've been running around thinking 'buoyancy' was this or Nai eyes were that, and you did that because you stumbled across a little of what Pod'Lair taught. You formed your own useless and meme-junk referents for those terms and methods, and you're attached to them. It's no wonder you still think this is all just subjective, or all just circular. 'cos you never got beyond that. You never actually worked out what Pod'Lair was. You've just been living in your own phantom world of mental constructs which have very little explanatory power or link-up with reality. You think you're some kind of expert on this, but you're a total amateur. You've just said or read all the relevant words enough that you've mistakenly convinced yourself you know what they are, or have equal grounds upon which to talk on them (It's all subjective, after all!).

Tell me this is wrong @Auburn. Seriously, stop skirting around and tell me I'm wrong. I'm not wrong, am I? Even you, with your infinite capacity for self-delusion, have to realise how moronic an argument this is. Actually drop the need to have been right all along, think about this a little, and realise just how little you've really got about what you're engaging with in all these futile months of spreading your various incompetencies. Stop wriggling out of our endless total annihilations of the various positions you use to momentarily express your clearly illogical and irrational agenda and just consider what this particular one means for how versed you are in this subject that you've spent so much time talking about.

Also learn logic. You're really bad at it.
 

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I told you from the start that I wasn't what you'd expect me to be, XIII...
I've repeated to you that I'm unable to satiate your fiction of who I am.. <.< So I'm not really trying to.


It sounds ludicrous doesn't it? Realize that Podlair's rationality likewise sounds as absurd to me. Perhaps we ought to have an epistemological debate before any of this. In brief...

Right, I get why you may think what I said is absurd. True, you do obviously need to name something and then that's what it is - because you named it so. But in order for the name to have meaning it has to be clearly known what is being named. How can this be done?

You used a microscope as an example, yes, that would be a perfect example. It needs calibration, sure, by tuning the zoom. But it is still empirical because the instrument in use is an object and one that has specific architecture that can be perfectly re-manufactured so that others can see the exact same thing through a similar microscope.

Now, granted, without a microscope, we could not prove that DNA exists. Just because we cannot see it with our natural vision doesn't mean it is not real. Right? This seems to be what Podlair is struggling to say. That just because one cannot read Mojo without this "instrument" (reading) doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Now where the issue is, is that Podlair wants others to see this "DNA" but it tells people to look through this new fancy microscope. People then go "ooh, wtf is this thing?" And Podlair replies "a mojoscope. it is an instrument capable of seeing this phenomenon". And then people go "how do I know it works? How do I know this thingy isn't feeding me false images?"

Sound fair enough so far..?
Now, I actually would acknowledge this type of skepticism from the person. Indeed, how would this person know this instrument isn't rigged. The answer would be to: A- know how it works/is-engineered, and B-use it/test it to see whether it rightly sees things, using a second-witness.

For example, say we've just created the infrared sensor. We look through the glass and see a bunch of funky colors. We can double-verify what these colors are by using something like a thermometer to take the temperature of something it is observing. Then we know that that color indicates that temperature. It is calibrated to reality. Now we can use it.

Now Podlair claims that it has invented a new instrument, and that this instrument is the only way for this phenomenon to be seen. Okay, fair enough, but this instrument would still need to be calibrated/verified by a second-witness. Otherwise there is no way of knowing if the data it is giving off represents reality. Does that make sense?


##: The instrument being proposed is a neural-formed set of nuances.

How reliable is such an instrument? Scientifically, not at all.
Realistically, it is what we all use on a daily basis and it keeps us from getting run over by cars or from starving, with quite a high success rate, so it must be observing Reality properly to some capacity. If it wasn't, we'd be dead.

Still, the issue remains that in human brains millions of different views form and they simply cannot all be right. So though on one hand we do see that our senses and intuitions are reliable approximators of the Reality around us, we all do still interpret things in millions of inconsistent and self-conflicting ways. Hence the human subjective apparatus is distrusted by science, and wisely so.

Now there are some fields where the nuanced mental apparatus' are used and with credibility. There is one clear example where this isn't an issue. Namely Language. Most everyone is able to pick up and decode the information of spoken language intuitively and correctly with natural growth.

More debatable areas may include judge or detective, where these nuances and subjctivities are crucial. But none of these fields are making hard empirical claims*; only using the apparatus because it is the best we can use, and there is a need.
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Lyra, can you not at least acknowledge that the apparatus (human nuance) being proposed is one that, historically, has a terrible track-record? A record where billions have asserted their truth based on their impressions and been utterly wrong? It is no mystery that everyone is responding with skepticism to Podlair claiming --- as billions have done before --- to have found "The Truth". A bit of a "haha, we've heard that one before" effect.

The only main difference between those that are right and those that are wrong, according to podlair, is that Podlair is finally the one that is properly calibrated, yes?

And how can it prove that? ...one must see through the microscope for oneself, yes?

That would be simple, if the microscope was readily available. But it has to be constructed in one's head. Clearly as is evident in my own example, word descriptions alone may not do it properly. It will be able to see properly when it sees like Thomas/Adymus/Xailyyne?

No, because then it would be confirmation bias, and Thomas/Adymus/Xailyyne could also very well have a shared non-Realsitic view. It will be able to properly see when it sees with consistency and clarity || and in synch with another objective-instrument...

And.. and... gah. I was narrowing in on the fallacy. I know it's there. I just lost it.
 

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Before I get to your argument, what precisely in my last post did those first 3 lines have any connection to? I'm responding to your actions now and the history I know of them, not to some 'fiction'.
 

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It has to do with your apparent disappointment in me? *shrugs*
But hence why its separated from the rest of the post.
 

