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Myers-Briggs Personality Indicator: “It’s like religion. Believe what you want. Get out of it what you want.”

Holly, May 20, 2015February 20, 2022

I loathe the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator with a fiery passion that is totally dormant as long as nothing reminds me of the test’s existence, which is how I prefer things. Once aroused, the fervor of my loathing takes a while to die down, which is why I’m blogging about it…

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“The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a sociopath’s dream”

Holly, May 27, 2013

Read this deeply bizarre cover story from Psychology Today.  Entitled “Confessions of a Sociopath,” it tells the story of a female Mormon law professor with an undergraduate degree from BYU.  Here’s the most relevant part about the church: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a sociopath’s dream….

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Thinking About You

Hellmut, December 21, 2010December 21, 2010

I got into trouble in fifth grade and I think about it every week. It was in the beginning of the school year. We had just switched from elementary to prep school. Except for three of us, everyone else was new.

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Mormon and Queer at the Crossroads

Alan, July 7, 2010August 13, 2011

I’ve been active on this blog since chanson reviewed my gay, Mormon novel Ockham’s Razor last October. I will be presenting a paper about my novel at this year’s Sunstone Symposium titled “Two Paradigms for ‘Gay.’” (Half of my presentation will also concern Jonathan Langford’s novel No Going Back–also reviewed…

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Sunday in Outer Blogness: It’s All in Your Head Edition!

chanson, November 22, 2009August 9, 2011

It seems that Outer Blogness this week has spent quite a lot of time contemplating religious people to figure out what makes them tick! USU Shaft analyzes the latest stats on both happiness and depresssion in bipolar disorder, thy name is Utah. Bull has been reading Krakauer (like many of…

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