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The interesting thing is that it described Stingray as INFP (Introverted, iNtuitive, Feeling, Perceiving). I’ve taken the Myers-Briggs test twice and both times was declared an INFP.

INFPs present a calm, pleasant face to the world and are seen as reticent and even shy. Although they demonstrate a cool reserve toward others, inside they are anything but distant. They have a capacity for caring which is not always found in other types. They care deeply-indeed, passionately-about a few special persons or a cause. One word that captures this type is idealistic. At times, this characteristic leaves them feeling isolated, especially since INFPs are found in only 1 percent of the general population. INFPs have a profound sense of honor derived from internal values. The INFP is the Prince or Princess of mythology, the King’s Champion, Defender of the Faith, and guardian of the castle. Sir Galahad and Joan of Arc are male and female prototypes of an INFP. To understand INFPs their cause must be understood, for they are willing to make unusual sacrifices for someone or something believed in.

INFPs seek unity in their lives, unity of body and mind, emotions and intellect. They often have a subtle tragic motif running through their lives, but others seldom detect this inner minor key. The deep commitment of INFPs to the positive and the good causes them to be alert to the negative and the evil, which can take the form of a fascination with the profane. Thus INFPs may live a paradox, drawn toward purity and unity but looking over the shoulder toward the sullied and desecrated. When INFPs believe that they have yielded to an impure temptation, they may be given to acts of self-sacrifice in atonement. The atonement, however, is within the INFP, who does not feel compelled to make public the issue.

INFPs prefer the valuing process over the purely logical. They respond to the beautiful versus the ugly, the good versus the bad, and the moral versus the immoral. Impressions are gained in a fluid, global, diffused way. Metaphors and similes come naturally but may be strained. INFPs have a gift for interpreting symbols, as well as creating them, and thus often write in lyric fashion. They may demonstrate a tendency to take deliberate liberties with logic. Unlike the NT, they see logic as something optional. INFPs also may, at times, assume an unwarranted familiarity with a domain, because their global, impressionistic way of dealing with reality may have failed to register a sufficient number of details for mastery. INFPs may have difficulty thinking in terms of a conditional framework; they see things as either real or fancied, and are impatient with the hypothetical.

Ugh. I’m home sick today with every symptom known to modern medicine except gout. If I can’t get any sleep today — like I couldn’t last night — I can at least get some writing in.

I’ve spent way too much time lately posting on a local media site. It was a draining experience and it’s time to get back to writing here, not responding to those who argue that if you’re a conservative Christian then you must be a bigot. I have no anger towards the organization but it’s just not an appropriate place for me to post and I should have realized that more than a week ago. The fault was mine and I shouldn’t have roared in from out of the blue to point out what appeared to me (and would appear to any thinking conservative) to be huge logical and factual fallacies. That’s fine:  Free Republic isn’t exactly kind to liberals and DailyKos doesn’t tolerate conservatives. If I’m going to write, I should write here.

One thing I was enlightened about was how much we Christians have our own language. When we speak of male spiritual leadership we understand it to mean that men need to be spiritually responsible and not leave the burden for women to carry by themselves. The outside world interprets that language to mean some kind of domination over women. I pity the poor fool who would dare try to dominate my beautiful wife. One of her many remarkable gifts — and she is wonderfully gifted in so many areas — is an abundance of spunk.

My lovely wife and I were set on the road to marriage about 10 years ago when we helped a mutual friend re-start a church in a low-income, high-crime area of Dallas. What surprised me the most was that the pastor and I were the only adult male faces there for the greater portion of a year. Women would bring their children but the men wouldn’t come. Part of it was cultural, as I was reminded in the dreary hours of last night reading La Shawn Barber’s What Black Men Think post. However, a big part of the universal shortage of men in church is our unwillingness of men to follow God’s leading. Every church I’ve been in has had more females than males.

Men, step up to the plate. Don’t neglect your wives physically, emotionally, or spiritually. Don’t load up your wife with burdens that you need to carry yourself.

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