Myers Briggs (VQ #2): Intuitive Thinkers and Faith

Viewer Question #2: How does an NT-rational cope with being a person of faith?

This question was asked by tacoma200, in which he discusses the difficulties of living a life of faith in a world of secular reason. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaBgSixa8Ec&feature=channel_page

I have not abandoned the series, I've just been really busy for the past few months. I promise I will post Myers Briggs, Part 4: Thinking/Feeling sometimes before June.

Please note that this video has nothing to do with the actual structure of the MBTI itself. I just received an interesting question, so here's my response.

Please feel free to post some responses to this if you're bored!

Cheers.

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[PalmiMeteo]

you should really work at an Air Traffic Control.

[stiaa04]

A billion christians, a billion muslims make certain things percieved as socially acceptable and sects do them. You could say that it can no longer be defencible with "What does it matter if I'm right or wrong about god eixisting I'm living a moral life as a christian/muslim", actually it does matter alot.

If I was wrong about gods existance(eventual good ultimate end plan) then it is immoral to continue to be a part of that social acceptance creating group. And I had low odds of being right.

[stiaa04]

I can't be very soft on my former christian self. I don't see my life as badly lived though an immense sense of positive energy, relief, etc came from throwing away christianity, which suprised me since I expected that I was one of the most relaxed ppl in the world to my religion. But I cant be soft my life as a religious person because being a religious person is like voting:

[stiaa04]

I didn't know the real meaning/significance of the word evidence at the time, in my language(norwegian) there is a bad habit of using only the word and concept proof not evidence few ppl uses the word evidence in daily life mostly, made even worse by bad american soap operas where the worse subtitlers subtitle evidence with the norwegian word proof.

I learned about evidence and some other concepts like cognitive bias, pack mammal empathy as a source of altruism and morals etc.

[stiaa04]

I'm an INTP reason for seeing your videos was to learn more about the auxillary function stuff cause I didn't understand it from others.

I am also an atheist for 3 years now and a starcraft fan btw :D how ironic.

I agree, as a christian I was trying to be logical, I no longer believe I was at the time, but based on my critical thinking at the time(uninformed, unstructured 'feels logical'-like) I was a logical person in the sense that I liked preferred and tried to be rational.

[kh884488]

Very good video, thanks for sharing. It is refreshing to have the topic of reason and faith discussed in a manner that does not degrade to emotive ranting.

I'm and INTJ and a Christian and earlier in my life had difficulty reconciling the NT side of my personality with the Christian tradition within which I was raised, but now I feel comfortable with where I stand. However, I feel that this is an issue that each person must approach for themselves throughout their own life.

[bestofcgs]

Everything starts with faith. It is a faith that you will wake up tomorrow instead of die.

[googamanga]

@googamanga

Unfortunately I don't think there is a "Happily Ever After" conclusion to the faith & logic marriage.

On a more Positive note... People are not computers, so we don't crash if we have contradicting theories/values in our minds. Our mind's imagination is good enough to create philosophical systems that can merge any phenomena into something that feels coherent so we don't have to lose sleep over it...

[googamanga]

Using "faith logically" can happen at small scales but the underlying issue is that faith is not logically consistent at larger scales.

If the question is "should I give money to homeless"" then an underlying premise of "God says to give money to homeless" is good enough (and is logical) to lead to a conclusion of "Yes, give $ to homeless"

However if the question is "Is there a God?", the scope becomes too big to keep both faith and logic happy.

[sandbar3000]

Obviously. I am soooo much an SJ -it is not even funny. When I did a "mock" MBTI at the age of about 16, I was an SP.