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Architect you could focus on reading this phenomenon specifically to a level of competence, or just to assessing the falsifiable claims made and patterns presented.

Maybe I'll try that. It's frustrating because, for example, she mentioned something about studying your opposite type/mojo, which makes sense from MBTI/PL perspective. So I took out the Sourcebook to see what my opposite was, but got lost in it. It's a simple answer but I wasn't able to reliably figure out what my mirror opposite was. Again I guess the basics are missing.

On left vs. right: yes, that's metaphorical but occasionally one of us doesn't get that across.

no problem

So you felt like you wasted half an hour. Sorry, but that's irrelevant.

I created this thread with the intent of honestly trying to become proficient in PLaria, and so it is a chronicle of my experience - a blog. I'm writing down my reactions and experiences in realtime so it is completely relevant. For you it could provide a valuable reference to help in improving your materials, but regardless given this I'd suggest you you focus more on helping me on the path rather than reacting to my responses.
 

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Pod'Lairizationizerist review

The title of this thread is "Pod'Lair review." Be that as it is, I feel compelled to make some reflections. So if you will allow me to ramble on ... . Skip this post if it seems irrelevant. People's personalities and behaviors are vastly different. The MBTI and PL (Pod'Lair) are just one way of looking at this. Me? I am fascinated by that there are any differences at all. It means that we can never fully communicate, yet we do. (How do we do it?) One person's actions stimulate another's and at peak times we achieve intimacy, but my impression is most of the time we fall short of intimacy. We have to settle for contact.

By chance yesterday I got hold of a video or two of Lyra, whom I will call the representative here for PL. I have to say this video filled me in satisfactorily of my impression of him. (Note the female persona and the male body.) I say we are very fortunate to have him here for he is a good representative for PL as INTP's see PL at least. If I were to meet Lyra in person I'm sure I would react this way: I would remain silent and just listen to him. I would listen to him for a long time until I got a feel for what he was (my Si). After that I would most likely listen for something I could grab onto probably just to say hello (my Fe) ... and this would probably be some analytical comment. From there I would shoot myself in the foot, as every word would have a meaning different for each. For Lyra is not to be analyzed. He strongly dislikes it ... at least coming from me. The way I see it is Lyra a person whose every statement is a reflection on the whole picture. He is, mostly good at it. He and I probably could never get along because I'm a person who has to analyze.

Taking apart destroys, but also creates truth in parts. Those parts are important because they eventually create the whole. The opposite, presenting wholes, creates those wholes as values (we must have values), but as a drawback destroys other wholes. Wholes are important because they define usefulness. We are fortunate indeed to have such a representative for PL here. Lyra I have to repeat it: The best of luck here. You are brave. ... An interesting split though.

I could have placed this post in the "BAP versus Lyra" thread (now closed) but maybe better here. You decide. Anyway, taking apart PL for criticism is the opposite of taking PL and holding it up as a value. I'm not to sure INTP's are good at such evaluations, but I value Lyra for his brilliance in this respect.
 

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@Auburn

That subjectivity you're denigrating is actually inextricable from all the processes/standards you're postulating as superior to it. To get the idea that a microscope shows smaller things inside another thing, to maintain a vision of causality which allows for certain measurements and consistencies to mean certain things, to engage in a process of peer review in accordance with a certain cultural standard-- all of these things are inherently contracts of subjectivity.

Any decent Philosopher of Science knows this. Knows that the naive objectivity which uninformed people like yourself postulate is entirely a child of the arrogance that comes from a lack of historical perspective on the one hand and a lack of familiarity with the structure of the models which form its supposed foundation on the other.

All fruitful Scientific contracts have been about looking through some new and hard to understand lens, the revealings of which are supposedly open only to those few well versed and sciency enough (note that Science and its insights have always been esoteric to the layman, veiled behind a refinement of subjectivity they could not reach) to read and understand its meanings. And, yes, you're right that this process mirrors the means by which groups become deluded into many different perspectives. But the issue you have is not with us, it is with what is actually possible for Science, what kinds of certainty or fruitfulness are actually possible. You are holding us up to a standard that has never been reached (the elimination of subjectivity, elitism, and not being able to show discoveries or consistencies to anybody), that is irrelevant to ascertaining or observing the fruitfulness of a Research programme, and that, again, is ever more clearly a unique product of your own phantasmagria of poorly thought through referents to lots of words and concepts and methods which you know exist in culture with authority but actually understand nothing of.

The misguided standard you are trying to hold us to is one which would of necessity eliminate maths from physics, causality from biology, psychology from science and fruitful understanding from human life. You are suffering from the unique set of contorted delusions which arise when a being who is inherently designed to work across the SS index mistakes its own particular distribution across it for an elimination of all of the subjective portions. You've somehow convinced yourself that behind the technologies which serve as a literal sign that our models are working, there is some clear-cut objectivity guaranteed by the instruments/methods used.

There just isn't. You need to learn more about science and its history from well-informed (not pop. science) sources. What there is, in successful Science, is a highly explanatory unity of perspective which grounds itself in a very refined observation of some portion of reality, which focuses upon evidence and has a ruthless attitude to extrapolating consequences and strict implications (in terms of contradiction/consistency etc.) from that evidence, and which, because of its social attitudes, is essentially a technology for accelarating the dialectical process of human knowledge beyond what religious etc. contexts achieve.

