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Originally Posted by FineLine
I agree.
A couple months ago, I think the message board was pretty consistently disparaging about Sensors. It was very N-centered overall: Lots of Ns were patting themselves on the back about their ability to think circles around the poor dimwitted Sensors. Proteanmix complained that the prevailing atmosphere was going to make impossible to every attract Sensors as members. In my message that Santtu quoted, I agreed with Proteanmix that the board was obviously anti-Sensor. To put things a little more back in balance, I pointed out that the Sensor point of view has important things to offer the world too, and meanwhile iNtuition isn't necessarily the font of all wisdom as iNtuitives sometimes like to think.
Today it's a couple months later, and a lot of the S-bashing has disappeared. We have some good active Sensor members, and they are making some really good contributions, posing some good questions, and opening themselves up for questions in return. In this more balanced atmosphere, my post may indeed read like a "self-beating N in motion" as Santtu labeled it. But that takes my post out of context. When I posted my message two months ago, the context was that Sensors were being excessively disparaged all over the message board. Re-read the quote from Proteanmix at the start of my post.
I think you're missing the point. The point is that we were dealing with the issues. Two months ago, the issue was that Sensors were being excessively and thoughtlessly disparaged all over the message board. So some of us stepped up to the plate and tried to restore a little more balance.
It doesn't mean that the issue is closed. Discussions about the differences between N and S seem inevitable and even natural on an MBTI-oriented board. But you're turning things on their head if you are implying that my post was about stifling discussion and avoiding issues. On the contrary. At the time it was part of an active flurry of discussions, and it was an attempt to address a sticky and troublesome issue head-on.
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I guess I missed the context also. Just wanted to bring awareness, that while reading posts near it for context, posts like the ones
Santtu brought up can seem very blaming. He was not the only one who read it the way he did, and his seems like an awfully natural interpretation. IMO that balancing a metaphorical pendulum, is not really the best way to deal with issues where one group is treated poorly (and looking back I can see that S types were indeed treated poorly on this forum).
IMO, these types of pendulums tend to swing more and more violently, not come to a rest. We need to find different higher ground, not look for "common" ground, or try to "restore balance."
Let's not make assumptions about what people believe or why people were motivated to do what they did. Speculations, yes. Assumptions are another animal.
I think I may find many S's who agree with me on this point.
Anyone?