There are legitimate times for various emotions. Anger is inappropriate expressed at a brother who has done nothing wrong but apporpriate expressed at the pedophile who rapes a kid in the neighborhood.
Grouchy? If that is the way you see me perhaps it is because you are sympahtetic to communism and you propose things that are being done to hurt this country and are unconstitutional. I never once remember seeing you address the concern about them being unconstitutional. Either you just don't care or your fingers are in your ears. Grouchyness is the least severe appropriate emotion when faced with that. Rage would be better.
Of course they do. Did I ever say they don't? I just am saying they need to follow the law while they protest. Do you think they should follow the law?
Do I care if support is higher for a group of people who are misguided than for a group of people who want a return to constitutional principles? Do I agree that you are right, excepting for the influence of the media and skewed meanignless polls in Time? No, in fact I literally laughed out loud. But if you want to think that it can only be beneficial come next election.
Time (not Time) will tell.
I don't think it is relevant in the slightest. The only question you need to ask yourself is if you can learn something from me.
I don't care. (I mean that in the friendliest of ways) I listen to what you say and ask if it is right each time you say something. Whether you were wrong before or whether you say it for whatever reason does not matter to me.
Personally I find inventories like that to be circular. Why would I care about a test that claims behavior could be predicted based on traits that are themselves inferred from behavior? That is basically a self-report? And yet fails to have strong validity? When you ask a pig if he would prefer to wallow in mud or dust and he tells you "mud", then label him an MW (mud-wallower), have you really learned anything more than what they pig could have just told you. The results would only be as good as the insight of the pig.
But you could do an internet search to discover that the test lacks validity and is circular so don't just trust me.
As a "shrink," you should know that the MBTI does have very good validity. Do you also have that much contempt for Carl Jung? As an advocate of "individualism," why would you feel that others' report would have more validity than self-report?
Have you ever worked with the MBTI? I know only worked with it, I worked for the company who publishes it. . . not in the "developping" process, but as a simple HR person. . .interesting though!
Have you asked yourself if you can learn anything from ME?
For exemple. . .have you ever wonder about another, kinder, friendlier type of Capitalism?
Have you looked at "Consciencious Capitalism?" There may be an area where we could agree on something. . .but obviously, you would have to be open to "learn something from me," which you seem to be too confident in your own knowledge to do!
And, I think I said that before, but I a do not believe in the "literal word of the Bible," nor do I believe in the "literal word of the Constitution." For me, both of those are a GUIDELINE (useful, as long as they are kept alive by allowing reason and changes of circumstances to adjust the LITERAL part of it!)
I know you disagree with this, and I don't really care. As one exemple, I believe that we have done just as much "interpretation" of the constitution by looking at "the right to bear arms" as an unlimited right, no matter how the technology, and conditions in this world evolve, than if we would if we put some rational limits to it (i.e., I do not believe that our right to bear arms was ever intended to give us the right to bear AK 47 or grenades, or . . .eventually an atomic bomb or chemical weapon, but the fundamentalists will insist that it means just about ANY arms!. . . sorry, I think that is just about as dumb a concept as that example you were trying to use with the pig wallowing in mud or dust!).
And I am no more "sympathetic" to Communism as you are to Socialism. . .which I am sympathetic to! But you knew that all along, didn't you. I guess you have been called "a grouch" before, because it sure hit a nerve! And yet, I was ONLY referring to that ONE post where you sounded like you were in a bad mood. . .
Oh well. . .enjoy your day. .and "smile," your kids will be better off for it!