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The Enneagram is a much touted "personality typing
system" that's wildly popular among many clergy, religious, and lay
people. It's said to be a helpful tool to monitor one's psychological
and spiritual growth. The Enneagram's geometric pattern has nine points,
one for each major personality type. By answering a lengthy series of
questions aimed at uncovering one's deeply hidden personality traits,
the Enneagram's apologists claim that each person completing the
psychological profile will, based on the score received, fit into one of
the nine types. In addition to the main type, each person has a
secondary type, or "wing," which is the type he is next most
akin to. For example, you might be a "Perfectionist" with a
"Helper" wing. Although the Enneagram is strongly criticized
by some (comments have ranged from "silly" to "numbskullish"),
it continues to flourish in retreat houses, parishes, and religious
workshops throughout the country.
But there's a new and, many are saying, more accurate personality
typing system that's been recently unveiled by Envoy Magazine the
ANDY-EAGRAM. Following the general format of the Enneagram, the ANDY-EAGRAM
shows you which character from the 1960s hit television program, "Mayberry
R.F.D.," your personality is most like. For example, you might
be an "Aunt Bee" with a "Gomer wing."
The ANDY-EAGRAM was discovered in 1987 in Dismal Seepage,
Mississippi, by semi-retired scrap metal collector, Clarence Stump. Turn
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