If you want to challenge me on this, by all means go ahead and construct for me some version of how science works, what it really is, that links up with the reality of events and discoveries over the past couple of centuries of its history. Do a phenomenology of it for me. 'cos right now you're assuming a lot of things about Science and empiricism, and how it bolsters your position, which basically don't link up with the reality of it. It's all a lot more complex, anarchic, run-and-go, and to do with useful attitudes and fortunate historical conditions and the characters of those involved than you realise. In the end what it comes down to is 'how much does this explain, how precisely, and how could we test that', with the latter stages of that process often coming a long time after the first have made the perspective by far the best one going. There are always tonnes of assumptions and weak areas and whatever involved-- things that just need to be done for it to make sense, or assumed, or dark spots that have to be left as is for our precise literal predictions to work out. This is how it is now in Physics (the supposed basis/justification of the overall current Scientific Research program, although most of the disciplines that think they're fundamentally justified are working with a warped pop version of where it was at in about 1800). In Biology. In individual precise concerns and in disciplines as a whole. If you want to understand something of how this all actually works, look into Imre Lakatos' work.

Currently, many areas of institutional 'Science' make very little real epistemological progress and yield very little usefully predictive content, because they're attached to assumptions and research programs (including about the nature or relevance of statistics, materialism, neurology, etc.. etc.) which are taken to have been far more fruitful in their fields than they ever have been. It's entirely social, entirely complex and not clear-cut, how these areas continue on as they do. Entirely about shame and courage and how or how not new Research Programs can take a hold. And whenever research programs do take hold or have taken hold in the outer regions of experimental or theoretical science, it's always a hell of a lot more human and about 'but can't you see you fool!? This is just there!' than the naive assume (the same naive who trusted priests and God before whilst heretics were on the edges doing experimental alchemy or mathematics-- i.e. the naive such as... yourself).

What we have is something which, if you, or those more talented than you and therefore capable of doing so, develop and refine your subjectivity appropriately, will provide far more explanatory power than any model you've been using or that is public. It will be highly consistent, make falsifiable claims and predictions in terms of the trained instrument used, and generally just clearly illuminate the whole fact of humaness with a predictive power and refinement of causal-connectivity previously unreached. This is really as good as it gets. It grounds down into physical cues and is entirely consistent with them in so far as it does (for those trained to know what's relevant), achieves a highly predictive unity of perspective far more detailed and... just (right!... how could you retards not see this? etc.). And those predictions etc. cross reference and inter-support and match up with all our ways of being in the world or approaching it in so far as could possibly be expected.

Now, will this be more proven as time goes on? Yes, if its right. But what you're thinking is the kind of thoughts which prevent any truly apex/revolutionary discipline from being entered into and understood for what it is at its revolutionary/Einsteinian/OMFG-this-can-be-understood? stages. It has the same kind of weight. And when it does translate to other measures (assuming it does) that will be only really clearly known for what it is by those who've at least undergone the appropriate technical trainings and self-developments to know what the discipline really claims. What it really seems to explain. Why it's treated as as important as it is by the adept.

Additionally, anybody trained will be able to see just how far what we have is beyond anything else that's ever been available for understanding and dealing with human sociality in a strict epistemological manner. We are in a crisis situation globally, and it will be seen by the relevant people to be of utmost importance to that. That in itself doesn't make it true of course.

The most important thing is that all the materials needed for training are available publicly, as is interaction with us as a student of them (incl. tests etc. with answers and explanations, and upcoming in-depth annotations of individual videos). We take as a prerequisite to really assessing the value of this, to really being competent to comment, that they train their subjectivity as an instrument and then make a rational assessment.

If you're calling this brainwashing... you're making some seriously dodgy claims about what any kind of education or subjectivity used axiomatically in any epistemological discipline or as part of a Research Program is.

You are basically epistemologically timid and crippled. You know very little, have very muddled epistemological perspectives, and are very afraid to explore outside of the fragile equilibrium you misguidedly hold together in the midst of that context of peasantile retardation and poverty of learning. You're obsessed with Reading but you've admitted, on the record, that you have no idea what we actually mean by that.

You've straight up admitted you have no basis for really seeing what we're talking about with implications etc. Again, you're a very confused amateur, and your reasons for remaining one are historically impoverished and epistemologically very shaky assumptions about how science, knowledge and human progress work. Ultimately you're just an amateur. Any serious player would have found out what we meant, tried on the perspective, and then ruthlessly analysed from many angles. Like I did before leaving PHY.

You're a very, very irrational person. Your life is a mas of unquantified and badly thought through assumptions that you get away with only because they superficially seem to be supported by prevalent models. If you were more well learned, you'd see that their internal structure and the role they play in your life really isn't justified in that way. Your entire mind is this muddled labyrinth of peasentile stupid and superstition and the hesitancy needed to maintain it, 'cos that kind of illogical superstition really only ever does maintain itself by a fear to look behind the curtain. By treating the curtain as sacred. You need to stop that and actually learn what Science is, what we're saying, how your perception must become flexible and be expanded and developed for your Zai to ever be anything more than a weak inconsistency-eradicating mechanism for confirmation-biasing your delusions.

Your Zai is terribly weak, Auburn, and you reign in your Nyy so much to try and keep it so. Your Vai holds it back in fear, and your Xyy ends up coming out with this kind of retarded product. You need more experience, more learning, more exploration. You need to do drugs, fail at relationships, have triumphs and tragedies. 'cos that's the only way I can see your fragile, fearful Zai attempted-equilibrium from really being shattered and reformed in some genuinely strong and towering form. Like Adymus'. Like an experienced and ingenious Zai'nyy's can be...

You're basically retarded. Stop it.
 

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Is that the brand of compassion and instruction Pod'Lair specializes in today?
@snafu. Excellent Q. Allow me to step in here and provide a careful analysis. (Washed foot in case have to extract fm mouth.)

There are four cases.

