What is your personality type?

[ChelC]

I think I've noticed some commonalities in personalities here, so I'm trying to find out.

I've always been a little odd, not freaky odd (I think) but just not good at conforming. I don't consider myself to be rebellious, because I've always tried to do right, but others have considered me so. I finished high school at the adult school because I hated school and thought it was a waste of time. In hindsight as an adult I still think so. I didn't sit in a corner by myself drawing pictures of ninjas or anything weird, but I never really understood the high school world. I'm still an oddity and am most comfortable that way.

How about you?

[SwissMrs&Pitchfire]

I answered rebel because I paved the way for you pretty well 8)

I am as stubborn as they come because my convictions are rooted deeper than my spirit is rooted to my body. Rebel because I believe that "everything is 180 out" up is down, left is right. Convention and the status quo are dead wrong Babylonian deceptions. D&C 33:4.

I don't count the cost. But I know that it has cost me dearly. I could not have done much that I esteem as worthwhile were I to have respected the constraints imposed upon me by kith (Scottish word meaning friends and neighbors) and kin.

As Dylan Thomas penned:
"Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."

I also have to claim "rebel" because I used to think that perhaps I was the rebel warned against by scripture. The one reffered to in this poem:

The Men Who Don't Fit In*

Robert W. Service

There's a race of men that don't fit in,
A race that can't stay still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin,
And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and they rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain's crest;
Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood,
And they don't know how to rest.

If they just went straight they might go far;
They are strong and brave and true;
But they're always tired of the things that are,
And they want the strange and new.
They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
What a deep mark I would make!"
So they chop and change, and each fresh move
Is only a fresh mistake.

And each forgets, as he strips and runs
With a brilliant, fitful pace,
It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones
Who win in the lifelong race.
And each forgets that his youth has fled,
Forgets that his prime is past,
Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,
In the glare of the truth at last.

He has failed, he has failed; he has missed his chance;
He has just done things by half.
Life's been a jolly good joke on him,
And now is the time to laugh.
Ha, ha! He is one of the Legion Lost;
He was never meant to win;
He's a rolling stone, and it's bred in the bone;
He's a man who won't fit in.

So now I claim the title with endearment as I know that is precisely how the world views me and I embrace the Babylonian mockery. I am a rebel.

Sam Adams was a rebel. Many of the founders were. Joseph smith very much was.

Now I know that the reality is that I got out while the gettin was good with all that is dear to me and we have been desperately seeking Zion every since. We have created it, it is here. We are it. Viewed from any other perspective I am a rebellious failure in the truest sense. Viewed from my shoes, with my knowledge, my priorities, my gospel, my family, my opportunities, my discernment and inspiration, I know in whom I have trusted.

"Agree with thine adversary while thou art in the way with him." Rebel it is.

[Proud 2b Peculiar]

Interesting. I graduated earlier then my class through an adult high school. I thought school was boring and a waste of time, I wanted more of a challenge. I was involved socially, was on the drill team and in dance and so on and so forth, but I found that people were far to socially shallow, and I really disliked that.

Recently I have had new acquaintances describe me as "intriguing", "strong" and "overly compassionate and benevolent."

I am a truth seeker. I seek for all truth that I can find where ever I can find it. Both of good and not so good things, I want to know what is going on in the world, and what motivates people.

I am a people watcher. I say little most the time and listen and evaluate those around me. I then determine from the information I glean how much I will share and be open with them.

To be honest, I trust very little, and it has taken me years to trust enough to be open like I was last month in Fast and Testimony meeting. But I have grown enough, that I will not shrink, and that amazed me.

I have had a ton of personality type stuff done on me LOL.. some of those results would tell you that I am a "Guardian, Provider or ESFJ', a "Fire snake", A Musical Intelligence, and on that color of your parachute test I came out equal in all 4 colors, LOL hopefully that helps!

[CHH]

Interesting. I graduated earlier then my class through an adult high school. I thought school was boring and a waste of time, I wanted more of a challenge. I was involved socially, was on the drill team and in dance and so on and so forth, but I found that people were far to socially shallow, and I really disliked that.

Recently I have had new acquaintances describe me as "intriguing", "strong" and "overly compassionate and benevolent."

I am a truth seeker. I seek for all truth that I can find where ever I can find it. Both of good and not so good things, I want to know what is going on in the world, and what motivates people.

