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So I took this test and this is what it said … INTP

I usually don’t like these things but I thought this one got it right — both good and bad.

Rational Portrait of the Architect (INTP)

Architects need not be thought of as only interested in drawing blueprints for buildings or roads or bridges. They are the master designers of all kinds of theoretical systems, including school curricula, corporate strategies, and new technologies. For Architects, the world exists primarily to be analyzed, understood, explained – and re-designed. External reality in itself is unimportant, little more than raw material to be organized into structural models. What is important for Architects is that they grasp fundamental principles and natural laws, and that their designs are elegant, that is, efficient and coherent.

Architects are rare – maybe one percent of the population – and show the greatest precision in thought and speech of all the types. They tend to see distinctions and inconsistencies instantaneously, and can detect contradictions no matter when or where they were made. It is difficult for an Architect to listen to nonsense, even in a casual conversation, without pointing out the speaker’s error. And in any serious discussion or debate Architects are devastating, their skill in framing arguments giving them an enormous advantage. Architects regard all discussions as a search for understanding, and believe their function is to eliminate inconsistencies, which can make communication with them an uncomfortable experience for many.

Ruthless pragmatists about ideas, and insatiably curious, Architects are driven to find the most efficient means to their ends, and they will learn in any manner and degree they can. They will listen to amateurs if their ideas are useful, and will ignore the experts if theirs are not. Authority derived from office, credential, or celebrity does not impress them. Architects are interested only in what make sense, and thus only statements that are consistent and coherent carry any weight with them.

Architects often seem difficult to know. They are inclined to be shy except with close friends, and their reserve is difficult to penetrate. Able to concentrate better than any other type, they prefer to work quietly at their computers or drafting tables, and often alone. Architects also become obsessed with analysis, and this can seem to shut others out. Once caught up in a thought process, Architects close off and persevere until they comprehend the issue in all its complexity. Architects prize intelligence, and with their grand desire to grasp the structure of the universe, they can seem arrogant and may show impatience with others who have less ability, or who are less driven.

You can take the test here,

http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp

A Post Election Prayer

Oh God of all mercy and grace.

Your judgments are altogether just and thy ways beyond searching.

We ask tonight that you would be with our President elect Obama.
Grant him a wisdom, and discernment that would further your ways.
Where his need is repentance we pray that you would grant it.
Deliver him from his previous sins and give him a heart for life and freedom.
Remind him to “Kiss the Son, lest the Son be angry.”

Grant the loyal opposition to dissent faithfully.
Fill them with courage and boldness.
Help them not to despair.
Grant them grace, to be faithful to you, to forestall the wickedness that some might seek.

Most especially what we ask of you as a result of this election is that your elect would be more inclined to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ and turn to King Jesus and live. Send forth thy Spirit to convict the world of guilt and righteousness and judgment and of the pardoning nature of the Lord Jesus for sensible sinners.

O magnificent and just God, in wrath remember mercy.

In the name of thy beloved King Jesus

AMEN