I. Retarded and stopping.
II. Retarded and ongoing.
III. Non-retarded and ongoing.
IV. Non-retarded and stopping.

I. A retarded person may be willing to follow instructions. I don't know the relationship between people in general being willing to follow orders and not. A new thread might be opened to explore this.:storks:
II. A retarded person may not be smart enough to stop. If they fail to stop, further instructions may be required.:eek:
III. A non-retarded person could be intimidated by the authority of the party issuing commands. But they may be courageous or foolish enough to defy. I don't know the correlation between foolishness and non-retardation.:confused:
IV. I am too retarded to respond to this except for this weak one.:mad:
 

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Maybe I'll try that. It's frustrating because, for example, she mentioned something about studying your opposite type/mojo, which makes sense from MBTI/PL perspective. So I took out the Sourcebook to see what my opposite was, but got lost in it. It's a simple answer but I wasn't able to reliably figure out what my mirror opposite was. Again I guess the basics are missing.
@Architect

If you are indeed a Zai'nyy, then your Uthur or Inspirational in terms of energetic momentum would be a Zyy'nai. Your Same-Source wold be Zai'vyy. Your 'opposite', in terms of running in direct energetic opposition to you, would be a Xai'vyy. Your super-polar (unconscous polar) is their source, your super-offside is their offside, etc. etc., in perfect symmetry. They however, would also be towers (discerning adaptives-- 'tower' represents both a cue-set of and the energetic behaviour of this category) and that would be a way to relate to them, so it's very complex.

My 'opposite' (corresponding to a Zai'nyy's Xai'vyy) is Vai'xyy, for example. But I actually am able to relate very well to Vai'xyy (Pod'Lair has helped me immensely in this) by our shared tandem xyy conducts and rituals, by seeing how they hunt like I do, by how they're serious like I am (they have a subjective perception power as source, and these powers are inherently serious), by how they're subjective directives like I am.

The beautiful thing about this kind of inter-relation is that you begin to get a very advanced and precise and predictive picture of the human psyche and tribe as a whole going. You come to perceive the energetic ecosystem or superorganism of it all, and doing so illuminates yourself and your own relation to it in a way that really deepens your understanding of your own role, your own possibilities etc. etc.

I also think you're likely to run into far less of these problems with terminology as time goes on. It took me personally a short amount of time to figure it all out. But it's kind of like an avalanche. Slow at first, and it builds up. The system is very, very inter-connected and multi-layered, which is a reason it can be difficult to get a hold on at first, but why the payoff is huge once you get past that first difficult barrier. A glossary could be very useful, though.

By the way, I strongly recommend you get Read. We currently offer this service free of charge, and it is vital to at least be on the same page with regards to what Pod'Lair, with its evidence/system/methods, would Read you as.


Edit: btw, with regards to your formerly stated intention to understand yourself and your own functioning better, a very good way to do this is to spend a long time looking at and working out your reactions to others of your config. Different developmental riffs. Also doing things like seeing how your powers work when paired with other ones (same source, other adaptive subjectives if you're an adaptive subjective, etc.)
 

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I am pleased I wasn't ignored. I found our typing differences interesting. I did not expect we would get one similar. Surprised me. Also because I typed that one differently then I did the others. Strange we got the same, very strange indeed.

Sidenote;I noticed a peculiarity with the mathematics of the scoring. It was an unorthodox way of doing it. Certainly seems counter intuitive to what seems to be the point of the game.

@review
What I would have liked to do at this point of the review is to put 5 PL's into different rooms and under surveillance, and have them type a few people and check for consistency. Not that I doubt it, but I think it would be a nice QC addition to this review.
 

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I am pleased I wasn't ignored. I found our typing differences interesting. I did not expect we would get one similar. Surprised me. Also because I typed that one differently then I did the others. Strange we got the same, very strange indeed.

Sidenote;I noticed a peculiarity with the mathematics of the scoring. It was an unorthodox way of doing it. Certainly seems counter intuitive to what seems to be the point of the game.

@review
What I would have liked to do at this point of the review is to put 5 PL's into different rooms and under surveillance, and have them type a few people and check for consistency. Not that I doubt it, but I think it would be a nice QC addition to this review.

We have plans for this, and other similar demonstrations.
 

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Here is a simplified relational in MBTI terms, fm my notes; full screen for a neat display.

