Relations between the collectivity and the person should be arranged with the sole purpose of removing whatever is detrimental to the growth and mysterious germination of the impersonal element in the soul. This means, on the one hand, that for every person there should be enough room, enough freedom to plan the use of one's time, the opportunity to reach ever higher levels of attention, some solitude, some silence. At the same time the person needs warmth, lest it be driven by distress to submerge itself in the collective.
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The working Kabbalist
resists the lure of
the personal. She
suspends interest
in the Biblical list
of interdicted shell fish,
say, in order to
read the text another way.
It might seem to some
superficial to convert
letters to numerals
or in general refuse plot
in favor of dots or half circles;
it might easily seem
comical, how she
ignores an obviously
erotic tale except for
every third word,
rising for her like braille
for something vivid
as only the impersonal
can be â a crescent
bright as the moon,
a glimpse of a symmetry,
a message so vast
in its passage that
she must be utterly open
to an alien idea of person.
Kay Ryan, Flamingo Watching (Copper Beech Press, 1994)
Well, maybe itâs obvious to some people. But, as a general rule, when it comes to the obvious, Iâm almost never some people.
Thatâs especially true for me when it comes to relationships. And the things I do to damage them. Including that most fundamental of relationships â my relationship with God.
I almost never realize the damage that Iâm doing when Iâm doing it. Let alone before I do it.
If youâre like me (and when it comes to that most fundamental relationship, too many people are), it only becomes obvious after the damage is done. After Iâm so wrapped up in myself that thereâs distance where there shouldnât be.
Putting the âawfulâ in the awful clarity of hindsight.
Thatâs why I keep coming back to that moment on Easter morning between Mary Magdalene and the risen Jesus. That very human and wonderful moment, where sheâs lost in her grief. Sheâs so wrapped up in herself â how she feels, how much she hurts â that she doesnât recognize Jesus right in front of her.
Which isnât to say that her feelings arenât justified. If youâve ever lost someone that close to you, then you know. Her feelings are as raw, as real, as relatable as it gets.
As understandable, as unavoidable as they are, she also lets them do something that they donât have to do. Sheâs gotten so wrapped up in herself that thereâs distance where there shouldnât be.
What I love about this moment (and why I keep coming back to it) is Jesusâ response to the distance thatâs grown between Mary Magdalene and Himself.
Jesus takes the grand, redemptive movement of Easter, the restoration of humanityâs relationship with God through His death and resurrection. And makes it personal.
Because Easter isnât about an impersonal God and a generic humanity. And itâs not a one-time thing.
Itâs Jesus reaching out to her. As many times as it takes. Calling her by name. Until itâs just Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Heart to heart.
Itâs the pattern of redemption, one that God in His love pours out over and over.
Because Easter isnât a one-time thing. Easter is now.
And it doesnât matter what the source of that distance is. It doesnât matter who created that distance. Or why. Even if itâs you.
Because Easter is personal.
Jesus is reaching out to you. As many times as it takes. Calling you by name. Until itâs just Jesus and you. Heart to heart.
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Hello. Is Ti, the ability and interest in solving complex puzzles or mind games? And are Ti dom and aux people, the only people good at debating others without getting bored or hurt? I ask because I know an ENTP youtuber who's a debate coach. He sort of determines Ti by conditional logic and the ability to solve puzzles and mind games, (and debate for a long time without being hurt or emotional). Also, since Ti is subjective, are Ti viewpoints and judgements irrational and personal?
No. A general point: The way many people learn about personality type is by picking up disorganized bits and pieces all over the internet (sometimes from dubious sources) and then they wonder why they get confused. One of the learning problems I commonly see in students is trying to run before learning how to walk, which should be remedied by learning things in the right order and with the most effective methodology. I see people try to identify specific judging functions like Te vs Fe when they havenât even understood the basics of what T, F, and e are to begin with. Or people try to apply type theory without knowing the technical meanings of academic terminology, so they get lost in misconceptions. In your case, youâre trying to understand the advanced concept of Ti without a good grasp of basic principles, and you lack clear definitions of the words youâre using, like subjective, irrational, personal.
1) In type theory, all perception functions are irrational because they do not require any reasoning to process information, and all judgment functions are rational because they all require reasoning to process information.
2) In type theory, all introverted functions are subjective, and all extraverted functions are objective. Subjective is not equivalent to personal, although, to be fair, people (myself included) often use the two words interchangeably, so itâs easy to get confused.Â
âPersonalâ means that you are viewing the situation through âpsychological lensesâ, e.g., in terms of how it makes you feel, how it affects your body/mind, how it changes your plans, etc. Your sensations, feelings, ideas, and plans all âbelongâ to you and no one else. You basically generate them for your own purposes. No one can ever know exactly what your personal experience is because no one can ever wear the exact same set of psychological lenses that you possess. This is the basis for claiming that every person is unique.
âSubjectiveâ means from the vantage point of where you are standing. There are many possible vantage points to stand on. The vantage point doesnât âbelongâ to you because youâre not technically generating anything personal. You could easily move to a different vantage point, and someone else could just as easily come stand where you were standing to see what you were seeing. The picture of a situation may shift dramatically when you change a vantage point and new facts get revealed. This is the basis for claiming that one is able to get closer to objective truth by incorporating more vantage points. The word âobjectiveâ refers to universality, i.e., the things that are always true and/or donât change significantly with vantage point.
Thus, personal is always subjective insofar as it is seen from a particular and singular vantage point, but subjective is not necessarily personal. It is possible to change your subjective vantage point without substantially using/affecting your personal psychological lenses.
3) In type theory, T functions are considered to be impersonal because they do not utilize any psychological lenses to process information - they only use plain factual and empirical information to make judgments and draw conclusions. F functions are considered personal because they rely on psychological lenses to process information - they need to know how people feel in order to make judgments and draw conclusions. Accordingly:
Fe is rational, objective, inter/personal*
Fi is rational, subjective, inter/personal*
Te is rational, objective, impersonal
Ti is rational, subjective, impersonal
*F is personal and interpersonal because it primarily uses feeling states to reach a judgment/conclusion, irrespective of who the feeling state belongs to.
Having impersonal, platonic, amical, and queerplatonic attraction culture is always having had a list of terms for types of friends:
Acquaintance-friends
Friends
Best friends/sibling-friends
Besties/#1 BFFs
But also always having had this vague feeling that they weren't quite adequate (especially that last one)?
And then discovering the SAM, the term âtertiary attractionâ and then all these different names for attractions described as âsimilar to platonicâ or âlike a combination of platonic and ____â and just going âOHHH...!!â
