I'm doing a LEFT OR RIGHT BRAIN dominance test.

[link to www.learningpaths.org]

I'm thinking there is a brain dominance out there that makes these tests up, and that is putting the other brain dominance at a disadvantage. I'm also, thinking they must be the ones ruling the world ... just saying'

BORING!!

I prefer the hand-eye coordination test with a jug o'beer

I'm also, thinking that one brain dominance is most likely to know its particular dominance, because it would be the one most likely to finish the test, and there again is another disadvantagement, and yes I did say, dis advantage ment because it makes perfectly good sense to me, and who says you cannot make up new words or mis-use them if you are so inclined. Just sayin'

with both eyes closed for good luck

You all are taking that test aren't ya? I bet that dominant brain that wrote the test and will be able to finish taking it will most likely be the one to have the answer for me.

your kidding me. right?




1. Calculate the number of your "A" and "B" answers. Do not consider your "C" answers.

2. Put a - (minus) sign in front of your "A" score and a + (plus) sign in front of your "B" score.

3. Do the algebrical sum of your "A" and "B" scores.

To get your answers/

This is old news in a way; ancient religions all make a stab at it.

I'm not Jewish/Kabbalist but I've always felt that the Sephirot concept puts it best.

[link to en.m.wikipedia.org]

Especially scroll down to the "Man-metaphor" bits.

It is the Right-dominating-left configuration that is societies' mire right now.

what the hale?

I'm trying to find a simple answer to a complex question.

Not a mystery wrapped in a freakin' egnima.

Are you saying we are all slopping in the mudd of man metaphorically induced spherical denominations?

It's not a mystery nor an enigma, it is only that it is the "simplest" answer you are going to get.

Brain-half communication is highly complex and is poorly understood with current science; psychiatry for example has little grasp.

If it is "science" you are looking for, Nietzche and Jung are good reads, Freud is somewhat simpler but quality of explanation suffers.

... and I am sure you are left brained no matter how complicated it all is.

There's also the possibility that you are neither left or right dominance. If you are a female, there's a good possibility that you are neither. Or to put it another way you are whole brain dominance. (that's why we women are able to do a lot of things at the same time!)

It would seem that way, but in my experience the dominance will switch given certain situations, though people only notice a subtle difference. This is a form of the "alter-ego" and "two-spirit" personality types.

As far as "souls" go however, I am certainly left-dominant. Along with the "alter-ego", the "souls" concept is not at all integrated into contemporary psychology and psychiatry. Nietzche and Jung both covered the concepts however.

It's more common in, but not exclusive to women.

oh yea. that clears it the whole hazy mess of it all.

Hate to say I told ya so... it is complex.

Any attempt on my part to distill the archetypes more than the above, and you'd revert to the ego defensive mode wherein I am characterized as "just another whacko".

You'd move on with trying to uphold the authoritative beliefs you awoke today with, and I'd have no angle from which to impart new information; and so our interaction would be nullified.

That "simplify" it for ya? The mind is a hazy place.

I wouldn't say it was two spirited, I would say- a soul trying to interpret shattered and compartmentalized memory sequences, if your talking split personality ...

Again, contemporary psychological doctrine, based loosely on the already deeply flawed works of Freud, does not make an attempt to grasp the "soul" or "two-spirit" ideologies.

Freudians are much more content to attempt to categorize "higher" thought patterns as various self-fulfilling disease pathways. Of course this is nonsense if not downright evil.

Well, being that I am obviously your opposite I would "imagine" that I am therefor right brained, analytically challenged, but capable of seeing the bigger picture while filling in the blanks of what is not clear with colorful creativity, coupled with that female intuition/ Now my intuitiveness is, (and this is what us left handed girls are really good at) tells me you are the intellectual type, meaning that you pride your self as an intellect, but try to keep it reigned in while engaging those you are convinced are less intelligent than you are, so as not to scare them away, however, when you find that you have engaged some one with a little more sense than you first realized, the beast rips at the chain, because what you are really after is the hunt, the problem is you loose control, and overkill before you really get to enjoy the game of it all, leading me to believe that you hate dogs and prefer cats, not because your are like the feline, but, because you wish you could be like one, play with the mouse a little bit longer, rather, than gobbling it down. just sayin'

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Wow. See, that's the language I speak.

You sound like an old room-mate (and current best friend) of mine.

We'd debate on subjects like these, and I'd begin to delve into occultism and spirituality. He's really impressed me at times, I would not consider myself "flat-out" more intelligent than him, or anyone else: it's about the balance, the palette, rather than tight rules and "who's the best".

I come to this forum on my last legs of intellectual endeavour; I come in part to prove my own worth to myself.

Come to think of it, there was only one thing I could never convince him of...

Olive branch, not overkill. ;) We are far, far more similar in any case than we are different. Other than that, you nailed me.

oops wrong quote

Heh heh... do make more threads, would you?