........... Pal Companion Cohort Supplemt Neighbr Countrprt Suitemate Complement Tribesman Advisr Enigma Novelty Pedagogue Contrast Anima
INTP .. ENTP ... INFP .... ESTJ .... ISFJ ..... ISTP ...... ESTP ...... ISTJ ........ INTJ .......... ENFP .... INFJ ... ISFP ... ESFP .... ENFJ ..... ENTJ .... ESFJ
ENTP .. INTP ... ENFP .... ISTJ .... ESFJ ..... ESTP ...... ISTP ...... ESTJ ........ ENTJ .......... INFP .... ENFJ ... ESFP ... ISFP .... INFJ ..... INTJ .... ISFJ
INFP .. ENFP ... INTP .... ESFJ .... ISTJ ..... ISFP ...... ESFP ...... ISFJ ........ INFJ .......... ENTP .... INTJ ... ISTP ... ESTP .... ENTJ ..... ENFJ .... ESTJ
ESTJ .. ISTJ ... ESFJ .... INTP .... ENFP ..... ENTJ ...... INTJ ...... ENTP ........ ESTP .......... ISFJ .... ESFP ... ENFJ ... INFJ .... ISFP ..... ISTP .... INFP
ISFJ .. ESFJ ... ISTJ .... ENFP .... INTP ..... INFJ ...... ENFJ ...... INFP ........ ISFP .......... ESTJ .... ISTP ... INTJ ... ENTJ .... ESTP ..... ESFP .... ENTP
ISTP .. ESTP ... ISFP .... ENTJ .... INFJ ..... INTP ...... ENTP ...... INTJ ........ ISTJ .......... ESFP .... ISFJ ... INFP ... ENFP .... ESFJ ..... ESTJ .... ENFJ
ESTP .. ISTP ... ESFP .... INTJ .... ENFJ ..... ENTP ...... INTP ...... ENTJ ........ ESTJ .......... ISFP .... ESFJ ... ENFP ... INFP .... ISFJ ..... ISTJ .... INFJ
ISTJ .. ESTJ ... ISFJ .... ENTP .... INFP ..... INTJ ...... ENTJ ...... INTP ........ ISTP .......... ESFJ .... ISFP ... INFJ ... ENFJ .... ESFP ..... ESTP .... ENFP
INTJ .. ENTJ ... INFJ .... ESTP .... ISFP ..... ISTJ ...... ESTJ ...... ISTP ........ INTP .......... ENFJ .... INFP ... ISFJ ... ESFJ .... ENFP ..... ENTP .... ESFP
ENFP .. INFP ... ENTP .... ISFJ .... ESTJ ..... ESFP ...... ISFP ...... ESFJ ........ ENFJ .......... INTP .... ENTJ ... ESTP ... ISTP .... INTJ ..... INFJ .... ISTJ
INFJ .. ENFJ ... INTJ .... ESFP .... ISTP ..... ISFJ ...... ESFJ ...... ISFP ........ INFP .......... ENTJ .... INTP ... ISTJ ... ESTJ .... ENTP ..... ENFP .... ESTP
ISFP .. ESFP ... ISTP .... ENFJ .... INTJ ..... INFP ...... ENFP ...... INFJ ........ ISFJ .......... ESTP .... ISTJ ... INTP ... ENTP .... ESTJ ..... ESFJ .... ENTJ
ESFP .. ISFP ... ESTP .... INFJ .... ENTJ ..... ENFP ...... INFP ...... ENFJ ........ ESFJ .......... ISTP .... ESTJ ... ENTP ... INTP .... ISTJ ..... ISFJ .... INTJ
ENFJ .. INFJ ... ENTJ .... ISFP .... ESTP ..... ESFJ ...... ISFJ ...... ESFP ........ ENFP .......... INTJ .... ENTP ... ESTJ ... ISTJ .... INTP ..... INFP .... ISTP
ENTJ .. INTJ ... ENFJ .... ISTP .... ESFP ..... ESTJ ...... ISTJ ...... ESTP ........ ENTP .......... INFJ .... ENFP ... ESFJ ... ISFJ .... INFP ..... INTP .... ISFP
ESFJ .. ISFJ ... ESTJ .... INFP .... ENTP ..... ENFJ ...... INFJ ...... ENFP ........ ESFP .......... ISTJ .... ESTP ... ENTJ ... INTJ .... ISTP ..... ISFP .... INTP
 

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I don't get why people think it's ok to dehumanise others like that by denying them their right to integrity in their own judgements/reason.

Dude, this is the most retarded thing I've heard from you for a long time.

That sounded really retarded. You're sounding really retarded. Stop being so retarded, Auburn.

You're basically retarded. Stop it.

Hyprocrite much?

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
- Victor Hugo

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

Disposition to derision and insult is awakened by the softness of foppery, the swell of insolence, the liveliness of levity, or the solemnity of grandeur; by the sprightly trip, the stately stalk, the formal strut, and the lofty mein; by gestures intended to catch the eye, and by looks elaborately formed as evidences of importance.
- Samuel Johnson

In all territories of thought which science or philosophy can lay claim to, including those upon which literature has also a proper claim, no one who has something original or important to say will willingly run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.
- Peter Medawar

Asserting a monopoly on authority to interpret data is amusing, but meaningless.
 

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Hyprocrite much?
Nope. It's not dehumanising to rationally explain a retarded action and conclude it's retarded. It's dehumanising to refuse to engage with the reasons a person presents because of some pre-judgement, and to insist upon diagnosing them as unworthy of presenting reasons and inherently not worth listening to whilst still claiming to get what/why they do what they do. ala Mike NfGeeks 'insanity' and refusing to look at the evidence.



Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
And he achieved what... ?

This is a weak thing to say. In an emergency you use words with all the strength necessary. You don't say 'come now, it might be best to leave else the fire burns you'. You say 'GET OUT OF THE BUILDING NOW'. Seriously go look up damning criminal judgements, famous debates or impassioned speeches from people who actually effected change. Or poetry, even. Bitterness and strength are certainly not an indication of weakness of position. Saying they are is an indication of being an ineffectual human being.

Maybe I also just have a strong position and am bitter about all the suffering I see that could be alleviated if it were better understood?

Stupid thing to say.


Disposition to derision and insult is awakened by the softness of foppery, the swell of insolence, the liveliness of levity, or the solemnity of grandeur; by the sprightly trip, the stately stalk, the formal strut, and the lofty mein; by gestures intended to catch the eye, and by looks elaborately formed as evidences of importance.
Except that's not what's going on here. What's going on is genuine and, even if mistaken, a result of lives lived in genuine dissatisfaction with genuinely tragic states of affairs. Note that I almost always respond to curious or genuine inquiry with friendliness and gladness, and that whenever that doesn't seem to be the case there's usually some history you're not aware of. I'm not going to go being meek and retiring in response to the weight of opposing opinion-- I'll call it out as retarded just as people here would call out some exceptionally retarded instance that was more apparent to them by its rarity.

Truth is my standard, and the standard for what I express. To be better received by people like you would take affectation and dishonesty with myself, which isn't a price I'm prepared to pay.

