Cohousing-L Mailing List: Psychology Behavior Persoanlity Adaption

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>   1. Psychology Behavior Personality Adaptation Re: personality
>      type (Wayne Tyson)

W> Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 16:11:32 -0700
> Am I to understand that egocentrism is universal? If so, is it inevitable?
> If it is inevitable and universal, is it more adaptive than maladaptive?
>
> WT
Wayne:

I am not sure how you define egocentrism?  Selfness? Adaptive vs 
maladaptive? Or what illustrations you might have in the context of 
CoHousing living? If I understand you, in my opinion, yes it is universal 
with a mixture of adapative and maladaptive depending on the situation.

Reality teaches me daily that we live in an imperfect world with imperfect 
human beings in all our wonder, diversity, flaws and the laws of our land 
attempts to address individual/social injustices.

Seems to me your question will ultimately take us to the basic questions 
that philosophy and religion deals with: (1.) Metaphysics (what exists; 
impersonal origin of universe vs. personal origin of university) (2) Morals: 
the dilemma of human nature in all our imperfection and at time cruelty 
(wars, Auschwitze etc.) yet with incredible accomplishments (i.e. arts, 
music, literature, etc) (3) Epistemology (theory of knowledge).

Of course, Plato understood we need absolutes or nothing has meaning and 
Jean-Paul Sarte: raised the "basic questions that there is a finitie 
universe (existence) without meaning unless it has an infinite reference."

I don’t think your question desires a discussion of the various philosophic 
and religions possibilities and answers? So it seems from the context from 
Lynn message on October 4th, personality typing can enhance our appreciation 
each other gifts and abilities; celebrating diversity together in Community.

Karen
Anthony Fl


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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Lynn Nadeau / Maraiah" <welcome [at] olympus.net>
> To: <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 3:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [C-L]_ personality type
the lesson is that
> > we have diverse gifts. The best thing for community is to recognize
> > that (a) these differences are real, and (b) they are all potentially
> > gifts to the community.