There are some who call me... Tim?

[beautifulduckweed]

Swiped from lilithsaintcrow:

Your Score: The Oracle

33% Extroversion, 100% Intuition, 27% Emotiveness, 76% Perceptiveness

Heuristic, detached, and analytical to a fualt, you are most like The Oracle. You are able to tackle any subject with a fine toothed comb, and you possess an ability to pinpoint nuances and shades of meaning that other people do not have and cannot understand. Accomplishment and realization of ideas are, for you, secondary to the rigorous exploration of ideas and questions -- you are, first and foremost, a theorist. You hate authority, convention, tradition, and under no circumstances do you accept a leadership role (although, you will gladly advise leadership when they're going astray, whether they want you to or not). Abstraction and generalities are your interests, details and particulars are usually inconsequential and uninteresting. You excel at language, mathematics and philosophy.

You are typically easy-going and non-confrontational until someone violates one of the very few principles that you deem sacred, at which point you can fly into a rage. Although you possess a much greater understanding of process and systems than the people around you, you are always conscious of the possibility that you've missed something or made a mistake. You don't tend to become attached to particular theories, and will immediately discard mistaken notions once they're revealed to be incorrect (but you don't tolerate iconoclasts who try to discredit validated theories through the use of fallacies and bad data). Despite being outwardly humble, you probably think of yourself as being smarter than most other people. That's because you are. In fact, in your dealings with people your understanding of their motives is so expansive that you know what they're going to say before they say it, and in world affairs, you usually know what is going to take place before it actually does. This ability would make you unbeatable in debates if only you were a little less pensive about your own conclusions, and a little more outgoing.

Famous people like you: Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Adam Smith, Thomas Jefferson, John McWhorter, Ramanujan, Marie Curie, Kurt Godel

Stay clear of: Apollo, Icarus, Hermes, Aphrodite

Seek out: Atlas, Prometheus, Daedalus

Link: The Greek Mythology Personality Test written by Aleph_Nine on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

I'm in nice enough company, I suppose, though I'm not sure Adam Smith qualifies as having that great an analytical mind, given his faith in the Invisible Hand--a hand that, if history is any indication, usually requires an almighty smacking with a mighty big Ruler before it'll correct certain types of things. But maybe that's because I've gotten into too many stupid debates with capitalist anarchists in my day.

Also, I'm not sure how a woman who'd huff ethylene fumes rising out of the ground, go into a trance and talk to Gods is supposed to represent analytical and philosophical rigorousness, but I'm probably not thinking outside the box enough. Heh.

Comments

[winterkoninkje.livejournal.com]

Actually, though Adam Smith came up with the idea of the invisible hand, as I recall he said that we should not place faith in it but must find other means for stabilizing economies; even if the invisible hand is out there, it will not right all wrongs. To that extent, yes I think the invisible hand exists (it's called "people doing stuff"), though it's certainly an idea that's been far far warped out of its original conception by said capitalist anarchists.

[misshepeshu.livejournal.com]

You're right. It's been a while since I've read Smith, and my conversations with Ayn Rand and Mises groupies and other assorted hardcore right-wing libertarians have likely warped my memories.

[lilithsaintcrow.livejournal.com]

OMG. You just went from Smith and the Invisible Hand to ethylene fumes.

Gawd, you're hawt.

[misshepeshu.livejournal.com]

I don't really have anything to say in reply other than "thankee, glad you think so." Mostly, I wanted another excuse to use my Lt. Gaeta icon.