In all territories of thought which science or philosophy can lay claim to, including those upon which literature has also a proper claim, no one who has something original or important to say will willingly run the risk of being misunderstood; people who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.
Except that we don't do that. We strive constantly to present more and more info and are always discussing amongst ourselves how to make it easier to understand. Your quote applies to things like deliberately obscure postmodernist waffle from third-grade university professors, not to us.

Asserting a monopoly on authority to interpret data is amusing, but meaningless
We assert that the competent and learned have a monopoly on being worth listening to. Nobody untrained in mathematics (an entirely unempirical discipline in its essential construction, btw, unlike Pod'Lair) is relevant to an advanced Physics debate.
 

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Thing is, the only claim to credibility you have is the shallow front of rational-sounding cynicism you use to compensate for a poverty of genuine argument. I find that to be far more indicative of impressionability and shallow conformity than the position I'm taking, which, even if wrong, is based upon a positively and explicitly stated epistemological approach and set of conclusions.

We just do not give a fuck. We have the truth and fuck that Aristotelian/Vai-locked bullshit. We give the most accurate picture of these aspects of Natural law available, and we can do that because we've lived how we've lived. And it wasn't by those superfluous academic standards you're invoking. Y'all should be following our game and standards because of our results-- and the same applies in reverse to the standards you're talking about.

You are holding us up to a standard that has never been reached (the elimination of subjectivity, elitism, and not being able to show discoveries or consistencies to anybody), that is irrelevant to ascertaining or observing the fruitfulness of a Research programme, and that, again, is ever more clearly a unique product of your own phantasmagria of poorly thought through referents to lots of words and concepts and methods which you know exist in culture with authority but actually understand nothing of.

Truth is my standard, and the standard for what I express. To be better received by people like you would take affectation and dishonesty with myself, which isn't a price I'm prepared to pay.

We assert that the competent and learned have a monopoly on being worth listening to. Nobody untrained in mathematics (an entirely unempirical discipline in its essential construction, btw, unlike Pod'Lair) is relevant to an advanced Physics debate.

You have nothing more than consistency to go by, which is fine in and of itself, but so does subjective validation and the Forer effect.

The Forer effect (also called the Barnum Effect after P. T. Barnum's observation that "we've got something for everyone") is the observation that individuals will give high accuracy ratings to descriptions of their personality that supposedly are tailored specifically for them, but are in fact vague and general enough to apply to a wide range of people. This effect can provide a partial explanation for the widespread acceptance of some beliefs and practices, such as astrology, fortune telling, graphology, and some types of personality tests.
A related and more general phenomenon is that of subjective validation. Subjective validation occurs when two unrelated or even random events are perceived to be related because a belief, expectancy, or hypothesis demands a relationship. Thus people seek a correspondence between their perception of their personality and the contents of a horoscope.

So to make an unsubstantiated claim of scientific and intellectual superiority makes it seem that you simply have your head so far up your own ass that you think the whole world smells like shit. Truly consistent from your point of view, but the rest of us just believe that you're being an asshole.

Nope. It's not dehumanising to rationally explain a retarded action and conclude it's retarded.

Btw, I justify my rudeness by using your own logic.
 

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The quotes didn't form any coherent pattern in relation to any kind of point you seem to have been trying to make. In their proper contexts, at least.

On the Forer effect: nope. We don't use self-assessment. You don't get what we read or what we're claiming our evidence is if you're still using Straw Men like that.

You have nothing more than consistency to go by
Nope. You have nothing more than ignorance of our position to go by. You, like so many others obsessed with us, keep trying to find a best fit box you can use to shut this down and quickly reject it because it discomforts you. But you really don't know what it is and are afraid/lazy/incompetent to look.
 

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The quotes didn't form any coherent pattern in relation to any kind of point you seem to have been trying to make. In their proper contexts, at least.

On the Forer effect: nope. We don't use self-assessment. You don't get what we read or what we're claiming our evidence is if you're still using Straw Men like that.

Nope. You have nothing more than ignorance of our position to go by. You, like so many others obsessed with us, keep trying to find a best fit box you can use to shut this down and quickly reject it because it discomforts you. But you really don't know what it is and are afraid/lazy/incompetent to look.

self-assessment
n 1. an evaluation of one's own abilities and failings
2. (Economics, Accounting & Finance / Banking & Finance) Finance a system to enable taxpayers to assess their own tax liabilities.

Demanding that I present evidence to support your argument rather than you presenting your evidence is the very definition of self-assessment.
 

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Demanding that I present evidence to support your argument rather than you presenting your evidence is the very definition of self-assessment.
That really wasn't very clever. You just said that using maths to show how a mathematical theory is accurate is... or, given that maths actually is all about consistency, that using the evidence in favour of a hypothesis to argue about that hypothesis is...

Seriously.
 

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That really wasn't very clever. You just said that using maths to show how a mathematical theory is accurate is... or that using the evidence in favour of a hypothesis to argue about that hypothesis is...

Seriously.


Yes, consistent. It is consistent. So is subjective validation. You have to present more evidence to assert more than that.

Scholarship can be defined as intellectual rigour applied to the quality control of information, which implies an appropriate standard of accuracy, and scepticism applied to accepting anything on trust. It requires close attention to criteria for logical consistency, as well as to all relevant evidence and possible differences of interpretation.

You assert a monopoly on interpretation, unjustifiably.
 

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Neither of those statements has any relevance to our position. Do your research.
 

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Neither of those statements has any relevance to our position. Do your research.

Please provide evidence that shows the cognitive-behavioural tie together of your model. The cognitive-behavioural ties of all jung based psychology is recognised to be scientiically weak, at best correlation. Pod'lair appears to use the same definitions as socionics (objective/subjective, etc.) with different terminology for the cognitive functions but has never addressed this 'flawless' assumption of physiognamy and cognition.

