Time to say Hello

[white pebble]

Hello.

Well, thank god and Carl Jung for MBTI. Before this past year, I didn't know I was a "type"; I just thought my personality was a weird neurotic by-product of incompetent child-rearing. (It probably still is.)

I have other acronyms, too. HSP, HSS, and PTSD, OCD if you're interested. Those latter two are pretty mild, but the first two are more fun than a barrel of monkeys.

Also, this is a special day for me. Three years ago today I decided to defect from institutional religion. It was kind of a bold move for me; it definitively marked my intellectual emancipation. It also catalyzed me into a major existential crisis that, in many respects, still has me in its grip. I am sure you INTPs are all familiar with "existential crisis". It too is more fun than a barrel of monkeys.

I won't be here very much; I am pursuing a double major in philosophy and theology (yes, theology!) and free time must be spent wisely. And we all know how good we INTPs are at spending time wisely.

Three cheers for independent thought!

 

[Mello]

Sup, dawg. Welcome to the neighborhood.

 

[Inappropriate Behavior]

Welcome.

Double your pleasure
Double your fun
With a double hard major
Of Jesus and Carl Jun (g) <-------yeah, I know that sucked.

 

[Da Blob]

White Pebble... Existential Crisis?

Ahh! one of my favorite promises...

Revelations 2:17 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.

 

[flow]

And Da Blob is already citing the bible. Ugh. Welcome to the forum, I hope you like to argue. Oh and seriously, I'm considering telling all the new forum members that we ALL are having existential crises, but I don't wish to marginalize your experience. Anyways, do tell us about your experience with that dreaded institutionalized religion, and what made you break free.. and then major in theology.

 

[loveofreason]

*welcomes white pepple*

Looks like we share a few acronyms....

 

[fullerene]

so cool . Is the theology degree from the point of view of the same institutional religion you left? And if so (or even if not), why pursue a degree in it?

I'm interested.

 

[Jesin]

Welcome.

Hmm, yes, existential crises, a lot of us have those. On that note:
http://www.intpforum.com/showthread.php?t=5851

 

[white pebble]

Da Blob---you got it.

Hello everyone. Thanks.

The theology is, yes, from the same point of view as the religion I left. That is odd, come to think of it. What am I doing??

However, that particular religion---Roman Catholicism---is quite old and forms a large part of the basis for western culture, and it seems to me that an understanding of it is essential for an understanding of the underpinnings of western thought and culture. Which is what I want. And then I will go and understand the east. And then I will understand EVERYTHING.

But really, the program I am in is an integrated classical program, in which the philosophy figures into the theology and the theology figures into the literature and the literature figures into the science which is referenced in the mathematics, so really the reason why I am here is to understand everything a little better, and maybe, hopefully, make some sense of humanity. I am thinking about graduate study in psychology.

Unfortunately it often involves imbibing the greatest works of the western intellectual tradition at the rate of cheap harlequins.