shanzeek wrote:I'll have to rummage through those and find out what I said I was before I know what position I take in this thread...
I see you had a change of heart with ravens as well..
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If anything, I wasn't at all surprised with your infj result, especially after you mentioned "bpd core" earlier. (scientifically irrelevant 'n based solely on personal experience and intuition, Mid, yes)

to the best of my recollection I didn't post in either of those threads, it was a rhetorical comment meant to infer that opinions in this thread would divide down lines of personal identity.
As for the Raven iconography, I think we will can agree that the stock raven images left something to be desired. "Quoth" as it happens is just the discworld character, I generally favour usernames borrowed from literary or mythological characters.
I think you may have got the wrong end of the stick in regards to a BPD core, or I explained it badly. What the psychologist was actually referencing was this: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4165723/
that EPCACE runs within a hair's breadth of most personality disorders but that diagnosis is a clinical decision based upon experience of these conditions. This is the intuitive aspect of medicine, the ability to distinguish by experience different presentations of various pathologies. His point was that while from a structural standpoint OCPD, PPD and BPD could be utilised to describe my personality, from a clinical standpoint this could not be the case as in as much as I might resemble those concepts from one angle I completely contradict them from another. An analogy could be made for the emotional dysregulation seen in both bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder, two traits which on paper look remarkably similar but are actually surprisingly distinct in reality for anyone with experience with both conditions. In this case EPCACE will actually be pushing my thinking/feeling ratio in the opposite direction due to the extensive denial, supression and dissociation from my emotions that I utilise. It is also probably worth remembering what we get here is not so much a rounded impression of a person but a series of snapshots into their own inner monologue. I would imagine both midwinter and akuma are radically different in real life from how we perceive them here. From my perspective as I've said before people like julllia appear more BPD than BPD and yourself definitely has some similarities with CNPD, but I'm not in any position to say wether this is the case in reality.
On the subject of critical thinking, I wanted to say that this is a fine tool for use in regards to personal belief or some form of theology, however unfortunately it is often used as a smokescreen behind which opinion is portrayed as fact.
A fundamental concept in epistemology and in particular public discourse is burden of proof, exemplified by the Latin legal maxim "Onus probandi incumbit ei qui dicit, no ei qui negat", it is incumbent upon he who affirms to prove his case, not he who denies to disprove it. Equally a fundamental part of critical analysis is the comparison of evidence which I think is what Middie is referring to here, that personal opinion and observation do not hold much weight when compared to academic research in his opinion.