This doesn't mean pod'lair is wrong, merely that I am likely to dim to understand this principle without it being laid down clearly for me.

It also seems really critical to reviewing pod'lair considering it's very important to you that we all learn to type via. the pod'lair manner.
 

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Neither of those statements has any relevance to our position. Do your research.

Amen. Do more canvassing Matt. Maybe then you can employ your superstar Mojo powers and rockstar gifts and recruit more despondent dopers. :D
 

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It is your assertion and your research. You present your findings for evaluation. I am stating unequivocally that you have nothing more than a consistent hypothesis as of yet.

In modern science, the term "theory" refers to scientific theories, a well-confirmed type of explanation of nature, made in a way consistent with scientific method, and fulfilling the criteria required by modern science. Such theories are described in such a way that any scientist in the field is in a position to understand and either provide empirical support ("verify") or empirically contradict ("falsify") it. Scientific theories are the most reliable, rigorous, and comprehensive form of scientific knowledge, in contrast to more common uses of the word "theory" that imply that something is unproven or speculative (which is better defined by the word 'hypothesis'). Scientific theories are also distinguished from hypotheses, which are individual empirically testable conjectures, and scientific laws, which are descriptive accounts of how nature will behave under certain conditions.

Until such time that you present more data as evidence, my assessment remains. Considering that you disallow and rebuke any form of alternate interpretation and maintain a monopoly on interpretation, it will remain unfalsifiable because its consistency is founded on a circular argument in which you give people the runaround as an argument rather than the presentation of data and evidence. Furthermore, even assuming it to be irrefutably true, its utility and practical applicability is yet unknown making it a useless form of conjecture.
 

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Please provide evidence that shows the cognitive-behavioural tie together of your model. The cognitive-behavioural ties of all jung based psychology is recognised to be scientiically weak, at best correlation. Pod'lair appears to use the same definitions as socionics (objective/subjective, etc.) with different terminology for the cognitive functions but has never addressed this 'flawless' assumption of physiognamy and cognition.

This doesn't mean pod'lair is wrong, merely that I am likely to dim to understand this principle without it being laid down clearly for me.

IIRC I've dealt with this before. I think the post contained the word 'Cartesian' and was in response to Auburn in the 'Fallen Adymus' thread. You're welcome to go look if you're interested.
 

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It is your assertion and your research. You present your findings for evaluation. I am stating unequivocally that you have nothing more than a consistent hypothesis as of yet.
We're not presenting them to you for your evaluation. Your assertions are equivalent in value to those a fossil-denier makes about evolution.

Until such time that you present more data as evidence, my assessment remains. Considering that you disallow and rebuke any form of alternate interpretation and maintain a monopoly on interpretation, it will remain unfalsifiable because its consistency is founded on a circular argument in which you give people the runaround as an argument rather than the presentation of data and evidence. Furthermore, even assuming it to be irrefutably true, its utility and practical applicability is yet unknown making it a useless form of conjecture.
You haven't spent much time Reading, have you?

Additionally, our claims about what signals/sets of cues etc. go together and how, and what that means, are highly precise and predictive. It takes time to get a handle upon the elements involved-- and, yes, that involves listening to us appropriately before coming to conclusions-- but it's just untrue and totally off to claim that those patterns aren't highly empirically precise and explanatory once competence to know what patterns are being posited has been developed.

There is a responsibility on our part to make a good enough case. There is also a responsibility on the part of the individual to be perspicacious and smart enough to understand what case we're making. This has no necessary relation to rational acceptance of our claims. A really smart critic, somebody who got this whole situation and why we act as we do, would be somebody who was able to Read as we do and see what we see and who also made critical or rational comments. Mostly y'all are not smart critics, and just flat out not smart and don't get what's going on here or what role you're playing in it, and so just fiddle around with irrelevant prejudices and stereotypes trying to find an excuse not to undertake what we say is the only way our position will be seen for what it is, and to have the revolutionary implications that it has.
 

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We're not presenting them to you for your evaluation. Your assertions are equivalent in value to those a fossil-denier makes about evolution.

You haven't spent much time Reading, have you?

Additionally, our claims about what signals/sets of cues etc. go together and how, and what that means, are highly precise and predictive. It takes time to get a handle upon the elements involved-- and, yes, that involves listening to us appropriately before coming to conclusions-- but it's just untrue and totally off to claim that those patterns aren't highly empirically precise and explanatory once competence to know what patterns are being posited has been developed.

There is a responsibility on our part to make a good enough case. There is also a responsibility on the part of the individual to be perspicacious and smart enough to understand what case we're making. This has no necessary relation to rational acceptance of our claims. A really smart critic, somebody who got this whole situation and why we act as we do, would be somebody who was able to Read as we do and see what we see and who also made critical or rational comments. Mostly y'all are not smart critics, and just flat out not smart and don't get what's going on here or what role you're playing in it, and so just fiddle around with irrelevant prejudices and stereotypes trying to find an excuse not to undertake what we say is the only way our position will be seen for what it is, and to have the revolutionary implications that it has.


It explains itself and predicts itself. It is self-consistent. Do you have anything else to add?
 

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Only that that sounds a little like the universe. The Law of Nature, in the sense that modern Science as a Research Project came into being in an attempt to determine.

Whitehead: 'understanding is the apperception of pattern as such'.
 

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We're not presenting them to you for your evaluation.

And that is the problem many people are complaining about. How are we suppose to understand PL if your not presenting evidence. Just saying
 

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We're doing nothing but presenting evidence. I have no idea where what you just said came from.

