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Ep. 55 - Personality Tests, Discrimination & Disparities, Hamartia & Hamartano

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Canon Press

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2018

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the Plodcast! Listen in to hear Pastor Wilson talk about personality tests, claiming that it is our faith in numbers that is driving our faith in personality tests. After that he plods on to review Thomas Sowell's book, “Discrimination and Disparities”. Finally Wilson takes a look at Hamartia and Hamartano  in 1 & 2 Timothy. Happy Plodding! Personality Testing: Anyone who has eyes knows that there are different personalities You are dealing with Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, and Eeyore We live in a technocratic age. We think we can reduce things to numbers Faith in numbers, transfers to the corporate world We think that we can actually put a number on people down to the exact degree Our faith in numbers is driving our faith in personality tests   Discrimination & Disparities Written by Thomas Sowell Sowell is an economist and a black man, and he is fearless when it comes to analyzing economic proposals The whole book is on how it is possible for you to have wildly variant outcomes with different groups and not have it be the result of discrimination   Hamartano & Hamartia: Looking at Hamartano in 1 Timothy It is used just once: (1 Tim. 5:20) Looking at Hamartia in 1 & 2 Timothy It is used in: (1 Tim. 5:22/5:24, 2 Tim. 3:6)

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Yes, God. So let's talk, well, here we are, I should have welcomed you first.

0:17.0

So let's talk, uh, well, here we are. I should have welcomed you first. Welcome to

0:24.7

uh, uh, podcast episode 55. Good to have you here. Thank you for listening.

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Let's talk, I was about to say, when I was so rudely interrupted, I was about to say when I was so rudely interrupted I was about

0:34.0

to say that I wanted to talk about personality testing and here's the here's the

0:41.9

difficulty it first a little bit of history.

0:44.0

Anybody who has lived among men and women and who has eyes in their head knows that there are different kinds of people, that there are different

0:56.4

personalities. You could go with the ancient system of humors where someone is sanguine, cheerful up and down, dominated by blood,

1:08.8

someone is laid back, phlegmatic, dominated by phlegm

1:13.0

someone is

1:16.3

uh... uh...

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uh... calaric

1:17.6

where they're you know agitated angry kind of person

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another person is melancholy.

1:25.4

And you can say, well, here's the four basic personality

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types.

1:30.6

And that has a long heritage, sanguines, cheerful, phlegmatic, laid back, caleric,

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aggressive hard charging, you know, I know what, let's do things my way and melancholic introspective moody and and so on or you

1:48.7

could go with my system of personality division which I think is I think covers all the bases and that is to say that you're basically dealing with poo

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Piglet

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TIGger and eor So if you've got those four categories you can cover the basis and

2:07.2

then you might you might want to you know reach out and include rabbit let's say or something but basically Winnie the Pooh covers

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