Okay! so how's this for a thought in process...and I guess the backround for this train of thought is both the Palistinian conflict and also the conflict in Iraq...http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/20040522/D82NRSH02.html?PG=home&SEC=news ...now the thought is...the closer you get to death the less complex life becomes...the closer you get to death, the less complex life becomes... Is that what life is...accumulating more and more things to insulate us from the inevitable... ...and could it be that the opposite is true... Take the "T" personality... type T personality n. A personality type that regularly seeks out thrilling or dangerous experiences. Example Citation: I used to skydive off buildings in south county. I've climbed most of the peaks in the Southern California, like Mount Baldy and Mount Whitney. I like to climb them when they're covered with snow. I need the rush. I need the endorphins. I'm a type T personality: thrill seeker. —Gary Copeland, "Who's this?," Orange County Register, November 8, 2002 Notes: We all know the classic type A personality, which was identified in 1959 by the cardiologists Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman. But there's a whole type taxonomy out there, of which today's type T personality is but one example. Here's a list of all the personality types I was able to identify (note that many of these require your tongue to be planted relatively securely in the cheek of your choice): Type A — Competitive, driven, stressed, workaholic Type B — Relaxed, patient, friendly Type C — Reticent, unassertive, nice to a fault Type D — Anxious, insecure, gloomy, depressed Type E — High-achieving, perfectionist, everything to everybody Type F — Prone to forwarding e-mail messages Type H — Hostile, hateful Type I — Egocentric Type J — Orderly, neat Type M — Melodramatic Type O — Prone to making spelling mistakes Type P — Persistent Type R — Responsive Type S — Doesn't get enough sleep Type T — Thrill-seeking Type V — Plain, simple (vanilla) Type W — Wacko Type X — Domineering, tyrannical Type Z — Extremely laid back (the "opposite" of a Type A) Earliest Citation: Comedian John Belushi. Gangster John Dillinger. Nobel Biologist Francis Crick. All are classic Type T personalities, and so, fittingly enough, is television's Mr. T. As Psychologist Frank Farley of the University of Wisconsin tells it, many of the world's daredevils, doers and delinquents share a common personality, Type T (for thrill seeking). Whether scientists or criminals, mountain climbers or hot-dog skiers, says Farley, all are driven by temperament, and perhaps biology, to a life of constant stimulation and risk taking. Both the socially useful and the socially appalling Type Ts, he says, "are rejecting the strictures, the laws, the regulations — they are pursuing the unknown, the uncertain." Now, let's make it more complex...type "T"... that is for testosterone, right ?!?! So are women X'ed out of this ? is this a man thing...? But how could something so basic, choosing a path that leads to essence-that is- essentially life and death...be just a man's choice ? But..then..you have to wonder when you read the the following study What Is She Thinking About During Sex? May 21, 11:08 am ET BERLIN (Reuters) - Women watching erotic films are stimulated in a part of the brain associated with planning and emotion, research from scientists in Germany said Friday. When scientists from Essen University put volunteers in a brain scanning tube and showed them pornography they found both men and women showed activity in the temporal lobes linked to memory and perception, but only women used their frontal lobes. Unfortunately the researchers were not able to determine if their findings meant that while men lost themselves in the moment the busy modern professional woman was also planning her wardrobe, scheduling the vacation and juggling her tax receipts. "We don't know why these differences between men and women exist. They just do," said institute director Michael Forsting. ...So..is it all in the Lobes...?!?! Now I am acutely aware of the viscious cycles of violence that can bring all people to an eye-for-an-eye point of view...but I guess what I'm looking at...I guess what I'm searchin' for is what makes people appreciate what they have, be it little or great...what does it take for us...-me- to be grateful (could being good at being grateful be being "greatful" ?) for what we have...however close to death we might be...

a very long thought.

I'm sure your opinion is a good one, you being around for how many wars now? ;-)
But, I'm young, and absolutely hate politics. I get fumed when the news is on, and they're blabbering something about the upcoming election, etc. I do not like politics, and especially the politicians. They give politics a bad name.

Anyways, that's my thought on one area of society.

Sorry I havn't been doin' too much about here. Been concentrating on one of my other web journals.
Have a good weekend! =)
» invisible on 2004-05-22 09:03:47

"you being around for how many wars now?"

None, just "conflicts" and "police actions."

Interesting theories on personalities. I like how you cite sources in your writing; It makes each entry sound like a formal essay.
» le_battement on 2004-05-25 05:01:59

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