But it does demonstrate, by the fact that you seem to have totally misread everything I just wrote, why attempting to tailor it to everybody would be ineffectual. There is a lot that can be understood that a lot of people are just not intelligent enough to understand. (Intelligent=make sense of the intelligible=Ability to Read Nature).
 

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Oh sorry for being to dumb. But it does seem like you should stupify your explaination for the benefit of others. If you feel inclined that is.
 

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Only that that sounds a little like the universe. The Law of Nature, in the sense that modern Science as a Research Project came into being in an attempt to determine.

Whitehead: 'understanding is the apperception of pattern as such'.


A little like. Only insofar that it asserts itself. Otherwise, what's the point?

To be fair to both you and Architect, who wants to investigate your proposal, I only ask that you refrain from abusive, demeaning, insults leveled at those who disagree with you (unless they insult you first, then have at it).

It's fine to disagree, state that they are mistaken, wrong, factually incorrect, or whathaveyou, but please be polite if you've been extended the same courtesy.
 

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You can ask or insinuate whatever you like, and I'll continue to respond to what I choose to with what I ascertain to be the case. As I have done. If my assessment of the truth (including that you are unintelligent and sycophantically enamored with standards whose relevance you don't understand) offends you, then don't talk to me.
 

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Right I've just done some research. Please ignore previous posts and sorry for wasting time.
 

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As will I respond to your berating attitude with my own if you so enjoy it.

It's a weak explanation that faults others for its own lack of explanatory power.
 

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It's a weak explanation that faults others for its own lack of explanatory power.

Nope. It has huge explanatory power but requires quite a lot of training (by current, sick standards) for that explanatory power to be recognised. Different thing.

What you're saying is the equivalent of Quantum Physics being weak because it's hard to explain to people. Wrong explanatory power, lol.
 

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Nope. It has huge explanatory power but requires quite a lot of training (by current, sick standards) for that explanatory power to be recognised. Different thing.

What you're saying is the equivalent of Quantum Physics being weak because it's hard to explain to people. Wrong explanatory power, lol.


Difficulty of explanation and lack of explanation are two different things.

Quantum Physics is difficult.

Pod'Lair is lacking.

What specifically can or does it explain?
 

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Yes, that's what I just said...

What does it explain?

Genius. Momentum. Momentum relationships. Inspirational Pairings. A hell of a lot of what is going on when a person is talking/interacting/being. An integrated and predictive/predictable/highly-precise set of patterns which any individual will always manifest, and which relates to an ontologically similar set of such patterns in any other individual in a very predictive/predictable/highly-precise ways. What a person fundamentally deals with in terms of the contours/elements which direct/shape/determine their life-course and what they can do with it. How various memetic constructs in fact interact with or represent these contours/elements. The different kinds of understanding possible and why/how they are treated/respected/disrespected as they are now in our present society. What configurations of people tend to dominate/take certain life-paths, and what types tend to be shut down more or less in certain contexts (including present society as a whole). What life paths tend to generate momentum and energy, and whether this is occurring in any individual case. How to accurately Read any individual you meet, their configuration, their development, and what is affecting them and precisely how it is interacting with their config.

People. How people relate to one another. What is happening and what could or sometimes does happen. Why people are different from and more than what most currently conceive themselves to be. Everything above in immensely precise and strongly justified terms, that ultimately amounts to an empirically grounded/ derivable mathematics of human functioning.

The pattern of all this. Apperception of pattern as such. Understanding.

And more besides!
 

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So, it's circular.

It explains itself and predicts itself. Can it be applied in any other way and could you demonstrate it? What tangible effects, changes in observable behavior not merely subjective interpretation of said behavior, would it have on human society, interaction, and understanding that isn't already apparent?
 

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The only thing circular here is your posting patterns.

I already answered your 'explains and predicts' thing above. If it were all of what I just wrote about and it explained and predicted itself, that would hardly be 'circular' or in any sense trivial. Physics probably wouldn't mind if its cherished Grand Theory were in the universe, of the universe, and subject to the Laws of the universe. As for the rest-- we've talked about all of that many times and at great length. Go watch the videos and read the writings. I'm not repeating it to you to compensate for your lack of research and forum-formed opinions.
 

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IIRC I've dealt with this before. I think the post contained the word 'Cartesian' and was in response to Auburn in the 'Fallen Adymus' thread. You're welcome to go look if you're interested.

I am really very interested in this topic.

Momentum already crosses this boundary, and you can't really read any of the gears without getting it. It's inherently a behavioural phenomenon, which concerns the being which the person is and which moves. You're lost in Cartesian word games that learning to read would just make a non-issue. That is: you're asserting a positive separation which in fact is irrelevant to perceiving what is there, and what is there is capable of being perceived with a unity of perception amongst individuals, with that unity of ordered and communicable perception yielding superior predictive results and explanatory power. It's not necessary for us to make sense of an archaic and empirically unjustified distinction between the hypothesised entities of 'psychology' and 'physiology', which you assume you can use unchallenged just because they're common.

'All sorts of ideas' pale in comparison to this, and do not link their tacit aspects with a coherent and falsifiable set of physical signals/markers in any way even close to how P'L does. Aditionally, we didn't make reality like this. P'L just figured it out far more usefully than you or prolific models-- including associated ideas about how problems and people can even be usefully approached-- did. It's not our responsibility to make reality or how it can most successfully be investigated/manipulated/interacted with accord with your misconceived standards.

Okay so Pod'lair is a purely behavioural physiognomy model. Therefore it is not really valuable to compare it to Jung as it does not have any reference to the inner being of the individual. It may correlate, but does not causate.

How does your model incorporate alternative behaviours as peoples personalities develop and or as they are placed into alternative situations?
 
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