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1. Type Change

   15.Mar.08, 23:49 EDT
   
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   The Portait of the Counselor (INFJ)

   
   

   The Counselor Idealists are abstract in thought and speech, cooperative in reaching their goals, and enterprising and attentive in their interpersonal roles. Counselors focus on human potentials, think in terms of ethical values, and come easily to decisions. The small number of this type (little more than 2 percent) is regrettable, since Counselors have an unusually strong desire to contribute to the welfare of others and genuinely enjoy helping their companions. They work quite intensely with those close to them. This type has great depth of personality; they are themselves complicated, and can understand and deal with complex issues and people.

   
   

   
   

   
   

   Counselors can be hard to get to know. They have an unusually rich inner life, but they are reserved and tend not to share their reactions except with those they trust. With their loved ones, certainly, Counselors are not reluctant to express their feelings, their face lighting up with the positive emotions, but darkening like a thunderhead with the negative. Indeed, because of their strong ability to take into themselves the feelings of others, Counselors can be hurt rather easily by those around them, which, perhaps, is one reason why they tend to be private people, mutely withdrawing from human contact. At the same time, friends who have known a Counselor for years may find sides emerging which come as a surprise. Not that they are inconsistent; Counselors value their integrity a great deal, but they have intricately woven, mysterious personalities which sometimes puzzle even them.

   
   

   Counselors have strong empathic abilities and can become aware of another's emotions or intentions -- good or evil -- even before that person is conscious of them. This "mind-reading" can take the form of feeling the hidden distress or illnesses of others to an extent which is difficult for other types to comprehend. Even Counselors can seldom tell how they came to penetrate others' feelings so keenly. Furthermore, the Counselor is most likely of all the types to demonstrate an ability to understand psychic phenomena and to have visions of human events, past, present, or future. What is known as ESP may well be exceptional intuitive ability-in both its forms, projection and introjection. Such supernormal intuition is found frequently in the Counselor, and can extend to people, things, and often events, taking the form of visions, episodes of foreknowledge, premonitions, auditory and visual images of things to come, as well as uncanny communications with certain individuals at a distance.

   
   

   Mohandas Gandhi, Sidney Poitier, Eleanor Roosevelt, Jane Goodall, Emily Bronte, Sir Alec Guiness, Carl Jung, Mary Baker Eddy, Queen Noor are examples of the Counselor Idealist (INFJ).

   
   

   
   
   

2. Why

   24.Apr.07, 00:01 EDT
   
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3. Valdese 1179

   11.Apr.07, 00:58 EDT
   
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   The origins of the Valdese and of the Piemontesi of the Alps Cozie, are inspired by the teachings of Peter Valdo, a rich merchant of Lione, who abandoned his wealth and worldly goods to preach his interpretation of the teachings of Christ.   His followers, numbering in the thousands, did the same.
   
   The Valdese did not accept the papacy and the ecclesiastical hierarchy, refused the concept of purgatory, indulgences, and the Immaculate Conception.
   
   In 1179, Peter Valdo and his followers, requested permission from the Church to publicly preach their interpretation.  Request was denied.  The Church gave authority to publicly communicate the teachings of Christ to legitimate members, priests, cardinals, and bishops. Their vows empowered them with the appropriate wisdom and knowledge to accurately convene the teachings. 
   
   The Valdese and their leader were considered heretics and excommunicated.  During the sixteenth century, officers of the Church were ordered by the Pope Pius V, to exterminate this group,  which led to a manhunt throughout Southern France, Italy and Germany, that lasted years.

4. The World

   20.Jan.07, 18:11 EST
   
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   "The world rests upon the bedrock of satya or truth. Asatya, meaning untruth, also means non-existence, and satya or truth also means that which is. If untruth does not so much as exist, its victory is out of the question.
   And truth being that which is can never be destroyed. This is the doctrine of the Satyagraha in a nutshell. "
   
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