I am a people watcher. I say little most the time and listen and evaluate those around me. I then determine from the information I glean how much I will share and be open with them.

To be honest, I trust very little, and it has taken me years to trust enough to be open like I was last month in Fast and Testimony meeting. But I have grown enough, that I will not shrink, and that amazed me.

I have had a ton of personality type stuff done on me LOL.. some of those results would tell you that I am a "Guardian, Provider or ESFJ', a "Fire snake", A Musical Intelligence, and on that color of your parachute test I came out equal in all 4 colors, LOL hopefully that helps!

I will not include the things I have been normally called after people first meet me. This is, after all, an LDS site. Rebels Rule!

[SwissMrs&Pitchfire]

Charity said:

I am a people watcher. I say little most the time and listen and evaluate those around me. I then determine from the information I glean how much I will share and be open with them.

That reminds me of a quote from one of my favorite movies:

I wonder when it was long ago that I became a watcher of things; always watching others do things I couldn't or wouldn't do myself; always standing off at a distance, isolated. I envy the wolves for how they experience the world, always in such direct contact with their environment, traveling through their territory alert and attuned to all the signs coming in through their senses, revealing a whole universe to them that we can never really know. But I sit behind glass lenses, filling up notebooks and triplicate forms, trying to capture the wolves within the pages of my journal. And what will become of the study when it is finished? Once these wolves have been exposed to my world, what will become of them?
Tyler from Never Cry Wolf

[ChelC]

Yucky... I hate that movie when he eats the mice.

[Proud 2b Peculiar]

Interesting. I graduated earlier then my class through an adult high school. I thought school was boring and a waste of time, I wanted more of a challenge. I was involved socially, was on the drill team and in dance and so on and so forth, but I found that people were far to socially shallow, and I really disliked that.

Recently I have had new acquaintances describe me as "intriguing", "strong" and "overly compassionate and benevolent."

I am a truth seeker. I seek for all truth that I can find where ever I can find it. Both of good and not so good things, I want to know what is going on in the world, and what motivates people.

I am a people watcher. I say little most the time and listen and evaluate those around me. I then determine from the information I glean how much I will share and be open with them.

To be honest, I trust very little, and it has taken me years to trust enough to be open like I was last month in Fast and Testimony meeting. But I have grown enough, that I will not shrink, and that amazed me.

I have had a ton of personality type stuff done on me LOL.. some of those results would tell you that I am a "Guardian, Provider or ESFJ', a "Fire snake", A Musical Intelligence, and on that color of your parachute test I came out equal in all 4 colors, LOL hopefully that helps!

I will not include the things I have been normally called after people first meet me. This is, after all, an LDS site. Rebels Rule!

HA HA HA

[Proud 2b Peculiar]

Charity said:

I am a people watcher. I say little most the time and listen and evaluate those around me. I then determine from the information I glean how much I will share and be open with them.

That reminds me of a quote from one of my favorite movies:

I wonder when it was long ago that I became a watcher of things; always watching others do things I couldn't or wouldn't do myself; always standing off at a distance, isolated. I envy the wolves for how they experience the world, always in such direct contact with their environment, traveling through their territory alert and attuned to all the signs coming in through their senses, revealing a whole universe to them that we can never really know. But I sit behind glass lenses, filling up notebooks and triplicate forms, trying to capture the wolves within the pages of my journal. And what will become of the study when it is finished? Once these wolves have been exposed to my world, what will become of them?
Tyler from Never Cry Wolf

I have not heard of that..... Not that I have heard of much LOL

[jbalm]

Can I check more than one?

[shadow]

I'm mainstream, like everyone else - here. But I couldn't be cooler either, just ask my 3 yr old son.

I hated high school, middle school, and elementary school. Oh, I hated the years of college I did too. I almost didn't graduate from high school, I spent too many nice days hiking or mtn. biking. And that was before it was so popular. Too many sweet trails in Cache Valley. So I guess I march to the beat of my own drum which makes me a freak. I haven't been a rebel per se, especially compared to CHH. I don't like structure. I can't be an employee working for "the man". I do my own thing on my own time in my own way. I don't have A.D.D. or A.D.H.D. or whatever they call it but my wife might say differently. I only where my tin foil hat at night, and some holidays.

[ChelC]

Yay, you guys have proven my hypothesis!