Today I'm reading about 'Shielding Theory.'

I have several websites open.

http://www.tpub.com/content/neets/14182/
http://radiomagonline.com/transmission/radio_mutual_impedance/
http://www.chomerics.com/products/documents/emicat/pg192theory_of_emi.pdf
http://www.metexcorp.com/emirfi_theory.htm
http://www.cvel.clemson.edu/emc/tutorials/Shielding01/Shielding_Theory.html

There's nowhere near enough time to read all this before work. However, 'reading about shields' was one of my justifications for getting back on the internet. I was looking at my blog archives, and it looks like one of the times when I was off the net was from August 2009 through October 2009, or something like that. That's when I was leaving the previous apartment and moving into this apartment. I've been off the net a couple times in the past, too, a few years ago. But, like I said, one reason why I justified myself getting back on the net was so that I could quickly and easily do shielding research online. That is what I am supposed to be doing.

I have three mental categories to describe the types of attacks that I might need to shield against. 1. Electromagnetic 2. Sonic 3. Unknown/Other. 'Unknown/Other' is ALWAYS a default category in every set of mental categories that I create. It is an open category and it is required to be there at all times, a symbol representing the fact that I don't know everything and I never will. And I don't care if philosophy says that some kind of logical system gives you only two possibilities such as 'Yes' and 'No.' I don't care. For me, there must always be 'yes,' 'no,' and 'none of the above, other, neither, unknown.' To talk in socionics terms, this is my way of giving greater importance to extraverted logic than I do to introverted logic.

(I've been reading about the 'information elements': http://www.wikisocion.org/en/index.php?title=Introverted_logic - if only Ayn Rand had seen this, because she was always complaining about how there are groups of people who either 1. don't care about using logic, or 2. don't care about foreseeing future consequences, so she would have been picking on whichever groups of people have one of the logics, or one of the intuitions, in a lower-importance position instead of a higher importance position. I'm grateful for these descriptions because it emphasizes that everybody has strengths and weaknesses, and someone else's strengths are my weaknesses, etc, and the fact that my weaknesses, objectively speaking, REALLY ARE weaknesses, not just something to dismiss or ignore or say they're unimportant. It's showing that everybody has weaknesses/strengths and that those weaknesses/strengths actually exist and actually matter.)

(Something I would add to is this: RDL had a question mark next to something Aushra Augusta said (I need to learn how to spell her whole name from memory), on socionics.us. She said something about introverted sensing is where you interact with something that is simultaneously interacting with you, or something like that. You push on it, and it simultaneously pushes back. It exerts an equal and opposite force against you. This is like driving a car and turning the steering wheel. You push the wheel, you feel it pushing back, and you know how hard the wheel is pushing back against your hand, and you know to either push harder or push less, and you feel how easily the wheel is turning. SLIs are described as tool operators in Keirsey. Interacting with physical forces as they interact with you, so that the forces interact with each other.)

(Anyway, introverted logic is my demostrative function, and yes, I do agree: I give it less importance than extraverted logic and I always say that you have the 'none of the above' category anytime something is put into an 'either/or' choice.)

Well, so I'm focused on reading about shielding for electromagnetic attacks. I'm not as focused on reading about sonic attacks. There is a website where the person believes that most of the attacks are sonic. However, I read something on Wikipedia not too long ago that convinced me, once again, that they probably are mostly electromagnetic. It was something that said that 'very low frequency' radio waves are able to interact with physical objects and cause them to make clicking and snapping noises. They said this would happen when a meteor was falling, or something like that - it would cause the pine needles on the ground to start clicking and snapping. I'd have to go hunting to look for exactly where I read that. But snapping and clicking noises on nearby objects is one of the common attacks, and the one website thinks that it's a sonic attack, but I've decided that it's very low frequency radio, because of reading that Wikipedia thing.

On a different subject, I am amazed and overwhelmed by the amount of thorough detail on the information elements. They have shown every single element in every single position! This is just amazing, that's all I can say.

There was a backlash against Ayn Rand, for those of us who became Ayn Rand devotees and then later read Nathaniel Branden as he fought back against the Rand cult. But Ayn Rand was observing something that was actually real. She often complained about 'types' of people who were unable to do this or that. And I don't want to encourage 'typism' or hating groups of people because they are a particular type. I want to encourage the understanding of all the types and the awareness that we all have strengths and weaknesses, as I said above. But still, I would want to tell Ayn Rand that yes, her observations were real, and somebody else has explained them in great detail. She also talked about 'social metaphysics,' which could be described by some of the enneagram types, like maybe Three, Six, or Nine, who tend to connect to an existing belief system; or it could be explained by the Ichazo's instinctual stackings, and she might have been talking about (for instance) the social/self-pres stacking. I like to see that the things she was ranting about actually exist, except that somebody else has documented them very thoroughly and with much more tolerance and compassion and understanding instead of hate.

I have to get ready to work. I didn't finish anything this morning.

Oh yeah, the other thing I LOVED reading in socionics is: people don't like it when you misapply your ego block functions to things that they shouldn't be applied to, and you yourself might see it as a 'funny little joke' or something, but they don't. People misapplying functions, and annoying other people, is something that exists everywhere as an objective phenomenon. Everyone does this. ... I have to go now.