I’m trying a live experiment: I’m going to see if I can match your erisology one-to-one as antagonists to the Elements of Harmony from My Little Pony:
Prickly: Kindness
Opaque: Honesty
Nitpicky: Generosity
Disengaged: Loyalty
Shallow: Laughter
Interesting! They match up surprisingly well, and you’ve somehow also matched the order of 3 out of 5 of the corresponding “seeds of discord” from 1 Peter 2:1, CSB: “Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.” If my pronouncement of success seems self-serving and opaque, I’ll elaborate soon:
Malice: Kindness
Deceit: Honesty
Hypocrisy: Loyalty
Envy: Generosity
Slander: Laughter
And now the reveal. I’m a generalist; I collect disparate lists of qualities (in the sense of “quality vs quantity”), and try to integrate all my knowledge into a comprehensive worldview. My world changed the day I first saw My Little Pony; it changed in a way I never expected, in a way many people claim to have been affected by HPMOR. I believed I’d seen a deep truth, and I’ve been subtly sharing it wherever I can.
The Elements of Harmony are the character qualities that, when present, result in a spark of something that brings people together. My hypothesis is that they point to a deep-seated human bond-testing instinct. The first time I noticed a match-up was when I heard a sermon on The Five Love Languages, which are presented in an entirely different order:
Words of affirmation: Honesty
Quality time: Laughter
Receiving gifts: Generosity
Acts of service: Loyalty
Physical touch: Kindness
Well! In just doing the basic research to write this reply, it turns out I’m re-inventing the wheel! Someone else has already written a psychometric analysis of the Five Love Languages and found they do indeed match up with another relational maintenance typology.
Thank you for your post; you’ve helped open my eyes up to existing research I can use in my philosophical pursuits, and sparked thoughts of what “effective altruism” use I can put them to.
I’m trying a live experiment: I’m going to see if I can match your erisology one-to-one as antagonists to the Elements of Harmony from My Little Pony:
Prickly: Kindness
Opaque: Honesty
Nitpicky: Generosity
Disengaged: Loyalty
Shallow: Laughter
Interesting! They match up surprisingly well, and you’ve somehow also matched the order of 3 out of 5 of the corresponding “seeds of discord” from 1 Peter 2:1, CSB: “Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.” If my pronouncement of success seems self-serving and opaque, I’ll elaborate soon:
Malice: Kindness
Deceit: Honesty
Hypocrisy: Loyalty
Envy: Generosity
Slander: Laughter
And now the reveal. I’m a generalist; I collect disparate lists of qualities (in the sense of “quality vs quantity”), and try to integrate all my knowledge into a comprehensive worldview. My world changed the day I first saw My Little Pony; it changed in a way I never expected, in a way many people claim to have been affected by HPMOR. I believed I’d seen a deep truth, and I’ve been subtly sharing it wherever I can.
The Elements of Harmony are the character qualities that, when present, result in a spark of something that brings people together. My hypothesis is that they point to a deep-seated human bond-testing instinct. The first time I noticed a match-up was when I heard a sermon on The Five Love Languages, which are presented in an entirely different order:
Words of affirmation: Honesty
Quality time: Laughter
Receiving gifts: Generosity
Acts of service: Loyalty
Physical touch: Kindness
Well! In just doing the basic research to write this reply, it turns out I’m re-inventing the wheel! Someone else has already written a psychometric analysis of the Five Love Languages and found they do indeed match up with another relational maintenance typology.
Thank you for your post; you’ve helped open my eyes up to existing research I can use in my philosophical pursuits, and sparked thoughts of what “effective altruism” use I can put them to.