Fear me
12/05/07 23:03 |
Personal
So, I don't do these "internet test" things as a rule - but what can I say, I was bored and there wasn't anything on TV [grin]. I came across a link to a tarot-test, and clicked it, answered the (surprisingly few) questions, and it turns out that
I am The Devil
This came as a bit of a shock.
Fortunately there was some explanatory text to go along with this rather cruelly (at least IMHO) declarative judgement:
Materiality. Material Force. Material temptation; sometimes obsession. The Devil is often a great card for business success; hard work and ambition.
Perhaps the most misunderstood of all the major arcana, the Devil is not really "Satan" at all, but Pan the half-goat nature god and/or Dionysius. These are gods of pleasure and abandon, of wild behavior and unbridled desires. This is a card about ambitions; it is also synonymous with temptation and addiction. On the flip side, however, the card can be a warning to someone who is too restrained, someone who never allows themselves to get passionate or messy or wild - or ambitious. This, too, is a form of enslavement. As a person, the Devil can stand for a man of money or erotic power, aggressive, controlling, or just persuasive. This is not to say a bad man, but certainly a powerful man who is hard to resist. The important thing is to remember that any chain is freely worn. In most cases, you are enslaved only because you allow it.
I've always thought I had a way with words; I can turn a pretty sentence when I feel like, and I habitually alter my cadence and tone when making a case in a discussion/argument. In fact my closest friend often complains that I always come across as believable, even when I'm wrong. It's not something I do on purpose, it's just that I (obviously, otherwise I'd not be making the argument) think I'm right, and that belief leaks over into my presentation of my case automatically. I may not be Steve Jobs, but I think I can project a small RDF[1] :-) 'The Devil' is a little judgemental, though [grin]
If you want to be similarly categorised, the test is over here.
[1] RDF - The 'Reality Distortion Field' attributed to Apple's CEO Steve Jobs during his keynote presentations